ELLISWhen winter break finally rolled around, I had formed a rather unique bond with the exhaustion I thought I had gotten rid off.We weren’t at odds anymore; we were more like freaking old friends at this point, sharing an uneasy coexistence.I let it settle in the bags under my eyes, and in return, it allowed me just enough energy to keep pretending that I had my life together.Exams had transformed the entire campus into a chaotic battlefield of caffeine, anxiety, and students staring blankly at textbooks, as if the answers might leap out and apologize for being so elusive.I was just like everyone else.Between juggling my classes, working at the flower shop, and spending time at Sandy’s Cafe, not to mention the basic need for food and sleep, I was running on fumes, barely holding it all together with instant coffee and pure stubbornness.Julian, for his part, seemed to take my exhaustion as a personal challenge, determined to remedy it through sheer willpower and an alarming nu
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