Affection Never Left

(My boyfriend is spending the night at my college dorm. I don’t have a roommate to keep us up, so we go to bed early. I can’t sleep, though.)

Me: “Babe, I love you, but I can’t sleep. I’m going across the hall to [Friend]’s until I’m tired.”

Boyfriend: *snore*

(I spend about an hour across the hall, and then return. When I open the door, he sits up, bleary-eyed.)

Boyfriend: *slurring* “Where’d ya go?”

Me: “I went across the hall for a while. But now I’m back.”

(I get back into bed and snuggle up with him. He sighs contentedly.)

Boyfriend: “Don’t leave me ever again.”