Chapter 18: Tomorrow’s problem

Raelynn

I woke up from a deep, dreamless sleep to the sound of a heavy knocking on my room door.

Groggily, I tried getting up, but it proved quite difficult. I blinked to clear some of the sleep from my eyes when I noticed I wasn’t in my bed. I didn’t have a bedsheet with this pattern.

After much effort, I managed to get up, only to discover that I had fallen asleep on the bathroom floor.

I went to the sink and ran water over my face. As the water cascaded, I closed my eyes. When I opened them, I saw that the water had turned red.

‘What the hell!’ I yelled internally. ‘Why are you yelling this early in the morning?’ Lynn snapped, ‘Some people would like to rest, thank you very much.’

I ignored her as I stared at myself in the mirror, my hair looked like a bird’s nest— no surprise there. The large gash that extended from my left temple to my ear caught me off guard.

The pounding on the door became more fervent and louder. I quickly washed the blood from my face and rearranged my hair