Elena.

There is no sound but silence here. I hate silence.

In particular, complete silence. There was something about it that made my skin crawl like there was nothing, it was driving me crazy. The kind of silence where I can even hear my heart beating hard through my eardrums.

I woke up to silence, something that almost felt out of place. In most cases, there was always a constant buzz of sound in my house, whether it was the almost constant chatter of my family or the TV that I forgot to turn off. But this was not the case.

This made me cringe at the silence. My body...