"Hey Connor, hey Connor, guess what?!" Jude exclaimed running up to Connor in the hallway at school.
"What?" Connor said smiling, wrapping his arm around Jude's shoulders.
"Well it took two weeks of bugging but my moms finally agreed to let us have a sleepover again!" Jude explained excitedly.
"Wait, are you serious?" Connor asked. Jude nodded vigorously. Ever since they started dating, one of Connor's favorite things to do, having sleepovers became off limits for reasons Connor found completely ridiculous. He and Jude were thirteen and they had no intentions of doing—well you know—any time soon.
"And since it is Friday, I was thinking how about tonight? I mean if you want to." Jude continued.
"Well what about my dad though?" Connor inquired anxiously. Sure, maybe Jude had convinced his moms to let them have a sleepover, but no way was his dad going to be okay with it.
"They already talked it over with him!" Jude said quickly. "He said you could, so I guess it's just up to you."
"Well then what are we waiting for? Let's get going!" Connor replied, giving Jude a kiss on the cheek and walking out to Lena's car with him.
"Okay, so here are the rules; there are two of them." Stef began to outline when they arrived at the Adams-Foster house. "The open door policy remains in effect, all night, first of all. Secondly, under no circumstances are you two to sleep in the same bed. Understood?" Jude and Connor both nodded, more than willing to accept the terms just to be able to have a sleepover again. "Alright now go have fun." The two of them scrambled up to Jude's room, getting set up for the night (now that AJ was no longer staying with them, Jude had the room all to himself, so Connor would be sleeping in Jesus' bed), while Stef turned and walked into the kitchen to join her wife.
"You do know they're probably going to fall asleep together anyway?" Lena asked chuckling.
"It's worth a shot; we have to at least make the rule." Stef shrugged.
"I don't understand why the two of us sleeping in the same bed is such a big deal." Connor muttered to Jude a few minutes after they made it up to his room, the two of them just standing in the middle of the floor.
"Well they just think—" Jude started to explain.
"We're not going to though!" Connor cut him off.
"Are you saying you don't want to?" Jude asked shyly.
"I—well—yes. But not right now." Connor stuttered nervously. "I just wanna cuddle with you, that's all right now."
"Okay—hey do you remember our last sleepover?" Jude said, changing the subject. Connor chuckled; how could he forget?
"Yeah I remember." Connor answered softly, walking over to Jude and pulling him in tightly against his body, standing so that their faces were almost touching. "I mean we kinda had our first real kiss because of it." he continued, smiling.
"A-and the tent kiss wasn't?" Jude whispered, shivering under Connor's touch, his hot breath washing over his face.
"That one was just a peck. I didn't get to kiss you like this that time." Connor explained, leaning in and pressing his lips against Jude's. Jude relaxed, leaning in closer to Connor and gently moving his lips against Connor's.
"Yo!" Stef yelled, causing the two of them to break the kiss, but they didn't pull apart. "If you two are already acting like this, maybe this sleepover isn't such a good idea."
"Mooooooom! We're not going to do anything for heaven's sake!" Jude protested, letting out a huff.
"I wouldn't trust them; they're 13 year old boys." Brandon commented snidely as he walked past.
"Brandon!" Jude hissed.
"Would you stay out of this, I have it handled." Stef shot back at Brandon. Jude really would've liked to crawl under his bed at this moment. His family was so embarrassing. Connor on the other hand found the whole thing absolutely hysterical, burying his head into Jude's shoulder and convulsing violently from laughter.
"We trust the two of you. Just don't give us a reason not to." Stef said before walking away.
"God, I hate them all." Jude mumbled.
Later that night, the two of them lay in Jude's bed, Jude on his back, arm around Connor who was cuddled up into his right side, their legs tangled together. The rules only said they couldn't sleep in the same bed. It said nothing about cuddling in bed while wide awake. Or at least, Jude was awake for the moment. Connor had already drifted off using Jude's chest as a pillow, and was snoring softly. Jude was starting to feel his eyelids drooping, even though he knew he shouldn't be falling asleep. But he was so warm and cozy and comfortable with Connor up against him like this, and it just became too much to fight and he drifted off.
"I told you." Lena commented as they walked past the room, noting the two of them sound asleep in Jude's bed. Stef sighed, thinking quietly for a moment before a smirk started spreading across her face. "Oh dear, what are you thinking?"
"I think I know a fun prank we can pull on the two of them—you know in the name of keeping an eye on them." Stef answered mischievously.
Jude woke up first the next morning, glancing around to find five figures sleeping on his floor. He shook his head, squeezing his eyes shut and rubbing them roughly, trying to figure out if he was just dreaming. When he opened his eyes again, the figures were still there and he groaned, not loud enough to wake any of them, but loud enough to wake his boyfriend sleeping on his chest.
"What's goin' on?" Connor mumbled sleepily, lifting his head up to look at Jude and tickling his chin with his hair in the process.
"I think my entire family may have slept in the room with us." Jude griped quietly.
"So? We didn't do anything." Connor assured him.
"It's just—why can't they stop embarrassing me in front of you?" Jude complained.
"I like when they do because then you start blushing and you get all shy—it's really cute." Connor said grinning.
"Good morning Jonnor!" Mariana whispered, rolling over to face them, their conversation having woken her up.
"Jonnor?" Connor said, scrunching up his face in confusion.
"It's your ship name, duh. And I just gotta say you two are adorable when you're sleeping together." Mariana explained. Jude groaned again.
"Next sleepover is at your house." he whispered, looking down at Connor who just giggled.
