I have, objectively, the worst Friday night I have ever had. I have the shittiest fight with this parental unit that I have no choice but to live with and honestly felt fine to do until my Protoboy found his way, but we hash it out badly and I take off, and spend an hour in a parking lot stress cleaning my car. We've already agreed on Saturday, and I think of calling you when you get out work anyhow. You've told me before you'd never turn me away (you tell me again later, when I finally get to you). I wait it out. She apologizes. I try to forget. You go out for the evening and don't call, and when I get panicky, I have to talk myself down. You finally let me know that you're out about two hours after I expected to hear from you. "Not home, but safe. Want a call?" I cry for the hundredth time that night. The next day you apologize again and again for sleeping late and burning day light. Im just glad to get to you. You snuggle me and kiss my head and we watch movies in the dark with your hand holding mine. It soothes my soul. We complain through Solo and laugh at Bleach. We drag out to mellow mushroom and have a delightful pizza. We smoke in the dark and talk about the list of things we want to watch. "Let's just move in together to up our available watch time" you smile at me 'yeah, I'll work out a color coded weekly schedule'. Bedtime comes for both of us, but you wheeze through an asthma attack. We finally get you out of your tiny room and into the fresh living room. I try to stay with you, and you try to move yourself to another room with me, and apologize for keeping me up but in the end I shout at you to just shut up and let me love you, and settle down in your room while you sleep in the living room. It's hard not to stay up and dust. I want to help. I sleep fitfully. I finally get back up in the middle of the morning and pad into the kitchen to check on you. I find you staring into the kitchen back at me, and without a word you scoot over on the couch so I can climb under the thin blanket with you. We press our skin together and I'm happy. You keep me into game night. We talk about going, but after the night before you don't know. I never know- I like going, but the never-ending chain smoking makes me ill. You call it off. "Date night" you type into the discord. I smile. I kiss your face and try to soak up all of you I can get.