Aria exited the game she was playing and glanced at the clock on her phone to see the time, it was almost ten o' clock, which was her younger sister Sonata's bed time. Sonata was currently sitting on the floor playing with one of her little toy horses and Adagio was sitting in her reclining chair looking at something on her phone. Aria set her phone on the small side-table beside the couch and sat up, looking over at Sonata again and watched her play with her toy horse for a minute before standing up and stretching, Sonata looked up at her when she heard her older sister do this.
"Guess what time it is." Aria said to Sonata, smiling at her younger sister when her she noticed her sister looking at her. Aria was the regular one who put Sonata to bed because it seems that Aria's the only one of Sonata's older sisters that can actually get her to bed without her fussing about it.
"Bedtime for me." Sonata replied, standing up and beginning to walk towards the hallway where the stairs were.
"You bet." Aria said, following her sister to the hall and up the stairs.
They reached Sonata's room and went inside, Sonata handed Aria her toy horse while she grabbed her pajamas from her dresser drawer and went to the bathroom to change, Aria put Sonata's horse away and then waited for Sonata in her bedroom so she could tuck her in and tell her goodnight and actually put her to bed. Sonata came back a couple minutes after, her pj's on and her teeth brushed, she threw her dirty clothes in her laundry basket beside her dresser and then walked over to her bed, Aria followed. Sonata crawled into her bed and Aria began to tuck her in and make her comfortable so she could sleep, she'd scheduled an appointment with Sonata's psychologist for the next day at one thirty in the afternoon. Aria knelt down after tucking Sonata in so she could say goodnight to her little sister.
"Ok Sonata, it's time for bed, if you need anything I'll be downstairs." Aria explained softly, brushing the hair out of Sonata's eyes gently with her left hand.
"Night Ari." Sonata said quietly, smiling at her older sister, she wanted to tell her she was scared to go to sleep but was also thinking of just leaving it be and trying to go to sleep herself.
"Goodnight Nata." Aria whispered, she stood up and walked to her sister's doorway, turned off the light and exited the room.
"Ari." Sonata called after her sister, deciding to tell her what she wanted to tell her.
"What?" Aria asked, pausing from closing the door to look in at her sister again to see what she wanted.
"I'm scared to go to sleep." Sonata answered, sitting up a little in her bed.
"Why?" Aria asked again slowly as she turned on Sonata's light and walked over to her sister's bed.
"Because I'm scared about what my psychologist will say tomorrow and that I'll have nightmares again." Sonata explained, grabbing her sister's hand and holding onto it tightly because she was scared.
"Sonata, you'll be fine, just don't think about your appointment tomorrow and you shouldn't have nightmares because we didn't watch or listen to anything bad or scary that happened today." Aria explained to her little sister, feeling her grab her hand tightly and reaching over to rub her right shoulder gently to calm her down.
Sonata said nothing, she just sat in her bed and held her sister's hand while she calmed herself down, Aria knew she was scared and knew she would probably have to let Sonata sleep with her because it was the only way she'd go to sleep. Aria slowly knelt down beside her sister's bed, keeping her hand on her sister's shoulder so she'd calm down while she did. When her knees were touching the floor, she grabbed her sister's hands in hers and rubbed her thumbs over top of Sonata's hands, Sonata looked at her sister with a scared look on her face and Aria just simply smiled softly to let her know it was ok.
"Do you think you'll be able to eventually get to sleep if I left you here on your own?" Aria asked Sonata, she wanted her sister to at least try sleeping on her own first before sleeping with Aria.
"I don't know." Sonata answered, shrugging her shoulders.
"Do you think you could try for me?" Aria asked again, letting her sister's hands go when she felt that she was calmed down enough.
"I think so." Sonata answered, she nodded her head hesitantly.
"Ok, well, then I'm going to go downstairs, grab my phone, come back up here, get ready myself to go to bed and then lay in my bed and watch either Netflix or YouTube on my phone. If you don't come and get me by eleven I will come and check on you and if you're still scared then you can sleep with me, ok." Aria explained slowly so Sonata could comprehend what she was saying and wouldn't get confused.
"Ok." Sonata said cautiously.
"And if by the time I come back up here and get ready for bed, if you think you can't sleep by yourself you can come lay in bed with me until eleven and then you can sleep with me." Aria explained again, standing up and letting her sister hold her hand while she comprehended what her sister had told her.
"Ok." Sonata said, letting go of Aria's hand and watching her sister leave her room again.
"Goodnight Nata, if you need me I'm just down the hall ok, and don't worry about Adagio seeing you or not, if she does and has a problem with it, I'll talk to her in the morning when I get up ok." Aria said, knowing Sonata would worry about getting up and not being seen by Adagio.
