It was the middle of the night and I was having trouble sleeping. I rolled out of bed and strolled over to the bath placed by the window, sitting on the edge of the tub. I looked up at the sky, admiring the stars and the moon. Everything was so peaceful, I sat there for a good ten minutes before I heard Q stirring in bed.
"What are you doing up?" He asked groggily.
"I can't sleep" I sighed.
Q got up, walking around the room to get a glass of water before accompanying me at the window.
"Watcha looking at?" He asked, standing next to me placing his arm around me.
"Just the sky, the moon and the stars. Its always been one of my favourite things to do." I smiled through my tiredness and frustration of not being able to sleep because of it.
"Well, you can't go wrong with that" he smirked back, rubbing my arm. There it was again, that gentle side. "Sometimes I like to look at the sky to realize how small my problems really are."
"How do you mean?" I asked curiously.
"Because, you can see how big the universe really is. You see how small we are compared to it, we're just a tiny aspect of what the world really is, compared to everything else that is."
"Hmmm" I replied, skepticism clear in my voice, not sure how that made his problems go away by thinking that.
"I'm serious, think about this" he said as he sat down next to me on the tub. "There are 5 to 10 times more stars than there are grains of sand on all the world's beaches. So think about what that means, life wise. There's so much out there, so much life. To me, that makes my problems about running out of milk, or it just being too cold outside, small things, go away. Because I just remember that. The amount of people in the world, there's gotta be people that would love to just have a glass of milk, or have things bigger than a bit of cold to worry about. People, aliens, there are always gonna be the ones that are worse of than us." He continued looking at the sky with a straight face.
"Wait...did you just say aliens?" And it was within that moment that I erupted into laughter.
"They'be got the real problems here. Maybe they just want a vacation to our planet, but can't because they're so misunderstood. They just wanna chill, but can't come into any contact with our planet without being dissected like frogs". He stated, actually sounding affected by this. "It's rough".
The heavy laughter continued.
"Wow, you've really thought this one through, haven't you?" I asked, wiping the laughter tear away from my eye.
"Hey, what can I say. I've had a lot of sleepless nights, too." He smiled.
I guess he made some sense by his whacky words. The thought of him sat looking at the sky actually thinking about these even whackier thoughts made it a lot more amusing, though.
"Laughter....and aliens aside, I can see what you mean by what you say. You're pretty spot on with it, actually"
"So whatever reason you have for your brain not wanting to shut off, it's not that bad, I promise you." He said pulling me tighter.
I wasn't even sure of the reason why I was awake. I was definitely tired and sleep deprived, so there must have been a reason why I couldn't get myself to shut off.
Q began yawning next to me.
"You can go back to sleep if you want" I smiled up to him. His crumpled face was cute from the yawn that had taken over him.
"You gonna get back in bed too, though?" He asked getting up.
I looked back at the sky before getting up.
