AWAKENED ONE NIGHT

A girl is awakened on a rainy night and discovers that she has absolutely no memory of where or even who she is. However, a strange force leads her to a house where she is greeted by another girl called Leena who introduces herself as her sister and tells the girl that her name is Kara.

After getting cleaned up, Kara is surprised to find herself hidden from her own mother when she calls for Leena. Leena evades her questions and Kara, in her dazed state, finds it easier to comply with her instructions and the next day, even agrees to be ridden to school on her sister's bicycle. At School, she is introduced with her sister's friends; Sheila and Mattie who are also in the know about her revival.

Kara is then told to hide in an old bus and while her sister and her friends are discussing, Mattie lets it slip that Kara had been murdered. Leena scolds her friend and then along with Sheila goes to class, leaving Mattie in charge. Kara thinks she has found her chance to question Mattie, when Leena appears stating that her class had been cancelled.

Kara is left frustrated and suddenly has a memory flash of herself all tied up in a small room. Before she could ask her sister, she spots a familiar boy coming towards the bus. Leena quickly turns the boy --whose name is Alex- away and Sheila enters their hiding bus stating that another student --Paige Marbelle, had been murdered and the police were all over the school.

The friends decide to disguise Kara and try to pass her off as a sick student. Since the ID cards of the students were also being checked, it is decided that Kara would hold onto Mattie's Library card so as to avoid suspicion.

Once inside the auditorium, Kara finds herself distracted when she notices a boy and girl who look familiar to her. Leena quickly tells her that they were her friends- Derek and Wanda. Kara has another memory flash in which she sees herself arguing with Wanda about something. After the announcement, Leena's classmate tells her that Paige had become good friends with Paige. Leena immediately assumes that they are the killers and complains to the police and the vice principal who turn her away because of the lack of evidence. When Sheila finds out about this, she tells Leena that it was her who had introduced Paige to Derek and Wanda.

Leena then realizes that she had almost revealed her sister's identity and decides to take her home immediately. The friends are about to leave when, Alex offers to drive them home. Throughout the ride, Leena appears to be nervous about something else and once they reach home, tells her friends to take Kara upstairs. When she's finally alone with Mattie, Kara finds out that she had been really mean to her some years back and Mattie then tells her that she couldn't imagine why Leena had brought her back after what Kara had done to her.

Kara is mystified and looks for clues in the closet where she finds a stack of pictures. It is then that she finds that Alex had been her boyfriend and when she looks out the window, she sees Leena and Alex hugging each other.

Kara wakens in the middle of the night and finds Leena crying. Her heart goes out to her and Kara tries to console her. Leena then tells her sister how the family had fallen apart after she had died and Kara wonders if Leena thought that bringing her back would somehow fix everything. When she asks Leena if she had to give up something for performing the ritual that had brought her back, Leena again acts mysterious and Kara is forced to leave her alone.

The next day, Kara puts her foot down and demands to be given a new identity so that she could live like a normal person instead of a fugitive. Leena tries to make excuses but gives in and days later, Kara is given a new identity of a girl called --Lily Lees.

After her admission into school, she wastes no time in interrogating Alex after another memory flash had revealed that Alex had been there on the night of her death. But Kara is distracted by another flash where she sees herself putting back a book in the library while chatting with her friends. She also sees her mean side as she humiliates her sister in front of them. Kara is left confused and when Alex comes to her, she finds that he has been keeping an eye on Leena.

After school, as the sisters are walking home, Leena scolds Kara for taking all the classes that clashed with hers, making it impossible for keeping an eye on her. Kara smirks but says she can't wait to meet her mother. However, when the reach home, Leena finds a letter that says that her mother had gone to see their Aunt Rose. Kara is disappointed and angry when she later finds that Leena had gotten her hopes up for nothing as she had been informed about her mother's trip beforehand.

Kara decides that she has taken enough of her sister's attitude and the next day; escapes from school to go look for the woman who had helped Leena perform the ritual. The woman named Armine appears when Kara is in the cemetery who then tells her that her sister had made a deal with death and there was no way out. Her sister had exchanged her life for Kara's.

Kara runs to the school and finds the police there once again. Sheila and Mattie inform her that Leena had disappeared while looking for her and Kara can't help but feel overwhelming guilt at how she had been mean to her sister. She goes home to look for more clues and finds her mother and father (back from rehab), rushing into a car. Kara decides to tell them about her only after Leena's found and sets about in the direction of school to look for Alex.

Kara uses her force on Alex who doesn't believe that she's his former girlfriend and finally Kara breaks down and begs him to tell her where her sister is as she believes him to be the killer. Alex denies the accusation and Kara finds that Alex had felt so guilty after being unable to stop her from dying that he had promised to look after her sister. Kara asks him to call Derek and Wanda while she remembers that she had loved Alex once but had stolen him from her sister.

