Ryland pushed through the door to his house, it was small, but it was home. He set his keys down on the table near the entryway. He tossed himself onto the couch in the living room, yawning before curling up into the fetal position. There’s something Ryland liked to say, “People see things that they don’t understand and say ‘Why?’, but I dream things that never were and I say ‘Why not?’” Such a statement was common in Ryland’s overactive mind, and he often annoyed people by pestering them with similar questions. Smaller voices in his head told him to call the people he knew and ask so many queries. It irritated everyone who knew him personally, but they couldn’t escape him when in the workplace or during family get-togethers. Similarly, such thoughts plagued him during the night, causing him to get very little sleep. And whenever he did get rest, Ryland’s dreams were disrupted by horrifying scenarios. Unfortunately, tonight he would get sleep.

Stephan and Isla were running around, up after their bedtime. As usual, they were making a bunch of noise after 2000, an hour and a ½ after their usual bedtime. Their mother Sylus was trying to get them to calm down and off their tablets that they were running around with. The annoyance was clear in the protruding veins in her neck and forehead. The younger silver-eyed boy (Stephan) stuck his tongue out at his similarly coloured female counterpart. The blue-eyed girl snatched the tablet from her brown-haired counterpart and laughed as she ran around the couch. An annoyed Sylus was just waiting for them to just wear themselves out so she could put them to bed. No amount of yelling would help the situation and her kids hadn’t done anything too serious, at the very least, nothing to warrant anything more than a stern talking-to.

Paten smiled thinking of the sweet boy in her office job. She walked up to the meeting office Jialy had asked her to meet him in. She walked into the room, seeing an industrial humidifier, a couple of binders, a few scattered papers & a coffee cup that read “World’s Best Friend”. The young man she was meeting was very clearly loved in the office, his bright but soft amber eyes were so inviting. Despite his slightly off-putting statements and analogies, he was very sweet, going as far as to bring cupcakes for everyone's birthdays.