Hard Enough

I felt Billy stir next to me. It wasn’t a gentle stirring of a person gradually waking up, but that of a child. It immediately woke me up despite my attempts to keep sleeping.

Sadly, Billy, as a small child, was all elbows and knees as he rolled around.

I stopped him rolling over me where he would have rudely awoken Sabrina but that only made his elbows dig into me worse.

Somehow he unerringly dug into my kidneys and stomach. Out of reflex, I tucked up my knees to protect other soft parts of myself.

Sabrina cracked her eye at the small grunts of annoyance I was releasing. “Billy, if you need to go to the bathroom, just go,” she said.

Billy rolled out of bed. On the way, his heel twitched into my guts which I knew enough to brace against while protecting my family jewels. Sabrina sat up and glared towards the window where the sun was clearly visible with sunrise having been a few hours ago.

I glanced at the alarm clock and groaned. “I needed to get up, like… ten minutes ago,” I said, scrubbing at my face.

I shot Sabrina a look. “Did you turn off the alarm again?”

She pouted and didn’t meet my gaze, causing a chuckle to escape me at how cute she was with her fake childish behaviour. I leaned in and kissed Sabrina. I felt her smile into the kiss.