LEXI
I just stood there for a moment while the cold water sprayed over me, my body dazed and unmoored. Then it hit me--a wave of relaxation so intense it was as if I had finally laid down bags I didn’t even know I’d been carrying for years.
My shoulders slumped, my breath evened, and for the first time in what felt like forever, the tight coil inside me loosened.
Then came this sense of serenity, like sunlight cutting through fog. My thoughts stilled, each one clean and precise, and I stood in the shower as though I’d stepped into a bubble that no one could touch, no one could break.
But with that weightlessness came a heavy sleepiness, as if I were drifting somewhere soft and unreachable, even as the water poured down. My lids drooped, and it took everything in me to pull myself bac
