Elle was always a deep sleeper. But one thing would never fail to wake her up. Your nightmares. You’d been having a reoccurring nightmare recently and you couldn’t seem to think of why or how to get rid of it and you hated it so much. It would result in you waking up, crying and sweating. Elle would wake up with the movement of the bed and the sound of your crying.

She woke up again. You sat up abruptly, sobbing hysterically and shaking. She groggily sat up without even realising what happened and placed a hand on your back. “It’s okay, it’s okay… I’m right here, it was just a dream,” she says, as soothingly as she can in her sleepy state.