BANG
The crack of the lightning was enough to startle Lara into wakefulness after she’d been sleeping in “her room.” She still felt odd calling it that, what with it being in Mattie’s home, but he was pretty insistent.
CRACK
A glance to the window showed lightning light up the sky, and she sat up a bit in the bed, pulling the quilt more around her with both hands. She released it with one of her hands, moving it to comb her fingers through her hair.
“I wonder if Mattie is awa--” She paused, attention turned to the floor above her when she heard some banging coming from the room that she knew to be Matthew’s bedroom. “Well, that answers that.”
Slipping out of bed, and adjusting the shirt she was wearing, she made her way up the stairs, only stumbling once in the dark. Once to his door, she raised her hand to knock.
“Mattie?” She lightly opened the door as she hadn’t gotten a response in a few moments. “Are you alright?”











