The sun danced on my eyelids, startling me awake. I opened my eyes, to see, as I expected, the curtains pulled back on my side of the room. I sighed, knowing that I would not recapture the sleep that I so pleasurably enjoyed.
I turned over sleepily grabbing my cellular device to look at the time. My body was in disagreement of my attempt to wake up fully. I silently scolded myself in allowing time away from my consciousness at an hour so late as 11 o'clock am. My stress must have tired me out more than I thought.
So many thoughts were traveling back and forth through my mind, when my eyes absentmindedly surveyed the room, it startled me to see Max and her unruly ginger mane disheveled while she stared at me with a grin I could only discern to be excitement.
“Good-morning.” I he
