Ratty

he sits next to you the entire time, maybe with a book in his hands, those frameless reading glasses on that you say are too small for his face, with a big hand rubbing your back as you just hide in bed.

you hate the cold, and you’re buried under a duvet, and you love your boyfriends warmth as it seeps into you. 

“sorry si,” you say, sleepily, your mind only calming down after a lot of deep breathing, “i know you wanted to go out to the pub with the boys…”

he just shakes his head, and places a rough, calloused hand on the small of your back, “it’s okay love, you get warmed up.” a smile weathered by sun, “and tell your brain to stop running a thousand miles an hour.”

BATHS & ECLIPSE (sleeptober day 28 and 29) — Well, you will empty the darkness // Will you halt this eclipse in me?

❝ ‭ oh, and give, give me all all that i want, just give me all . . . ❞

i was listening to hypnosis on loop while making this... ii carries this song tell me otherwise i dare you

ii is also... down for the count. my bad !

(also chill motherfucker aint nobody taking him from u... ves can get really 'overprotective')

closeup under cut

Anyway, they were doing basic math and reading and writing at home and had their standard curricula for that, but their project for a year and the reason I saw them every week for a year is that he was learning about 1 country each week. They would get three books, one about the country's history, one about her food, one about language (if possible) or travel (if not). They would read select chapters from all three (he rarely cover-to-covered them, especially if I didn't have books meant for young readers about a particular country, as our collection for such matters is often 'not great buddy') and make up a worksheet of basic facts and history at the end of the week, when the family would also cook something form the cookbook together to eat for dinner.

South of the USA. Public library with books that were not ideal. He didn't even read the whole book if it was too big. They didn't even go looking for the books themselves, they went to a local building with free services, asked a worker there to find them the books, and went home.