I'm alive!!

That's right, I didn't abandon this! I'm so sorry for not updating this in a while; College, life, and other things get in the way sometimes. I'd like to let everyone know that I am indeed working on the next chapter. It will probably be a short chapter (compared to the other ones), but it's a very important one, so look forward to that. I'm ~1,200 words in, and since I've been neglecting my faithful readers (You guys are awesome!), here's a tiny snippet:

The world shifted suddenly, the pitch-black of the room indicative of nighttime. I resigned myself to just lying there, staring up at the now-familiar ceiling of my own room as the adrenaline bled from my system. The cold floor helped cool my sweaty, nerve-racked body, as my brain calmed it down by repeating the same phrase over and over.

‘It was just a dream. It was just a dream.’

Tentatively, I reached out into the darkness, groping around blindly until I found the little plastic unit I was looking for on my night stand. I retrieved the alarm clock and read its display.

3:52a.m
11/9/25

It’s been two weeks since we’ve arrived. Today’s the day we go home.

Note: We're not close to the end of the story yet. Draw your own conclusions from that ;-).