23. I MADE LOVE WITH A CRIMINAL.

When I woke up, it was dark. 

My abdomen was sore and when I tried to move my legs under my covers, one of them ached. It was as though I had my tendons and muscles in an incomprehensible twist. It was dark so I deduced that it must be late into the evening by now.

The lights were probably turned off so I search for my bag around, hoping to find my phone. It takes me a while to remember that I had lost my phone earlier. Still, I search for the bag and find it on the edge of the bed. I am without any sense of time so I took out my new phone and look at the time. 

8:52. I turn on the flashlight because I am too lazy to get out of bed to go on the light.

I must have been sleeping for a while.

My mane is all over and when I try sitting down back, I sit on some strands, thereby making them strain and causing my scalp to ache. I raise myself with a wail and gather everything