Am I really?

Sxena's just woken up, but she already feels like just collapsing into bed again. Looking down beside her, she sees Verli, curled up in a fluffy white blanket like a soft little kitten, and she makes a promise to herself to protect Verli, no matter what the cost is. All of a sudden, Sxena's stomach starts growling. She climbs out of bed and tiptoes to the kitchen since all the others are still fast asleep. Sxena heads to the kitchen, turns on the lights, and decides to start cooking breakfast. As she's trying to decide what to make, Cy walks in, still in their pajamas.

"Na?"

"Hmm?"

"What are you doing?"

"Making breakfast, whats it look like to you?"

"Honestly, like really blurry"

Sxena looks over and laughs at Cy's smart reply, Cy doesn't have their glasses on yet so the world must look like a blur of colors to them.

"That so, Cy?"

"Mhhm, I'll help you after I wash my face and put in lenses"

"Okay"

Cy starts walking towards the bathroom but Sxena stops her.

"Wait, what do you want to eat for breakfast?"

"Me? French toast"

"Oh, I just wanted granola so we might have to make more than one type of food"

"Like a buffet bar?"

"No, more custom, I'll wake up everyone else and ask them what they want to eat"

"You'll have to shake it out of them, I tried to wake them up but they were fast asleep"

"Great then, help me after you're done?"

"Sure"

Cy walks to the bathroom, they've lived in this house for long enough that they can tell where the bathroom is, they would even be able to get to it in the dark. After Cy enters the bathroom, they feel a strange feeling of disbelief, uncertainty, shock and betrayal but it fades away just as quickly as it came. Cy doesn't really understand why they felt that way for a second, it's not like as though they've done something unusual and nothing is out-of-place, if Cy's judgement is right, and Cy doesn't feel wrong at all. Cy decides to just shrug it off, must be because of the dream they had that morning.

But darling reader, she was wrong to do so, yes, so very wrong

Just as Cy starts to brush their teeth, that feeling comes back again, but this time for longer and stronger along with the strange feeling of being watched. Cy decides to ignore it again, must be the AC, they've lived in this house for such a long time, it would make sense if the AC is starting to break down. They remind themselves to talk to the others about it.

And maybe Cy really is an idiot, because for us, third time's the charm

As Cy's trying to decide which color lens to use, maybe the lilac, they see something out of the corner of their eye, to the left. But Cy ignores it yet again. Why? Because the door is towards the left. It must have been Sxena, walking back to the bedrooms to wake the others. But was it really? There's a nagging thought in the back of their head, something that's trying to tell them something. Then Cy realizes, along with the terrifying chill going down their back, that... that couldn't have been Sxena.

Suffice it to say, Cy never ate their french toast and Sxena lost her opportunity yet again