Why Midnight?

A shrilling pitch was what woke me the next time. I cursed at the sound, thinking it was the blasted alarm I just got in my room. I reached out the way I do,  to slam the cursed thing shut, but to my dismay, I couldn't touch anything.

"Kittie?"

I know that voice. Was it in my head?

I snapped my eyes open to see Leonard hovering over me, his sunkissed hair falling over his face and his blue orbs glimmering in the bright light of the infirmary room.

I opened my mouth to test if I could speak  "Hey" wow! It was real.

He reached out and removed something from my face which I assume to be my stray hair. "How are you? I was so worried. I was ecstatic when Donald told me you woke up when I left"

Oh, so the hoodie was Donald?

He rolled his eyes "You are thinking about another man in front of your husband" his voice hinted at humor.

I smiled "He was the first face I saw when I woke up" I mumbled.

His face creased "That dratted fool