Both of their eyes are closed

part 12

You've been tossing and turning for almost an hour. You are so tired that you thought you would have fallen asleep the moment your head hit the pillow. But no matter how hard you try, you can't calm down enough to sleep. Your mind is racing with everything that has happened in the last two days.

You get out of bed and open your door. "Calum?" you whisper.

"Yeah?" He answers immediately. He was awake too.

You feel almost shy asking, but Calum has been your friend for years, so you ask anyway.

"Would you..." You hesitate for a moment, then you take a deep breath and push your shyness to the back of your mind. You start over, "Would you maybe wanna sleep in here with me?" You're not sure if Luke would approve, he does tend to get a bit jealous. After a small moment of silence, probably because Calum was surprised by your question, he answers.

"Yeah, yeah sure." He tosses the blanket off of him and gets up, more quickly than you would expect. You realise that he probably doesn't want to sleep alone either.

You climb onto the right side of the bed and he goes around to the left. The thought of Calum sleeping with you seems awkward at first, but once he's in bed with you, you feel instantly calmer and safer.

Both of you fall asleep shortly after.

When you wake up, Calum's arms are wrapped around you. Not in a sexual or a romantic way, but in a protective way. It's well after sunrise judging my the bit of light leaking through the curtains.

You look over at Calum, his face only inches from yours, then look back up at the ceiling. Calum's arm moves from your shoulder down to your stomach. It stays there for only a couple of seconds then moves back to its previous position on your shoulder.

He does this every ten minutes or so, and every time you look over at him he is sound asleep.

He's been checking for the baby in his sleep.