Chapter 31: I Feel Uneasy

---------- Some Years Prior

“Has she come out of her room yet?” a woman’s voice rang out in the hallway and despite the closed door and Samantha’s head being under the covers, she was still able to hear the couple outside speak.

“Not since she went to the bathroom this morning,” she heard her father’s voice. The two of them, both her mother and father, had been stationed outside of her bedroom door for the last five minutes as they spoke to each other and debated whether or not to disturb her rest for the fourth time that day.

The previous three times were to bring Samantha her daily meals一minus the quick sneak her father did when her mother was not looking to check up on his daughter一and although Samantha was grateful for the caring actions of her parents, she could not help but feel overwhelmed by their presence.