She said a sentence and for some reason the last word didn't sound right being said only once. She repeated the word two more times in a whisper so only she could hear. She ate dinner, chewing the bite three times on each side of her mouth before she could swallow. She took three sips of her water to wash it all down. She read and spoke as she was the only one recognizing what she was doing. She brushed her teeth and sang a sped up version of the chorus of a song because it didn't feel right to stop brushing an area unless she did it. She told her sister goodnight and put her hand on her side while she fell asleep to make sure she was still breathing. She laid her hand there until her sister inhaled and exhaled six times just like she did every night. If she didn't do it, couldn't she stop breathing? She laid down in her bed but she couldn't fall asleep until she had a mental picture of all of her family member and each time she pictures a single family member she mumbled to herself "alive". She did this as if they wouldn't be alive in the morning if she didn't say they were alive before she fell asleep. She ran two fingers across her arm, but she did it three times because that equals six. She couldn't close her eyes to fall asleep unless she blinked three times first. She did this because she has two eyes and two plus two plus two equals six. She finally fell asleep but it wouldn't be long until she got up again to make sure her sister was still breathing.