One Night, No Names
For a second, I simply stood there watching it fall, as though the sound alone could wash away the confusion tangled inside my head.
Then I stepped beneath the shower.
Warm water cascaded over my skin, sliding down my shoulders and back in gentle streams.
I closed my eyes immediately, tilting my head upward as the heat wrapped around me like comfort I didn’t know I needed.
The tension in my body eased little by little, but my mind refused to settle.
Questions drifted endlessly through my thoughts, fragments of conversations, strange looks, the uneasy feeling that something was shifting around me without warning.
I stayed under the shower for several minutes, motionless except for the rise an