early morning conversations

You're awake.

Fishna buribda bob?

You're awake!

Wha...wha...whadda ya wunt? Ish summat wrong?

You were just awake!

I wush sleepin. Wash wrong? I luv you.

I love you - but you were just awake.

When?

Just now. You were wide awake, staring at the ceiling. You were awake!

Angel, I wush fas-a-slep. You've jush woken me up. Wha time ishit?

It's three minutes past four. But listen, listen to me! You were awake! Your eyes were open! You were staring at the ceiling! You were wide awake and saying nothing! It was scary. It was like, like nothing at all was going on behind your eyes. But YOU WERE WIDE AWAKE!

I was asleep. You've just woken me up. I was asleep!

Wow! Sounds to me like you have a brain tumour. Do you think you have a brain tumour?

She kisses me, rolls over and falls immediately back to sleep. I am now wide awake. Do I have a brain tumour? I can't sleep. I can't sleep. The alarm is going to go off at 5.30. I need to get back to sleep. Do I have a brain tumour? I've got a long day ahead of me. Why does she think I've got a brain tumour? I can't sleep. I fall back to sleep at 5.27. The alarm goes off three minutes later. We turn to each other. We kiss. We say:

I love you.

I love you.

No, I LOVE you.

And I love you.

Promise me you will never leave me, promise me you won't die.

Errrr, I love you and I will never leave you but...is there something wrong?

I had a bad dream.

Oh - sorry.

You got an ulcer on your gum, at the front of your face, just under your teeth.

You mean where I normally get my ulcers?

Yes. Except this one kept growing. As the dream progressed it started to eat away at your face. You lost your bottom lip, then your jaw, then the side of your face. It was horrible. I couldn't find a cure for you. Doctors were baffled. And all the time this ulcer just kept eating away at your face.

Oh.

Are you excited?

What?

Are you excited?

I'm sorry????

About Comic-Con? Come on, we should get up and get going. You don't seem very excited.

Oh, you know how it is. What with the brain tumour and the face-eating-acidic ulcer it's a bit difficult to get going at the moment.

I thought you'd be a little bit more excited. You're a bit grumpy this morning.

Who'd have thunked it, eh?

Comments

[maria]

God, that maria is just AWFUL! How DO you put up with her?