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You look at your phone. You look at your clock. An hour is a century.
Tick. Tick. Tick. Tick.
Halt. Was that a vibration? Is the phone vibrating? Are you being called?
You scramble desperately for the phone. It sits dead. The minute shifts from 5:04 to 5:05
Any sane person is asleep by now. You are not. You are kept awake by rabid fears and a devouring anxiety.
But there's only three hours before you can confirm that your world is not over.
Logic tells you that again, any sane person is asleep. But the one you wait for maybe isn't sane.
Emotions tell you that no matter what you cannot miss that call. It didn't come last night. It didn't come tonight, it may not come the next night, or the one after, or even at all. But you refuse to miss it.
You curse your body for its weakness; fatigue has settled in. You haven't slept a full night in at least 3 weeks. You gave up on caffeine's ability to keep you conscious. You now cut into your flesh for the adrenaline rush to hold you.
Blood stains your sheets when even that fails.
5:06: a century indeed.
Maybe now, the panic has passed. Maybe now, you may sleep. But apprehensively, cautiously, phone at hand, ready to pick up for the call you must not miss.
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TheSword-TheFaith's avatar
Did you draw this specifically for me?
Oh my god, it is the most beautiful thing I've seen in my entire life.
I love it so much.
I feel like you drew it for me.