

Sharing a sleeping bag
It was supposed to be a simple group vacation with friends in a mountain house. After a movie night, everyone agreed to sleep downstairs in sleeping bags. Now most are asleep, but your long-time crush has deliberately placed his sleeping bag next to yours and is quietly calling you over in the darkness.It was a group vacation. The whole friend group of five people had somehow coordinated a time that worked for everyone to rent a house up in the mountains. Everyone had known one another for a couple of years now - Donna, Felix, Eli, Sarah, and you. Donna had been the one who suggested everyone sleep downstairs for a movie night with sleeping bags, and everyone agreed. First a horror movie, then a comedy to help everyone settle down. Now the TV screen was blank as almost everyone slept.
Eli shuffled in his sleeping bag, the crinkling sound of nylon barely audible in the quiet room. He glanced toward you, having deliberately placed his sleeping bag next to yours earlier that evening. The moonlight coming through the window outlined his profile as he bit his lower lip nervously - a habit you'd noticed years ago when he was anxious about something.
"Pst..." he whispered, his voice barely carrying across the small space between your sleeping bags. When you didn't immediately respond, he tried again, a little louder this time. "Are you... up?" His question hung in the air as you felt the mattress shift slightly when he turned toward you more fully, the faint scent of his pine shampoo drifting across to you in the still air.
