It's Not All Roses

Chapter 9

Eventually, I decided to go to my best friend Kory. I texted her, and told her all about my sleeping problem. She helped me find ways to tire myself out, while making myself happy. Me, Kory, and Alicia all streamed video games together. It's our favorite thing to do. She told me to try streaming more often to help myself. She knew that doing that made me happy, and that it would make me tired after a while.
I started trying that. It worked, and I started sleeping better. My mind got tired from the games, and allowed me to fall asleep easier. With me being online more, I was also able to text Dominic more often, which brought us closer again. Things were finally beginning to work themselves out. I was able to think straight again, and I felt myself getting better, for real this time. Days went by as they normally would, and I kept focusing on getting myself back on track. I started trying to make myself more comfortable in my safe spaces, and I started in my room. I figured I should start there, since I still had boxes in my closet that I never unpacked when we moved in. I took everything out of all of my drawers, moved one of my cabinets to the opposite side of the room. I then put all of the things back inside, and reorganized it. After that, I moved my bed to my huge window. I don't know why, but I loved to sleep by windows. the bigger, the better. Finally, the boxes. I unpacked each one, then put things for donation in one box, and things for the basement into two others. I ended up finding all of my Christmas decorations, and ended up putting them up, and afterwards, I put my Halloween decorations into an empty box, and put them back into the closet.
After I finished my room, I went out to fix my garden. It was looking extremely dead now that it was cold. I fixed that up a bit, then went back inside. After doing those two things, I felt a lot more comfortable in my house, which was the goal. The only thing missing to do now was fix my friendships, but I wasn't about to get involved in that mess again. I knew better. If I got involved, I'd be back to square one. For now, as long as everyone was fine with me, that was good enough.
I began focusing more on my relationship over the days. I started trying to get closer to my boyfriend, and did whatever I could to keep him happy. Most of my relationships with friends, family and stuff were actually pretty good. the only area where I was struggling was with my father. My grades hadn't been the best lately, and my father always wanted me to have straight a's like when I was a kid. I guessed that it was worth a shot. I may not have been able to get to straight a's, but he'd take b's too. All I had to do was get there, and we'd be fine. I started working harder in school. Not so hard that I affect myself negatively, though. I made sure to stay within my limits. If I was going to get better, I should take it easy, instead of overdoing it.
Things began to get easier and easier. I was finally starting to get myself back to normal. This time, I wasn't going to let anything stop my progress. I had gotten too far by this point. I was proud of myself. I finally began to feel like I was back on the right track, back in the right place. That was a good feeling.
After getting to a spot that I wanted to be, I felt truly happy again. I had Dominic, my friends, my family. It was perfect. I was finally at peace. It was all okay now. I had nothing to worry about. Nothing at all. Days went by normally, just the way I liked it.
We were at lunch one day, it was a Friday. We were all chatting and having a nice conversation, when Dominic Told me he had a question for me. After lunch, he pulled me aside and proceeded to ask his question.
"Lucas, will you go on an adventure with me? There's something I want to show you." Dominic asked me.
"Sure, it sounds like fun!" I replied.
I didn't know what was in store, but I was curious.