Cold Awakening

GENEVIEVE

A crushing weight pressed against my frontal lobes. It felt as though a concrete block rested behind my eyes, pushing a spike of pain through my skull and dragging me from a dreamless void. My eyes fluttered open, greeted by the familiar, dim shadows of my own bedroom. I lay trapped beneath the thick comforter of my bed. My teeth chattered, grinding together as a raging fever sent tremo