The next day, I woke up, still hugging the Pink Panther, he was still sleeping soundly with the back towards me, he really needed to sleep in his bed, I didn’t want to wake him up, so I though this could be my turn to wake him up with a breakfast. After going to the bathroom, I went to the kitchen with my house maiding book; as it was the first time I used a stove, or cook, I decided to just make fried eggs with bacon and a toast, and once I get used to cooking, I’ll try more complicated things, as pancakes. To cook for the first time wasn’t that bad, I had our plates ready, when I placed them in the table, the Pink Panther arrived as a rocket, we shared the good mornings, and started to eat. While eating, the Pink Panther told me about his plans to buy a second bed, but I told him that I don’t think the room is big enough to have a second bed, and I didn’t mind we have to sleep in the same bed, “In fact, I liked it, I felt comfortable and secure, I felt that, I belonged here”; The Panther thought for a moment, and he said that at least we’ll need a bigger bed, I accepted that. After cleaning the dishes, the Panther took some measures of the bed and the ideal size of the bed, we ride the car, and went to a bed’s store. We arrived, and we were attended by a small white man with moustache and a big nose (for some reason he looked familiar), we explained him we were looking for a double size bed, he showed us his selection of beds in that size. So many brands and options that I didn’t know how to select one, until the Panther said that what we had to do was just to test them, “Do you mean to lay down on them?”, he nodded, he offered me to try the first one. I selected one that the salesman told us was his softest model, I lied down on it, but suddenly, I felt I was sinking inside it from my rear, no, I was really sinking inside the mattress.
I don’t know how much I sank, but it felt it was deeper than the tall of the mattress, I was trapped, forming a very uncomfortable “U”I tried to go move, but due the position I was, I couldn’t do; then, I felt something touching my hand, when I tried to look what it was, a light flashed from above, and it was approaching, then I could see the Pink Panther downing for a rope, wearing a helmet with a flashlight, he asked me if I was fine, “I’m fine, but this position is starting to hurt me”, I replied, he took my arm from the waist, I grabbed his arm with both hands, he started to pull, I tried to move, but we couldn’t free me. Then he had an idea, he was going to tie my ankles with the rope, and he and the salesman were going to pull me out, I agree, it would be easier to take me out legs first; so he tied my ankles, went out again, and seconds later, I felt I was being pulled out, finally, I came out of the hole, legs first, and using my hands to avoid the skirt I was wearing was lifted, or falling in this case; the Pink Panther untied my ankles, and I hugged him.
The salesman excused, he didn’t though the bed was that soft, then he proceeded to show us another bed, it said it had a lot of springs to sleep more comfortable not matter our position, it was the turn for the Pink Panther to testing, he fell down on it, and immediately, he was launched to the air, I run to try to catch him, but he ended landing on other bed, where he was launched back in the direction he came from, I keep running, but he landed on the first bed, and went send flying again; as I couldn’t run fast enough to catch him, I just watched how he was bouncing while I was thinking what to do, then I had an idea, I ran to the pillows section, and grabbed a lot of them, I covered one of the beds with the pillows, and the Panther landed in them, stopping bouncing. He thanked me, and we saw the salesman, who excused again.
The salesman offered us this time a bed that was not that soft, and with not that sprigs, it was my turn again to test it, but the Pink Panther offered to come with me, but I told him that, for the experience we’re having, it was better just one of us tested it, just in case it needs to be saved, he agree, and I went to the bed, but in the moment I lied on it, I landed as if I were a coin falling on the floor, it was so hard that wouldn’t have made a difference from sleeping on the floor, it wasn’t as terrifying as the previous ones, but it hurt. At this point, we were thinking to look on other shop, when we sit on another bed to rest, and it feel perfect, we proceeded to lie down, I feel I was sleeping in a soft cloud, it had a perfect balance of softness and rigidness, I turned to the Pink Panther, he turned to me at the same time, and we nodded in agreement, we had our bed. As we also need the box, we needed the bed to be delivered to our house, but the salesman told us it will take a week to make the delivery, we didn’t mind to share the smaller bed for a week more, and that’s what happened.
For the next week, we kept sleeping in our current bed, I found myself every morning waking up hugging the Pink Panther, but I noticed that with each night, he was turning towards me, until the night previous receiving the new bed, we found sleeping face to face. We got rid of the old bed, and we placed the new bed into the bedroom, it fitted perfectly, now we had more space to rest. But after the first night, we found ourselves hugging each other, it looks like we got so used to it that it was now our most natural posture to sleep, we admitted we liked to feel we have someone next to us we could trust, it made the nights feel comfier and secure, and we have always slept in the same position since that day.
