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Struggling to Sleep

Tick... Tick... Tick... Alice opened her eyes and gave a frustrated little groan as she sat up and blinked blearily at the clock on the wall. 2:45 , it read. "Fuck!" she said, exasperated, "Why can't I get to sleep?" After another rotten day at her rotten job, she had decided to put this day away and had gone to bed early, hoping to forget that today even happened. However, she'd just been lying awake, gradually getting more and more annoyed. Why was it that when she needed to stay awake, she would invariably drop off, and now, when she had to get up early in just a few hours, she couldn't buy a few hours' sleep? Usually she didn't have any problem; when it's time to sleep, she could turn off her bedside lamp and be asleep in less than a half hour. But not tonight. Alice sighed, cursing under her breath. She went into the bathroom for a glass of water. Looking in the mirror, she saw the tired, haggard face that looked back at her. A lock of her long, messy, flame-red hair fell into her eyes and she blew it away, irritated. She needed to do something with her frizzy flyaway hair, she thought, as she reached up to toy with the errant lock. Yet another thing for her to worry about when she should be dead to the world. She knew the real reason she couldn't sleep, but she didn't want to admit it to herself. She had bumped into her ex-boyfriend, James, a few days earlier, and he had some young, blonde honey hanging off his arm. He had introduced her to Alice - Jenny was her ...

... name, evidently - and she seemed nice enough. But that only infuriated Alice more. They had broken up only a couple weeks prior to that, and already he had a new squeeze! Hell, it had been his fault that they ended things anyway! He had been the one who ignored her, who had left her at home so many times while he went out with the boys, and who would come home drunk and pass out on the couch more nights than not. They hadn't had sex in over two years, and hadn't really had more than casual conversation in half as long. She often wondered if they could still consider themselves a couple - or were they just roommates now? She had always worried about him when he went out too. She had loved him – she still did, in fact – but she couldn't honestly say that she trusted him. Not totally. Not enough to be able to sleep properly, knowing that he could be doing anything right now. James had something of a reputation as a ladies' man. He liked to drink and, with his tall dark good looks, he was always being approached by girls in clubs. And he was friendly, flirty even, never afraid to buy a round of drinks or dance with a pretty stranger. Alice always found herself panicking a little wondering what he was up to. And there had been a couple of... indiscretions. He'd been caught getting a little too friendly with some girl more than once. She couldn't pin actual fucking around on him, but it was close enough that it pissed Alice off and caused them to have a few big fights. He claimed ...