Lily's eyes slowly fluttered open. She glanced at the alarm clock, which said 11:39 a.m. Getting out of bed, walking slowly down the carpeted stairs which tickled her tired feet a little, and rubbing the sleep out of her eyes, Lily went to the door. When she opened it, nobody was there. She could feel the morning breeze lightly dancing on her face and the bright sun stinging her eyes. She started back up the soft stairs now comfortable to her feet, thinking she could have just been hearing things, after all she was still hazy from waking up. She reached the top when there was a loud knock at the back door. She definitely heard this one. She ran down the stairs and not even 30 seconds later flung open the door and no one was there. By now she was annoyed.
             Lily went up the stairs again and checked in her mom's room but she wasn't there. She looked in her sister's room but she wasn't there either. Lily wondered what day it was and realized it was Saturday. That means that there is no work for her mother and no school for her sister, so she wondered where they were. Lily wandered down the same flight of stairs and looked in the garage and saw that her mother's car was there. She was a little confused now but she went into the kitchen and put on a pot of coffee. As it brewed, she dialed her best friend Mike's cell phone because it was always on.
             "Hello?" a male raspy voice answered.
             "Hey. How is everything since yesterday?"
             This question triggered Lily's remembrance of yesterday.
             It was early afternoon and Lily came home for lunch. She never does this but on this particular day she forgot something and decided to come home to retrieve it. Her father was home and was in the kitchen. She said hello but he didn't respond. She went up to her room and grabbed her cell phone. She went to her parent's room and reached for the doorknob and it w...