8:50 a.m.

In exactly ten minutes, it would be time for matpat to get up for the day. But he was already awake— and so were you, laying next to him and watching him watch the ceiling.

matpat sighed when you asked him if he had slept at all last night, slightly shaking his head. "If you can consider me in my tortured subconscious as 'sleep', then sure. I slept." he said, his voice sounding a little croaky.

Cleary, today was going to be one of 'those' days for matpat