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Pete has insomnia. Everyone knows this, and if you didn't, you could find out very quickly by just taking one look at any of the online journals he wrote with back in the 2000s.
Usually it would take him a little over half an hour to fall asleep, sometimes faster if he's lucky.
He did actually use to have it way worse, but that was before he and Patrick got together.
Patrick had some sort of magic, or atleast that's all that Pete can come up with from how easily he can fall asleep in the man's arms.
Sometimes though, that special whatever Patrick had going on, didn't work. Tonight was one of those nights.
Though Pete wasn't on social media a whole lot, he did find this thing that apparently made people sleepy. What was it.. SMAR? MASR? Oh! It was ASMR. Pete thought it might be stupid, but hey! He couldn't turn down a new chance at getting better sleep!
So, after he spent too long starring at the ceiling and listening to Patrick's soft snores, he shifted and pulled out his phone and opened YouTube. He typed away quickly and got to scrolling, looking at all of the thumbnails and titles and looking for one to catch his eye. He eventually found one that he was interested in and clicked it, setting his phone to lay across from him so he could watch this girl who had very long nails tap away. And to say the least, it was actually really nice to listen to.
He was very focused on what the woman was doing and how nice it sounded, so focused that he didn't notice Patrick stirring out of sleep and sitting up, looking over his shoulder to the soft noises coming from Pete's phone.
"..Pete?" He said, his voice laced with exhaustion.
Pete quickly paused the video and turned to his husband.
"Oh shit. Sorry 'Trick, did I wake you up?" He asked.
"Mm.. Kind of. What are you watching?"
"Some thing called ASMR. I can't sleep and it's supposed to make you sleepy, or at least that's what I saw on Instagram." Pete said, bringing his phone up to show Patrick, who was looking over with confusion written all over his face.
He hummed and burried his head in the crook of Pete's neck and shut his eyes, too tired to care. There was a pause of silence between the two, and Pete was the one to break it.
"Hey, Patrick?"
"Hmm?"
"Can I uh– still have it on? I still can't sleep." There was another pause, then Patrick moved his head to the side so he could see the other phone.
"As long as you let me watch too. It sounded nice." Patrick said, and to that Pete smiled and continued the video, setting it to where both of the men could watch it.
Patrick was out in a matter of minutes, snoring softly and cuddling closer to Pete, who was starting to feel his eyes get heavy and his body finally shut down, preparing for sleep. Pete focused on the sounds from the video, and Patricks soft snores, and soon he was out too.
When Pete woke up the next morning, one of the first things he noticed how well rested he felt, and now he has also decided that this will become apart of his nightly ritual of saying 'Fuck you Insomnia' and getting the sleep he needs. But.. for now he thinks he'll just cuddle with Patrick for just a while longer before he fully gets up, he can charge is now dead phone later. Patrick is all that mattered at the moment to him and he was okay with that, he thought before shutting his eyes and slowly drifting to sleep again.