Fire

Date: 2/22/2019

At work it was a very social and collaborative day. Something was being celebrated. A guy bumped into my desk, which had something flammable on it which flipped off onto something else and it caught fire. Suddenly flames were everywhere and the fire was very fast spreading. We evacuated through the parking garage area but I lived very close to my apartment and began to walk home. For some reason I did not tell anyone about what just happened at work. I lived in a modern, urban low rise apartment building. It was connected to a bakery which I always walked through to say hello to the employees and sometimes grab a small treat. On my way out of the bakery I sensed something fall behind me - unsure if I caused it but I kept walking. I felt like destruction was following me. I go into my building lobby and go up the elevator to my 3rd floor apartment. I just want to shut my eyes and lay down for a minute. The next thing I know, the whole place is up in flames. It had started in the bakery when I heard something fall over, I just knew that somehow. I watch the fire engulfing my belongings thinking about what I should grab if anything. If I should stay and burn or jump out the huge window. I jump and land on the ground uninjured. I look up and my mom is standing there, frantic, looking up at all of the commotion. She'd just come to see me. She is scared and relieved that I'm okay but I feel like she's upset that I'm not more careful or something? I stay in a hotel while my apartment is investigated and repaired to be habitable again. I forget what was in my apartment, what possessions I may have lost. I sneak into the building the next day. So many things are ashes now. The structure seems okay. I think about what would've happened if I stayed and caught on fire. I'm glad, I don't think anybody got hurt. I make friends with some of the maintenance people. I'm on a high piece of equipment on which they would inspect the upper level windows. I fall off and die as I hit the ground. I'm laying there dead and it feels like a cool, peaceful sleep. Kinda empty. Kind of numb? People walk up to my body. Then I woke up