“Go back to sleep Angel.”  I stroked her hair as I whispered into her ear lovingly.  

“Ok banana.”  She said so soft I barley heard.  God if she wasn’t so damn cute I think I would be insulted.   She still sucked her thumb.

Slowly I drifted back to sleep.  

I woke up to sun streaming in through my giant windows.  I loved to wake up this way.  When people wake me I get grumpy.  And when I wake up with an alarm or music I’m jumpy.  The only other way to get me up is to send Sasha my dog in.  

I kept my eyes closed but stretched.  The warm body next to me was still dead with her hair in her face and thumb in her mouth.  I didn’t want to wake her.  So carefully I untangled myself and pulled the blanket up over her body.  

I started to tidy up my room.  When I was on my last pillow I came across and old picture that must have fallen off my bulletin board.  I smiled and picked the paper up to take it back to the bed.

“Good morning.”  I heard a husky voice say next to me.  I turned to face Ashley who was now sitting up on the bed looking at me.

“Morning.”  I relied with a giant smile.

“Mmm.  That was a crazy night.”  She said grinning.  “You did a good job of cleaning.  Sorry I didn’t help.”

“No problem.  You took care of me last night.”  I responded.  We just smiled at each other for a few seconds.

“Whats that?”  Ashley asked sitting up and looking at the drawing in my hand.  I chuckled and handed it to her.

It was a drawing she gave me in… Kindergarten.  There was a cut out kitten from a magazine glued on with her messy words on the bottom and top.  It read:

i LoVE yoU KciTy

(heart) ANglE

We were just learning how to spell.  It was supposed to say:

I Love You Kitty

(heart) Angel

To cute for words is what that is.

“You kept it.”  She said shocked tracing her fingers along the crayon words.