It's just a bunch of hocus pocus

SLEEP

Celine's POV:
I tossed and turned in my bed. After my other sisters perished that Halloween night I haven't been able to sleep, but it's been getting worse recently. I clicked on my phone once more unsure what I was hoping for. I opened my recent calls and scrolled through the first few. My fingertip hovered over Max's name for a few seconds before I decided against it and turned my phone off. The past three nights I had called Max, something about his voice comforted me and put me at ease to eventually fall asleep. I felt terrible calling Max in the middle of the night I hated keeping him up or waking him up, I wouldn't do it again.
I had just put my phone down when it dinged to let me know I had a message. 'Glad you're finally getting a good nights sleep, breakfast at my place tomorrow morning?' The words brought a smile to my face. Max and I became a thing awhile after that Halloween night, but we kept it slow and not rush things 'I'm not... but breakfast sounds amazing!☺️' I typed back with a goofy smile on my face. It didn't take long for him to answer. 'I'm sorry, if it makes you feel any better I can't sleep either' 'Come over' and before I could talk myself out of it I hit send. My phone went a good ten minutes without activity and my heart dropped. I shouldn't have sent it. I got up to go to the kitchen and make some tea hoping it would lull me to sleep. I made it to the kitchen counter when my phone finally dinged again. 'On my way' a smile grew on my face. I decided against the tea and poured a glass of water for myself and Max. When I finally heard a knock at the door my excitement grew. I pulled the door open to Max standing in his pajamas, his hair a mess.
"I just wore my pajamas" he half laughed. "Perfect" I stated pulling him into a hug. The hug lingered and with his hands resting around my lower back I never wanted to pull away. "I love the bed head" I laughed. "I had been in bed for awhile, just couldn't fall asleep." He said pulling away.
"I know how that is, believe me I was the same way" I explained walking back to the kitchen to get the water. "Why didn't you call or text me?" Max asked following closely behind. "I wasn't going to do that to you if you were sleeping" I laughed handing him the water I got for him. "It's always my pleasure to help bore you to sleep" he chuckled. "It doesn't bore me..it comforts me..." I trailed off. "And look what I did! Now you can't even sleep" I felt guilty. "I'd rather be here anyway" he smiled genuinely at me. "You're the best" I made my way to the couch as he followed behind me once again. "So why can't you sleep, what's on your mind?" I asked after getting settled on the couch with Max laying across the couch, his head in my lap.
"I don't know really, a lot on my mind I guess and just reliving the whole Sanderson sisters thing" he muttered as I slowly started to run my fingers through his hair. "That feels nice" His words brought a smile to my face. I kept playing with his hair as we talked. I loved moments like these with him, things were so simple yet so complicated. My eyes started feeling heavy and the tiredness finally started taking over my body. Max was quick to notice."You can go to bed if you can. I'll stay here tonight if that's ok with you?" He said reaching up to grab the hand that was stroking his hair. "You're not going home this late, can you please just stay here tonight?"
"I think I can do that" the way he smiled up at me with tired eyes made me want to lean down and kiss him right then and there but I stopped myself before I even contemplated it.
I pulled myself off the couch once Max lifted his head and I grabbed his hands and pulled him with me as I made my way to the room. "Where are you taking me?" He laughed. "You thought I was going to make you sleep on the couch?" I raised an eyebrow at him. "Wait, Celine." Max said pulling me to a stop outside my bedroom door not letting go of my hands. "What's wrong?" I asked confused. We had slept next to each other before, it wasn't anything new and I felt terrible making him sleep on the couch after all he had done for me. "It's just," he started, his hands playing with my fingers. He took a deep breath before he spoke again. "If I... it's just lately I've been..." he breathed deep again his face falling to face the ground.
I slowly pulled him to me by his hands making him slightly pick his head up to look at me. Without thinking twice I went on my tippy toes and placed my lips on his. He pulled back quickly making me exhale in defeat and drop my head. "I'm sorry" was all I could get out before making a move to walk away. "Celine, no" he pulled me back by the waist. "It's not that, I mean I just..." he was struggling for words I could tell. "You're tired. As much as I want you to want to kiss me, I don't want it to be just because you're tired and not thinking straight and it feels like we're rushing this." I snaked my arms around his neck and pulled him closer to me. "I'm not that tired, I've never thought more straight in my life. I get these feelings in my belly when I look at you, when you touch me my insides set on fire. I'm happiest when I'm with you and I never want to be away from yo-" Before I could finish my sentence Max grabbed me by the hips and pulled me to him meeting our lips in a rough passionate kiss. "You have no idea how long I've wanted to do that again. Everything you just said, you described how I feel when I'm with you." he smiled still holding me against him.
"Not as long as I've wanted you to" I laughed. "Probably longer" he placed a kiss to my forehead. "Then why were you hesitant to go to bed?" "If I had to go in there and lay next to you as what I thought wouldn't be rushed I don't think I would have been able to stop myself from pulling you to me and kissing you and I didn't want to ruin what we had" "Well what do we have now?" I looked into his eyes hopefully. "I was hoping you'd be my girlfriend...and officially start this but we could take it slow if you wanna" he trailed off making me smile. "I would love to be your girlfriend" his smile grew at my words and he leaned down planting his lips on mine for another gentle kiss. "Now we can go to bed" he stated scooping me up bridal style, a laugh escaping me and the most genuine smile I've ever seen across his face.
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Started:7/18/23
Ended:7/18/23