Chapter 1

When she opened her eyes, she only saw darkness, and everything felt cold. She tried to call someone for help, but, when she tried to speak, her voice was gone. Immediately, she tried to move, but her body remained still as if she was a statue.

"This is just a dream." She thought repeatedly until she heard a noise coming from somewhere, then the noise became clearer, which help her realize that the noise was two noises. One was of a child crying while the other one was a buzzer of some sort. Suddenly, the crying stopped, and she heard a voice telling her to leave him.

She opened her eyes to realize that it was a dream and that the buzzer noise was her alarm clock.

"Just a dream, Colette. It was just a dream." Colette told herself, then she proceeded to turn off her alarm clock and get on with her day while trying to forget that weird dream she had because today was (supposedly) her birthday and she didn't want to ruin it. So, she went through her normal morning routine, but, when she went to the living room, she was expecting for her father or her grandmother to say 'Happy Birthday' or something like that, instead it was like any other morning.

"Good morning, dad." Colette said.

"Good morning." He said while he was reading his newspaper.

Colette looked at her grandmother, who was sitting on a recliner chair while watching a soap opera (although Colette didn't know which one). So, Colette walked towards her grandmother, gave her a kiss on the cheek, and said, "Good morning, grandmother."

As usual, her grandmother didn't respond and instead focus all her attention on the current soap opera she was watching. Colette walked towards the door, opened the door, then she looked back at them and said, "Goodbye, I'm heading out now."

When she left the house and closed the door, she smiled because she couldn't afford to look sad and be burden so she just hid it like she had always done. Anyways, her walk to her high school was normal and, when she entered her high school, a few of her classmates congratulated her for her birthday and some even gave her gifts. Asides from that, the rest of the day was normal until she came back home.

"I'm home." Colette said while she entered the house.

The living room was pitch black, and everything was silent.

"Hello, is anyone here?" Colette asked while she slowly walked towards the place the light switch was on, but, before she could reach it, her father turned it on, and she realized that her father and grandmother had made her a surprise birthday.

"Happy birthday, Colette!" Both said in unison.

For the very first time in her life, Colette truly felt happy.

"Thank you." Colette said.

"What are you standing there for? The candles aren't going to blow themselves out." Colette's father said.

"R-right." Colette said.

While Colette was walking towards them, she tripped but managed to get herself up and blew out the candles while wishing that all her birthdays will be like this one. Colette looked at her father and grandmother, and said, "T-thank you. Thank you very much… Dad… Grandma. I-"

She got interrupted by her grandmother, who said, "Sweetheart, there's no need to cry after all today is your birthday."

That made Colette realize that she was crying so, while she was drying her tears, she said, "You're right, grandma."

Colette's grandmother smiled.

"Anyway, it's getting late. You should go to bed and, consider that tomorrow is Saturday, we could eat the cake tomorrow." Colette's father said.

Even though it wasn't dark yet, Colette agreed and went to her room. While she was in her room, all she could think about was for tomorrow to come and spend the day like a family.

"It's going to be all right." Colette told herself and she truly felt that it was going to be all right.

She continued believing that until it was night and, first her back was hurting, then that pain extended to her arms and legs. She tried to scream for help, but her voice was gone. She managed to get out of her bed by falling, but, when she was on the floor, her pain intensified, and she felt something coming out of her back. Soon, she started to vomit nonstop until everything stopped, and she was no longer in pain.

"D-d-dad… Dad!" She managed to scream.

Immediately, her father entered but he wasn't worried instead he was calm as if there was nothing wrong at seeing his daughter on the floor and on top a puddle of her own blood.

"Dad, help me… I'm scared." Colette barely managed to say before all the pain started to slowly return.

Colette's father hugged her and said, "Don't worry, Colette, everything is going to be fine."

Suddenly, Colette felt all her senses leaving her, then she said, "D-d-dad."

Slowly, her senses were returning to her and she realized that something had gone through her back and that the only sound was of something dripping.

When Colette realized what had happened, she looked at her father, who had a calm expression on his face, and asked, "Why?"

Then, everything in her vision started to fade until there was nothing left. For a while, she felt nothing and saw nothing it was as if she was in some sort of black void of some, but suddenly she felt something was near and it was warm. So, she grabbed it and the entire void was filled with a bright light that made her close her eyes.

When she opened her eyes, she realized that she was in a room.

The room had beige walls, a rug that covered part of the wooden floor, a bed, a small window covered by wood blinds, a closet, an office chair (which had a backpack on top), and a desk which had on top several books, folders, notebooks, a table lamp, a bottle of hair gel, and a laptop.

Colette looked at the room and was confused as to why she was there. So, she did the first thing that came to her mind which was to leave that room, but, when she tried to open the room's door, someone else opened the door, looked at her, and said, "I don't remember sleeping with you."

That someone had long, wet brown hair along with brown eyes and currently he was wearing a towel which was covering part of his lower body. Needless to say, Colette screamed.

Author's Note

I got this idea one morning and decided to run with it. Sorry if the characters are too OOC; I just wanted to try something new. Anyways, thank you for reading and don't forget to review and/or share.