What Matters Most

You set your beloved comic aside, and sit up straighter, preparing your exhausted muscles to take care of this problem when you hear a small sniff. It was so quiet, you questioned if you actually heard it, or if it was just the sound of his arm rubbing against your door frame. But then that word, that one word that followed made your heart tighten and your muscles freeze.
"Raphie..."
He only called you that when he was really scared.