FAYE
Getting up felt like a difficult decision for a minute.
I wasn't tired.
Not anymore.
If anything, I had more energy than I knew what to do with.
It was just… unfamiliar.
Being okay.
Being still.
But eventually, I couldn’t stay in the room any longer.
So I pushed myself up.
The next thing I did was take a bath.
A long one.
Hot water, steam filling the room, silence pressing gently against my skin.
It felt like I was washing off everything that had happened recently.
Like my body was slowly remembering what normal felt like.
It was funny how a few days of that whole experience felt like years.
I stayed in the bathroom longer than necessary.
Letting the warmth settle into my bones.
Letting my thoughts drift without direction.
For once, I didn’t fight them.
When I fina
