Still water runs deep. ~Proverb
Violet
I couldn’t sleep.
I tossed and turned on the bed, the blanket warm and comfortable on me but it felt heavy and smothering. The light in my room was on, it was as bright as it could be and still I was tense like I was engulfed in the dark. And there were monsters to drag me back into my past.
I glared at the empty chair by my bed and couldn’t help but curse him for making me so dependent on him.
I didn’t realize or maybe I didn’t care as long as he continued to give me what I wanted, but now as he was glaringly absent, taking away the silent crutch that he was to me, I realized how much I’d come to depend on him. That now, I couldn’t even fall asleep without him. My fingers felt empty without being able to hold on to his. And my room felt too big
