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Chapter 15
Blurry Eyes/Clarity
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Jason~
I got back in shortly after one, I was exhausted, but I knew I wouldn't be able to sleep yet, not after the day I'd had. So I settled myself into a chair with one of Jason's journals. It was there that Brenda found me.
"Hey" she says nudging me
"Hey yourself" I say through blurry eyes
"I can't imagine that chair's very comfortable." She says as she sits cross legged on the floor below me
"It's not" I say stretching. I can't believe I fell asleep there or better yet stayed asleep. "What time is it?"
"Almost 3:30."
"What are you still doing up?"
"Another nightmare"
"Another?"
"Yea I seem to have become the queen of nightmares since coming back."
"Why didn't you tell me before?"
"I'm telling you now. I actually went your room because last night was the first good night's sleep I've gotten in awhile. When you weren't there…" The fear and the worry I'd always heard in Robin's voice is present in hers. Suddenly she jumps up, she doesn't want to admit what she's been feeling "So I came downstairs for a snack."
I take her hand as she tries to walk past me "I'm sorry for worrying you Brenda. I didn't mean to. And you're not hungry and you know it." I stand still holding her hand "It's 3:30, it's definitely time for bed. You know you're really lucky you're not a cover hog or you'd be sleeping on the floor."
"You know" she says as she follows me up the stairs "it probably would make more sense for us to share a bedroom in the new house or it's going to look rather odd because after all we are supposed to be in love."
I just laugh as I fell into the bed; yea laughter was the best way to cover this. To cover that fact that it was definitely going to drive me insane sleeping with her night after night. Just then she rolls into me as she did the night before only now she is awake; I pull her close to me and we fall asleep listening to each others breath.