100 Ways to Say 'I Love You' | Mileven 💕✅

41. Go back to sleep

41. Go back to sleep.

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The earth rumbled and El sat up in bed, sleepily looking around the bedroom. The wardrobe rattled, her old and well used Walkman fell off her dresser. She watched everything move in the bedroom, feeling the bed move underneath her.

Mike felt the duvet, as well as the mattress and bed frame, move around him and he opened his eyes. He saw the furniture around him rattle.

"El," Mike said, instantly wrapped his arms around his wife and brought her tight into his arms. "It's ok, this does happen, it's just the tectonic plates in the earth."

El nodded and buried her head into Mike's chest.

"Go back to sleep," Mike said and they both easily (and rather) quickly fell asleep.

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The next morning, the married couple woke up to see what kind of distruction that the earthquake had caused.

Usually it wasn't much, a couple of shattered glasses that could either be repaired or replaced.

Not this time.

A lot of El's precious books had fallen off her book shelf, some of the delicate perfume bottles were broken, their mirror was laying face down on the floor - neither of the pair wanting to pick up the possibly broken mirror.

"Mike, what happened?" El asks, picking up her books, one by one, checking over for any damage done to them.

"I don't know, honey. I don't know," Mike said, kissing the top of her head and finished collecting her broken bottles - making a note in his head to replace them for her, and clean the dressing table.