I'm woken by the sound of someone walking by me with unbelievably loud footsteps.

Obviously my dad.

I grunt and turn to my other side.

I hear the footsteps again.

And again.

And again.

I huff and open my eyes, ready to yell at him, when I see a bright light that has been switched on.

I squint at my watch by the side of my pillow and observe that it's 3:30 a.m.

Who even switches on such bright lights at 3 in the morning??

Then it dawns on me: Dad's leaving today for a trip and has an early morning flight to catch.

I try to go back to sleep now, but I'm too awake to do so.

I throw a pillow over my head to muffle the footsteps next to me, but it doesn't work...

You might be wondering why these footsteps are coming from next to me: well, the answer is 'cause I'm basically lying on the ground in the hall.

And as to how I ended up here??

I'll tell you...

Yesterday, the ceiling fan in my room stopped working all of a sudden.

And it's become next to impossible to sleep without a fan on.

I mean, it's still February, but the temperature is pretty high already!!

I can't help thinking that peak summer is going to be sweltering hot...

Anyways, so I couldn't sleep in my room, and my Mom offered to let me sleep in hers.

But when we went in, Dad was asleep lying across three-fourths of the bed, and there was no way both of us could fit, so Mom spread out a blanket on the floor of the hall and we fell asleep on it.

And now, Mom's up helping Dad get ready to leave.

Dad happens to pass by me now, so I mumble out a "Happy Journey" to him.

He thanks me and goes back to walking back and forth for a million times...

Now, I still can't sleep...

I try a lot of stuff to fall asleep, but nothing works.

I sigh and give up trying to sleep, and instead stare up at the chandelier thinking about the next chapter of my Wattpad story, 'Sparks'.

I think about how it would be to start a new story...

And then it dawns on me (despite it being nowhere near dawn time)- why not write a story on my life?

So I decide to write this story...

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Now that I'm actually here typing away, I can tell you more about me...

I live in an urban area in a sub-tropical country...

My favourite season is spring, so long as it doesn't get too hot, and if it does, then it's rain!!

I love rain, a lot!!

One of my favourite smells is the smell of petrichor- the earthy scent produced when rain falls on dry soil...

My obsessions are music, reading and writing, hence my obsession with Wattpad!!

Wattpad is extremely helpful for me in the sense that it provides a platform for reading and writing stories and sharing them with others.

Also, it fuels my passion for writing!!

So, in this book, I'll be writing about my life, the only changes being some names and a little exaggeration here and there...

My name here will be Chase.

I picked it because the nickname Chase is kinda similar to mine...

Also - why not come clean with it?? - Dr. Robert Chase* kinda inspired it...

I have an extremely weird personality- at times, I am the loudest, most confident and least inhibited person in the room, and at times, I am extremely shy, insecure and highly hesitant, and at times in between.

If someone were to ask me if I'm an introvert or an extrovert, my honest answer would be neither- I'm an ambivert....

Well, that's it for now, 'cause I've got to go and sleep...

I'll update as soon as I can...

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*Dr. Robert Chase from the T.V. show, 'House M.D.'

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