[ WP ] Everyone has been dreaming their entire lives . You awake to find every other person asleep .

I jolt up. My eyes snap open. The morning light filters through cracks of my broken blinds. I feel stiff like I have n't moved a limb in years. Shuffling out of my sheets, I feel my dreams start slipping into the abyss. What was it? Something about school? I do n't really care. 
 The house seems awfully quiet, cold and hollow. I thought it was a school morning. Dad would be shuffling my younger siblings out of bed by now. It was already 7am. 
 They're still asleep. Mum and Dad are back to back on their bed, dad hogging the doona. 
 `` Mum'' I say somewhat forcefully. She's normally a very light sleeper, but she does n't stir. Maybe she had too much to drink. I head for Sarah's room. Three year olds are never asleep. My footsteps make a strangely uncomfortable echoing sound as I move across the wooden floors. Sarah is cold out. But not dead. 
 A loud'fuck the world' whooping noise cuts through the silence. I turn to the window and push back the frilly pink curtains. 
 A kid my age is streaking through the middle of the road. Jack? Wait, what? 
 `` Jack!'' I slide the window open. He stops dead in his tracks, his face goes white, then green, then a pink/purple mix. He manages to speak. 
 `` Your not asleep'' he simply states. 
 `` what do you mean?'' 
 `` The whole fucking town is asleep man'' he pauses `` except you. I guess'' he realises. 
 `` That's whack. No wa-'' I stop. The sound of alarms seem to be ringing in my ears. 
 `` do you hear that?'' I call from the window. I blink. The world seems to morph back into my room. I can hear movement amoung the house. I get up from my bed, my dreams already slipping into the abyss.
