*Elio*

Despite my best attempts to get to sleep last night, I only managed a faint doze, jerking awake at several points just to see if Cat was truly still beside me. She was, and unlike me, each time I looked, she was fast asleep.

Turned to the wall, hair strewn behind her, I could only glimpse the fall and rise of her back as she breathed, hearing the soft snore she let out once in a while and letting it lull me into another restless sleep, only to do it all ...