Be mindful even if your mind is full

 "First of all, you have to have your sleep pants on at all times, and a t-shirt," Alfie thought it was plausible until they figured out a better situation. Maybe they could find a deal on bunk beds. "Or make our own," Gage acknowledge that he was handy with a hammer and nails and there were plenty of tutorials on YouTube about those handy wooden pallets.

Alfie hated to burst his bubble. Oh, he'd seen plenty of ideas over the years about these pallets, but he didn't know much about building anything. 

"Let's just sleep on it, OK?" He yawned then as if time was wasting he could be making z's about now if Gage would stop talking. But he had a feeling the dude just did not want to sleep with him.

"Why are you so tired?" Gage asked. "It was only a little after nine in the evening.

"God, I've been going everywhere with Oakly lately," Alfie shrugged. "I think she wants to move here."

"Are you dating your little brother's adopted sister?" Gage looked at him as if that was a big no-no.

"Dating her?" Alfie laughed about the matter. "No." He was stammering around as if yes maybe he was making too much of it, but so was Gage. "I am not dating her. I am..I am only being her friend," Alfie snapped.

"Are you sure?" Gage squinted back as if he didn't think so. He put the fresh pillowcase on the pillow he brought. Alfie had put fresh bedding on the bed as if to make it all nice and cozy with a lavender scent.

"Yes, most definitely. We..we are not going out," Alfie thought he might get into a shouting match with Gage. He kept staring at Gage's pillow, it was flat and looked rather thin.

"That's kind of a sad pillow you got there," Alfie changed the subject.

"But I like it like this," Gage first said but then admitted. "I have a heavy head, all my pillows turn out this way sooner or later."

"Huh," Alfie didn't know what else to say. He'd never seen anything like it. It was like Gage sucked the life out of that pillow.

Alfie got on his side of the bed.

"We will just try it tonight, and if it doesn't work, we are getting more than one bed then," Alfie told him. 

"It'll help that I have my own comforter," Gage had brought his from home. 

"So, we're sleeping the Scandinavian way, is that it?" Alfie asked.

"Well, I am part Norwegian and you're Swedish," Gage said. Alfie clarified Dark Swedish.

"I thought there was only Dark Irish?" Gage squinted as if Alfie was making up this stuff. 

"My grandmother, told me so," Alfie informed him.