When Derek and Wanda arrive and she questions them, Alex immediately catches up on their lie and is hit on the head. Kara is forcefully led to the auditorium where she finds her sister drugged and tied to a chair. Derek and Wanda reveal that they were the killers and had killed Kara because she had refused to help them cheat during exams. They tell her that they had blackmailed Kara into doing it before but she had then developed a conscience and refused to help them any further. Disappointed with their average status, Derek and Wanda killed her before she could go to the principal and had them expelled, but not before Kara had written a message in a textbook. Derek and Wanda hadn't realized what Kara had done until after they killed two more girls.

Later, Kara finds herself awakened once again and finds herself outside the school where Derek and Wanda are being taken to prison while her family has come together again. She wishes that she could be with them but realizes that she now belongs in the light.

WHEN SHE WOKE UP from what appeared to be a deep slumber, the first thing she noticed was that she was not only wet but covered in mud. She coughed twice before looking up at the dark sky. Heavy drops of rain fell on her face, washing away the dirt, and she closed her eyes as she felt the cold.

She got up slowly and breathed heavily, only to realize that she couldn't see anything ahead of her. She looked down at herself and saw that she was wearing a light denim jacket and dark slacks that barely provided any warmth to her shivering body. Nevertheless, she buttoned up her jacket and put her arms around her chest. Where was she? What was she doing here?

She started to walk and noticed a dark shape ahead of her. As she made her way to it, she wondered why she was here all alone. She stretched her arms straight ahead so that she could feel the structure before her. As her hands touched it, she felt the coolness of the metal and looked up and saw that it was a gate or something similar. Her fingers curled around the metal and tugged at it, only to find it jammed.

She breathed heavily again and pushed with all her force, but her efforts seemed futile as the gate creaked and did nothing more. She stopped pushing and gazed overhead. Perhaps she could scale it? She put her foot on one of the metal bars and started to climb. This was easier than she had anticipated. Once on top, she sort of rolled herself to the other side and jumped. Her knees buckled and she stumbled, almost falling headfirst.

The road ahead of her was dark and a few streetlights flickered ominously, but showed her a path nonetheless. She started walking slowly and cautiously. It was too quiet--almost deafeningly so--and the rain showed no signs of letting up. She saw a light and walked towards it, wondering if it was, perhaps, someone who could help her. Just then, she heard a loud blare. She covered her ears and gasped as a car veered off the road and almost hit a tree.

"Get off the road!" a man yelled through the window. "What are you, stupid? You almost got me killed!" he began.

Throughout his tirade, she found she could do nothing else but stare blankly at him. She was about to open her mouth and ask for help, when he drove off, leaving her a little more disoriented than before. What had just happened? She stood silently for a while, staring at the back of the car before turning around. She should go now, but where?

Before she knew what was happening, her feet started to move and, once started, she found herself unable to stop. It was as if her legs knew her destination even before her brain could comprehend. A few minutes later, she found herself near a row of houses. People lived there, her mind said, and she wondered if one of these houses belonged to her. But her legs hadn't stopped and she went on walking. It seemed easier somehow to not make the decision herself, but have the decision made for her. The streets seemed familiar, but she still hadn't felt that sense of belonging that one feels when they are near something close to them.

Her heart would tell her the destination that so far only her legs knew about. The street ended and she came to a deserted lot. Had she missed her house? Did she have a house here? As she walked, she gazed upwards and realized that the rain drops were coming down much slower now. The clouds were starting to part and she saw a patch of dark sky dotted with twinkling stars. She put her hand to her head. She couldn't seem to think straight, yet she knew what the stars and clouds were. How did she know all this? She let out a small gasp as she realized she couldn't even remember if she had a name.

Suddenly, her legs stopped and she opened her eyes to find herself standing across from a large house. She stared at it. Did she feel like she belonged there? Perhaps. She looked through the downstairs window and saw a lone lamp light. She walked towards it and, once she reached the window, put her hand on the cool glass.

She swallowed, only to realize that her mouth and throat were dry. She put her face closer at the window and peered inside. Someone was there. A girl, sitting on a couch, was crying. She was wiping her tears with a tissue, as she looked at what appeared to be a picture frame in her hands.

Silently, she tore herself from the scene before her and walked towards the door. She saw a switch next to it, but ignored it. She found the metal ring around the door more interesting and put her hand on it, picked it up with her fingers and dropped it. It made a soft thudding noise as it hit the door and she repeated the action.

Inside, she heard a scuffle of feet and a dull crash as something hit the floor. She heard hurried footsteps near the door, a pause, and footsteps again as they moved away from the door.

"Who is it?" the girl called out softly. "Kara? Is that you?"

She turned around to see the girl peering at her through the side window and jumped. Someone was talking to her. Did she know this girl? Was her own name Kara?

Just then she heard a metal chain being pulled across the door and a click of the door knob as the door opened slightly, as far as the metal chain would allow it.

"Kara… is that really you?" the girl asked.

She detected a hint of dread in the girl's voice, but simply opened her mouth and pushed her hair away from her face with her hand.

"Oh my God! Oh God!" the girl gasped. "It's you! You came!"

The door closed for a few seconds before it was opened wider and the girl hurriedly came towards her. "You came! It worked! It really worked!"

"Do… do I know you?" she managed in a whisper.

The girl looked at her strangely. "Yes!" she said. "I'm your sister."