Chapter 53

I woke up all sweaty and with my heart racing. I had a bad dream. It's the same one that seems to visit me right around this time of year. I wish it would leave me alone but it's more of a haunting memory turned bad dream. I tried to forget, I tried really hard but each time the day comes, my birthday comes, it feels like I am taken back to that dark place.

The same where I was a prisoner in my own skin.

I sigh, pushing back my hair away from my face.

It's still in the early morning and checking my phone for the time, I see that I have an hour or so before my alarm goes off. Getting out of bed and needing something to keep my mind distracted, I get out of my room and head downstairs.

My stomach starts to grumble in hunger and I remember that I didn't exactly eat, before going to bed.

Might as well make myself something to eat.

I decide on making myself a bowl