Thursday's child has far to go (Zoe, Rachel, Danny, Cai maaaybe)

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“ELAINE!” Imogene’s voice from the hallway shocked her out of her post-alarm doze. “If you’re not down here eating your delicious macrobiotic breakfast in FIVE MINUTES!”

Rachel sat up, grimacing. The extra fifteen minutes after her alarm had gone off hadn’t done anything to help her wake up. She'd set her alarm as well as her phone, to avoid sleeping in again. She couldn't afford to, today.

She had a feeling she’d had bad dreams, some images of something nasty lingering in the back of her head. Yanking her curtains open and letting in the pale light of morning helped banish the thoughts back into the night where they belonged. It was morning, a new day, time to set her gaze strictly forward and never look back.

This summed up most of her life philosophy; look forward, not back. Nothing good happens when you look back.

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