Jake offers to sleep with me tonight, but I refuse him. I don’t want him to worry so much. I’ll be just fine. I only need a good night’s sleep, and everything will get back to normal. Or at least that’s what I’m trying to tell myself. I don’t know how things will ever be normal again. There’s one thing I know for sure. I’ll never be as carefree as I was before.
After spending the rest of the afternoon with my friends and after a lesson with Kir, I can barely keep my eyes open anymore. The events of the day have finally taken their toll on me, and he sends me to bed fifteen minutes earlier than our lesson should end.
Usually, I stay even longer, because we’re so wrapped up in conversation that we lose track of time. But today, he doesn’t hesitate. The moment he sees me blinking hard to pr
