Chapter 74 The Drive

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• Later that night, sleep didn’t come easy. The silence in my room wasn’t comforting, it felt too quiet. The kind that doesn’t calm your mind but gives it too much space to wander. Every second stretched longer than it should, each thought louder than the last. I lay curled under the covers, unmoving, eyes fixed on the ceiling like I was waiting for it to say something, to give me answers it obviously never would.
• My heart felt strange, full and heavy at the same time, like it had too much to hold but no place to put any of it. I thought of everything.