A loud noise wakes Anya from her sleep. Ignoring it she looks at the clock on her bedside table and decides that it is way too early to get up but before she can fall back to sleep another bang against the wall of her room makes her jump out of bed. The sound was clearly coming from the other side of the wall. From Lexa's room.

Hesitantly Anya gets out from underneath the warm blankets and drags her bare feet across the cold wooden floor. After leaving her room she quietly walks over to her sister's room a couple of feet away. She

walks very slowly unsure of what the banging was about and whether she

should check it out or not. Her question is answered as the sound of a

myriad of loud thuds echoes through her sister's door and into the

hallway. As fast as possible Anya tears the door open in shock and fear

of what she might see.

The room is too dark to make out what is

happening so Anya moves inside and turns the light on at the same time.

She freezes as her mind takes in what is happening in front of her. Her

sister Lexa is leaning her forehead against the wall while punching it

with her fists. She doesn't seem to have noticed Anya walking in because

the girl just keeps hitting the concrete with her already bleeding

knuckles.

"Lexa!" Anya calls out her sisters name in an

desperate attempt to get her to stop but it's not working. Not knowing

what else to do she closes the distance between Lexa and herself and

pulls her away from the wall with all her strength.
Suddenly Lexa's body just gives in without any resistance and collapses to the floor. Anya cringes as her sister's head hits the wood very hard, she

immediately keels down beside her expecting Lexa to cry out in pain but

she just stays quiet. Then the sibling realizes that Lexa's eyes were

closed the whole time. Is she sleeping?

"Lexa" the girl shakes her sisters shoulder but she doesn't move. "Lexa wake up!"

"What happened?" Their mother suddenly appears from the hallway and runs

towards her unconscious daughter. "I don't know! I just woke up and saw

Lexa punching the wall! I didn't know what to do, mom. I just pulled her

away and she fell." Anya was blabbering out trying hard to understand

what was happening.

"Okay, help me get her into bed!" Together the two women hoist up the unmoving body and carefully carry lower her onto the soft mattress. Anya watches as her mother tugs her sister under the blankets.

"Mom, what is going on?" Anya asks unsure if she'll get an answer from the older woman. Sara turns around to look her youngest in the eyes but is not capable of telling her what happened. Part of because she is scared but also because she has no clue what has come over Lexa. Though she might have an idea.

"I don't know An. But you should go back to bed I'll stay with Lexa." Sara insists but there's no way Anya will leave her sister now. Instead she stubbornly

climbs into her sister's bed and puts her head on Lexa's shoulder. Sara

sighs but does nothing about it. She knows she can't keep the siblings

Apart when they are concerned about each other. Sara sits down at the edge of the bed and puts a comforting hand on Lexa's leg. She thinks back to what her mother once told her about the dangers of the night but actively ignores it because nothing like that was happening to her daughter. Lexa was probably just sleepwalking nothing more and it is only going to be a one-time thing. At least that's what she hopes.

The next morning Lexa wakes up earlier than usual. As she tries to move she feels a heavy body holding her down. Anya is sleeping on top of Lexa with her arms and legs wrapped around her older sister. "Anya get out of my bed." Lexa says with a sleepy voice while shaking the girls shoulder softly.

"Hmmm…but I'm so tired. I fell asleep too late." Anya murmurs into her sister's pillow.

"What kept you up so late?"

"Well…you did." Lexa curiously looks down at Anya and tries to understand what the girl is talking about.

"I did not. I went to sleep right after the movie An." Lexa clarifies though her sister should know because she was with her.

"Yeah but you woke up again. Don't you remember?" The older girl skeptically looks at her younger sister.

"No I'm pretty sure I slept through the night. I don't remember waking up even once." She moves her body to get out from underneath Anya and sits at the edge of the bed. Anya copies her movements and looks deep into her sister's eyes.

"Lexa, you woke me up when you were punching the wall."

"Punching the wall? You're crazy Anya, why would I do that?" She lets out a laugh because now she knows what's happening. Anya is crazy.

"Shut up, Lexa! You don't believe me? I'm not the one with bruised knuckles because she punched a stupid wall last night!" Anya is annoyed because whenever she tells her sister something that is a little bit strange to her she doesn't believe it and thinks Anya's crazy. Lexa's a bit surprised by the outburst and stares at her sister with wide eyes. The younger girl rolls her eyes and takes Lexa's hand to show her what she's talking about.

Lexa looks down at her knuckles and furrows her brows in confusion. What the hell? She gets out of her bed and walks over to her desk to inspect the bruises under the light of the lamp. They look nasty but the different shades of blue, yellow and red are very beautiful. Beautiful? What?

Lexa shakes her head at the strange thought while reaching out to touch the beaten flesh. The feeling of touching her bruises is not very pleasant but in a way it's comforting. She winces in pain but doesn't let go of her hand.

"Lexa?" Anya's voice pulls her out of her trance and she immediately turns around to face her sister, letting go of her hand. "Maybe you should put some ice on it."

Lexa nods at her sister and runs out of the room and concentrates on not touching her bruises. When she finally arrives downstairs in the kitchen, her mother was nowhere to be seen.

"Mom?" She calls out while looking around the kitchen and poking her head into the living room.

"She left early for work. Some kind of emergency at the station." Anya informs Lexa and sits down on the kitchen counter. With a sigh the older sibling walks over to the fridge and pulls out an ice pack to cool her hurting knuckles. "Is it the first time I sleepwalked?".

"Yes, I think so. At least you've never woken me up before and I'm a very light sleeper." Anya gets off the counter to take out the necessary ingredients to make herself a toast. "And I really hope it's the last time because that was fucking scary.".

"I'm really sorry I woke you up. I don't know what happened, can't remember a thing." Lexa apologizes to Anya before coming up next to her and also preparing a toast for herself. "It's alright I guess. I mean you can't really control sleepwalking can you. I have never-". Before Anya could finish the sentence, Lexa let her body fall to the floor. A heavy feeling coursing through her. It feels like sadness and pain but so much stronger. It's devastation. Lexa has no reason to feel sad, her life is very good. She loves her sister, loves her mom, she's good at school and her future is bright. The feeling in her chest, in her heart, starts growing stronger and she can't help but let uncontrollable tears run down her cheeks.

"Lexa! What's going on?", Anya asks, panic obvious in her voice as she watches her sister wheeze on the floor.

"I don't know; it hurts so much." She cries like she's never cried before.

A moment later the feeling just fades away and is gone. Completely. The tears stop running and Lexa can breathe again. Trembling she gets up on her shaky feet and wipes away the tears.

"Lexa, are you alright?"

"Yeah, I just had this feeling that something really bad happened. I don't know what came over me."

They spent the rest of the day in front of the TV or playing video games, not once mentioning the incident that occurred in the kitchen. Later in the evening they hear a loud crash coming from the street right in front of the house. Two cars collided. Their mother was in one of them…