Nights Like These
Henry wakes up to their door opening. It can't be any later than 12 am. Grace, Henry's younger daughter, is standing in the doorway.
"Grace? Sweetie, why are you up?" Henry asks as they sit up and get out of bed.
"I had a nightmare..." Grace says softly.
"Do you want to talk about it?" Henry says, kneeling down to the nine year old's level.
Grace shakes her head no, then hugs Henry. The girl is holding an old stuffed rabbit from when Henry was little.
One of the only childhood items Henry managed to swipe from their home before running away.
"Ok, well..." Henry pauses to yawn, "do you want to watch some tv?" They ask softly.
"Disney Jr?" Grace asks, looking up at her mom.
"Sure kid, whatever you want," Henry says, then scoops up Grace.
Henry walks out into the living room. They turn on a small floor lamp it gives enough light for them to see the remote. After grabbing it, Henry sits down, setting their daughter down next to them.
The tv turns on, and Henry rushes to turn it down so as to not wake Anthony up. It may not be a weeknight, but it's still late. The channel the tv was on was ABC, a new episode of Once Upon A Time aired on Thursday, and the rerun was on early that night. Henry couldn't help but rewatch it.
Disney Jr. was on commercial break, the guid did say it was about to start a Bear in the Big Blue House episode.
Once the show was on, Grace moved Henry's arm, then laid her head on their leg. After that, Grace quickly drifts off to sleep.
About ten minutes later, Anthony walks into the living room, her blanket over her shoulders like a cape and Sheep following behind. She sits down next to Henry while Sheep lays down on the floor.
"Why are you watching baby shows?" Anthony asks.
"Because your sister is a baby..." Henry responds quietly as they point at Grace.
"I'm not, I'm..." Anthony trails off trying to remember her age.
"Eleven years," Henry is cut off by Anthony quickly saying, "Eleven years old!"
"Hey, we can't be too loud. Why are you up anyways little miss?" Henry asks in a joking tone.
"I heard the tv and thought, I am the life of the party they need me. So I came out." Anthony says simply, not taking her eyes off the tv.
"Would you like me to change it?" Henry says, grabbing the remote.
"No, I like Sofia the First," Anthony says.
The two stayed up for about twenty more minutes and then fell asleep.
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I have two cats. One eats in a normal way. The other eats like they’ve never eaten food before. Then he looms over his sister like a monster and stares at her willing her to finish and leave him scraps. It’s great I’ll have to draw it.
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