Burn All To The Ground

I wake up to a slight headache. I look around me and find myself in my room.

"Andrea, how are you feeling?" Aurora says, rushing to my side.

"Other than a little headache, I am fine. Please, can I have some water" I say, my throat feeling a little parched. She hands me a glass of water from the nightstand.

"Thank you," I say, collecting the glass of water from her hand. "Why do you look like you have been crying," I ask once I finish drinking the cup of water. Her face is red, you can tell from her red nose too. She has been sniffing them a lot.

"You don't remember," Andrea says, tearing up.

"Remember what," I ask, confused as to what she is talking about.

"Stefano is…" she pauses for a second before she continues speaking. "Dead," she says bursting into tears. I freeze on the spot as I realize that what happened a few hours ago was not a dream. I wanted to believe it was a dream, and once I woke up, we would still be searching for Stefano.