Ethan woke up from his sleep with a start, although his eyes were still heavy. He lay there in the dark struggling between that line between being asleep and being awake. He wasn’t quite sure what had woken him up, but he was too lazy to stand up and check either. He lay there that way for some time and was about falling asleep when it came again, this time way louder. All sleep fled from his eyes and he jumped down from the bed in confusion.
“Fire!” Came Chloe’s voice again, as clear as a bell and clearly panicked. Ethan grabbed his phone and raced for her room, dialing 911 as he went. He kicked the door open with his foot to find Chloe struggling in bed with the sheets all bunched up around her. Immediately, he hung up the phone before the call could go through. It was only now that he
