Lifeline (Tweek & Craig)

Chapter Ten

Tweek

When Tweek woke up, it was dark—ish, all the windows in the room were exposed and the only light that entered was from the soft glow of the moon.
Tweek glanced at the time and then at Craig. Tweek's heart started racing, as he again realized that he was sleeping next to him. Craig, slept on his stomach with his face turned towards the windows. He was a ruler away but close enough for Tweek to hear and watch him breathe. All Tweek could think about was what does any of this mean? The last time he slept close to someone he remotely had feelings for, the person broke his heart the days after.
Thinking back to the day before, most of it was a blur. However, he remembered Craig and his Mom and how kind they were to him when he could barely hold his head up. Tweek didn't feel one hundred percent, but he felt a lot better than he did yesterday.
Tweek gently rolled on to his side and spent the rest of the morning watching Craig sleep. When the sky brighten, Craig's room slowly lit.
When Tweek heard Craig's alarm turn on. He shut his eyes and pretended to be asleep. From the moment Tweek woke up, Craig slept frozen in the same spot, he didn't moved nor did he stir. But when the alarm went off, he jerk awake but froze perhap realizing that Tweek was next to him. There was a long pause, Tweek felt Craig rotating and then Tweek felt a hand on his forehead.
As if he didn't trust his hand reading, Tweek felt Craig move closer pressing his forehead to his, before checking with his hand again—and perhaps he wasn't satisfied with the results, Craig sighed and then got out of bed. The door opened and Craig step out, when he did Tweek opened his eyes and turned towards the door.
When a different alarm set off, Tweek couldn't pretend to be asleep any more. So he got up, crawled to the other side and climbed out of bed. The noise was coming from a device called echo that was next to Craig's bed. Tweek had no clue how to turn it off.
"Alexa, alarm off," Tweek heard Craig's voice say.
Tweek could feel his insides twisting, as he turned around to find Craig standing by the door. Tweek didn't even hear him coming.
Craig's face was always hard to read, but Tweek was sure he wasn't irritated. When Tweek look at Craig's hand, he saw the temperature reader.
Tweek wasn't sure why, but he smiled when seeing it in his hand, especially after Craig checked him three times. Craig fidgeted with the tool once again as he made his way around the bed to where Tweek was. When he got the tool to turn on, Craig comb back the front of Tweek's hair for easy access to his forehead. Craig's touch warmed him and it took everything in Tweek to not express a reaction.
Tweek saw Craig glanced at him before running the reader across his forehead. When the temp came back with a scan of 99, Craig smiled. Tweek felt his heart beating, Craig's smiled had set off a variety of butterflies, big and small inside him.
"You feel and look better," Craig told him. "Still, if you think you need more time to rest you are welcome to sleep in," He said putting the reader next to Alexa.
"No I'm okay, thank you," Tweek said.
"It's cool. Anyway you are going to need clothes to wear, so if you can stand follow me," Craig suggested.
Tweek stood up to follow, but then looked at the bed and decided to set it first. Craig had a puzzled look on his face that Tweek thought was very adorable. Craig turned back towards the bed and decided to help Tweek before waving that Tweek follow him.
They entered Craig's closet which was the size of Tweek's room. Craig had too much clothes and Tweek was certain half of them he had never worn before. Craig was OCD with organization, it was scary. Everything had a place and everything was separated by type—even thickness. However, what Tweek found interesting was most of his clothing wasn't blue. A lot was, but he had other colors.
"You can pick out anything to wear. I recommend a sweater too," Craig told him.
Tweek chuckled, and Craig turned to him.
"What?" Craig said with a partial smile.
Tweek grinned, "I expected to see lots of blue clothings, I'm surprised that's all."
"You have jokes," Craig said, his faced red as if he was blushing.
Craig walked over to his line of jeans and took a pair of olive jeans off the hanger, he then pick out a light gray shirt and a brown sweater that zips at the front.
"This is along your style," Craig said handing it to Tweek. He then walked over and grabbed, boxers and socks. "These were never used before, but Anna washes them anyway. You can always come here and pick out something to wear, as long as you know anything blue is off limits," Craig added, grinning.
Tweek scratched his head, lightly laughing. There it goes again, Tweek was feeling happy. He just hoped the feeling last a little longer this time.