Trouble Sleeping: Runaway Tales
Title: Trouble -Sleeping.
Author: sophie_03
Flavour/Prompts: Vanilla #18 Trouble Sleeping
Extras/Toppings: none
Rating: G/PG
Summary: he spends every day just thinking, and every night just waiting, for it to pass by... but the pain doesn't go away.
The hours moved so slowly when it was dark. The middle of the night was a strange in between time when nothing really existed.
There was always an eerie silence about it, one that if you were still awake, made you feel even more unsettled. Or at least that was the way that Stuart felt.
The more you thought about it the worse it got. He lay there for hours, trying to make his body shut down and fall asleep, but it wouldn’t. He would lie there until he couldn’t bear it anymore, and then sitting up he would switch the light on and pick up a book lying abandoned on the floor by his bed, something to distract him and pass away the time.
Recently though he had stopped bothering - stopped making the effort to go to bed, no matter how tired he was, because he just knew that he wouldn’t sleep. So he would stay up, online, or reading, or writing, just carrying on with his daily existence because he had grown fearful of that lonely time lying awake in the darkness.
It made his pain and insecurities just so much worse. It reminded him why he couldn’t sleep... but all he wanted was to sleep, to let his body rest, let his mind forget just for a bit, so why was it so hard?
He regretted sometimes his decisions, his reasons to be there. It was so much harder being away, in a strange place, with just the memories; but he couldn’t have stayed in that house, not with everything around him. Of course it had been the right decision, it was just one of those night time paranoid feelings, when you felt that everything was just so much worse, and that nothing was ever right. And then the morning would come again and it would all be fine again. Those worries and insecurities would have disappeared, and instead the day would beckon, leading him on in his life, making him say, ‘yeah, I slept alright’, and forgetting about all those doubts and sleepless nights.
Author: sophie_03
Flavour/Prompts: Vanilla #18 Trouble Sleeping
Extras/Toppings: none
Rating: G/PG
Summary: he spends every day just thinking, and every night just waiting, for it to pass by... but the pain doesn't go away.
The hours moved so slowly when it was dark. The middle of the night was a strange in between time when nothing really existed.
There was always an eerie silence about it, one that if you were still awake, made you feel even more unsettled. Or at least that was the way that Stuart felt.
The more you thought about it the worse it got. He lay there for hours, trying to make his body shut down and fall asleep, but it wouldn’t. He would lie there until he couldn’t bear it anymore, and then sitting up he would switch the light on and pick up a book lying abandoned on the floor by his bed, something to distract him and pass away the time.
Recently though he had stopped bothering - stopped making the effort to go to bed, no matter how tired he was, because he just knew that he wouldn’t sleep. So he would stay up, online, or reading, or writing, just carrying on with his daily existence because he had grown fearful of that lonely time lying awake in the darkness.
It made his pain and insecurities just so much worse. It reminded him why he couldn’t sleep... but all he wanted was to sleep, to let his body rest, let his mind forget just for a bit, so why was it so hard?
He regretted sometimes his decisions, his reasons to be there. It was so much harder being away, in a strange place, with just the memories; but he couldn’t have stayed in that house, not with everything around him. Of course it had been the right decision, it was just one of those night time paranoid feelings, when you felt that everything was just so much worse, and that nothing was ever right. And then the morning would come again and it would all be fine again. Those worries and insecurities would have disappeared, and instead the day would beckon, leading him on in his life, making him say, ‘yeah, I slept alright’, and forgetting about all those doubts and sleepless nights.