She was scared; frightened to the point of curling into a ball, only to cry from the pain of fear in her chest. A cry flowed from her lips, followed by a lung tearing cough and watery eyes. She didn't know how this happened; she didn't understand what was going on or what to do to save her. She was trapped. Evelyn pulled her knees to her chin and wrapped her arms around them tightly. How could she have gone from a simple retrieval of her forgotton laptop be stuck in a nightmare of black smoke and summertime heat. She could hear the crackling of flames through her thin walls, another cry tearing away from her throat.

"Evelyn!" A scream called from the down the hallway, coughing followed soon after as hands beat against the walls. The young teen looked up from her knees at the sound of her older sister yelling her name, coughing in agony of the thick airy smoke.

Pulling her pink V-neck shirt hem up her nose, she tried her best to get her sisters attention. "Willow! Willow I'm in here! Willow!" She cried for her sister, she screamed for sister. All she wanted was to be pulled away from this bad dream and into safety.

"Evelyn!" Willow called again, closer to the door now as the young girl let out another sob for her sister. Evelyn heard the doorknob be grasped, followed by a low and painful hiss of 'shit' before the older sibling kicked the door in, the shambles bending and the length of wood hung sideways.

Without thinking, Evelyn leaped from her bed and into the open arms of her sister and without hesitation, they barreled down the hallway. Willow gripped Evelyn's hand tightly in hers as they ran through the winding hallways of the ninth floor of the hotel they were staying in. She didn't understand how the fire broke out, she ultimately didn't care for all she wanted to was to get Evelyn safely out. Pulling Evelyn into her side and wrapping her arm tightly around the teens shoulder, Willow took a sharp turn down a corridor where she knew the stairwell was, only to come face to face with a wall of fire; licking and snapping at the walls and floor making an ugly black bubbling surface.

Her heart fell into a pit as her eyes began to water from the thick smoke. She could feel the oxygen being seeped from the air as more and more flames erupted, hearing now falling to a low ring as she again ran down the hallway hoping to find another escape. Evelyn sobbed into Willow's shoulder, holding on tightly to her waist as she ran and turned down various corridors and hallways, a cursed hiss every time.

Tears were freely flowing down Willow's face, making clear trails on her blackened skin as she came to yet another dead end. She gripped Evelyn tight, almost crushing, as she backed into a wall. They were trapped. Every possible escape was closed off by the fire; there was no other way to get out. She slid down the wall with Evelyn still tightly enclosed in her arms, sobbing along with her sister as more flames licked the walls. The air was getting heavy and with the precious seconds she had, she recollected on the wonderful twenty-five years she had. No doubt that Evelyn was doing the same with her mere fifteen.

With a deep and shuddering breath Willow spoke. "It'll all be over soon." Her voice was thick and scratchy from the smoke but sobbed along with her sister. "I have you, I'm right here with you." Her arms tightened around Evelyn as the flames advanced closer and closer, until Willow felt the searing pain on her arm. Quickly, she shifted to where her back was facing the fire, locking Evelyn between her front and the wall.

Please...

With that final thought, Willow and Evelyn screamed and cried out as the flames finally surrounded them. Willow felt the engulfed sear on her back that traveled up her shoulder and neck but she still held Evelyn tightly in her arms, their cries and screams mixed together until finally; they ceased and the only sound there was, was the crackling of the thick fire.