"Alexa. Alexa!" My body rocks sharply side to side.
***
"Alexa, come on please." I slowly get lifted into the air defying gravity.
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"Alexaaaaaaaa" the same unfamiliar voice echoes softly, my eyes gradually open using all the muscles in my eyelids. Light floods into my vision stinging my eyes and everything is too bright and blurry to make out.
"Alexa!" The ringing sound makes my ears throb. I reach my hands up to rub my swollen eyes, then leaning on my elbows I push myself up.
"Woah, woah, where do you think you're going?" Strong hands push me back down and I instantly loose consciousness again.
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I gasp in a mouthful of crisp air and sit up abruptly. My hair a giant bird's nest atop my head falls right in my face, using both my arms I pull back my hair tangling it even more in the process. I look at my surroundings, I'm sitting on freezing out of date tiles, with hundreds of different species of bright green plants in every direction. Old chairs are cluttered in one corner and a comfy looking armchair sat opposite me, I realise now that I'm in my aunty's courtyard. My heartbeat thumps in my ears and I'm struggling for air; my chest rising and falling desperately. I climb awkwardly to my weak feet, gripping the railing tightly in my efforts to steady myself. My head instantly stings, pain pierces through my skull, poison eats away at my brain and I fall to the ground in agony.
"Alexaaaaa" the voice I heard before echoes softly, only just loud enough to be heard over the overwhelming ringing in my ears.
What is happening to me?
Am I dreaming?
Or is everything I see or seem but a dream within a dream?
Am I going crazy?
I NEED ANSWERS
"Alexa?" I turn my head carefully towards the voice.
"Are you ok?!" A blurry figure runs towards me, their shouting is muffled but I can tell they're yelling by the tone and body language they use. Even through the blur, it would be hard to mistake this persons anger issues. Though I'm not to sure what they are so exasperated about, then again I'm not in the slightest way thinking clearly.
I'm too confused to care anymore, I'm done.
Whatever happens can happen, I'll deal with it when I'm feeling better.
Well that's IF I feel better.
But nothing too bad could happen if I just take a short nap to get some rest and clear my head.
Right?
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Mystery / ThrillerAlexa Billington is an up and coming journalist who loves reading, writing, and learning about people. she spends most of her mornings at her favourite coffee shop Ricky's which is where her best friend since high school works. Most mornings at the...
