The eerie feeling I had since morning still hadn’t left me alone, and for some reason, I couldn’t sleep. Well, sleep was usually a stranger, but this was different; it felt like the world was more silent than usual, a silence that was deep and loud. It was a few minutes past one A.M, and I felt a strangeness in my heart, an unsettled feeling in my chest. Despite how I felt, there was just one face that kept recurring in my mind every time I closed my eyes. The little feisty kitten that I had taken under my wing for only twelve days had managed to annoy me so much, it took me all the willpower I had not to smash her head into the nearest wall. She had a way of making me feel smaller, less perfect than everyone else thought me to be. Her words had a way of piercing through the thickest wal

