I could hear muffled voices coming from somewhere. I was smart enough to know that the somewhere that it was coming from was from the hallway, but I didn’t understand why I was hearing it. There wasn’t supposed to be someone in the hallway, unless Susan’s family had come to visit her again, which meant that this day of peacefulness, this day of trying to embrace the silence and sleep, wasn’t going to last for much longer.
It was just another thing to add to the list, the cherry that I would be able to put on the cake. I couldn’t even take a day off to replenish my soul. Sour luck.
But before I had much time to register what was going on, there was a loud knock on my door. And when I said loud, I meant loud. It caused me to frown, while I continued to keep the entirety of my body covere
