ORDINARY SCHOOL DAY.
(Evil-Note.- Well, people, here I am with another chapter. This is a continuation of "A normal morning," picking up everything just a few minutes after the end of it.
In this chapter you can expect to see loli, shota, yaoi and straight, so again, if you don't like it, just stop reading right now)
After a somewhat short trip in Vanzilla, in which Luke had managed to get Lincoln to cum and gladly swallowed his load, Loki stopped the vehicle in front of the elementary school while Luke wiped the corner of his lips of the semen residue from his younger brother and the latter was buttoning his pants up again, and as Lynn, Lars, Lexx, Leif and Levi got out of the family van, some with a look of envy and others with a look of annoyance.
"You have five seconds to get out of Vanzilla, or you'll have to walk back here from high school, Lincoln." Loki warned.
"I'm on it I'm on it!" Said Lincoln as he jumped out of his seat with his backpack in hand. "God, you seem to have your period, Loki."
"Whatever, twerp, bye."
"Don't forget to go back home as soon as possible, Linc! Sam and I will be waiting for you!" Luke said with a lewd smile.
"Luke!" Loki snapped.
Luke just laughed and closed Vanzilla's door as Loki started the vehicle again to head to Royal Woods High School.
For his part, Lincoln rolled his eyes and threw his backpack over his shoulder to hurry to his classroom, because although he still had time, he was almost always late for class because his girlfriend had a bad habit of showing up out of nowhere and put him somewhere to remind him that there was an all-out war between the two of them to see who was boss in their little relationship.
And while the youngster with white hair was passing through the corridors in a hurry, avoiding the other students and some teachers, when he walked in front of a cleaning closet, a hand took him by the backpack and pulled him into the closet, closing and locking the door immediately.
And a few seconds later, while a mischievous smile played on his lips, a girl with brown skin, brown eyes, black hair, blue denim shorts and a purple hoodie, pushed him against the wall and kissed him passionately, dominating his tongue with her own appendage and moaning with pleasure.
Once they were both out of breath, the girl broke the kiss and looked at her boyfriend.
"You last less and less whenever we kiss, Ronnie Anne..." Lincoln chuckled.
"Shut up, Lame-o." Ronnie Anne said as she put a finger on Lincoln's lips. "You got up early, didn't you? I could taste some cum when I kissed you."
"You know me, you know I can't hold myself back, hehehe."
"You're a whore, you sucked off Loki, isn't it?"
"Impressive, you knew that from the kiss."
"That taste is hard to forget."
"So you've done it with Bebe and Loki too, huh?"
"Jelly? He said I'm tighter and I last longer than you." Ronnie Anne said with a smile.
"Not when you're with me, apparently..." Lincoln said as he stroked her right cheek.
"You wish, Lame-o." Ronnie Anne smiled. "But, what'cha mean with too, eh? I'm gonna have to punish Bebe, I already told her that your butt belongs to me and if she wants it, she gotta ask for it properly."
"Aww, I love you too, Ronnie Anne. But although the prospect of a moment with you sounds much more attractive than a school day, if we're late for class again, we"ll get grounded and we couldn't see each other for a long time."
"You're always a killjoy, but I guess doing it later is better than not doing it at all."
"Good choice, but I promise I will make it up to you."
"You better, or Mr. Rosado will have a date with your ass."
"Is that your idea of a threat?" The white-haired boy laughed before kissing Ronnie Anne.
Ronnie Anne laughed after the kiss and opened the door so that they could both rush to get to class, while at the end of the hall, Levi watched them carefully, holding a strange device with which he could listen to their entire conversation.
(Later)
At the end of classes, Ronnie Anne was waiting for her boyfriend leaning on the flagpole in front of the school, like almost every day.
And after a few minutes of waiting, Lincoln appeared through the door, along with Rusty, Liam, Zach and Clyde, with whom he was talking about his plans for the weekend.
"I'd love to go to your sleepover, Rusty, but I already have plans with Ronnie Anne." Said Lincoln, earning a couple of taunts from his friends.
"Stop calling it like that, it's a boys' night meeting." Rusty snapped. "We'll do manly things."
"Call it what you want, Rusty, it's a sleepover."
"Too bad you won't be able to join us, Lincoln, although you probably won't regret it so much." Clyde chuckled, earning a nudge in the ribs from Lincoln.
