I didn’t expect the knock on my door right then, but figuring it was one of my brothers I got up and answered it, shocked when I saw Katy standing in a pair of shorts and a huge hoodie that almost swallowed her up.
“My Netflix has stopped working, and I’ve only just started the third episode. Help!”
Taking a step back and opening the door wider so she could come in, I chuckled as she limped to the couch with Duke right behind her. “Make yourselves at home.”
Shooting me a smile, she dropped onto her right side and curled up on the sofa, pointing at the TV. “The Witcher, please.”
I’d watched that shit at least ten times but it was no hardship to watch an episode again, so I took the opposite side of the couch, stretched out with my legs running behind hers, and navigated through the menu on my TV until I got to what she wanted.
“Addictive, isn’t it?”
The opening scenes of the episode had only just begun, but already she was engrossed in what was happening. “That song’s never going to leave my head.”
After that she didn’t say another word unless it was a reaction to what was happening. The third episode moved into the forth, and when it hit midnight we were still watching it. Curled up on a couch with little Katy Crew was far from being a hardship for me I realized. In fact, I enjoyed every fucking second.It felt like I could hardly breathe and my body was being held down by a giant as I woke up. I tried moving my legs, but there was a heavy weight across my shins and feet that didn’t move when I did. Then, when I tried to move the top of my body whatever was on it held on tight. Blinking in the soft glow coming from the television, I looked down and saw Katy curled up on me, fast asleep. Lifting my head, I lifted my head up to look over her shoulder and saw Duke on my legs - both of which explained a lot.
Wrapping my arms around her, I rolled onto my side as best I could, and positioned her so that she was against the back of the couch with her front pressed against mine. She wiggled a couple of times, wrapped an arm around my back and that was that. Carefully, I managed to lift one leg out from under Duke and used it to change the position of my lower half and get more comfortable.
And I fell straight back to sleep with the scent of Katy’s hair in my nose, her head tucked under my chin, her body wrapped around me, and her dog on my leg.
It might sound like it would be uncomfortable, but it was the best night’s sleep I’d ever had.
KatyDrip.
Drip.
Drip.
In my dream there was a huge flower above me, dripping water on my cheek. So, in my dream I shifted forward into the cuddly teddy bear that had eyes like Jarrod’s, and nuzzled my face into its chest. The cuddly teddy bear wrapped its arms around me and rubbed its chin on my hair. I loved being in the forest where the teddy bears lived.
“Try dropping it on him now,” a voice whispered in the forest. Probably another teddy bear.
“I think we should just dump the whole glass on them and see what happens,” one of the other teddy bears replied.
I was too comfortable and happy where I was to open my eyes and see what they were talking about, until my teddy bear growled, “I will pull your underwear so high up your ass, you’ll feel it in your eyeballs if you do that.”
Frowning, I blinked my eyes open and saw nothing but a wall of t-shirt seeing as how my nose was pressed up against it. Teddy bears wore t-shirts?
Leaning back slightly, I tilted my head back to see what teddy was angry about, and about shit my pants when I saw Jarrod glaring at something over our heads.
“Ah, the princess is awake,” a voice chuckled. “Morning, Katy.”
Tilting my head further back, I saw three Jarrod’s looking down at me with matching smiles on their faces as they dangled a glass of water above us.
“I thought you were nice when I first met you, now I just think your assh…” I was cut off by the mouthful of water that I got when the glass was tipped over us.
Sitting up, I did what I’d do if it was my brothers who’d done it, and reached for the first thing I could get my hands on – which just so happened to be the remote – and started hitting whatever human I could reach with it.
“Jesus, I thought she was nice and quiet when we met her,” one of them yelped as he jumped back. “She’s like one of those little psycho dogs that…” he broke off on a squeal as Jarrod launched himself over the back of the couch and went after him.