Chapter 136

As soon as my body settled in the soft, comfortable bed I could feel sleep creeping up on me. With a dull ache in my head and a pain behind my eyes, I brought the covers over my face and buried myself in the clean smell of soap, letting it wash over me. I wanted nothing more than for this day to be over and I was close to begging for sleep to take me, when a fist tapped against my door. Groaning and pushing back the covers, I called out to whoever it was that had disturbed me from my comfort. Half a second later my mom's face peered from behind the door. "Did I wake you?" "No." I said, sitting up in my bed and calling her over. "Are you okay?" She wasn't and that was obvious, but I didn't know what else to say to her. Perched on the edge of my bed, her hands sat in her lap and her head was bowed. "I don't want to lose my child and certainly not for something that doesn't concern us." The sadness in her voice was evident and the heartbreak written