Shadows

Laughter in the ShadowsRcw99

I woke up.

I laid there, in bed, my wife sleeping peacefully beside me, for several minutes without moving.

I wasn’t quite sure what had woken me.

With caution, I sat up, trying not to disturb my wife, and stared around our dark, little bedroom as best I could.

Moonlight shone through the curtains, illuminating only the wall across from me.

The door was still closed. Nothing seemed disturbed. I didn’t hear any strange sounds. Nothing was wrong.

Silence.

My body felt tense, though. As if I had been having a bad dream.

I blinked and laid back down, and, after a while of listening to my wife’s gentle breathing, I fell back asleep.