Technical Difficulties

~Raina~

I woke up at 4 AM, like it was a punishment. No alarm. No noise. Just my eyes snapping open to the dark ceiling of my bedroom with my heart already three beats ahead of my brain, still running from a bridge I'd left two hours before.

I lay there for a moment, staring at nothing, my body deciding whether it was done with the adrenaline yet. It wasn't. My hands were steady—they're always ste