Chapter 1 - Heather’s POV

A million flakes of ash coated my skin as I woke up. My house, once beautiful and tall, is in ashes.

The last thing I remember was being home alone.

My parents were at the grocery store, and I remember someone, a boy, with black and red hair and a red eye, he was circling the house. He had a lighter, or something; had he burned down my house? Was he responsible for this destruction? I could remember my death all too clearly. The day that started this whole mess.

As I stepped through the door into my house, I knew something was up. There was nobody home, and an atmosphere of tension. I panicked for a second before I saw the note on the table. My parents were at the grocery store. I guess I was only imagining the tense atmosphere. I was an only child, so I was alone in the house. I’d better settle in, I thought, my parents take forever at the grocery store. I walked through the kitchen but stopped as I saw something strange at the window. A boy I had seen at school before was outside my window. How did he get here? I wondered. As I watched, he disappeared around the side of the house. As I was about to go to another window to see him from there, he came again from the other side. He’s circling the house. I realized with alarm. He repeated this several times and then his eyes unfocused and he grinned evilly, pulling a lighter out of his pocket. I rushed to the door realizing he was about to burn the house. When I tried the door it was locked - from the outside. I tugged more urgently, making sure the door wasn’t just stuck. No such luck. I pulled my phone out of my pocket, but it was dead, even though I knew had charged it this morning. I cursed the phone silently for a moment before I fell to the ground and the flames - so hot that in some places they burned a bright whitish blue - closed around me, the world sinking slowly into peaceful darkness, my eyes closing into a kind of sleep as I passed out, onto the burning floor, unable to summon enough thought to my smoke clouded brain to stop myself from sinking to the already ash coated floor.

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