Day 4 — Wednesday, 2/4/2026 — The Day After

The next day was a blur. I went to school, but everything else felt foggy. I was tired, I couldn’t sleep, and the weather did not help — cold, rainy, gloomy. I would go to school, come back, and stay in bed watching TV. So far the best thing about this apartment is the sound of rain upon the skylight.

I watched two seasons of A Brilliant Mind — a show about mental illness. Yep. I was not doing well.

… but I found the mall.