Ever feel like you have nothing to come home to after a hard days work? You enter through your front door and drag your heavy feet into the bedroom, where you eye your own bed; unmade and empty. You feel like you could just flop down and never get up for the rest of the day, but yet something inside of you is saying that your night is "incomplete". All you have laying on your bed is an old stuff animal along with your blanket and pillows, nothing else. You are the only one who is on that bed, a bed big enough for two.

You ponder what it would feel like to flop down onto someone's lap or fall into a warm hug. Instead of using your oil-stain pillows, you rest your head upon one's lap, feeling their quiet heart beat through his/her pants. In a hug, you rest your chin upon the other's chest or shoulder, letting your body rest upon the other, your breath slows down and your eyes feel very heavy. You drift into a small snooze upon your other, feeling content and at peace.

It is difficult to "relax" after a long day of working in an ongoing and endless job where you do nothing but collect stress from yourself and all those around you. You come home and you could easily release all of that stress and tension by yourself, but you know you could relax much more by having someone there with open arms and aid your release of stress.

That is one of the magic touches one's mate has, and who is lucky enough to have one.

- Ookami Kemono

Vacant Bed Spot © 2007 Alex Cockburn.