Chapter 6
The Time is Now
Stepping into the low lite apartment, Samantha could feel her body continue to scream as each step was consumed in her need to rest somewhere. Never noticing the dinner left to her by her mother if she were to return on time from her shift, she trudges to her room. Glossing over the many items gracing her desk that needed tending to.
Tonight, she wanted everything to go away. Her homework, her missed date, her now crushed phone still in her back pocket. She grasped the withered device, noticing the blacked-out screen was far from repairable and the contour of its once rectangular form took on a more dipped spoon affect as she tossed it into her small whicker basket next to her door.
Dropping her backpack, she dropped to her bed, never minding her clothes as sh
