Letters of Unconciousness

9.00am

~ Nate ~

When I finished reading the letter to Gabriella the visiting times were over. I went back to the house with the her immediate family. They didn't want me to be alone tonight. Her mother took the night shift and stayed by her side while the rest of us went to bed.

I began setting up a makeshift bed on the couch when her sister came out of her room.
"You can sleep in her room you know, it's no secret you've slept there before." I smile at the ground in slight embarrassment before moving to her bedroom. Her room was so clean other than the fact that the bed wasn't made and her pillows and toys were laying anywhere they felt like it. I push them to the side of the bed next to the wall before taking off my shoes.

I sit on the end of her bed with my head in my hands an my elbows on my knees. I stifle back a sob and rub my eyes. I take off my jacket removing the letters from the pocket.

9.00am

That's the next letter.

Only a few more hours but like she said, equality of sleep. I'd rather have slept and understand the words than stay awake and have the words blur right in front of me. As I flicker the letter in my fingers I notice how much smaller they are all getting.The letters seem to be getting smaller after our argument. I couldn't let that restrain me from reading them though. I put them on her bedside table making sure that they stay in order. There was only a few big ones left and I was eager to find out what they contained.

I stand from the bed and switch off the light and instantly I'm filled with memories of this room. Overhwhlemed as I sit back down.

"Don't turn the light off." She said with a blank face.
"Why not? Are you afraid of the dark Gabriella?"
"No." I crawled onto the bed beside her.
"Are you afraid of me in the dark?" I played with her hair.
"Of being relieved of your ugly face no way."
"Ouch that really hurt me." I try tickle her but fail because she's covered in blankets so I pull them off and she lies there tossing and turning tryin to find them without sitting up.

"No it's cold. Give them back." She kneeled up slowly before standing up.
"Give me my blankets!"
"I didn't take them." I said innocently as he searched for my eyes in the darkness of the room.
"Fine be like that." I motioned towards her with fake sympathy but she jumped on my back.

I begin spinning causing us both to get really dizzy until I lost my footing and sent us both flying onto the bed. I was basically squashing her but she was actually just laughing and so was I. Then she stopped.
"Where are my blankets?" She attempted a serious tone which wasn't possible in our current states so I got off her and grabbed the blankets off the floor. In the light I could barely see her entire figure it was rather hard.

Then with the darkness as my advantage I attacked her wrapping her up in the blankets like a burrito. Then I picked her up off the bed and cradled her in my arms.
"It's okay baby girl. I'm here. There is no need to cry. Shh. I'm here for you." She didn't complain or fight me she just wrapped her arms around my neck and cuddled into me.
"Sing me a lullabye."
"Now that is pushing the friendship my friend." I said as I sent her down onto the floor still wrapped in blankets. She just lay there like a heap of blankets which I could barely see her within. I nudged her a couple of times with my feet before she rolled over and tried to search for me in the darkness.

SHe looked like a slug.

"You know this is the fattest I have seen you since this ordeal. It's a great look for you."
"Are you saying I should be fat?" I laughed as she shifted her position slightly. "Would you like me better that way? Cause if so I'm just going to keep getting skinnier so you cannot under any circumstance like me anymore." As she spoke I was creeping up on her, crawling on the floor next to her until she stopped talking.
"Too late." I whsipered into her ear causing her to jump and squirm like a fish out of water. I'd frightened her before but this was as she would say, 'golden'.