I woke up in a cold sweat. My vision was blurry and my heart was racing. The room was dark and the clock read 3:25. It was hardly even daybreak. A slow, heavy sigh escaped from my lungs as I got up and quietly made my way towards the bedroom door, careful as to not wake any of my sleeping team members.
My skin tightens up and the feeling of cold water drips down my face, "Why can't I just get over it? It was over a year ago."
Passing a towel over my face, my eyes meet back with my reflection and I think: How could I say that? They were my friends. Sure, I didn't know most of them for very long, but-
A draft comes into bathroom and tiny shiver bumps start to form on my arms. Suddenly, a soap bar is knocked off the edge of the sink. Bending down to pick it up, another gust of cold air comes in and knocks all the shampoo bottles off the rim of the bath tub. I tense up.
"What the-" I mumble.
A hand slowly rests on my shoulder, causing my reflexes to react. Quickly spinning around, my hands gripped the shoulders of whomever or whatever it was that was behind me and swiftly brought them to the ground. My eyes then focused on the wavy chestnut colored hair that was being exposed from behind a pair of crossed arms.
"Dude, chill! It's me!" a familiar voice exclaims.
I'm stunned, "Amari?"
"Duh, now can you get off me?"
I quickly let go of her and rose off the ground.
"How did you-, Why-, Where-" I stutter after helping her up.
"Yeah, I know. You have lots of questions and you want to know what the heck is going on," she says, "I would love to answer all of them, but there are more oppressing matters to attend to."
"Like what? Is it Dimitri?"
"Don't worry, he won't be coming back. Thank God it's not him we are dealing with this time."
"Wait, this time? What's going on?"
She lets out a long sigh of frustration and stares down at the ground.
"I'll save the answer to that question for later," she says, "Just do me a favor, okay?"
"Of course!" I say.
"Get Lexis and the rest of the guys and get to this area as fast as you can."
Reaching into her belt, she gives me this folded, wrinkled piece of paper and says, "I'll see you there" before disappearing from the bathroom.
The air was still and silent as I stood there still in shock. My thoughts push out of my mind as I turn my attention towards the paper Amari gave me.
The lights flash on, "Get up!"
Each one of them sits up in an instant and stares at me with a look of slight irritation.
"Give me one good reason why I shouldn't go over there and kick your butt back to bed," gritted Cole through his teeth.
"Trust me, this is serious!" I say.
"If you're going to start crying over Blaire again like you did at the hotel, can you at least do it with the lights off?" mumbled Jay as he put a pillow over his head.
"I'm not some kind of a cry baby, okay? This is important. They're back."
Cole sat up straight with wide eyes, "What?"
"Are you serious?" Lloyd asked, "You mean, like, all of them?"
I nodded, "They want us to meet them here."
I held out map and watched Cole stand up from his bed to walk slowly over and squint at the map. He then looked up at me and with one spin in his spinjitzu tornado, he switched into his suit and said, "Let's go."