"Oh right, how could Lincoln be unhappy with his little girlfriend who punches him in the shoulder and shoves Sloppy Joes down his pants?" Zach said mockingly, making Rusty and Liam laugh.
'Oh, you poor naive kids... if only you knew the truth.' Lincoln mentally chuckled.
"Oh, trust me, Ronnie Anne has her perks." Clyde said before receiving a hard but friendly pat on the back from Ronnie Anne.
"Thank you, Four-eyes, at least one of you guys recognizes greatness when he sees it." Said Ronnie Anne as she approached her boyfriend to ruffle his hair. "Come on, Lame-o, we've homework to do, and by we I mean you."
"Yeah, whatever you say, Ronnie Anne..." Lincoln said as he rolled his eyes with a smile.
"Lincoln and Ronnie Anne, sitting under a tree K-I-S-S-I-N-G!" Liam, Zach and Rusty sing-sang mockingly.
"Bye guys." Clyde said as he smiled.
"See ya, Four-eyes, say hello to Freckles for me." Ronnie Anne laughed before making an L with her fingers and putting them on her forehead. "And you nerds are turning green with envy."
"I don't envy Lincoln..." Rusty growled as the couple walked away.
"Whatever you say, Rusty, I'll go find Penelope, I told her we'd meet up later." Clyde said before waving goodbye. "See ya at night."
"How come those two already have girlfriends?" Rusty wondered aloud.
"Penelope is too similar to Clyde and Lincoln withstands all of Ronnie Anne's tough love." Liam said as he shrugged. "Something will come, Rusty, stop envying them."
"I don't envy them!"
"You're a little green, buddy." Zach laughed as the three of them walked away from the school.
As Lincoln's friends walked away from school and kept joking about the tallest of their group, Lars watched with narrowed eyes under his bangs as his white-haired brother and his girlfriend walked away, chatting pleasantly and with the brunette petting him just as tough as always.
(Moments later)
After a short walk back to the Loud house in which the Latina and the albino made fun of how mushy their older siblings were regarding their relationship, Ronnie Anne opened the door to Lincoln's house, then cleared her throat a bit and said:
"Allow me, my beloved knight." Said Ronnie Anne, mockingly imitating her sister's voice.
"Oh, my Boo-boo Bear, you didn't have to do it..." Lincoln laughed as he imitated the voice of his brother Loki.
The couple laughed at their actions and entered the house, still imitating their older siblings, not noticing that Luke and his boyfriend, Sam, were in the living room kissing passionately bare-chested.
However, it wasn't the case of the two teenagers, who saw them arrive and smiled, with Luke denoting lust and desire, while Sam was blushing a bit, because despite knowing well the dynamics of his boyfriend's family and being one of the very few people outside of said family who was trusted by the Louds, he was still not very used to all that.
"Hey, Linc! You got here just in time! Sam and I were warming up and even though I didn't expect you to bring Ronnie Anne, I think..." Luke said, trying to get the attention of his younger brother. "Linc!"
"Don't bother." Lars said, scaring Sam and Luke by his sudden appearance. "You know well that Lincoln pays much more attention to Ronnie Anne than to anything else, even more than to his comics."
"That's BS, bro... I told him I had planned something with him and Sam after school..."
"I know, but don't worry, I have a plan to make Lincoln pay more attention to us again..."
After saying that, Lars smirked, causing Sam to raise an eyebrow.
"Uhh, I don't think I understand..." The blonde snapped.
"You will understand, Samuel... and you will enjoy it very, very much, along with us..."
Lars's smile widened as he approached a shadow in the corner, which only let his teeth be seen for a moment before disappearing completely.
"Your little brother scares me..." Sam said.
"He scares everyone, luv, everyone..." Luke affirmed. "Well, those plans went down the drain. What do you wanna do?"
"What if we repeat with Lynn again?"
"It'd be good, but he hasn't come home from school yet."
"Wasn't he supposed to have come back by now?"
"I suppose he's with Clyde and his girlfriend, he's the same as Lincoln... Maybe we should also make Lynn refocus his attention on the family."
"I only have one question." Sam snapped. "Will your brothers do the same to you if you pay more attention to me than to them?"
"Basically..."
"You take the concept of brotherly love to very weird levels, you know?"
