5Once the clock hit ten, I stopped working. What was due tomorrow was finished—which was the important part. The homework wasn’t difficult, but the sheer amount of it was enough to make you want to pull your own hair out. High school did not properly prepare me for the amount of work, but to be fair, I wasn’t dealing with the dead for most of high school. Now I was—which meant no more peaceful nights to sleep and recharge.
Not two seconds after turning off my computer and jumping onto my bed, Erica walked in and went straight to her makeup bag. Unwilling to meet my eyes, she simply put her back to me and began to use her desk as a vanity. Ignoring her, I hit the wall to see if Aeria or her roommate were in their room. Erica jumped at the loud noise and looked back at me with eyeliner smea
