VALERIA
Not knowing when I finally fell asleep, I woke up to find myself in total darkness and immediately panicked.
As someone who suffered from fear of the dark, I always made sure to leave the nightlight on regardless of whether I was yet to fall asleep or not.
‘So how could it possibly be this dark?!!!’ I thought to myself in agitation as I groped around trying to find the direction where the bedside table was.
As I did this, I also wondered if the nightlight might have gone out due to a dead battery but this possibility was instantly ruled out by me. For no other reason that I might forget any other thing, but the one thing I would never do is charging my nightlight — that was just how important it was to me.
All of a sudden, I stopped groping all around as I realized something strange
I seemed to be standing?
