Sleep is for the Week
MC would be lying if she said she wasn’t worried when Jaehee’s eyes started to slip closed while they would watch movies and she would jerk back awake and apologize. But she wasn’t going to tell Jaehee that, not when she was working so hard.
“Jaehee, you should go to bed, darling.” MC tried, and failed, not to sound concerned.
“I’m fine. I promised we’d watch this movie together, no?” Jaehee responded, eyes only half open.
MC successfully resisted the urge to lie and nodded quickly following, “But you worked so hard today—you work so hard every day—we can watch this movie any day. Between the RFA and the bakery, you’re working twice as hard as usual…”
“I’m not working near as hard as I used to, I promise.” Jaehee leaned over and pressed a kiss on MC’s cheek, smiling, “But thank you for worrying about me.”
The movie went on a little longer before MC felt another pang of worry. It was almost ridiculous how little control she had over her worry towards Jaehee, really. But she looked over as Jaehee seemed to stare straight through the TV, she knew she needed Jaehee to spend more time sleeping or less time working.
Those were the only two options that would keep her sane.
“Come on, Jaehee. Let’s go to bed.”
“No, we—”
“I’m tired,” MC lied, “And you’re not watching the movie. We’ll finish some other day, promise. Come on.”
MC stood and grabbed her wife’s hands, pulling her up. Jaehee’s arms grabbed at MC’s waist by surprise, wrapping around her as MC let go. As the surprise faded away, Jaehee rested her head against MC’s collarbone and closed her eyes.
“Hey, I said go to bed. Not go to sleep on me.” MC smiled and took a step towards their bedroom. Jaehee mirrored her step with one foot and placed her other on top of MC’s. With Jaehee’s foot on her own, MC walked the two of them to their bed, Jaehee barely keeping awake.
Moving as gently as possible, MC set Jaehee down on the bed.
“You don’t have to keep yourself awake to spend time with me.”
“You don’t have to go to sleep because I do.”
“But how else would I get to spend cuddle time with my own wife?”
As Jaehee curled with a hmph, MC laid down next to her wife before triumphantly curling into her side. It barely took a moment before she could feel Jaehee’s breath even out as she fell back to sleep, finally in the right place.