I wake up with a start, shooting up in my chair so fast I fall backwards before I hit the ground. My head is pounding from the fall and my impromptu sleep on the uncomfortable wooden table.

I look around to see I am in a house, but it’s not mine. My house is painted all different shades of blue with white furniture. This house is painted a dull grey color with cheap old wood furniture that looked as if it would crumble to dust if I so much as touched it. The house also seemed… insidious, unlike my own comforting home.

I stand up and brush the dust off of my extravagant dress. Wait, dress? Why am I wearing a dress? And why is it so fancy? The dress has two layers. The bottom layer is strapless layer of solid black with a flowing bottom. The top layer is an off the shoulder black lace that falls over the edge of the bottom layer like a spider web hanging between two walls.

I walk over to the table I had slept on and see an open notebook with numbers in it. They look like… coordinates? But for what?

Beneath the coordinates were two words that had been underlined aggressively and bolded with black pen:

FIND AVERALIZ!

“What’s Averaliz…?” I mutter, confused.

As soon as I said the name aloud, it all came rushing back to me in a flash. The dinner, the drinks, the fight, and everything else that happened last night.The last piece of information clicked into place and my eyes widened.

I heard a faint beeping noise and immediately ran to the door. I sprinted out of the house, which was on the beach, and into the sand. I barely had time to turn around before the house exploded and burst into flames.