Something About Him

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Layla Wilkes

"I'm tired Chris," I complain into the phone with sleepy eyes.

"Don't fall asleep on me, babe," he speaks back to me quickly. "Go splash some water in your face or somethin'."

"If I'm gonna stand up, it's gonna be to turn my light off," I respond to him. It's three o'clock in the morning and we've been on FaceTime for hours but he still won't let me sleep.

He pouts at me for a second and then tells me that I can turn my light off.

"What do you mean I can turn it off?" I laugh lowly at him while flicking the light switch off. "It's MY light. If I want it off Imma turn it off."

Plopping back down into my bed, the soft feeling of my comforter once again makes me even more tired.

I'm gonna sleep like a baby tonight.

"Go to sleep," Chris tells me. "Imma keep playing 2k cause you know Ion get tired."

"You don't get tired bu-" I start to say but he cuts me off quickly.

"Ion get tired," he repeats causing me to laugh again.

I was gonna bring up one of those nights that we were on the phone and he told me he was tired which is why he went to sleep before me. The roles switched tonight so he doesn't know how to act. We'll probably end up falling asleep on the phone again.

"You're annoying and I'm going to sleep. Goodnight," I mumble after putting my phone on the charger and sitting it on my nightstand. It's dark in here anyways. He's gonna see darkness whether the camera is on me or not.

"Goodnightttt," Chris drags it out obnoxiously and then laughs and despite the fact that I'm half dead, his laugh is so contagious that I can't help but laugh too.

~Next Day~

"Layla," my dad calls my name from where he sat in the living room.

"Yeah?"

"When'd you get in here last night?" He asks me.

I don't hesitate to tell him since it wasn't even that bad. I got home at around eleven since Chris wasn't tryna let me leave him yet.

It hasn't even been a full twenty four hours of me being his girlfriend and I love how everything is going.

I feel like in this relationship he's gonna wanna always spend time with me and I don't mind not one bit cause I know all I wanna do is spend time with him.

I can't lose sleep though. Hell no. Sleep is my everything.

Last night, or should I say this morning, we did end up staying on the phone until when Chris got up. The only reason we ended the call was for him to take a shower but neither of us called the other afterwards so we've been texting all this time.

"I got home around eleven," I tell him. Like I said, I have no problem being honest with him, but when it comes to my mom, she'll bitch so much if she knew I came in at that time.

I can hear how she'd be now- 'You think you can stay out all night and then just come in here like everything's all good? Don't test me, Jai.'

She always says that, too. 'Don't test me Jai,' but she rarely does anything honestly when she gets fed up saying it which is why I really don't care.