Before I Wake Novels & Stories

“I’ll be here when you wake up.” Those were the words I heard before I was deeply under. After that, my vision was blackened including my mind.

These were the exact words I kept repeating to myself yesterday before bed, but now, they rang in my head like haunting words. I remained sitting sleepily until the sound of a soft knock woke me up. “Miss Kaida, time to wake up!” My mind snapped awake. I looked towards the closed door, and though I couldn’t see Benson’s face, I could imagine his serious expression. My shoulders slumped, but I still managed to stand up from the bed. “Thank you, Benson. I’ll be done in a few minutes.” I stood in front of the mirror and splashed water on my face to wake myself fully.

I wake before Noah. The room is dim, the soft gray of early morning slipping through the curtains. Noah is still asleep beside me, one arm draped over my waist, breathing slow and steady. The matebond hums quietly, warm, comforting, peaceful. I smile. But my mind is already turning. Thinking. Planning. Worrying. I slip carefully out from under his arm, trying not to wake him. He stirs once, reaching for me instinctively, but settles again when the bond reassures him I’m close. I pull on a sweater and head downstairs.

Maria: I wake up before my alarm, which already feels like a bad sign. For a few seconds, I don’t move. I just lie there, staring at the ceiling, trying to figure out why I’m awake this early. There’s no loud thought waiting for me, no panic, nothing urgent. Just this quiet awareness sitting in my chest like I forgot something small but important. I reach for my phone out of habit. Nothing. No new messages. No missed calls. Good.

"The most terrifying moment is not when you fall. It's the morning after, when you wake up and realize you don't regret it." ZYRAN I was awake before the sun came up. That wasn't unusual. I rarely slept past four, my brain refusing to stay offline for longer than a few hours. There was always something pulling me back to consciousness — a strategy to refine, a threat to calculate, a problem demanding to be solved before the rest of the world even opened its eyes.

I didn't reply, merely blocking him and turning off my phone before leaning back on my seat and falling soundly asleep. I dreamed of those dark days, when Elise had kicked the urn holding my mother's ashes. When its contents spilled on the ground, I freaked out and tried to scoop them up, only for her to crush my fingers beneath her feet. I could only watch as Mom's ashes were blown away by the wind. "Your mom's a dumb bitch," she said with a sneer. "I told her that I'd give Dad back to her if she jumped down from the building, and she believed me!"

“Vamoire is ready to see her.” “Alright,” he replied as his feet nears the bed. “I bet it is going to be very chaotic. This bitch does not know what she did to her. And oh, man, Vamoire is furious,” Jek added as he wakes her up. “Hey! Wake up.” He shakes Maridelle’s body. Maridelle did not bother to open her eyes nor did she uttered a word. Instead, she moved her back to face the other side of the room.

5 YEARS LATER I wake before dawn because my body never forgot how. There’s no alarm. There never is. I open my eyes to the same gray pre-light filtering through the narrow window above the bed, the world not awake yet but no longer asleep either. That in-between hour feels honest. Nothing is pretending to be calm. Nothing is pretending to be safe.

Athena When I woke up I found myself on the bed alone. The rays from the sun were responsible for waking me up. Yawning I rubbed my eyes to wipe away the drowsiness and got down from the bed. My mood was not as heavy as all the other times because last night had not been tough for me, everything that'd happened was within a limit and that is why I have not woken up with a huge weight over my chest and terrible memories.

I got angry but couldn't do anything knowing I can't stop her from doing what she wants but it hurt my ego to see her living like this. I checked the time. Seeing it's 4am I went to get a glass of water for her with hangover pill which I placed on the bedside for her before leaving I arrived at home bath and sleep for some hours It's my phone vibration that wakes me up which I search for the phone without getting up and saw Grandma name on it which I picked “good morning Grandma” I greeted still feeling sleepy “You're still sleeping?” She said and continue “where is Scar?” She asked which the sleep immediately vanished from my eye