One Night - Kodd

One Night

Todd woke before the sun could rise;
Or before the stars could fade.
It was late and cool and enticed;
And quickly Todd's mind was made.

He slowly crawled out of bed;
His mattress springs all groaning,
The Victorian House seemed almost dead,
But each floorboard kept moaning.

Soon Todd was at his window sill,
And opened it up to a cool breeze,
And as he stood there, he grew still;
Then broke the silence with a sneeze.

Snuffling, Todd gazed up into the inky night;
Up at all the stars
And before he could even think it,
Todd jumped out that window, landing hard.  

He listened, hoping no one heard him leap,
But none of them did wake,
They were all too deeply asleep,
Todd was glad, at least for their sake.

Too tired to think,
Todd let his thoughts scatter,
He walked for what felt hours,
Until that is, he was startled by a small clatter.

Instantly, he prepared himself for a fight,
And hurriedly looked around,
But try as he might,
Todd couldn't find the source of that small sound.

That is until the sound came once more,
Right above Todd's self,
He glanced up and saw,
A very familiar Fuzzy Blue Elf.

He tried to sneer up at the other boy;
But Todd couldn't even force it;
For once, he didn't want to annoy;
So instead slumped down to sit.

The minutes crept by and neither moved to speak.
It was a comfortable silence.
Then finally, the tree branch above gave a creak.
Todd flinched, expecting violence.

But Kurt didn't try to attack him;
Which Todd found kind of odd.
Instead Kurt acted on a whim,
And settled down next to Todd.

They sat together in the dark,
Enjoying the other's company,
Leaning against the old tree's bark,
One blue and other bony.

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