I wake up with a gasp. “What time is it?”
“Almost six,” Emily says from the other side of the living room. I rub my eyes. At some point I must’ve fallen asleep.
“Did you sleep at all?” I ask.
“I couldn’t sleep with a hundred people outside my house,” Emily says with a bit of a bite to her voice. I grimace. I toss up her shortness to lack of sleep, and I suppose I’d be anxious too with so many people outside my house.
“I take it everyone is still out there?” I say trying to sit up. My back screams in pain. I dig in between the seat cousins and pull out the remote.
“Yes,” Emily answers from by the window. I can’t believe this.
“I’m taking a personal day from work,” I tell Emily and shift my weight to my side intending to go back to sleep.
“You have to leave,” Emily says. Her suddennes
