(Sloane)
I woke up before Kieran.
That did not happen often. He was usually up and downstairs before I even opened my eyes. But this morning he was still asleep beside me and the room was quiet and I lay there for a while just looking at the ceiling.
The house felt different in the early morning. Not smaller exactly. Just more present. Like it was aware of itself in a way it was not during the day when everything was moving.
I thought about last night.
Just the part after. The part where I had made a decision and acted on it without overthinking it first. That was not something I did naturally. I was a planner. I thought things through from every angle before I moved. Last night I had not done that.
It had felt good not to do that.
Kieran shifted beside me. Not waking. Just moving t