Sonata nodded and then watched Aria turn off her bedroom light and close the door. Aria headed down the hall and downstairs to grab her phone off the side table by the couch. Sonata laid in her bed and stared up at her ceiling, she turned a tiny piece of the edge of her blanket in her fingers while she tried to go to sleep, she knew she wasn't going to be able to so she waited until she heard Aria come back upstairs to go to her sister. Aria came back upstairs a couple minutes later and Sonata got out of bed, opened her door and stepped out in the hallway, she closed her bedroom door behind her and then walked down the hall towards her sister's room. Her sister's door was open and she peeked in, she seen her sister looking in her closet for pajamas and she walked into her room, Aria wasn't usually jumpy so Sonata walked over to her sister, Aria looked into her mirror on her dresser and saw Sonata standing beside her and knew exactly what she wanted.
"You can't sleep can you?" Aria asked Sonata, turning to her sister after grabbing her pajamas from her dresser.
"No." Sonata answered quietly.
"Did you at least try?" Aria asked her sister again, walking towards her door so she could go change in the bathroom and get ready for bed.
"Yeah." Sonata said, following her sister.
"Ok well I'm going to go change and brush my teeth so stay here while I do that and when I get back we can lay in my bed and watch either Netflix or YouTube on my phone until eleven ok." Aria explained to Sonata, putting a hand out to gently stop her sister and get her to stay.
"Ok." Sonata said, watching her sister walk down the hall towards the bathroom and then stepping back into her sister's room and going to sit on her sister's bed.
Sonata sat quietly on Aria's bed while Aria changed in the washroom, she was looking in her hands and did not notice Adagio come upstairs and walk into Aria's room to put Aria's phone charger in her her room, she was a little surprised when she saw Sonata in Aria's room instead of her own room.
"Sonata." Adagio said, startling Sonata with the sound of her voice because Sonata hadn't known she was there.
"What." Sonata exclaimed.
"What are you doing in Aria's room? You're supposed to be in bed." Adagio asked Sonata, stating the truth to her. Aria came out of the washroom and saw Adagio standing in the doorway of her bedroom and walked quickly to her room so Sonata wouldn't get upset because she was uncomfortable with Adagio.
"Hey Adagio, what's up." Aria said, walking into her room and throwing her dirty clothes in her laundry hamper.
"Not much, I was just putting your phone charger beside the door and was surprised to see Sonata in here. Why isn't she in bed?" Adagio asked Aria, Sonata walked over to Aria and Aria grabbed her hand, knowing she was still upset that she wasn't able to sleep on her own for a fifth straight night.
"She's scared and thanks." Aria answered, explaining to Adagio why Sonata wasn't in her room and thanking her for bringing her phone charger upstairs.
"Scared of what?" Adagio asked again.
"Her appointment tomorrow, and that she'll have nightmares again." Aria explained, gesturing for Sonata to go sit on her bed and get herself comfy.
"Oh, is she going to sleep with you to or just lay in here with you until she's ready for bed?" Adagio asked Aria again, she wanted to know the answers but wanted to watch her TV in her room also.
"No she'll probably sleep with me, she has been for the last five nights now." Aria answered.
"Five nights! You know this might become a habit for her if she does it too much and you let her do it a lot." Adagio explained to Aria, shocked when she heard how long Sonata'd been sleeping with Aria for.
"Yeah I know, that's why I got the appointment, to see why she's doing it." Aria explained, walking over to her door to turn off the light and began shutting the door.
"Well goodnight, night Sonata." Adagio said before turning and heading into her bedroom.
"Goodnight." Aria said as she closed her bedroom door.
Aria grabbed her phone and charger off her dresser and walked over and crawled into her bed, once she was in her bed, she tucked herself and Sonata in. Sonata immediately cuddled up to her, for warmth and because she was scared, Aria smiled and then turned on her phone, she asked Sonata what she wanted to watch and went to YouTube when Sonata said YouTube. She let Sonata put in something she wanted to watch and they watched that, Aria could tell Sonata was tired because she was having troubles staying awake through the videos they were watching. Aria glanced at her side-table at her clock and saw it was almost ten thirty and it was probably the latest Sonata'd ever intentionally tried to stay up.
"Do you want to go to bed?" Aria asked her sister, pausing the video they were watching and looking down at her.
"Yeah." Sonata answered, changing her position from laying on her back to laying on her left side.
"Ok we can go to bed then." Aria said, closing YouTube, shutting off her phone and putting it on the charger on her bed-side table.
"You don't have to yet if you don't want to." Sonata said as she got comfortable and got ready to close her eyes and go to sleep.
"I know but if I watch Netflix it'll be hard for you to sleep so I'll just go to sleep to." Aria explained, doing the same as Sonata.
"Night Ari." Sonata said, yawning and closing her eyes.
"Goodnight Nata." Aria whispered softly, she closed her eyes after watching her sister sleep for a minute and the two remained this way for the rest of the night.