Bonus One | 'The harder days'
[ Anna ]
When I picked my head after hours of staring into the laptop for a virtual meeting, my eyes burned. I rapidly blinked them in hopes of feeling better, but it didn't really help a lot.
When I got out of the bed, I realised this was also the first time my toes touched the carpet in the past five hours, and my feet- already being swollen, now also hurt. My legs cramped making me feel the blood in my veins as I stared at myself in the mirror by the dressing table, watching me in my loose and baggy clothes and messy hair and swollen face and a swollen body- the way you expect the body of a seven month pregnant woman to look like.
However, I didn't like what I was staring into the mirror at, unlike most days.
I felt heavy. I felt.. fat. And I didn't li
