Was there a song Will played or sang for Mia as a little kid? <3 -🥠
Will used to sing Unforgettable by Nat King Cole to Mia when she was little and couldn’t sleep. There was this one night, winter scratching at the windows like an old cat, and Mia fussing in his arms, her eyes too bright for sleep. He was tired, so very tired, but he walked the narrow rooms with her clutched to his chest, the lamplight low and wavering in the corners, his voice soft and a little hoarse from the cold that was creeping into his bones.
He had to be up early…work waited, indifferent to his sleepless nights and the small weight of her in his arms. But he kept moving, kept singing in a voice that was more breath than melody. His head felt hot, and he knew he was getting sick, the fever a slow ache behind his eyes, but he never let her see that. He only brushed his lips against her soft hair, murmured nonsense in a low hush, and tried to let his warmth fill the cold that lay in every corner of the house.
The floorboards creaked under his slow steps, and the hush of the snow outside seemed to fold around them, wrapping them in a cocoon of winter stillness. He would pause every so often, pressing her closer, feeling the soft weight of her against his chest, and then start moving again, the song still on his lips. There was something beautiful in that, his exhaustion, his tenderness, the quiet vow he kept weaving with every note, every step in that cold, quiet house.