Sweet Dreams
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I inhale deeply, steadying myself.
This room always makes me feel safe, it’s my safe haven, Private, and Removed from the rest of the world.
Behind me, I hear him enter and the door closes softly with one loud click, the sound final in a way that makes my skin prickle.
I don’t turn around yet.
I let the silence stretch, let the tension build, let him stand there wondering what I’m about to show him and what it means that I led him here.