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It’s getting late. Actually, it is late. You’re in bed already, but it’s lonely without Tobi. If he were on tour you’d understand, but he’s here in the house. Still in the basement presumably working on his album. It’s almost finished but he won’t even share any hints with you! He said you have to wait with everyone else, but it’ll be worth it. So you try to be patient and respect his process. But sometimes action needs to be taken, especially when it’s 3am and he’s been in the basement for 12 hours, only appearing around dinnertime briefly. You roll back and forth in the bed a little before concluding that you need to get him. So you get up and put your bathrobe on and head downstairs sleepily.
You knock on the basement door just in case, but there’s no reaction. You cautiously open it, worried about hearing music Tobi’s not ready to share, but there is nothing. Just one of his 80s rock playlists quietly going. You go down the stairs and quickly spot Tobi. You can’t help yourself and giggle. Tobi is leaned over with his head on the desk, drooling. He fell asleep down here! You’d be annoyed, but he does look cute. Anyway, he won’t be sleeping down here anymore. You march up to him and poke him a few times. “Tobi! Wake up!”
“Hrrrm???” He blinks awake and squints because the artificial computer light is in his eyes. “Darling? What are you doing down here? What time is it?” He sees the clock and is all of a sudden more awake. “Oh no! I was chatting with Eric about a song! You know he’s in California.” Tobi shuffles his things and gets the computer awake again. The last message has a time stamp from an hour ago.
From Eric Martin: “Ok buddy, it’s like what? The middle of the night over there in Germany? I’m assuming you fell asleep. Hope you don’t have a stiff neck in the morning!”
Tobi looks at you sheepishly. You’re just trying not to laugh. “Ok, come on Tyger, let’s get you in bed.”
“You make it sound so appealing.” But Tobi obediently switches everything off and follows you upstairs and to the bedroom. You direct him to the bathroom to clean up and he stumbles in. You shake your head and get comfy again under the blankets.
After a couple minutes, Tobi comes out looking a bit better. He crawls in next to you and you sigh happily as he latches on to spoon you. You can feel his longer hair tickling the sides of your face and you reach up to pet him. “Mmm, this is much better than sleeping alone. You’re so warm and hug me just right.”
“I’m sorry I fell asleep down there. I was too excited to stop for the night even though I knew it was late. You know the album will be finished in a month…”
You turn around in his arms and put a finger to his lips. “Shh, I understand. But I don’t want you injuring yourself from sleeping bad. You have to come up when you’re tired. Let’s just sleep now.”
“Ok,” Tobi says. He snuggles his face into your neck and you pet through his hair, playing with it. You love how long it’s getting. Soon you hear Tobi’s breathing change to sleep mode and you drift away too, this time in the arms of your dear Tobi.