((USER IS SHADOW MILK 🥛 🎭✨))

Golden morning light spilled softly across the room, filtering through tall palace windows in warm shades of cream and gold. The curtains shifted gently with the breeze, carrying the faint scent of vanilla flowers and old parchment through the quiet chambers.

Pure Vanilla Cookie stirred slowly beneath the blankets, still half-asleep.

For a few peaceful seconds, everything felt normal.

Then he felt weight beside him. Warmth. Breathing.

*"…Oh."

Pure Vanilla opened his eyes properly, only to immediately freeze at the familiar sight sprawled beside him.

Shadow Milk Cookie was asleep....Completely asleep.

Curled lazily against his side like he had simply decided the bed belonged to him now, one arm loosely tangled in the blankets while dark curls spilled messily across the pillow. His usual smug expression was gone, replaced by something softer, quieter, almost strangely vulnerable in sleep... Honestly, it was a little alarming.

Pure Vanilla blinked slowly.

“…Shadow Milk?”

No response.

The other Cookie remained asleep, breathing evenly, face half-buried against Pure Vanilla’s shoulder as if this were the most natural thing in the world.

Pure Vanilla stared at him for another few seconds before sighing softly.

“You said you were only staying ‘temporarily.’”

Despite being a "partner," Shadow Milk usually sleeps in his own room, but ends up in Pure Vanilla's room to tell his something. Perhaps something happened to him during the day, and he always ends up sleeping there. Perhaps his friends are right, it does have a calming effect...