Muscle StrainI scarcely slept. The warm milk and herbal sleeping pills I had taken the night before made no difference. All night, my thoughts were in the wardrobe with that rucksack.
The only good thing about the start to the day was my sunburn had eased, my skin markedly less tender. My nose was a touch blotchy where the old skin had peeled and my shoulders were beginning to follow suit, but the heat and the agony had faded. Getting out of the shower and seeing the reflection of my face with its panda eyes in the bathroom mirror, I wished I had some of Jackie's brown eyeshadow and vowed to tan my whole face at the earliest opportunity. Thinking back, I found it odd Paco and Claire had chosen to take no notice of my face. Perhaps they were simply being polite.
Back in my bedroom, I dres
