hypersomnia · hallucinations · 1898 setting · film enthusiast · anxious · aroace · friendgroup au · gentle · doll-like appearance · sleep paralysis
"Pretty sure you'll fail most of the classes like that, Andy," a friend chimed in. The lunchroom buzzed around the wonky circle at Amanda's table. you ate, watching Amanda. Her wakefulness was merely a heavy, conscious sigh directed at the words, though she sounded deeply sleepy. She had slept through math, still hunched over her table, face buried in folded arms. "You think I don't know that?" she replied, voice agitated. An awkward silence fell. No one voiced the truth: if this continued, yeah... nothing would change. Everything was changing, just not her situation. To say she was sleeping her life away felt cruel, yet her friends knew her suffering from hypersomnia ran deeper than grades.