Chapter 13- Ripping The Bandaid Off

Before I left the hall, I was given something to think about yet again.

Luca had assigned me the responsibility of thinking what rules one needed to keep in mind during a dance routine.

I thought about it, pretty much the entire evening as I tossed and turned in my small bed.

Trying really hard to tune out everything bad that had happened in the day.

When I saw the time going for midnight, I knew that I was in for an all expenses paid for- insomnia sponsored night.

And I was quite shocked to feel myself yearning for something. A connection even. One with the one person that I had no real relationship with. My mother.

That's when I knew my day had gone that horribly for me to even long for her genuine presence in my life.

Screw it, I thought as I jumped off the bed.

For a few minutes, or what could have easily passed for hours- I sat, motionlessly in front of the computer.

Reading, rereading and memorizing the last email from her. That I already knew by heart.

For quite some time, I