Fourteen year old Rae Thompson sat lazily on her high-class cotton comforter in her five-story, million-dollar home, where she lived with her parents and twin sister. While doing so, she quietly skimmed through the latest edition of Seventeen Magazine. As she peered out her window, she saw a suspicious man in a black ski mask, and he appeared to be making his way toward her house!
She rushed down the stairs, trying to lock the doors, but as she neared the door she randomly fell through a hole in her living room that hadn’t been there before. In her mind, she realized she had gotten a glimpse of the man and made a mental note to remember his features. Despite her efforts not to, she decided to look down, and found she was falling from the sky! By this time, Rae knew something was wrong, and subconsciously made the assumption she was dreaming, yet she wasn’t fully aware of this idea. In the next moment, she remembered she left her phone on her diamond-encrusted bedside table, so she was incapable of calling for help.
In an instant, Rae awoke from her dream. Terrified and extremely shaken, she looked at the clock, which clearly said it was 4:37 AM, and called her best friend Nikkaya Summers. Since her identical twin sister wasn’t home, she felt Nikki was the next best choice.
"Hello?" asked a groggy and tired voice.
“Hey, um, Nikki, can you, uh, please come over, like, soon” Rae asked her friend uncomfortably through the phone.
“Yeah, I just have to ask my mom,” she replied sleepily, and after pausing for a moment added more alertly, “What’s wrong Rae?”
“It’s, um, well, I’ll just... I'll tell you when you get here”, she stuttered fearfully.
In response, Nikaya stated in a worried tone, “Okay, I'll have Tony drive me ASAP, so I'm going to be there soon, alright?”
“Okay,” Rae mumbled into the phone before she heard the click on the other end of the line, signaling that her friend had hung up.
"Just relax", Rae assured herself aloud in an attempt to calm down, "Nikki will be here soon."
