Everything was so still. There was no movement. The sound of people snoring and breathing pervaded the room. I opened my eyes to find that I had fallen asleep on the sofa. My head was on Troye's so I moved it off and felt a striking pain in my neck. "Ouch!" I whispered loudly. My neck had been in a really uncomfortable position while sleeping. It was so dark in the room because the TV was off and there wasn't any source of light coming from anywhere. I reached in my pocket and felt around for my phone. Covering the screen with my hand so the light wouldn't shine too brightly, I pushed the home button. "4:21 AM" I clicked the power button to turn the screen off, but then I pushed the home button again. I shined my phone around to see what was going on in the rest of the room. Everyone was asleep. To my right, Alfie and Zoe were cuddled up together sleeping, Louis fell asleep on the floor with his pillow, Caspar and Joe fell asleep on the same couch on opposite ends, and Tyler was asleep on the singular sofa. 'Wait,' I thought. 'Where's Tanya and Jim?' I looked around a second time shining the light from my phone. 'They probably went home earlier.' I shined the light on Troye who was still laying on me. His head was still on my shoulder and he was asleep. Being completely honest, my shoulder was actually starting to hurt. It had been in the same position for several hours, I needed to move it and stretch it out.
I tried to carefully move Troye's head onto the back of the sofa and off of my shoulder for the time being. Once I moved him, I sighed and stretched my arm out forward. I then put my hand back down on the couch and sighed again. 'I'm so tired.' I thought to myself. I closed my eyes in hopes of falling asleep again. Moments after my eyes closed, I felt someone reach out to my hand to hold it. The person's hand felt soft, warm, friendly, and familiar. My eyes peeled open slowly. Troye was awake and looking at me, his hair messed up, and his smile crooked. His eyes were half open, he was tired too. I squeezed his hand. "You're awake?" I whispered to him. He nodded. "I woke up when you reached in your pocket to pull out your phone." Troye blinked slowly to show how tired he was. "Oh....sorry." I laughed a little. We were talking so quietly, probably because our voices were gone, and we didn't want to wake up anyone else. I yawned and pressed my head against the back of the sofa, staring at the ceiling. Troye did the same. I couldn't even remember when I'd fallen asleep. I guess it made sense because I also couldn't remember the end of the movie. "When did you fall asleep?" I asked Troye. "I'm actually not sure," he responded. "I turned to you and saw that you were asleep, and I was pretty tired too, so I just closed my eyes."
"Yeah.....I guess it just wasn't my kind of movie."
"Well, I fell asleep before the end of the movie too, but I wasn't enjoying it that much anyway."
"Yeah."
"Yeah."
I turned to face Troye, but he wasn't looking back, so I just turned back to looking at the ceiling. Then all of a sudden I felt a pair of lips come in contact with my cheek. It happened so quickly. I felt such a strong connection. I looked over at Troye and he looked back at me this time. "I really do, like you too." he said to me. I smiled a big smile and directed it towards him. We both then turned back to facing the ceiling. All you could hear in the room was us breathing. It was starting to feel really hot in the room, but I kept the blanket on me. If Troye still wanted the blanket, then so did I. I just wanted to be next to Troye. I just wanted to be with Troye. I just wanted Troye.
It was really quiet at that point. But that was okay. There are times when, places where, and even people who silence is just perfect with. It is comfortable, it is calming. No words are needed in the moment, and it's beautiful.
