Awake.

Cinderella POV.

I woke up grumpy, I don't know why my whole body was tired, actually, I'm exhausted, it's like I haven't slept, maybe I'm just jetlagged from travelling, last night, in the club I had so much fun, spending time with Josie and the others, I even met two new persons, they felt like they walked out of my stories, I wanted to see my story characters, I wanted to live in my stories.

As I sat up in the bed it felt off, it wasn't my bed, right, It was the bed in the hotel, I'm not home, I looked next to me expecting to see Pauly, my guardian angel or he might be the result of my imagination, or he might be the sign of my insanity, I'm not sure, but I'm going with it, if I'm gonna go insane, then let me go insane, and I'll enjoy the way.

But instead of finding Pauly next to me, I wasn't on the king-sized bed, I was in a smaller bed, like the ones I used to sleep in back when I was still living with my parents, I'm in a twin-size bed, and I don't get why or how I came over here.

"Pauly," I call out loud, trying to find him, if he's here he'll make me feel safe, he's my guardian angel and my friend.

"Yeah, Cinder?" he answers me, I looked to the other side of the room, and I should mention that this isn't our hotel room, he was sleeping in a bed similar to mine, which is weird, we've been sharing a bed since the first he came into my life.

"Pauly, where are we?" I ask him looking around, the room looked like the one I described in my last story, seeing Raphael and Lucian last night, messed with my head, I don't think I woke up yet. I laid back in bed, closed my eyes, ready to sleep again, I'm not awake yet, I don't believe the sun is up and neither is my consciousness.

"Cinder, wakey-wakey, the sun is up," Pauly says but I shook my head no, it's not real.

"Where are we?" I ask him again, this can't be real, I think my brain has finally gone to insanity.

"We're in Light&Fire academy," he says the words that I was worried about them, they can't be real.

"Pauly, stop it," I say shaking my head no, this isn't real, I say tears starting to gather in my eyes, I'm insane, I'm completely insane.

"Hey, it's gonna be fun, we'll live through your stories, didn't you say you wanted to live through them, it'll be so fun," Pauly assures me, but I kept shaking my head no, this can't be real.

"I'm insane, I'm completely insane," I say tears going down my face, I can't hold them anymore, I know I said fuck it and that I'll live through no matter what's going on, but this is too much, this isn't real.

"You're not insane," Pauly tries to assure me again, coming toward my bed, he sat next to me, and petted my head as I covered my eyes with both hands trying to hold back the tears.

"I'm insane, I'm insane, this isn't real, we created this story, we can't be living through it," I say while sobs started to go through my whole body, I was shaking now.

"Yeah, but we're here now, it's fine, you're not insane, I'm your guardian angel and I'll never let you go insane, or allow you to get hurt," Pauly says in a calm sweet voice.

"How did we come here? How did it happen?" I ask him, I want to know how at least, we were in London, we were in the club, and now I'm in this place that shouldn't even exist.

"My...my boss said to bring you here," Pauly confesses, his boss? Who does he work for? God? He's a guardian angel, I guess he works for other angels? I'm not sure.

"Who's your boss?" I ask him, maybe I'm not insane after all.

"I can't tell you Cinder," he says but I shake my head no, this is driving me insane, more tears started to come down my face, tears along with loud sobs, I haven't cried like this in a while, I don't remember the last time I cried this hard, I used to be a real cry baby growing up, but after a while, when no one really cared about my tears, I would just cry in secret, behind closed doors, and in the bathrooms, and here I'm sobbing out like a little baby.

"Hey, it's fine, it's fine, baby sister," Paul says petting my back as I cried, but my tears soon turned to anger, I don't want to be crying, I can't just get thrown around, if it was my time to die then I should have died in that accident, why did I got saved only to be thrown into this insanity of a world.

"Paul, where are we? Where the fuck are we?" I ask him, the tears drying up on their own, the anger, starting to show instead.

"We're in Light&Fire academy," he repeats but that was enough to drive me insane, that place doesn't exist, we created it, I imagined it, I dreamt about it, but it's not a real place.

"Paul, please tell me the truth, where are we?" I ask him again hoping for the truth this time.

"Cinderella, you're Ella in the stories, and we're in Light&Fire academy," Paul says in the same calm voice, he doesn't sound childish anymore, he sounds like the ancient creature that he is.

"We can't be here! We can't be in the Light&Fire academy! We created it! I'm the one who wrote about it! I made it up! It's not a real place, can't be a real place," I yell out loud, it's not Pauly's fault, but here I'm yelling at him.

"But we are Cinder, it's not so bad, we'll have fun here, we'll live your stories," he says trying to make it up for me, but that only drove me to extreme anger.

"We Can't! I write stories! I don't live them! We don't just jump into the world of my stories," I say yelling out loud.

"But we did!" Paul says again and I scream, I screamed in frustration and anger, the screaming turned into tears and sobs, I turned a screaming mess to a sobbing mess, hiding my face in my hands, as Paul tried to calm me down to no use.