Gloom

Chapter 152

I wasn't sure what I was expecting, or even if I was really expecting anything, but a strange feeling of emptiness overwhelmed me when, very early in the morning, my cell phone alarm woke me up and I found myself alone in the room.

I didn't really know why I felt that way. I couldn't decipher my own thoughts, nor understand why I appreciated a certain nostalgia in me, if deep down it was a true relief to have woken up without him. I tried not to think too much about it. I tried, as much as I could, not to focus on that dark, unknown new feeling, because, to be honest, it terrified me.

I spent a lot of my time at work absorbed in what my mother used to say, “up in the clouds,” and that wasn't a good thing. I couldn't think clearly, I forgot the orders and to whom I had to deliver them, and the day ended up seeming longer and more tedious than it really was.

At the end of the day, I was shuffling along the sidewalk toward the bus stop, but I stopped my steps the moment Akhliss's cold, f