"We're Louds, family is always our priority." Luke said as he hugged Sam by the neck. "That's why you'll be my husband, so that you become part of the family."
"I love you too, Luke." Sam laughed with a smile.
"Now lose the pants and get on your belly, I'm about to rock your whole world, luv..."
Meanwhile, back with our protagonist, Lincoln and Ronnie Anne entered the white-haired boy's room while they laughed and kept imitating their older siblings.
"Those two are the cheesiest couple in the world." Ronnie Anne laughed.
"Right, although I know another couple that is just as cheesy..." Lincoln said as he approached Ronnie Anne. "Isn't it, mi morenita linda?"
"Don't start with that, my white bunny." Ronnie Anne said with a blush. "At least we keep it to ourselves."
"True." Lincoln said before sighing and looking at the viewer. "Oh, sorry, we hadn't seen you."
"Yeah, as you may have noticed, we're not as innocent as other versions of ourselves, and when we're together we usually focus our attention only on the other." Said Ronnie Anne as she looked lovingly at Lincoln.
"And since this is our story, I think some context would come in handy." Said Lincoln. "As you may have already noticed, in this world, we Louds are an unbridled family with no inhibitions of any kind."
"And to a certain extent, my family too." Clarified Ronnie Anne. "Mostly influenced by the Louds, but I suppose that deep inside we were just like them."
"Well, the fact is that we have this family dynamic of open and unrestricted relationships, which, far from fragmenting our family, has made it much more united."
"As for people like Loni's girlfriend, Chandra; Luke's boyfriend, Sam; Lane's girlfriend Bessie; and my sister Roberta, who's Loki's girlfriend, to say that discovering the secret of the Louds was a shock is an understatement... Great, now I'm talking like Levi... Anyways, just imagine arriving at your boyfriend's house and not only hear that he's apparently cheating on you, but when you open the door of his room, you find him not only with another person but with two of his younger brothers, moaning like a whore while one fucks him and he fucks the other. Any other girl would've hit her boyfriend and broken up with him, she would've even called the police, but not me, seeing them... made something change in me. I ran away and went to my house, there Bebe saw me acting strange and well she correctly assumed that I had seen the Loud dynamic."
"In the following days, I wanted to talk to Ronnie Anne to explain things to her, but she avoided me and I felt miserable." Lincoln sighed. "I thought everything was over for us, especially my relationship with her."
"But it was only a strategy so that a couple of days later, I could capture him, pull him into a maintenance closet, gag him, pull down his pants and ride him like a bronco until he couldn't take it anymore." Said Ronnie Anne. "After that, we talked and I explained to him that Bebe had told me all about the dynamics, which surprised him but made us both discover in the long run that we are made for each other."
"And no matter how much we participate in the dynamics, we know that our heart only belongs to the other." Lincoln sighed as he took Ronnie Anne's hand.
"Yours and yours alone no matter what, Lincoln..." Ronnie Anne said before grabbing Lincoln's member over the albino's pants. "Just like you are only mine."
"Ah, in the mood already?" Lincoln asked with a raised eyebrow and a lustful gaze.
"With you here? I'm always in the mood..."
With that said, Ronnie Anne knocked Lincoln onto the bed with a kiss without taking her hand off her boyfriend's crotch, stroking his growing member over his clothes.
Lincoln moaned into Ronnie Anne's mouth, using his tongue to try to dominate the brunette's, while he caressed her hips, smiling inwardly as he heard her moans and how her breath got ragged with each action.
Feeling how Lincoln was gaining ground more and more, Ronnie Anne took her boyfriend's hands and pulled them away from her, making him moan in disappointment as the contact of their lips ceased, then proceeded to lower her hands towards the button of the pants of the albino and quickly unbuttoned and discarded the garment along with his underwear, uncovering Lincoln's phallus with pleasure and amazement.
Something that all the official Loud couples learned as soon as they got intimate was that the Louds had an impressive sexual appetite and stamina and that the males had been gifted with cocks large enough to back them up, and among them, the well-named Lincoln Log, standing at 10.5 in. long and 2 in. wide, was undoubtedly the biggest, not counting Lynn Sr., but the way things were going, Lincoln would undoubtedly dethrone his father's 15 in. long and 3.5 in. wide, upon reaching adulthood.
