Chapter seven

I didn't sleep well. I couldn't as I kept waking at intervals, tossing and turning till sleep comes by and steals me away until the next interval when I'd wake yet again. I couldn't wait for morning to come and somewhere on the deepest part of my heart, I prayed that I wouldn't change my resolve when the morning comes. I had to put in the work.

When I woke at around 4am, I tried yet again to go back to sleep but it had abandoned me totally so i picked up the novel and continued from where I'd stopped the previous day.

Brenda, just as I had speculated, chose to accept the exchange program. I wasn't surprised. I told you protagonists never choose the easy way out. The writer did a really good job because I was so engrossed in it and didn't realized when the day broke, till the ray of the early morning sun streamed through the window. I looked on the floor and Caleb was still sleeping eventhough most people in the room were already up.

"He must have slept pretty late last night" I sai