Aster
I woke up feeling a lot better than I did the night before. I'm glad I had Leaf to call otherwise I don't think I would've had any sleep at all. I only went to sleep because of them. I'm glad they also offered to hang out today so I wasn't alone today. I wonder where they are wanting to go or if it's just going to be at one of our places. I decided not to drink any coffee today and instead went with tea. I figured it would be better that way today. I am glad I don’t have work today, and if I did I would be calling off, because I'm way too stressed and tired. I decided just to have some quiet time to myself before I texted Leaf that I was up.
Leaf
It was 10 am when Aster texted me that she was up. She told me that she wanted to be alone for a bit before we did hang out, but still wanted to text. I happily obliged, wanting her to feel better than what she did the night before. I was thinking of other ways to make her feel better, and I ran across the idea of getting her some presents. A little snack, maybe a candle, or a stuffed animal, or maybe all of those. I decided on all. I gathered up my things that I needed to go to the store with bringing my empty backpack to carry the stuff.
I set out to the store. I wanted to make her feel even better. I got to the store quicker than I thought I would, but I didn’t care as I scoured the store looking for the right gifts. I even got something for Charcoal. I just needed a gift bag now, I looked at the many options and decided on one that was green and had some sparkles on it. I took the items up to the register and paid for them. I hurried back to my apartment. When I got back I organized the gifts in the gift bag. I was excited to see how she would react to the gifts. I pulled out my phone to text her to see what time she wanted to meet up.
Aster
Leaf texted me the whole time since I texted them first. I wasn’t quite ready to meet up with them yet, but I enjoyed talking to them. I haven’t been able to hold this long of a conversation for a long while. I debated to tell Leaf about me being intersex, but I was worried. I have told another person who was trans once learning about me that just dropped me. It hurt. I doubted that Leaf would do that, but I needed to be sure that they would stay and not look at me different. It was a slip when I told them I chose my name too, it just came out when they said they did.
About an hour after when Leaf asked me what time we wanted to meet up, I was ready to do so. I sat down in my car, putting on my seatbelt. I started it up and drove down the street to the apartments. I pulled up outside, and put my car in park. I got out my phone and texted Leaf that I was outside, and a minute later I saw them coming out of the door.
They were, not successfully, trying to hide something behind them, and had a blanket thrown over their shoulder. They kept it behind them getting in the car. Leaf turned to me, smiling and holding out the sparkly green gift bag.”I hope you like it” “You didn’t have to” “I know, but I wanted to, I even got something for Charcoal” I dug through the bag pulling out snacks, a candle, a stuffed panda, and a little mouse toy for Charcoal. “Thank you, I love these” “I’m glad you liked them, now for where we are going I thought about going to a park, because they are quiet and peaceful” “I like that idea, which one though?” “I was going to leave that up to you” “Alright I know which one I want to go to, let’s go” Leaf buckled up. I handed Leaf my phone to choose the song while heading to the park.
It was comfortable heading to the park listening to the songs Leaf put on. We didn’t say much heading there. We parked and got out, Leaf bringing the blanket with us as we walked a while before choosing a spot to set it down. Leaf tried to spread it out using the wind, but the wind had different plans. I ended up helping Leaf, who looked very embarrassed as we got rocks heavy enough to keep the blanket down by the corners. We looked at our work with pride and sat down, it was a few hours before it would get dark, but we both agreed to do some star gazing if it didn’t get too cold.
Leaf
We sat and talked for hours before laying back to start watching the stars come out. Our heads together but our legs pointed to different sides of the blanket. “This is nice.” I thought out loud. “It really is, we will need to do this again” “Yeah” We then settled into a comfortable silence. It was cooling off, we slowly got closer to share our heat, moving to where we were side by side. We stayed like that for a while pointing out different constellations. I noticed that Aster had started to shiver. I sat up slowly. “Hey, you’re shivering, do you want to go? We can maybe hang out at my apartment if you still want to hang out” “Yeah let’s go, I really don’t want to, but I also don’t want to get sick, and how about we go to my house, I need to check on Charcoal” “That sounds good to me! I missed Charcoal”
I gathered up the blanket shaking it out, then bundling it up. “Oh I wonder how Charcoal will like her gift” “She probably will like it like I liked mine” She was smiling. I succeeded in making her feel better today.
Aster
Leaf was doing a good job at distracting me mostly. My mind at times was still wandering around and worrying. I didn’t want the stargazing to stop, even though I was cold I was sad to go. Leaf was making sure I was taking care of myself. We arrived at my house both shivering because my heat doesn’t work too well. We hurried inside in the warm air, slowly thawing us out. Charcoal was mewing and swirling through both of our legs. I focused on Charcoal once I got inside. Her food bowl was low, but her water wasn’t. As I refilled her bowl Leaf was pulling out Charcoal’s gift and trying to get Charcoal to come over to them. Once Charcoal sniffed the catnip that was inside the toy she became very interested. Once Charcoal was taken care of me and Leaf sat down on the couch both of us covered in a blanket.
Leaf fell asleep about thirty minutes later. I knew they were fighting the whole time but didn’t say anything. I covered them in another spare blanket, before slipping away to my own bed.
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