Chapter 2: Trouble in the Morning
    She stared at the blindness around her. Everything was black. Not even a dot of brightness was there. She stood there frozen. She was frightened. Nobody was around her. She was alone -- all alone. It was very cold. She realised that coldness and darkness combined as one could only mean one thing. Death was approaching. She tried to scream, but her voice was stuck in her throat. She ran as fast as she could. Then a bright light appeared. She ran towards the light, but the light was running further away from her. "Don't go..." she said. "Don't... go... please..." But it was too late. The light was beyond reach. She heard a voice coming closer to her. It was calling her name. Then she opened her eyes.

     "Dianne! Wake up! We're supposed to go in thirty minutes!!" Her mother yelled. Dianne rushed to the bathroom. She knew she didn't have time to brush her teeth, take a shower, dress up, and tidy her bed all in just thirty minutes. She was known to be the laziest in her family. Her bed was her world. She would usually sleep for hours during her spare times. But that morning, it wasn't my fault, she thought. She was so lost in her dreams -- no, her nightmare.
     "Hurry up! Ten more minutes and they'll be here," Dianne's mother said outside the bathroom. She panicked, and that wasn't a good thing. She didn't even step into the shower yet. She spent thousands of minutes brushing her teeth while thinking about the nightmare. She didn't know what to do, but then managed to take a shower in only one minute. That could have been the fastest shower she ever had in her life, even though it wasn't clean. Dianne stepped out of the bathroom and quickly grabbed and put on whatever clothes she saw first. Then she looked at the clock. Uh-oh... 9:30 AM, and Alicia's family arrived just in time.
     "Time to go, sweetie," Dianne's mother popped her head into the room. Dianne nodded and pulled the drawer to get her wallet. Then she rushed out to see Alicia. She didn't have the urge to go because she wasn't ready. She didn't have breakfast. She didn't have a proper shower, and she didn't even have time to brush her hair. And she wondered if she was wearing the clothes that were supposed to be machine-washed the day before. Well, she hoped not. Dianne promised hard not to let that morning happen again.
     "There you are," her father said when she was out of the house. She felt a bit embarrassed. Everybody was already there and she came last.
     "Sorry, I guess I'm two minutes late," Dianne apologised to Alicia and her family.
     "No problem! We'd wait for you even if you're half an hour late," Alicia joked. Dianne responded with a giggle. "Oh yeah," Alicia continued. "Dianne, meet my brothers Andy and Brad. AB, this is Dianne."
     How funny to call her brothers AB as in the alphabets, Dianne thought. Maybe it was just faster to call them AB -- Andy and Brad -- instead of calling their names seperately.
    
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