He tried to close his eyes and sleep. He never had problems while sleeping, simply because he only went to bed when he would be truly exhausted.
But tonight, even though his eyes were too tired, and every part of his body was paining, he could not go to sleep. There was something inside him that told him that he will not be able to sleep until he saw his wife sleeping peacefully.
He resisted the temptation of urging Lucy to sleep and kept tossing on the bed for about fifteen minutes.
Finally his patience gave way ...
"Hey, can you just go to sleep....it's two thirty", he said, in a firm voice.
"Stop irritating me and keep your big fat mouth shut", said Lucy, gazing at him from over the laptop.
"Why can't you go to sleep? Are you competing with the bats or what?", he asked in a gruesome voice.
"What do you have to do after I go to sleep?", she asked, suspiciously.
"I ... I have to meditate", said Adrian.
"That's the worst excuse I have ever given to anyone", he added to himself.
"You can meditate now. I am not making any sort of noise", said Lucy.
"Why can't you stop arguing with me and go to sleep?", he asked, in a I-am-fed-up-of-this-girl sort of voice.
"Why do you care about me sleeping?", she asked him, still typing.
"Because I like to sleep with the lights off", said Adrian.
"And that's the second 🥈 most horrible excuse of the year. Perhaps I will be breaking all the records tonight itself", he thought.
"What sort of a baby 🍼 you are?", she asked, exasperatedly ," You are twenty four...and I was thinking that you are dangerous".
"It's good for you too...you won't be able to work tomorrow when you are not going to sleep ", he said.
"There's no need for you to worry about me ", said she, as she dropped her gaze back to her laptop.
"Well, unfortunately, as the switch is on my side of the room, it's me who will decide whether it will be off or on", said he, smirking and turned off the lights.
"You...you hoodlum", said she, furiously as everything went dark.
She turned on her phone 's flash 📸 light but it caused her eyes to water and she soon became tired. She looked over to Adrian, who had his back turned to her.
With no choice, she closed her laptop , turned off the flash light and retired to the sleeping bag.
"I will make you pay for this", she thought, as he closed her eyes to sleep.