![]() ![]() I smiled and turned in my chair to look at him in the dark room. I just didn’t let it overwhelm me by turning it into a gaping hole. Before my considerate bedfellow, I’d have sewn that cut completely shut and put a numbing agent over it. ![]() Pain slashed me deep across my chest and when I thought on the loss of my parents, of my little sister, Beth, that cut would widen into an agonizing gash. Breathing in and out, slowly, evenly, I controlled the wound inside of me. After saving the file, I shut the laptop down and stared at it for a while. ![]() I’d been typing for just over an hour and finally I’d come to the end of the chapter. This often meant late night type-fests and despite the fact that I was partially consumed by their story, I was also very much aware of my considerate bedfellow and was trying to act as he would and not wake him up. Much of what I’d written was conjecture since I only knew the basic history of my parents’ relationship, but their world, or the world I’d given them, had taken me over these past few months and I found myself enjoying writing in a way I had never before. I’d woken up in the middle of the night, wide awake and itching to finish the chapter in my manuscript where my dad finally makes progress in his relationship with my mom. ![]() My fingers moved fast but quietly across the keys of my laptop, and I’d adjusted the screen light so it wasn’t so blaring. ![]()
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