Chapter One

Chapter 1

the cement is cold and hard beneath my body as i drift out of my short - lived slumber. The small, ratty blanket does nothing to shield me from the cold, starless night. As I lay awake in our assigned, small box room, I hear chip's soft breathing beside me. I turn in my sleeping space to look at her. She has a small smile on her angelic face and she is murmuring incomplete words that no one could understand. It comforts me to see her sleeping so peacefully, compared to me, who used to thrash violently in my sleep filled with the horrors a new day brings, my nightmares are gone but I sometimes wish they were still here. With my nightmares there came amazing, wonderous dreams that filled me with such joy. Now I am a black void, and I learned when your a dark void, your ability to sleep well vanishes , and that's not including dreaming. I can't stand the looks and sounds of the wonderous dreams she's having, it fills me with an envy so deep it rocks the core of my very being. I sometimes wish she would stop dreaming. I get out of the box 'room' and look up to the sky. It is one of those nights that are devoid of all stars, the moon's not even out, it's completely dark. When I see nights like these I think them the same as me dark, devoid, cold, and lonely.