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    It has become a habit, she realizes. To climb into Ben’s bed, to see him.

    It started in grade school, the week she stayed over at his house and was tormented with nightmare after nightmare after nightmare.

    And now, eight years later and three thousand miles away from home, she still seeks him out, still looks for him in the darkness. Even if it only requires slipping out of her bed and crawling into his, next door.

    She seeks warmth, seeks something to fill the aching loneliness that festers in her heart, late at night, like an open wound. It has become a habit, an instinct, really, to seek him out.

    Devi expects this to become a lot more complicated than it does.

     

    or; five times devi falls asleep in ben’s bed, and the one time he falls asleep in hers

    (title from “by your side” by the 1975)

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