I woke up feeling extremely hot. I think the air conditioning wasn't working properly. I was on my couch in the living room. I rubbed my eyes with the back of my hand and that was when I discovered that the malfunctioning air conditioning wasn't the reason everywhere was hot but the fire.
My house was on fire.
My house was burning down and somehow the smoke detector didn't alert the sprinkler. I ran to the kitchen where the fire extinguisher was but couldn't even reach it. The fire was worse in the kitchen. It seemed to have started from there.
"Dylan!." I yelled twice. The thick smoke wafted through my nostrils and I let out a painful cough. I yelled Dylan's name again but I got no reply. I was panicking. Since I was little, I'd always been afraid of fires.
"Dylan." I managed to shou
