When Erika woke up, she felt a lot better, albeit with a strange tingle all over her body.
As she observed the room, all traces of the incident with her bottle appeared to have disappeared. The clothes were dry and unstained, and so was the floor. Even the bottle itself was gone!
At this point, she wasn’t sure if what happened was real or if it was just a dream. But if it was a dream, why was she asleep in the afternoon fully clothed?
“Erika!” The girl had her thought process cut off as she heard her mother’s voice from downstairs. “Dinner’s ready”
Dinner? Her mom got home? She was asleep for that long?
Hurrying downstairs, Erika rushed into the dinner table where both her mother and her 16 year old sister Maria waited for her.
“Honey, are you alright?” her mother asked. “Maria told me you slept this afternoon. I worried that something happened to you”
“Oh, nothing happened mom” Erika lied. “I was… I was just tired today because I couldn’t sleep last night”
“Well then dear, you have to go bed early today to make sure you get back all the sleep you need” her the mother replied. “I don’t want you to be tired during the day, especially not during school”.
“Alright mom…”
After that statement, Erika returned upstairs and took a shower. In the shower, she saw nothing different. Her skin didn’t appear to have any signs of what was spilled. No color, no texture, nothing. But it still had a slight tingle. She scoffed it off as nothing.
After that, she continued the evening as normal, and went to bed earlier as her mother told her to do. Nothing appeared out of the ordinary. For now.