tick tock
The clock sounded unbearably loud in Serena's ears. The room also felt unnaturally quiet, to the point where she was left alone with her thoughts.
The smile had long since slipped from her face, and her hollow eyes wandered around the room with a detached expression. She looked at everything around her, but nothing truly registered in her mind.
Nothing except the ray of sunlight coming through the window.
It beckoned Serena closer, urging her to give in. She looked down from the second-floor window she stood beside, and for a moment, all she wanted was to let gravity take her.
She had already half-climbed out the window before she caught herself and shook herself out of her daze.
"Hey, snap out of it. You know this wouldn't work."
