Lyla
Pulling the dishes out of the dishwasher was more of a pain than I thought it would be as I got up from my nap.
It was a little late in the day to be taking one, but ever since Rashid's visit, it had been hard for me to sleep for more than a few hours. I'd gotten a good chunk in after going through some of my online classes and finishing one of my projects early for submission, and now I felt a little more energized than I had been in a few days.
It wasn't so much that the baby was taking a toll on me as it was that Rashid had been thrown back into my life. On top of that, the stress of my strained feelings with Melanie was making it hard for me to focus on anything that wasn't schoolwork. That had been my only solace since coming back from Dubai and it seemed to be the one distra
