Chapter Twelve

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(Aurora's POV continues)

My phone is buzzing somewhere, I can feel it but I'm too drowsy, my body feels weak, too weak to grab the phone, so I let the vibrations die out, only for them to start once again. I groan, my hand lazily stretching and brushing the mattress until I feel the phone on it. With my eyes still closed, I swipe answer. “Hello,” I murmur into it, but the caller says nothing, instead the call drops, with a familiar sound in the back.

Thankfully, I dropped the phone, glad I didn't open my eyes to glance at the caller ID because the drowsy effect would have subsided. I'm well over the moon, trying to get myself back to sleep but it appears that the effort I put into answering the phone was substantial enough to awaken me fully.

I try to fall back asleep a third time, counting sheep, as a desperate measure but even then I fail. If I worked a full night yesterday, I wouldn't have any problem with sleeping, I would have drunk and danced myself to the after