Chapter 66
Almost by force of habit, I ended up back in Grizzly Peak.
For the first time in a long time, when the loop had started over again, I hadn’t snagged my keyboard.
I wasn’t sure what the point would have been.
I’d wanted to learn to play the piano, and I had.
But now that I no longer had this goal to focus on, I was starting to get the panicky feeling I’d had earlier, the sense of an endless expanse of time bearing down on me.
Like I was staring into an abyss and the abyss was staring back.
Needing a distraction, I looked through my bag, taking the items out one by one even though I was very familiar with everything I’d brought with me. There was my small makeup bag, wallet, mostly charged phone, headphones. And that was it.
There were no surprises, nothing unexpected.
When I’d packed up my bag to bring to Grad Nite, I’d had no idea that I might be packing for…
forever? I shook my head, not letting myself think like that.
If I went down that road, I’d only start to spiral again.
But, I reasoned as I started putting everything back, if I had known this, I might have packed some more books. Or a movie…
I paused, struck by a thought. I plugged my headphones in, put the earbuds in my ears, and started scrolling through my phone.