My head felt so heavy… My lids felt so heavy… My entire body felt heavy… I wanted to open my eyes. I felt like I had been sleeping forever, I didn’t want to sleep anymore. There had been more than enough sleep the past few days and I just needed a change of peace…I needed to…I don’t know…do anything, but sleep. My lids still refused to open up. “Nina…” I heard a voice calling for me in the distance…so distant, so familiar, so warm…so full of concern, of alarm, like it was trying to tell me something…something I needed to remember. What was that? A dream? There was no dream…there was nothing…everything was dark…so…so dark. ‘Please open up…’ I begged to my lids. I was so tired of the darkness; I missed the light. ‘Please…just open up…’ I managed to open my eyes, just barely. I coul

