Wingless and Beautiful
Suriel – angel of healing, whose name means “God’s command.”
“Come on, wake up, sleepyhead!” I heard my aunt’s voice as she snatched the headphones away from my head.
I struggled to open my eyes. I looked at my wristwatch. It was one in the afternoon. I slept in again and I knew Meredith hated that. But sometimes, I couldn’t help it. It was hard for me to sleep at nights. In the dark, the nightmares got worse. I couldn’t sleep with the lights out now. But even with the lights on, I still found myself waking up in the middle of the night, screaming as the memories of the pain I had experienced during that night come back to me, making me retreat, and curl up in fear and misery.