Soulmates in any universe or time 《 Wattys 2018 》

Good girl

Time went by slowly, I grew closer to Leonard, nightmares of the car accident would keep me up some nights, but he would somehow always know which nights I was having trouble sleeping, because he would show up in my doorway shortly after I woke up with a giant mug of hot chocolate.

It usually went like this, "Bad dream?" He would always ask before coming in and sit on my bed with his back against the headboard just talking, trying to keep my mind off of the car wreck, some nights I think he enjoyed talking too, because the talk would some times lead to our sisters, we would share memories about them, then we would share our memories about each other.

One night he told me about how he told on me because I was sneaking out to go be with Mick, "God I was dumb." I said, he just laughed, "So was I, I should've told you how he was when you first told me you liked him." He passed the hot chocolate back to me, "So what did you mean that day?" He looked at me with an eyebrow up and confusion on his face, "You said 'If he makes you happy then I'm happy.'" I reminded him, even in the dim light only coming from the street lights I could tell his face got a bit red.

Leonard cleared his throat after a while, "Well I was happy you found someone," he seemed to have stopped mid sentence, so I took a drink of hot chocolate in hope he would keep talking, didn't work out like that, I didn't know what to say, so I said what I was thinking, "You're a great guy for looking out for me when I was blinded by probably stolen diamonds." "He gave you stolen diamonds?" He finally looked over to me, "Tried to, as an apology, I turned him down." Leonard smiled and patted my shoulder, "Good girl." He smiled.

We both looked over to the clock shortly after to see that it was two in the morning, "Maybe we should both get some sleep." He said as he got up from my bed, "Len, can you stay a bit longer?" He looked back at me from the doorway, "Sure." He yawned before walking back to my bed.

I pulled back the blankets so Leonard could sit uunder them with me, we talked more, "I think your mom and dad might be thinking about getting back together." He said regarding how they acted around each other, "I told mom that he still loved her." I said, "Quentin is just as oblivious as she is to how they feel." He laughed, his laugh basically vibrated the headboard, I laughed too because I knew he had a point, when it came to my parents they were clueless about their feelings toward each other.

After a while of talking about whatever we wanted to it was silent for a while, I looked over to the clock when I put the now empty mug on my nightstand, it was four by then, "You getting sleepy yet?" I asked him right when he started to yawn, "Not enough to sleep yet." He smiled at me after he said that, that was the last thing I remembered from that night.