Emily had been sitting on her best friend's bed for about an hour now. His mother let her in when she showed up around 3 p.m., even though she knew Mace wouldn't be home until 4. His mother seemed to like Emily, but she wasn't a big fan of hers to be honest. Though that didn't really matter since what counted was that she got to visit her friend as often as she wanted without it causing any trouble. Emily kind of suspects that Mace's mother thinks they are dating, which wouldn't make sense since Mace has a boyfriend, unfortunately for her. Anyway, she didn't really care if his mother sees them as a couple or not, actually it was quite funny and it grants her free access into her best friend's room. After an hour of waiting the door finally opened, indicating that she was done being alone for today. At first when Mace saw his unexpected visitor sitting on his bed there was a look of surprise on his face, but it vanished in less than a second. Mace flopped down on his bed and let out a long sigh.
"Do you want a hug?" Emily asked.
"Yes" Mace mumbled, his voice muffled by his pillow.
They both moved to a more comfortable position to hug. Mace sat up and Emily moved to sit behind him and put her arms around him as tight as she could without hurting him. Emily had known Mace would need this hug since this morning to be honest, that's the reason she went over to his house so early, so she would be there when he got home.
"Not a good day?" Emily asked when they were both sitting comfortably.
"It was okay, I'll be fine" he answered.
At that moment, Mace's little sister entered the room, probably to see if her brother was free for some cuddle time. Emily signed for her to come closer.
"Can you take care of your brother for a minute for me? Hold him very tight and don't let go, okay?" she asked her with a wink.
The little girl was more than willing to hug her older brother, Emily had always been filled with awe when she saw how much those two love each other. After she made sure that her best friend was being taken care of, she went looking for the laptop. Mace was too busy cuddling his sister, so she didn't want to bother them by asking. Eventually Emily found the laptop under a mountain of stuffed animals. The question wasn't why there were so many stuffed animals in the boy's room, everyone was aware the boy was obsessed with them, but why the laptop was buried underneath them was a mystery. Not that it mattered, the laptop was found and ready to be used. Emily positioned the laptop on the bed so that everyone would have a clear view on the screen. Since it would've been cruel to interrupt cuddling time and the two siblings seemed to enjoy it, Emily just sat next to them. She hit play and she could just feel how her friend cheered up a little when he saw which movie they were about to watch. Seems like Emily made the right choice by picking Moana.
About an hour into the movie there was a knock on the door. It was Mace's mother to tell them the little girl, who was already falling asleep, had to go to bed. She kissed her older brother goodnight and gave him one last hug before she followed her mother out of the room. The door had barely been closed and Mace already started to reposition himself to cuddle up to his next substitute pillow. He rested his head in Emily's lap and in that position they continued to watch the movie. Well, at least for another few minutes until Emily realized that her friend had fallen asleep on her. She couldn't blame him though, school can be exhausting, especially if you're not having a good day. Of course Emily wanted to know what was wrong, but that could wait until the morning. She used her foot to close the laptop with as little movement as possible, that way the music at the end of the movie wouldn't wake up the sleeping beauty. She herself wasn't tired yet, so she just stared at the beautiful boy in front of her, loving how peaceful he looked when he was asleep. This happened quite often, basically every time the boy fell asleep on her, but she never told him. Even she thought it was rather creepy, but she couldn't help it. He was just so adorable and gorgeous and she just loved him so much. Emily felt so blessed with Mace as her best friend. After almost an hour of staring, Emily decided to get some sleep as well. Because she was sitting up and Mace hadn't moved an inch yet it was kind of hard to find a comfortable position to sleep in and she would probably regret this in the morning, but the boy was sleeping so peacefully, it would be worth having an aching back in the morning if that meant Mace would get a goodnight's sleep. She whispered goodnight, even though she knew he couldn't hear it, and turned off the light so that she too could go to sleep, only being slightly bothered by the little light that was always on in her best friend's room. For him, she would do anything, even sleep with the light on.