Their Love Is Shiny

(My boyfriend and I are on the phone late at night for our good night call. We’re both really tired and I’m starting to drift asleep.)

Me: “You know how you make me feel, hon…?” *I pause and, in my head, think I’ve described a romantic setting. In fact, I have said nothing* “Fireflies.”

Boyfriend: “F-fireflies”? I make you feel like fireflies?”

Me: *jerking fully awake* “Oh, my god! I meant to say that speaking with you like this makes me feel like we’re lying on a grassy hill on a cool summer evening watching fireflies fly around above us!”

Boyfriend: “… So… fireflies?”

Me: *still laughing* “Yes, honey, fireflies.”

(We now call points of exhaustion at night when we’re really, super tired “Firefly Point”.)