Reality

Lily

Blood, Pain. No..

Red. Blood. Wolves…Blue…

‘Somebody help.'

I jolted awake, darting up immediately. I took in ragged breaths as the cool air hit my body.

My breath hitched once it all came to me. Where was I?

Panic clutched at me as I looked around the dimly lit place trying to make sense of what had just happened. But as my eyes adjusted to the darkness, a startling realisation came to me.

I was in my room.

My gaze fell to the sheets, finding my familiar sheets all around me.

I was back in my own bed, safe and sound.

‘What the hell?’ I wondered, my breaths still came out shaky as I looked around.

My gaze fell upon my bedroom door, and I stilled.

It was perfectly intact, standing on its hinges with no signs of the violent assault I had witnessed last night. I blinked in disbelief, my mind struggling to reconcile the vivid, horrifying images from the night before with the smooth unblemished surface.

I cautiously got off the bed. My bare feet made contact with the cool hardwood flo