GENTRY
I sat straight up out of a dead sleep. It took me a whole second for my brain to connect to the fact that my phone was ringing. I shuffled around in the sheets until I found it discarded under the blankets and quickly answered.
“Hello?”
“Beta, there’s a fire,” someone said quickly.
“A fire?”
“Yes, multiple houses and some of the forest. It’s spreading,” he answered.
I was falling out of bed before his sentence ended. “How did a fire break out?” I crashed out of my bedroom, not even listening to the person on the phone. I practically flew down the steps, not stopping once I hit the ground floor. “Where?” I shouted down the line as I barrelled through the front door. I spun in a circle until I saw smoke.
I tossed my phone away and broke out into a run. I stumbled as I shift
