Hazel
Getting back into a routine after three days in a hospital bed is not as easy as it should be. The alarm went off at seven and I hit it twice before I actually got up. My chest was fine. Just that low-grade reluctance that sits in you when you have been still for too long and the world kept moving without you. i seriously don't want to go to school.
I got dressed. Made tea. Ate standing at the counter because there was nobody home to tell me to sit down. I checked my bag more times than necessary. Notebook, laptop, charger, the folder with the assignments I had not touched since before the hospital. I was going to have to go to each professor and explain and I was not looking forward to any of those conversations.
I left at half past seven.
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School was loud the way it always
