SELENE
HOURS LATER
The dorm room was quiet in a way that felt heavy rather than peaceful, everyone else had gone to sleep or gone out, and I was alone with the kind of silence that doesn't let you rest.
I sat on the edge of my bed with my knees pulled up to my chest and my back against the wall, my shoulder still ached under the bandage. The medicine might have taken the sharpest edge off the pain, but it hadn't done anything about the thoughts, those were running completely unsupervised.
I stared at the opposite wall and let them. Could I actually handle all of this?
The question sat in the middle of my chest like a stone dropped in still water, sending small rings outward in every direction.
Because honestly, if I was being real with myself at... I checked the small clock on my