But back to our protagonists, whenever they saw it, Ronnie Anne and all the women (and even some men) always gazed at it with their mouths watering and their underwear wet in anticipation, and without a doubt, the brunette was ecstatic to know that this imposing piece of throbbing, warm and hard masculinity was totally hers.
Without thinking about it further, the brunette proceeded to lick Lincoln's masculinity from his balls to his glans in a torturously slow way, making her boyfriend moan as he gripped the sheets tightly. Then, Ronnie Anne smiled and gave him a passionate kiss on the glans, to then give it a couple of licks while she massaged his testicles.
"Oh, Ronnie Anne, you're a pro..." Said Lincoln.
"Meh, this is just the warm-up, Lame-o." Ronnie Anne said as she rubbed her face against Lincoln's cock. "I've been practicing this..."
At that moment, Lincoln's mind blanked out for a moment, then he was brought back to reality by the deliciously moist, warm and tight sensation around his member, which was being swallowed with ease and gluttony by Ronnie Anne, and the most impressive thing was that previously she could only reach the middle of his member, but now she could even lick his testicles when she got to the base of his cock.
"Oh god, my love... You're the best at giving head..." Lincoln said.
"Better even than you?" Ronnie Anne chuckled as she pumped Lincoln's member with her hand.
"Well, let's not exaggerate either, hehehe."
"I'll take that as a yes. Thank my father-in-law, he and I have gotten to know each other better and well, he helped me improve my technique." The Latina chuckled.
"Hmm, and you got mad at me because I fucked Bebe the other day..." Lincoln said as he pouted.
"You are adorable when you pout, Lame-o, but I think I remember that a certain stud also fucked my mom two weeks ago." Said Ronnie Anne as she stroked her boyfriend's cock.
"I was just testing what my future wife will be like and how delicious she'll be... Besides, you also had sex with Leif and Lexx that day at school."
"God, did you ever think that our relationship would lead to this debacle of debauchery and carnal desire?"
"I was counting on it." Lincoln said while he stroked the head of his girlfriend. "And judging by what you said, it seems like you've spent a lot of time with Levi."
"Well, I have to thank him for the contraceptives, right? You've done it to me so many times that you'd probably already gotten me pregnant if it weren't for your genius brother."
"True, very true..." Lincoln groaned as Ronnie Anne caressed his testicles.
"Hehe, if we're like this now, definitely an adventure awaits us when we're older." Ronnie Anne said before kissing Lincoln's balls.
After that, Ronnie Anne chuckled and tried to continue pleasing her boyfriend, however, the white-haired boy had other plans in mind.
With strength that he got from who knows where, Lincoln picked up Ronnie Anne and laid her on the bed, then got on top of her and kissed her just before the brunette could inquire about his actions. After a short but passionate kiss, Lincoln parted slightly from Ronnie Anne's lips and began to move down, leaving a trail of light kisses down her face, neck, and collarbone, all the way to Ronnie Anne's developing breasts. Lincoln grabbed his girlfriend's small mounds between his hands and squeezed them gently, eliciting a moan of pleasure from Ronnie Anne, then the albino moved his mouth over her right breast and licked it gently, making the brunette shiver, then placed his small nipple between his teeth and nibbled on it carefully, causing Ronnie Anne to cry out in surprise.
After this, Lincoln teased Ronnie Anne's right nipple while he still massaged her left breast and began to suck it like a hungry baby looking for breast milk, making the girl arch her back in ecstasy.
"You really are the perfect woman, Ronnie Anne..." Lincoln said as he sucked on Ronnie Anne's nipple. "Everything about you drives me crazy..."
Ronnie Anne groaned as her boyfriend gently nibbled her right nipple while he knead her left breast.
After a few more minutes, Lincoln released Ronnie Anne's small left breast and lowered his hand to her crotch, skillfully and quickly unbuttoning her shorts so that he could put his hand inside it and caress her womanhood over her already wet panties.
Ronnie Anne let out a cry that she immediately muffled by covering her mouth with both hands, then she shuddered when she felt Lincoln taking off her shorts along with her panties at the same time that he left a trail of soft kisses on her abdomen.
"Stop teasing me, Lincoln... Please..." Ronnie Anne said as she bit her finger.
"What do you want me to do then?" The white-haired boy chuckled as he stopped.
"I'm not gonna beg you... Not this time..."
"So be it, I guess I can stop..."
