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Peerless: Chideziri POV
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2024-10-29 19:42:56The house is asleep. A graveyard that has cricking crickets for epitaphs, shadows for tombstones and silence in place of spirits.
Everyone is asleep, too—everyone being me and Mumsi.
I keep awake, counting the asbestos on the ceiling.
One.
Two.
Three.
Four.
Five.
Six.
Seven.
Eight.
Nine. Ten...
The result of napping in the day.
Yellow light spills in from the hallway.
The drowsy silence makes the creaking sound of a door in the hallway echo louder.
Footsteps pat the floor. And I wonder, if like me, the person who own those footsteps couldn't sleep a wink. If that person, like me, has been counting the clock's tick-tocks hoping to fall asleep before dawn.
The footsteps go down the passage, fading. I turn in bed and snuggle my pillow, sleep finally whispers to me. My bedsheets are hot with sw
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