Chapter 45: Won’t Sleep
When Emily had finally put her things away and laid down, Derek had felt like cheering like a soccer fan whose team had just scored a goal after and entire season of being goalless. And then when her breathing had evened out, and she had begun snoring lightly he had felt like screaming at the top of his lungs in triumph.
Finally! Finally! Asleep at last, asleep at last.
He had been beginning to wonder if she was even human. She had shown no signs of fatigue prior to her just laying down and sleeping. And with every second that had passed, Derek’s worry that the secret of his insomnia would be found out by his PA had increased. But wonder of wonders, just as he had seriously started to consider going out into the dangerous night, she had finally cracked and decided to sleep.
’I have set the alarm for eight in the morning’ She had said, no doubt wanting to let him know how many hours of sleep he would get.
But all that Derek had gotten from her message was how long he had until he had to fake waking up.
But now that Emily was out like a light, he no longer had to keep faking. He closed his laptop and put it away. He did not even remember what the movie that he’d had on was about, but at least now he did not have to worry about having to fake his interest for her benefit.
With his laptop put away Derek turned off the lights. He waited for a few more minutes, making sure not to move too much ,scared that he would wake her. Outside, he heard an owl hooting, it did so once, twice and then it went silent. The voices of people talking downstairs floated up to him, and Derek made a game of trying to figure out what they were saying. But the words were too muffled, so he chose to just give up after a while.
When enough time had passed for Emily to now be in deep sleep, Derek got ready to get up. Despite all of the fuss that he had made about getting the bed, he did not really want it. If she knew that she had wasted over forty-five minutes fighting for the bed with him when he did not even intend to use it.
She would most likely strangle him, but since she did not know that. And she never would Derek’s neck was safe. Truly, his plan for the night was to sit on his luggage and listen to static. The sound always helped him whenever he was in a strange place for the night, the repetitive nature of it allowing his body to switch off somewhat.
Now all he had to do, was get out of the bed, go to his bags, take out his ear phones and he would be set. From there, he would sit down on the luggage, take out his phone, turn on the static, and that would be how he would spend the rest of the night until morning came and he would pretend to wake up.Sitting up, listening to static, and then sneaking back into bed early morning.