She carried the blanket back over, but before covering me up she knelt down and pulled my pajama bottoms back over the diaper front. She was smiling so gleefully as she did it and after tucking the blanket around me she kissed me again only this time she did it slow and for what seemed like eons.

“Good night Alvin!” she said and then hopped into her bed.

I’m not sure if I said good night back or not. I must have laid there staring at the darkened ceiling for over an hour. My mind and my heart wouldn’t slow down so that I could go to sleep. When I did eventually fall asleep I woke up a few hours later because I felt cold. I rose up on my elbows to see that I’d kicked off my blanket.