Before Lincoln knew what was happening, Ronnie Anne rolled onto the bed, getting on top of Lincoln and taking off his pants with astonishing speed, then took off his shirt, then rubbed her vagina against Lincoln's penis.
The albino smiled and put his hands on Ronnie Anne's hips while the brunette grabbed her boyfriend's member and aligned it with her womanhood.
Slowly, Ronnie Anne pushed Lincoln's member into her, making both of them moan and unconsciously cling to each other.
Once Lincoln's phallus was fully hilted into Ronnie Anne, the white-haired boy put his hands on Ronnie Anne's buttocks and squeezed them tightly, biting his lip at the delicious feeling both around his cock and in his hands.
For her part, Ronnie Anne gasped and threw her head back, unconsciously moving her hips and creating a pleasant friction between their sexes, then she leaned over Lincoln's chest and kissed him, playing with Lincoln's tongue using hers while she began to move her hips up and down, making both moan loudly.
Meanwhile, in the kitchen of the Loud House, Lynn Sr. chuckled as he listened to Lincoln's bed pounding against the wall, feeling some pride.
Then, the father of 11 moaned, raised his hand and brought it down on the rear end of his comedian son Lane, who growled with pleasure as he bit his lower lip and clung to the table hard while his father penetrated him roughly.
"Lincoln does know how to make a father proud." Lynn moaned before spanking Lane again. "Although he definitely isn't the only one..."
"Your teachings have been... long and hard..." Lane moaned. "Hehehe, get it?"
Lynn Sr. laughed and leaned over his son, grabbing his erection to jack him off in synchrony with his thrusts, making Lane howl in pleasure.
"Are you sure that... I dunno... dinner... won't get burned...?" Lane asked.
"I think a certain son of mine needs to remember why I am the alpha male..." Lynn said as he stopped for a moment. "... and how much I can multitask..."
Lane shuddered in advance and moaned, then his father picked him up without pulling his member out of his anus and pressed him against the wall, pounding Lane's ass long and hard, making the boy with brackets scream loudly, which made his father chuckle.
"And here I thought that the only one who could reach that tone was Luke." Lynn Sr. chuckled.
"You... always... help us... to go... further..." Lane moaned between thrusts.
Meanwhile, back with the protagonists, Lincoln was holding Ronnie Anne by her hips, which he caressed carefully and lovingly as the brunette rode him like a bronco, moaning while Lincoln's member hit her uterus, stimulating her greatly.
While Ronnie Anne was still moving her hips like a pro, Lincoln moved his hands to his girlfriend's breasts, squeezing them gently and then playing with her nipples between his fingers, making the brunette throw her head back and holler in pleasure.
"God, I love you so much..." Lincoln said.
"Me too..." Said Ronnie Anne with a naughty smile.
Lincoln let out a groan of surprise while Ronnie Anne returned the favor, putting her hands on her boyfriend's chest and playing with his nipples using her fingers, pinching them enough to make Lincoln moan in a pitch tone that made him sound like a girl, which Ronnie Anne loved listening.
"My little albino girl..." Ronnie Anne moaned.
Upon hearing the little nickname, Lincoln growled and flipped, causing Ronnie Anne to lay on her back, then the albino smirked maliciously and thrust into his girlfriend, causing her mind to be totally blank for a few moments and only see stars for a few seconds. Afterwards, Lincoln brought Ronnie Anne back to reality as he laid over her, hugging her body firmly and close, and starting a fierce ritm of thrusts, creating a cacophony of moist sounds accompanied by moans and grunts of the duo.
Lincoln captured Ronnie Anne's lips with his own into a wild and dominant kiss, swapping spit with her and playing her tongue, feeling pleasure as he also felt her moans up close.
For her part, Ronnie Anne wrapped Lincoln's body with her legs and arms, unconsciously curling up her toes and scratching Lincoln's back, leaving a few red marks on it.
After several minutes, Lincoln's thrusts became erratic and more bestial, causing Ronnie Anne to dig her nails deeper onto his back while both were close to cum.
After a couple more thrusts, Lincoln broke the kiss with his girlfriend and moaned in synchrony with her, releasing his warm seed in the depths of her belly, filling her uterus to the brim and with a little managing to dribble out and drip on the bed, mixing with Ronnie Anne's fluids.
