I can't sleep when I can't hear anyone breathing nearby.

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I should be asleep now, I know. But I just can't. The last few days, all alone with Paige and Amanda gone was bad enough, but now I'm really worried, too. Amanda and Manuel are both sick and I haven't heard from Angelo and everything just seems. Dark. (Except for the glitter. It helps, and the glow-in-the-dark moon over my bed, too. Thank you, Clarice.)

It's scary out here, in the Real World. I didn't notice before, even with the fire and all, but it is. At the institution nothing ever really touched me because nobody really cared and I didn't really care about anyone else (and the drugs they gave all of us wouldn't have let us care anyway).

There are bad things in the world and I don't know what to do about it. I wish I could hug someone right now.