I'm so sorry about the delay (◕︵◕) My PC broke and I only had my mobile to use while waiting to buy a new one.

Ninety

He felt a small poke to his back. Suzy was calling his name. He lightly removed the covers and turned around to face her. It was late at night. “Yes?”

“I can’t sleep” she whispered. “Why can’t I sleep?” she sneaked to his shoulder.

“Don’t worry; it’s probably because you had a nap earlier”

“But it’s not just today, oppa. I’ve been having troubles sleeping for a few days now” He shifted to give her full access to his embrace. She was now close enough to sniff his neck. “Can you tell me a story, oppa?”

He gulped. “A story?” she nodded in excitement. The pleading look she gave him made it difficult to say no, though he’d never done that before.

“Umm. Well, uh…once upon a time” he begun, trying hard to come up with something. Maybe he should just retell a classic, Cinderella or something. “In a land that’s not that far away” a thought suddenly popped to his mind. “There lived a cute little…rabbit”

Suzy smirked.

“It wasn’t that small though. Its legs were quite long, longer than most of the other rabbits”

“Yah!” she slapped his arm.

“What?”

“I’m not that tall, oppa”

“It’s not about you” he argued. “It’s about a tall rabbit”

She pouted, going back to his embrace.

“And the rabbit was quite beautiful” he continued. “It was liked by many…other rabbits; they all wanted to date it”

She giggled as she could clearly see where this was going.

“But it had no time for that ” Suzy’s eyes shot open. “Most didn’t know, but the rabbit was a special agent on a top secret intelligence force”

She became quiet, listening as he continued the story, using extremely graphic descriptions.

“And the little rabbit blew them all up, not a single mafia man remained standing that day” he finished.

The story wasn’t about her after all. It was about a bunny that works in the secret governmental assassination squads, who likes making bombs. At least it had a happy ending.

“Do you think you can sleep now?” he asked with a smile.

She bit her lips as she was still lost for words.

“I think I’ll handle the kids’ bedtime stories”

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He went back to sleep a short while later. While his warm embrace easily gets her to sleep, far better than his storytelling, she just couldn’t that night. Therefore, she decided to go downstairs and spend the night flipping through channels.

Midnight shows seemed so interesting when she couldn’t watch them. At the moment, the only thing she could find was a show about camels.

“Suzy?” he asked with a yawn. He must’ve climbed down to look for her. “You still can’t sleep?”

She nodded as she made a small room for him to sit beside her. “I didn’t want to bother you with my turning”