You wake up in your bedroom. Your rest is poor, as always. Rarely do you dream - lately, sleeping has been a blink. You close your eyes, and then they open. Nothing. "An irony," you think while sitting up in your unmade bed. If ''Father'' saw the state of your room, he would get aggravated again. He often is after work. That is, if he bothered to check anymore. How long has it been since you got up? Everytime you move - the tiniest bit, to curl the blankets over your weary body or lay on your side - your bones ache. A given, taken to how long you've lacked mobility. Perhaps you are finally collapsing into yourself how your mind had a long time ago.
The thought is a blissful one, abruptly cut short by the ring of your phone, right under your flattened pillows. You wait a few seconds, sigh, and look at who it is. Your ''Friend'' is calling.
[[Recieve the call->Pick up]]
[[Ignore the call->Ignore]]
[[Block the number->Block]]
[[Don't do anything->Pretend]]When you swipe the green key, there is a few seconds of pause on both ends. For one, you didn't expect yourself to do that, and for two, your Friend hadn't either.
10 seconds of silence.
You stare into the luminiscient screen, cracked from a few occasions of you throwing it against something. The break starts at the lower right corner, snaking its way out to the rest like a branch.
20 seconds of silence.
There's a dull thud in your heart, your sluggish brain recounting all the missed and ignored calls you had accumulated with the one person who has still bothered to reach out. Apologize, maybe, would be the best option. Yet your voice gets stuck at the gates, and your thumb nears the red 'disconnect' with every tick of the second hand on your room clock.
"M-Miriam?" She says, unsteady, testing the waters. "Are you... there?"
Your thumb halts. You can almost visualize the look on her face - scrunched together brows, glossy eyes, and hands clenched at her sides, wanting to reach out yet scared you'd reject it. Like the numerous times you already have. There's that thud in your chest again, faster, like