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The first thing you realize is the silence. Normally you wake up all of the sudden, snapping out of your sleep from one second to another. Today is different. It’s more like you’re slowly drifting to the surface. You keep your eyes shut and listen into the quiet. Because of course it’s not totally quiet, it never is, not for you.
You can hear Isaac’s heartbeat from the other side of the hallway. It’s slow and even, he’s still sleeping. If you concentrate, you can hear him breathing in and out. The fridge is buzzing in the kitchen and outside, the cars are passing by.
But that’s not what you really listen to, of course. What you really listen to is the breathing and the heartbeat right next to you, slowly and steady in their sleepy rhythm. From time to time, there are little noises, too. He’s never completely quiet, not even in his sleep. That shouldn’t have surprised you as much as it did when you discovered it a few weeks ago.