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// Night Two - Too Scared 
// Story: Sonata's Sleep Issues 
// by Zenyattaluver677 
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It was 10:30 at night, Sonata laid awake in her bed and stared at her dark ceiling. Aria had just put her to bed fifteen minutes before and said she'd just be downstairs if Sonata needed anything. Adagio had been watching a scary movie earlier in the day with Aria and Sonata had been in the room playing with some of her toys and had been listening to the movie and had occasionally looked up to watch the TV every few minutes to see what was going on. Aria had warned her not to and that she knew what would happen and she said she'd be fine, but now Sonata regretted looking at the TV because now she was scared to go to sleep. She'd heard Adagio come upstairs a few minutes before, but she hadn't heard Aria come upstairs yet, so she guessed that her older sister was still downstairs, either playing on her phone or watching something on the TV. Aria never went to bed until like 11:00 or 11:30 at night anyways.

Sonata tried to fall asleep by distracting herself with the bracelet on her side dresser, it wasn't helping though, she was still thinking about the scary things she'd seen in the scary movie. She finally made the decision to go downstairs and see Aria, because she knew Adagio would just laugh at her and tell her she was just being silly and overthinking and then would tell her to go back to her room and go to bed. Sonata quietly got out of her bed, walked to her closed bedroom door and opened it and peeked out to see if Adagio was in the hallway or not. When Sonata saw no signs of Adagio in the hallway, she walked quickly to the stairs, looked behind her to check if Adagio was there and then walked quickly and quietly down the stairs. She walked down the hall to the living room and peeked around the corner to see if Aria was in the living room, Aria was lounging on the couch looking at something on her phone and was lounging so she wasn't facing Sonata. Sonata got down on her knees and quietly crawled towards the couch, when she got to the couch, she stood up on her knees and gently grabbed Aria's left arm to get her attention.

"Hey Nata. What are you doing up? I put you to bed twenty minutes ago." Aria asked Sonata when she saw her younger sister after looking to see who wanted her.

"I can't sleep Ari." Sonata explained to Aria quietly.

"Why not? There's no storm outside tonight. You were fine when I put you to bed." Aria asked her again slowly, so she wouldn't pressure Sonata to much.

"I'm just scared." Sonata answered, glancing at Aria's phone to see what Aria was looking at.

"You're scared because of the movie Adagio and I watched aren't you." Aria said to Sonata softly, reaching over to play with a strand of her hair.

"Yeah." Sonata replied.

"I told you not to watch it, you know what happens." Aria explained to Sonata, giving her younger sister a slightly firmer look to show her that she should've listened to her and that she now had to deal with the consequences.

"I know. I'm sorry Ari." Sonata admitted quietly, looking away from Aria slightly when she got Aria's "I told you so" look. She never liked getting that look because whenever she got it from Adagio she got into a bunch of trouble, she thought Aria would do the same.

"It's ok. I'm just surprised you didn't come down here sooner to get me." Aria said to Sonata, softening her gaze and smiling at her sister.

"Well, I was going to, then Adagio came upstairs so I waited until I heard her bedroom door shut and for a few minutes after so I wouldn't get in trouble for not being in bed." Sonata explained, smiling at her sister.

"Well you did a pretty good job of that, usually she doesn't go to bed until like 12:00, she just goes to her room for peace and quiet as she puts it, but she actually goes there to watch Netflix on her TV." Aria said to Sonata.

"Well, I went quietly." Sonata explained again.

"Ahh, that's why." Aria replied.

"But still, I can't sleep so I was wondering if..." Sonata stopped when Aria sat up on the couch, set her phone on the side table by the couch and plugged it in and then looked at her with a look that Sonata couldn't quite figure out what it meant.

"If you can sleep with me? And you know this is the second night in a row that you've had trouble sleeping, right?" Aria asked as she finished her sister's sentence to what she thought her sister would say and explained to her that now she'd had trouble sleeping on her own for a second straight night.

"Yeah." Sonata answered cautiously.

"Yes, you can. I was going to head up there now so you can come with me and wait in my room while I get ready, all I have to do is put my pajamas on and brush my teeth and then I'll be ready for bed." Aria explained to Sonata as she stood up and began walking towards the hallway that lead out of the living room and to the stairs or kitchen.

"Um, ok." Sonata said as she hesitantly stood up and took a cautious step towards her older sister, who was walking towards the hall.

"What is it?" Aria asked when she turned to see if Sonata was following her and saw her younger sister standing by the couch with a nervous look on her face, she walked back over to her and put her hand on her sister's back.

