Emily gasped and scrambled from her bed, got tangled in the comforter and fell flat on her face. The gentle chimes of her phone's alarm clock became more insistent as she sat on her floor rubbing her nose, checking for carpet burn. Satisfied that she wasn't going to walk into class looking like Rudolf the red-nosed reindeer walking into class, she extricated herself from the blanket and fumbled with her phone to turn off the alarm. Glancing at the screen as she mashed the off button, her heart dropped. It had been going off for half an hour. The chimes were on a cycle, but that meant she had to have slept through it half a dozen times at least. She plugged her phone into the charger, and scrambled up to get dressed, suddenly glad she had taken a shower the night before.
'Or... this mornin
