It must have been well past midnight, and Michael was still not asleep. He was still worried about Jeremy. What if the SQUIP attacks Jeremy while he's sleeping? What if he never wakes up? He was at war with these intrusive thoughts. These were interrupted by Jeremy somehow rolling over in the little space in between them and cuddling up to Michael unconsciously. Yup, definitely a good distraction. Michael tried to wriggle away, blushing profusely, only to find Jeremy cuddling closer. Michael chuckled, carefully rolling over to face him. There was no escaping this, so he might as well enjoy this. Jeremy's quiet snoring reverberated gently against Michael's chest, almost like a purr. Michael smiled as he drifted off to sleep.

It was so warm. It was like there was cushions all around Jeremy, slowly shifting. It took him a couple of drowsy minutes to realise this wasn't quite normal. His breath got caught in his throat as he opened his eyes, fully waking him up as his heart began to race. He and Michael were entangled together, almost spooning. He couldn't deny, it was pretty comfortable, but hoO BOY was he close to Michael. Jeremy tried to untangle himself carefully, but it wasn't long before Michael woke up. Jeremy tried to suppress his blushing as Michael woke up, quickly locking eye contact with each other.

"Comfy?" Jeremy grinned.

"Actually, yeah I am. I'm gonna stay like this forever." Michael rolled over slightly, squishing Jeremy under his weight. "Wow I didn't notice this extra pillow here!" He chuckled, being careful not to hurt Jeremy as he rolled further onto him.

"Dude!" Jeremy cried as he was squashed, laughing and pushing back against him. Jeremy somehow managed to wriggle out and burst out, comedically gasping for air.

"Woe is me, I t'was down there for days!" He over dramatically collapsed onto Michael, who couldn't suppress his laughter especially since Jeremy's joking made him snort loudly and laugh more, swatting the boy playfully. He was smiling so wide his cheeks hurt. "Holy hell I haven't- I haven't laughed this hard in too long- oh mAN-" He wheezed and tried to sit up, flopping back down in defeat and laughing more. "I've been defeated. The Jeremy has conquered me."

Jeremy posed triumphantly, grinning from ear to ear, mockingly flexing his noodle arms.

"Another victory for The Great and Powerful Jeremy!" he said in a mock announcer voice, "Tune in next week to see if the tides will turn for the Magnificent Michael!"

Both of them were uncontrollably laughing now, their sides hurting and tears forming in their eyes, their blushing mixed in with the red of their laughter. Their fun was interrupted by the buzzing. Oh the SQUIP did NOT like this. The haze and paint jumped from one to a hundred very quickly, and the tears formed from joking were not mingled with tears of pain.

"Mi-Michael," Jeremy wheezed, "Mou-Mountain Dew… Dew Red."

Michael immediately broke into a serious face, grabbing a bottle from under the bed and passing it to him. Jeremy felt much better after he took a sip. They both wiped their tears and sat up. Jeremy turned to Michael.

"I want to go to school today."

"Are you sure? The SQUIP is still messing with you, and the amnesia?"

"It's too damn boring at home. I am literally losing my mind and I trust you and the gang to look after me and not take advantage of this," He knocked on his head. "And I still know trivia that I should've forgotten. Like, I still remember a bunch of Math stuff, like uh quadratic formula? And the last book we looked at in English was Pride and Prejudice? Teachers and rooms? No clue. Homework? Ha! Beats me. But I think I have the basics down?"

Michael nodded "Fair enough, I trust your self evaluation skills, though you may have to convince your dad to let you leave." He chuckled.

Michael had a change of clothes in his backpack, so he was set clothing wise as he left the room to go brush his teeth. Jeremy stood in front of his closet, flicking through his shirts. What would past Jeremy wear. A buzz in response. Jeremy groaned and pushed his fringe out of the way. He had been playing it cool with this amnesia with everyone, hell even himself, as he shouldn't waste energy on something he can't change, but honestly? Jeremy was terrified. What if he never gets his memories back and has to rebuild a new life for himself piece by piece? What if this new Jeremy people didn't like as much as the old Jeremy? What if they liked him more? He didn't want to disappoint anyone with his trying to cope with this and frankly, he didn't want to disappoint himself. He wanted to know what he was like, but at the same time he was scared what he might find. His run in with his SQUIP sounded pretty serious from how the others reacted and Jeremy was terrified on what dark things he might remember.

Shaking these thoughts out of his head for the moment and taking a deep breath, picked out a white, red, green and black striped t-shirt, a deep green cardigan and a pair of jeans. As he took his pajama shirt off Michael popped his head back in, toothbrush in mouth.

"Youw prowbleh whant thisch," He tossed Jeremy a binder, before disappeared to finish brushing his teeth. Jeremy finished getting dressed before swapping places with Michael.

They were greeted with a pantsless Mr Heere as they headed downstairs for breakfast. He waved his hand in greeting as he scooped a spoonful of cereal into his mouth.

"Green, huh?" he said between mouthfuls, "Suits you Jeremy."

Jeremy briefly panicked. Was green not what he usually wore? There was actually a variety of colour in his closet and he just picked a shirt by random and matched a cardigan to it. What colour did he used to wear? Yellow? Pink? Blue? Oh man, he realised that he hadn't told his dad that he had amnesia. Should he even break it to him? Jeremy decided not to, that would just complicate things, and make leaving for school much longer.

"Yeah, I decided to change it up a little for going back to school."

"You're going back? Already? You teens hate school!"

"Ok, first, not all teens, not saying thats us, but yeah not all teens," Michael started.

"And secondly, I feel fine now? So I might as well test the waters, and if I feel woozy I'll just come back home." Jeremy finished.