The hardest thing to wake up is when you were happy in a dream.

The passage of time is perceived by our consciousness in a strange and contradictory way. If time consists of monotonous everyday life or is devoid of events, it stretches indefinitely. Another thing is when time is full of incidents, when it is distorted by tragedies and sprinkled with joys - then it seems that all this lasted for an infinitely long time.

Stephanie was the first to wake up. I immediately drew attention to the unusual silence in the house and thoughts about the breakup of the family persistently climbed into my head. But, after all,...