"Good morning, beautiful."
I rubbed my eyes and yawned as I looked up at Sarah. Her face glowed in the morning sunlight shining through the window and it took me a moment to realize I'd been sleeping with my head resting in her lap.
"I'm sorry, I didn't realize."
"It's fine, really. You were exhausted from last night. I wasn't going to risk moving you and waking you up."
Last night. My mom. f**k. I felt the smile fade as I thought about what had happened. My chest began to hurt and my shoulders felt heavy as it all came back and I looked around for a way to distract myself.
"Oh s**t! It's nine-thirty?"
Sarah nodded, much more calmly than I would have expected of her for being late for work.
"We need to-"
"There's no work today. The snow turned into an ice storm so they closed down
