I found it hard to sleep the entire night. I couldn't stop thinking about her, and I felt a lot of strange feelings of urgency as I tried to sleep. I thought it was just me being paranoid, and I didn't want to be apart from her. I never thought I would be so dependent on her that now I can't even sleep because of it.

I finally got to sleep a few hours before dawn, but I wasn't able to sleep for long. I woke to my father’s voice; he sounded like it was urgent. Something was wrong. I opened ...