Thirty -one

Ravenna

It was nighttime and the windows were wide open.

A cool night breeze flared in the room, caressing my skin, and I shivered a little from it. I shook my head lightly. “Ravenna, you can do this. It's not hard to do, okay? You've got this. You've trained for this, your whole life. It isn't difficult to do, just think of this as another training you'll have to take,” I mumbled to myself, pacing around my designated room.

Even with those words, I still didn't feel any less nervous. I got the medications, sterile syringes, scissors, and everything I would need to nurse Kalan. I placed them on a tray and added cotton buds that I would need to cleanse the blood, and also a glass of water.

I knew how to administer injections, alright, but being close to Kalan…makes me anxious. I wasn’t confident that my hands wouldn’t be shaking. Being so close to him does things to me. Strange things that I didn't even understand or realize when it happened.

Things I never knew could happen to me,