The next day, I felt like I'd been run over by a truck again and again. Every muscle ached, my head throbbed with a dull pressure, and my body felt heavy, like it didn't fully belong to me. I forced myself out of bed. I didn't have a choice. I stepped into the shower and let the hot water run down my back, hoping it would wash away at least some of the confusion from the night before.

It didn't.

The exhaustion clung to me like a shadow.

I got dressed without really thinking, moving on auto