Double Back

Sleep Is The Best Medicine

The warm breeze blew across Sybil's face, in the distance she could hear the birds chirping their songs for the world to hear. When Sybil opened her eyes she found herself in a yellow room where the wallpaper cracked in a hundred places along the wall. It was late at night and the couch she lay on smelt of sausage.
"So what did you do Arick! Find some random girl off the street and sleep with her?" Claire's booming voice filled the room.
"I don't know what happened I couldn't help it? I just had to have her she was perfect to me?" Arick said hopping to defend himself.
"Was perfect? Oh god Arick I see why Claire dumped you." Sybil said jokingly as she sat up and rubbed her eyes. Both of them stood up from the tinny wicker chairs that they had been sitting on. Claire's face turned red as she realized the Sybil must have heard what she said.
"Sybil baby, how are you feeling?" Arick asked as he grabbed her shoulder.
" I'm ok I guess, what the hell happened?"
"We have no idea, the doctor looked you over 3 times and could not find a single thing wrong but you kept just puking blood. After a while you finally stopped and he said just to take you home." Explained Claire.
"Quite the first date." Was the only reply Sybil could come up with.
"Definitely not the last." Arick said with a huge grin and a very smug look on his face. The two of them said their thank you's and traveled to the grande hotel where Sybil was staying. They got into the elevator and traveled up to the 18th floor. They stopped I front of the door.
"Thank you for that wonderful dinner, and for the ride up here."
"Honey that date was horrible, I feel so bad, I swear I had a grande evening planed and it was going to be wonderful." Arick pleaded.
"Oh Arick! That was wonderful, I mean it was a little weird towards the end but before my body tried to die for no apparent reason I had a great time."

"Look I know we agreed no sex, and I swear I'm all good with that, me and God are tight or whatever, virginity until marriage, but it's 3 in the morning, if I try to get back into the military base now they'll kick me out! So could I stay here, I wouldn't even have to sleep on the bed I could sleep on the ground." Arick gave Sybil his cutest look and even flashed the puppy dog eyes.
"Alright, on the floor. There will be no friendly cuddling, or late night quickies this is just for one night and it's just to sleep. Agreed?" Sybil said using her mommy voice.
"Agreed." Arick said as his saluted her jokingly.

It was late at night and Sybil could not sleep every time she looked down at Arick it made her feel terrible. He was curled up on the floor beside her bed in a thin blanket, she felt like he was so alone, so, gently, she climbed out of her bed with a pillow and a blanket and she curled up beside Arick on the carpet floor. In his sleep he slowly rolled over and grabbed her back, pulling her close and into his chest. He smelled of bark and grass, a smell that was so soothing to Sybil that it put her right to sleep.

When Arick woke up the next morning his back ached from the floor. His hand had lost feeling from the woman who was resting her head on top of it. Sybil turned over to see Arick looking at her,
"Good morning." She said to Arick who was smiling.
"Your sleeping down here with me?" Arick said with a grin.
"I am."
"So then who is in the bed?" They both looked up onto the giant white fluffy bed that was completely empty. "You could have invited me on to the bed, it would have been a lot more comfortable." Sybil stood up pulling Arick up with her and together they traveled to the bed where she plopped down onto it. Arick followed her and lay beside her playing with her hair.
"Sybil, you are the most beautiful woman I have ever seen."
"Well then feel free to keep looking." Was all Sybil could say in return, she grabbed his large hand that was entangled in her dark hair and pulled it towards the hem of her shirt, he grabbed it and gently pulled it over her head, next he unzipped her skirt as she kicked it off her legs. At her turn she slowly took off his shirt to reveal large muscles that had many scars. He slowly lowered his lips to kiss her stomach as he kept going further and further up her body to meet her lips, she brought her leg over his hip and they didn't leave the room for another few hours.