In a quiet bedroom with pastel blue colored walls, two men is laying side by side on a bed with its plain white sheet. One of them is sleeping deeply while the other is still awake and laying beside the former quietly.

Liam staring at the man that’s laying close to him with a soft, loving gaze.

He had wrapped his arms and legs around Liam as he look for the warmth of the other's under the blanket when he’s sleeping and had been laying comfortably while snoring softly in his sleep. The dishevelled short hair that he just cut last week is pointing at every direction.

The reason why he cut it is because he got reprimanded by his own little students that said he looks like a giant hair monster. The words said by them is like a jab at his heart because he know it is a futile attempt to tame his own hair, so he could only accept it while grieving silently in his heart and go to the barbershop later that day.

Now, laying here, the man’s innocent sleeping face made him looks exactly like the boy that’s still in his teens from his memory years ago. Liam always like to tease him when he’s lamenting about how hard it is for him to shakes off the ‘baby face' look or how he hardly ever able to grow any facial hair at all.

One of Liam's arms has became his ‘pillow' for quite a while now as it felt rather numb, but he ignored the uncomfortable feeling and using the other free arm to reach out and brushed the strands of dirty blond hair on his lover’s forehead lightly. After that, he used the back of his fingers to caress the man's cheek softly before giving his nose a light kiss.

Thinking that it wasn’t enough, he started kissing his exposed cheek and two closed eyelids softly as he feared to wake the sleeping man, but in the end, the kissed eyelids flutters slowly and his half opened eyes moves to meet Liam's smiling face.

“Did I wake you up?” ask Liam innocently and gave the half awakened man a peck on his forehead.

The other person shakes his head slowly, he’s still feeling muddleheaded by the sleep and mumbled some affirmation and yawned. His mouth opened wide and the corner of his eyes hold a trace of tears that’s threatening to fall, but Liam wipes the water off with his thumb.

The still dazed man scratched his cheek lightly and he asks with a hoarse voice, “You’re not sleeping?”

Liam smiled and pat his back a few times.

“I’m about to sleep right now. Just sleep again, it’s still-“ he glanced at the clock on the bedside table, “-one past fifteen, it’s still midnight.”

“M’kay,” he nods against Liam’s ‘arm pillow’.

With a small smile on his face, Liam pulls his lover closer to a more comfortable position, fix their blanked and kissed him one more time on the crown of his head and softly said, “Good night.”

“Night,” he replies softly.

Not a minute has passed and the man on his arms has already breathing evenly and continuing his interrupted beauty sleep.

Liam stays awake for a little while, his fingers keep on brushing his lover's hairs lightly. His mind wandered for a while, and out of nowhere, he found himself remembering the event that had happened in their younger years, about their past and old problems.

He frowned at that unpleasant memory. But when he’s thinking about those things, he also recalled their first meeting and the events that’s leading on the current present, and the crease on his brows eased down and that memory brought a smile on his face once again, albeit it being a bitter smile.

He knows that a lot unpleasant things had happened on their younger years. Thought their body and mind were battered from the experience’s sharp blade that’s poking at them in every opportunity it got, the two of them managed to overcome that hardship somehow and when they have reached this point of life, he doesn’t even dare to ask for more than he can get.

Sleepiness came to him and before he succumbs to sleep as his eyelids are getting heavier by the seconds, he’s thinking if this is the right time for him to present his lover with the little shiny thing to seal their love completely.

With that thought in mind and a brighter smile on his face, he hug his lover closer and closes his eyes, and soon fell to the worlds of wonder.