Anna groaned as she got up from the bed and made her way into her bathroom feeling pressed and she relieved, enduring the pain that came from an activity she took for granted in the past. She could barely sit properly and so made a mess but she was in too much pain to be bothered by it or to even try and clean it up. Slowly and carefully, she made her way back to her bed and laid down on her stomach as it hurt less since she had received most of the hits on her sides and back. It was Monday but she couldn’t go to school, apart from the fact that her body looked like a walking battlefield, Rafael didn’t want her to go, something about people poking their noses in other people’s businesses and asking too many questions but she couldn’t be bothered. A new feeling had settled over Anna, the

