True to his words Jason did return before sunrise, but unlike him who had kept that promise I hadn't slept at all, after Justin had come and then left me to my thoughts to play with the girl in his room again, I became restless, I couldn't sleep because of the number of things on my mind, so without giving it a lot of thought I sat on the stairs with my back aimed at the door and my forehead rested against my knee as I scrolled through social media; a full four hours of doom scrolling, where time became irrelevant and no matter how I tried I couldn't take a break from the phone, and it was only broken because Jason returned and called to me.
"You're not sleeping." He stated, rather than asking and I looked up from my phone and nodded confirming the obvious. "Didn't you say you were tired?
