Chapter 35

I sipped on the hot chocolate, staring on the bottom part of the wall, letting my eye muscles relax and focus on nothing in particular. The heat of the drink seeped through the ceramic glass and onto my fingers causing me to sigh in exhaustion, untangling one hand from the mug and raising it to my face to try and rub all of it away.

After the last two sleepless nights I had, sleep was catching up on me but I promised Adam that I would go accompany him to visit Carla who was still in the hospital since her vitals weren’t showing any signs of improvements. Her doctors suggested that the Jones family to let her stay for some nights to be supervised.

Sleep wasn’t an option after what happened three days ago. It didn’t help that I had another fight coming up tomorrow. I looked at the clock that was hung on top of the wall across me and watched the seconds pass by, letting the light tick of it soothe me.

Tick.

Tock.

Tick.

Tock.

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