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"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