*Elena*
The brisk spring air brushed against my heated skin like a whisper through chapped lips. The clock ticked silently into the night as I stared thoughtfully out of the open window.
My socked feet were kept from the slight chill, but the simple used T-shirt I wore as a nightdress did little to hide my legs from the wind. It was dark, the sky alight with tiny dots that barely resembled stars. The last lit lamppost stood on the street corner like the shadow of a lonely man still waiting for the last bus of the night.
With my knees tucked to my chest, I took up all the room on the little bay window in my dingy one-room apartment. It was an average room, not the fanciest, but not the worst. It was just average, the kind of place a person spent their life trying to escape from, unless t