The latina and the albino sighed and panted for a few seconds, grinning like idiots as they basked in the aftereffects of their orgasms, holding each other tightly.
"You're beautiful..." Lincoln gasped.
"Charming idiot..." Ronnie Anne panted.
"You know you love me..."
"True..."
Ronnie Anne smiled and kissed Lincoln softly and lovingly, a gesture that the white-haired boy replied while he moved his hands towards the brunette's cheeks.
After a couple of seconds, they both broke the kiss again and moved away, lying next to each other while staring into each other's eyes.
"Didn't you have something to do today with your brothers?" Ronnie Anne asked.
"Maybe, but the truth is, as much as I love my brothers, I wouldn't change this moment for anything." Lincoln said as he caressed Ronnie Anne's cheek.
"Aww... you make my heart melt, my cute albino..."
After saying that, Ronnie Anne kissed her boyfriend again and hugged him, gestures that Lincoln replied.
"We have homework to do..." Lincoln said.
"What a way to ruin the moment, Lame-o." Ronnie Anne chuckled.
"Well, we do, don't we? But I think we should take a shower first."
"Perhaps... but I want us to stay like this for a little while longer..."
"Whatever my queen wishes..."
"Thank you, my king..."
Ronnie Anne snuggled closer to Lincoln and sighed happily in his arms, as the albino protectively wrapped his arms around Ronnie Anne, enjoying their warmth and closeness to each other, meanwhile, through the air vent, Lars watched the couple, panting heavily as he wiped his hand on a couple of tissues and rebuttoned his pants.
"I have to admit..." Lars sighed. "My dark and cold heart is filled with envy as I see them together, so passionate and close to each other. I hope Rose and I achieve a union that strong someday. It's almost a shame to have to split them away, albeit just a little bit... almost."
Lars smirked and started to crawl through the duct towards his room, landing on Lynn's bed after exiting the ventilation system.
Lars got off his brother's bed and walked to his side of the room, pulling out his poetry notebook from the nightstand to do some writing as a question formed in his mind.
"Where will Lynn be?" Lars wondered as he picked up a pen to write a new poem.
(Elsewhere)
In his room, Clyde McBride, Lincoln's best friend, was lying on his bed, hugging two people close to him while all three of them panted heavily.
The person at Clyde's right was none other than his girlfriend, Penelope, a nerdy, freckled girl with curly reddish hair who wore brackets and glasses, currently naked, sweaty and snuggling up on Clyde's chest as she panted.
The other was none other than Lincoln's sporty brother, the ever-so-boastful Lynn Loud Jr. And as it was usual for him, though he didn't show it to many people because he had quite the reputation of being a dominant alpha male, was wearing frilly pink cotton panties, a pantyhose that had been torn in the ass, and a skimpy top that barely covered his nipples and a small fraction of his chest, and that matched the panties he was wearing.
And though he was blushing and had a hand-shaped red mark on his ass, Lynn was smiling, feeling totally free and loved.
"Have I ever told you two how much I love you?" Clyde said all of a sudden.
"Like ten minutes ago, when you were filling up my womb with your cum..." Penelope purred. "And while you were showing our little maid here who's her daddy..."
"Penny, we talked about this..." Clyde said in a stern yet soft tone. "No name-calling between you two."
"I don't mind..." Lynn said as he blushed. "I mean... I do make a believable girl..."
"If we overlook that 8-inch boner poking out of your panties, you do..." Penelope said as she gripped Lynn's length. "I still can't believe that a Loud, let alone you of all of them, actually enjoys being dommed rather than domming. I mean, you're Lynn Loud and you have the equipment to do so."
"Oh, like any good Loud, I enjoy pounding a nice ass into the nearest surface and bossing people around on the field, but... guess after being so dominant, it feels... liberating to be under someone else's control from time to time. Makes me feel much less pressure since I'm just following instructions, y'know?" Lynn admitted.
"What I can't believe is that Clyde of all people can be so dominant..."
"Lincoln was a good teacher..." Clyde said as he spanked Lynn. "To both you and me, it seems."
"Thanks, Master Clyde..."
"So adorable..."
"I'm getting jelly." Penelope said as she cuddled up closer to Clyde.
"You know very well I love you too, Penny..." Clyde said as he gave her a peck on the lips.
The three youngsters simply sighed contently and closed their eyes, drifting off into a short sleep.