"I-I just don't want to get in trouble, what if Adagio comes out of her room and sees me in your room while you're changing and brushing your teeth?" Sonata asked Aria, explaining to her sister why she was nervous to go upstairs to Aria's room.

"You won't get in trouble, I'll shut the door while I'm in the bathroom so she won't see you if she comes out of her room, ok." Aria softly explained to Sonata, she rubbed her sister's back gently and gently hugged her once Sonata accepted and allowed her to.

Sonata only liked hugs if she gave the hug first, or if the person who was giving her the hug waited for her to accept, if she did, and then allowed her to be done with the hug when she began to grow uncomfortable with the small space, since she was claustrophobic and feared small spaces as well as had anxiety.

"Ok, that works I guess, but what if I get scared because the door's closed." Sonata said after she'd let Aria hug her for a minute and then pushed away because she was getting uncomfortable.

"You like making things difficult don't you." Aria exclaimed, chuckling to herself.

"Well, I just don't want to get scared or get in trouble." Sonata replied, laughing slightly at what Aria had said.

"Well neither of those things will happen, one because I'm going to have the door closed so Adagio won't be able to see you if she comes out of her room at all, which I doubt she will, and two, I'll leave the light on while I'm gone and I'm only going to be gone for like five minutes and will just be down the hall if you decide you don't want to be alone." Aria softly explained to her sister as she began to walk down the hall, allowing Sonata to hold her hand while she did.

"Ok, I trust you." Sonata replied as she took a deep breath to calm herself down as she followed Aria down the hall and up the stairs.

Aria led Sonata to her room and walked inside after opening the door, when the door opened, she turned on the light and Sonata went to sit on Aria's bed. She watched as her older sister got her pajamas out of her dresser and pulled out her pigtails and set her star-shaped berets on the dresser top. Aria then grabbed her hairbrush and turned and walked over to her bed where Sonata was still watching her curiously.

"Ok, I'll be right back ok. You stay here and I'll shut the door and if you get scared, just walk quietly down the hall to the bathroom and knock on the door ok." Aria explained to Sonata, kneeling on the floor so she was at eye level with her younger sister.

"Ok." Sonata said, she watched Aria leave and shut the door behind her.

When Aria was gone, Sonata laid down on her sister's bed and looked up at her sister's ceiling, she knew Aria wouldn't care if she found something to play with in her room but Sonata knew better than to go through her sister's things, because she knew it was rude. She twiddled with her thumbs for a little bit and then sat up and looked around her older sister's room at some of the things her sister had in her room. Down the hall, Aria was just about done doing her night time things and was almost ready to head back to her room and crawl into bed, with Sonata of course. She was just thinking about how she'd write in her secret diary with her sister in the room, she could write in it after her sister fell asleep but knew her sister would probably wake up when she felt her sister move or when she heard her lamp on her bedside table switch on. Aria grabbed her dirty clothes and her hairbrush, unlocked the bathroom door and headed down the hall back to her room. When she entered her room, she saw her sister laying on her bed looking at something on her fingernails so she put her clothes away in her laundry hamper and walked over to set her hairbrush on her dresser before walking over to her bed.

"Ari!" Sonata exclaimed excitedly when she saw her sister standing at the foot of her bed, watching her with a smile on her face.

"Hey you little munchkin." Aria said as she crawled onto her bed and ruffled her sister's hair with her left hand.

"I love you Ari." Sonata said, reaching out to hug her older sister, who she loved dearly because she protected her from everything and was always there for her.

"Aww, I love you to Nata." Aria softly replied as she very gently hugged her little sister.

"You're always here for me and you always protect me." Sonata said, rubbing her face into Aria's left shoulder, an indication to Aria that she was tired and wanted to go to bed.

"Yeah, I am. You're tired aren't you." Aria said to her younger sister when she felt Sonata rub her face on her shoulder.

"Yeah." Sonata said, Aria heard the tired tone sneak into her voice.

"Alright then, we'll get comfortable and go to bed ok." Aria said as she stood up and began to pull the covers down, she let Sonata crawl under them before she crawled under them.

When Sonata was comfortable, she and Aria said their good nights to one another and Aria stayed awake until Sonata had drifted off to sleep. When Aria fell asleep, Sonata moved over and gently cuddled up to her by putting her arms around Aria's waist and resting her forehead on the base of Aria's neck and began to breathe down Aria's chest as she slept. Aria opened one eye to look at her and smiled slightly before closing her eye and drifting off to sleep, only opening her eyes when Sonata moved the position of one of her arms or her head, just to check on her and see if she was ok. When she made sure she was fine every time, she'd go back to sleep and they remained the way they were for the rest of the night.