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40 // Grant

"Venice?" I whisper, poking her sides, "Venice, are you awake?"

My girlfriend groans, "Stop. I'm trying to sleep."

"But babe, I can't sleep."

She moves closer to me, wrapping her arm around my torso and sticking one leg between the two of mine. Suddenly, I'm more awake than before, "Now?"

"Mm," I contently sigh, staring at the dark ceiling before closing my eyes in attempt to sleep. Finally, when my nerves calm down, I drift off until a thought comes to mind, "Babe."

"Grant," Venice groans for the second time, "this better be good."

"Oh, it is," I stifle a laugh, "Do you sleep on your stomach?"

"What?"

"Just answer the question, Ven."

"Could you repeat it?"

"Venice," I whine before giving in, "Do you sleep on your stomach?"

"No."

"... Can I?"

Venice snorts loudly before her body starts to shake with laughter. The sound is muffled because her face is nestled onto the crook of my neck, but it's there.

"I'm officially delirious," Venice finally manages to say.

This time, I snort, which sends both of us into more laughter. It goes on for a little longer before my girlfriend eventually starts to drift off once again. I run my fingers through her short hair, hoping it will also lull me to sleep.

Another fleeting thought comes to mind, but I don't say it out loud.

I love Venice Waters.

It scares me beyond belief. How am I already capable of feeling so strongly for this girl? Tonight is supposed to be an ordinary night; a night where we kiss and joke and sleep. Somehow, it becomes a night where I discover my feelings for Venice on a whole different level.

I love Venice Waters.

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I originally was gonna make this chapter angsty or whatever. Oh well, fluff will always win.

BUT AHHHHHH, GRANT DISCOVERING THE LOVE HE FEELS FOR VENICE.

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p.s. It feels like I took years to update.