is he hogging the bed? absolutely. one of the two pit bulls ( both chocolate brown females with white streaks down their chests ) he’d recently adopted looks incredibly put out.
❝ … ❞
“ hey, lazybones. ”
she’s not a short girl, standing at near on five foot eight, but she’s skinny, compact ; has few qualms, besides, about nudging her knees into the few bare spaces of mattress on either side of his torso, even if it ends with her perching on the small of his back, chest flush to his shoulder blades and nudging the bridge of her nose into the side of his neck, just under the jawbone.
“ listen, i’m cute, pay attention to me. ”
her voice is obviously teasing, bravado feigned for the sake of a lighthearted, fond jest ; yet, the desire for contact is real.