It was a normal, moonless night. Up until I saw the dark night sky getting brighter from my window. "Was the moon hiding behind the clouds afterall?" I wondered.
Me and my roommate shared a room in an apartment as it helped us pay the rent. We actually never knew each other before we moved in, but we did really get along pretty well. He was lying on the couch when I got up and looked outside, expecting to see the moon. But to my surprise,there still was no moon up in the sky. "Huh?" I exclaimed. "Still no sign of the moon? How is it so bright out?- " Then my gaze was drawn to what I had previously misidentified as clouds."Whoa, that's a lot of smoke" I said while searching for its source. "NO WAYYY" with all the emotions a dumb teenager has, I shouted out loud. Surprisingly,the other dumb teen in my room wasn't even paying attention to me, he looked up from his phone, (probably texting some girl)and said "what?", It was like i absorbed all the emotions he had when i shouted NO WAYYY. But with almost the same emotions as before, I said "Dude, check this out". He got up, but still sitting on the couch replied "What is it?". I said "Hurry the fuck up and see it for yourself" He sighed, and got up and came rushing to the window. "What the fuck!" he exclaimed. We could see a house on fire with a huge cloud of smoke above it. "Should we call the police or the firetruck?" I asked. He agreed without having to think about it. Guilt kicked in when i realised how much time I've wasted just to show him and what if something terrible has already happened. But the thought that we couldn't be the only one who saw the fire, maybe some other guy has already called the police helped a bit, but what if we were the only one. I reached out to my phone,which was on the table and i Heard my roommate say "Shit, there's a woman on the roof!" Shocked, I rushed back "Ughh, get down woman" I shouted but obviously nobody heard me. It wasn't actually a...