My bare hands were vivid raw from scrubbing that god forsaken toilet, and also washing the clothes. The house was in chaos before, I couldn't even stand to do anything, not to even eat, and now, standing in the middle of the sitting room, I smiled.

Absolute chaos turned to miracle. I took in the solace in the clean, fresh scent that now wafted through the house. I had spent literally the entire morning washing my clothes and also Luciano's, then I went to clean his own room and the other rooms before going to tidy up every other corner of the house.

It was my way of finding some...