🅃 🄷 🄴 🄾 🄳 🄾 🅁 🄴 :

His hands were gripping tightly to his shirt, finding comfort from the other. He loved Max and Preston to death but his friends just couldn’t comfort him like David could. He also didn’t want to wake them up in the dead of night. He wasn’t sure how they would react either. Most likely worry and some teasing. He didn’t want any of that during her panicking moments. 

It didn’t take him long to match David’s breathing. It helped him calm down much quicker. 

He pulled himself back and wiped his eyes with his arm, “ It was horrible. I was…i was back in-in the hospital. They were- they- “ He still wasn’t quite able to focus his thoughts and explain what had happened, “ there were needles- it- it was just like when they took it from me “

^{David     was     a    little}     ｒｅｌｉｅｖｅｄ    ^{when    he     started     breathing     a    little     more}    EVENLY^{,     the     tension     draining     out    of     his    own    shoulders     just     the}     ｓｌｉｇｈｔｅｓｔ     ^bit .    ^{He     let     Theo     pull     away     from    the     embrace,     but    David    kept     his    fingers     resting     on     the    other’s    arms,     rubbing    soft}    CIRCLES     ^{there    with     his     thumb} . 

^{The    counselor     was     silent    as    he     retold    the    events    of    his    nightmare,}     ｐａｔｉｅｎｔｌｙ     ^{listening     despite     the    slight     difficulty    Theo    was}    STILL     ^having .    ^{Slowly,    he    brought     his     hand     up     to     move     aside    a    strand    of     his     hair     that     had    become}    ａｓｋｅｗ    ^{to     get    a     better     view    of    his     face} . 

_{❝ It is} over, ^now, ❞    ^{David    reminded,}    SOFTLY .     ❝  _{I’m sure what you went through was} very ^scary, _{but fortunately this time it was just} a bad dream . ^{As long as you’re here,} I’m not gonna let _{anything bad happen to you,} ALRIGHT ? ^You’re safe . ❞