After an exhausting day with your mom and your sister of putting away the Christmas decorations, you could finally relax. Taylor had the idea of following a YouTube yoga video for stretching and unwinding after dinner, since it was evident you were struggling and feeling anxious after eating. Andrea loved the idea and went to look for some scented candles someone gifted her. You went to the basement -turned into a home gym- that now remained locked because they didn't want you over exercising to get the yoga mats and took them upstairs to the second living room where Taylor had her piano and was how basically her music room. Taylor moved the furniture, so you all be more comfortable and you placed the mats. Andrea turned on the vanilla scented candles and you all took off your shoes. Your sister set the video beam and the yoga video, and you all started following it. The stretching exercises felt amazing, and you had fun exercising together. Then you stayed there and chilled for a while. When you were done you were all exhausted, so you all picked up after yourselves to go upstairs and sleep. Andrea made sure of blowing the candles before you all headed upstairs.
- "This was so cool! Thank you, Tay, it was an amazing idea" you claimed before kissing them goodnight.
- "We should do it more frequently, shouldn't we? The scented candles were awesome too" Taylor said.
Both you and your mom nodded in agreement and then each one of you went to your respective rooms.
You did your skincare, brushed your teeth, put on some clean pajamas and got under the covers to read for a bit until you fell asleep. It took you two pages for your eyes to start closing, so you closed your book, placed it on your nightstand, turn off the light and turned around to sleep. Taylor and Andrea prepared themselves too for bed and they fell asleep probably half an hour later than you did.
At 1am approximately Andrea thought she smelled something like vanilla in between dreams but she was too asleep to notice or think it was something serious, she figured out it was still the scent. Downstairs, one of the candles wasn't blown out, so it kept burning and burning. An hour later, Luna snuck out of your room and went to eat in the kitchen, but she saw the light coming from the other living room and went to explore. She started playing looking around the table the candle was on top of, then the kitten tried playing with the smoke until she burnt her little paw with the flame, she jumped scared and pushed the candle as she ran away. The candle fell to the floor and started burning a rug, the fire quickly spread to the curtains. A couple of minutes later the whole room was on fire and the fire was spreading to the other living room. The fire alarm went off and the loud beeping noise woke you up. You groaned, a couple of months ago the alarm also went off by mistake and you all woke up terrified, but it ended up being nothing; back then you mom took care of it and called a technician to see what was wrong and got it fixed. You stood up half asleep to go to the bathroom, figuring out it was probably a mistake again. Your mom and Taylor woke up too but since Taylor's room was closer to the stairs, she opened the door to go down and was impressed by the amount of smoke that was on the hall. She walked to the stairs and climbed a few down to check, when she saw the flames eating everything. Taylor felt frozen for a second, but Andrea's voice brought her back:
- "Tay, darling, what is all this smoke?"
Taylor turned around and sprinted back to Andrea: - "MOM'S EVERYTHING'S BURNING DOWN, WE NEED TO GET OUT OF HERE!"
- "What do you mean?" Andrea looked at her with her eyes open wide, a mixture of confusion and fear on her face.
- "EVERYTHING'S ON FIRE, LET'S WAKE LIZZIE UP AND GET OUT!" Taylor said in distress.
Andrea couldn't believe what Taylor was saying, she tried walking by Taylor to poke her head and see if her oldest daughter had lost her mind. Taylor stopped her. - "MOM! I'M SERIOUS! WE NEED TO LEAVE AND CALL FOR HELP"
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