LEXIE
We sat there for a while longer after that, neither of us in a hurry to move, neither of us filling the quiet.
At some point my eyes started feeling the weight of the day. "I should go up," I said.
Chaos nodded. He stood when I did, picking up his glass and taking it behind the counter, which was such a normal, unremarkable thing that I almost didn't notice it except that I noticed everything he did and had quietly accepted that about myself.
"Goodnight," I said, picking up the envelope from the bar.
"Night," he said.
I went upstairs, my room was cool and quiet and exactly the same as I had left it that morning, which felt strange given how different the day had turned out to be.
I sat on the edge of the bed and looked at the envelope in my hands for a moment before setting i
