When he found out he had to stay on campus for 

winter break

he imagined he'd be alone in a ghost town. He was a little bit disappointed when he found there were in fact people walking around, driving around, and that most of the businesses were open. Sure there were no students around but the city was still chugging along.

While grabbing bagels and a 

coffee

at one of the cafes he ran into a classmate of his. He was an international student so it made more sense that he would stay on campus during the holidays. His friend did seem surprised to see him around. 

"Figured you would've gone home like all the others."

"Yeah. Same. Well here I am. What do you usually do during this time?"

His international friend gave a grin and replied, "catch up on sleep."

That wasn't a bad idea so he decided that he would sleep a lot over the break. He had been planning on doing that anyways before but now that his friend mentioned that this was his plan, it gave him some kind of empowering permission to not just sleep, but delight himself in 

sleep

.

Yes. While everybody celebrated 

Christmas

and the ringing in of the 

new year

, he would be sleeping. Maybe he would never awake again.