Anastasia:
I did not want to get up from the bed even though my back ached and my body begged for some sort of movement after the countless hours I had spent on it, locked in throughout the rest of the red moon festival, away from humanity.
Maybe I wanted to get up and was just being weighed down by the thought of having to go to school, I could not figure out yet.
But eventually, I dragged myself out of the bed, putting on my uniform as slowly as I could, aware that the wall clock behind me was now announcing just how late I was getting for my first class.
Somewhere around getting ready, Darius walked in to ask if I was not ready to go to school, but I had asked that he go without me.
This was not one of the days where I felt like talking to anyone. Especially not him. I saw the slig
