Chance and his older brother share a bedroom. They are great buddies most of the time and have each other's back.
Chance being deaf has really helped the relationship stay on track since his brother has a habit that would drive people who can hear all through the night to the brink of madness.
With all of the technology available in this day and age, Chance's brother has yet to master the option to put music on a timer at night as you go to sleep. Instead of music playing for 10 or 20 minutes while drifting off to sleep, Chance's brother's music sometimes PLAYS ALL NIGHT LONG. It is still playing in the morning when he gets up for school.
This may explain why he is so tired some mornings. We should schedule a discussion about the repercussions of ,making your brain listen to music all night long.
This glitch in Chance's brother's habits though, does not sour their relationship in the least because CHANCE CAN NOT HEAR THE MUSIC PLAYING ALL NIGHT LONG. He just blissfully sleeps in that comatose world he enters at night where nothing disturbs him. Except for us if we need to move him or wake him up prematurely. Even in those moments I think we are more disturbed than he is as we shake him, lift up his arm, or manually try to lift him as he continues to sleep on.
If there is ever an emergency in the middle of the night and we have to evacuate the house, it is not out of the realm of possibilities that two of us will be half carrying Chance out the door as he still sleeps. Forget the idea of fleeing with provisions ahead of a flood etc. we will be fleeing holding onto Chance.
I wonder how hard it is for his friends to wake him up at scout camp. I am going to start asking questions.
Yes, Chance and his brother are close and have each other's back, and no music playing through the wee hours of the morning can change that.
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