Song: Take me with you by Juliet Ariel

I try to get better...I do...but it's like once you are admitted here it's like you can't leave. I have been here over two months and I am still on the fourth floor. Jasper and I have found our way to the supply closet more than a time or two. Of course it's all four play...kissing....touching...nothing more.

There will never be nothing more until I find my way out of this place.I love having his lips against mine and I want so much more...so much more but he refuses to go any farther until I am out of here.

Between the kisses today I tell him... "You got to get me out of here...it's the only way we will ever be together."

"Darlin'....how do I do that?"

"I don't know..." I kiss him. "just help me escape. I...I...can't stay here any longer." I let him kiss down my neck.

"Darlin' what do you want me to do?"

"Find a way to get me out of here...I want to be with you. Don't you want to be with me? Don't you want this?" I gesture towards my body.

His eyes spark...I know he wants more of me. "Give me time to come up with a plan...I will see what I can do alright."

I take my pills...I go to therapy...I do everything to get better. Another month slips by. I'm sitting in her office, watching her write things down in the notebook.

"So Sophie...looks like you are doing so much better. I think we can move you down to the third floor, would you like that?" She looks up at me with a smile.

I nod my head. "You are being serious...you are releasing me from this floor."

"Yes...will that be alright with you. I know you have been really trying. I think you will do great. Of course you will still come see me twice a week."

"Yes...that sounds great...thank you." I actually leave her room with a smile on my face. I don't smile very often but this is such great news...I'm getting off the fourth floor. As I am walking back toward my room, I get a glimpse of him. I go to the supply closet and wait of him to come in.

When the door opens up, he hurriedly shuts it behind him. "You are actually really smiling today...what it is?" His lips find mine.

"I'm moving to the third floor...that means I will be out of here soon." I gleam. But I get a feeling that he is not as happy as I am.

"Darlin' I thought you were coming away with me."

"You are taking your sweet time. I thought you were going to find a way to get me out of here."

"I have a plan...I do."

"They are moving me in the morning."

"But I don't work on the third floor...I will never see you. Shit...it has to be now we have to do this now."

"Jasper...what do you want to do then."

He pulls out a janitor's uniform identical to his. "Put this on."

"Why?"

"Just do it. You will be like me...we will walk right out of here."

"Just like that...no one would even notice...it can't be that easy, Jasper."

"Put on the damn clothes...we are getting out of here. You are getting out of here."

I undress in front of him and put on the dark grey clothes. It can't be that easy. Just put these clothes on and walk right out of here. If it was that easy...why didn't we do this months ago?

"Here is my name tag...I want you to go to the door at the end of the hallway and scan this. Don't look up in to the camera alright. You are going to go down the steps and out the back. You will come to a parking lot on the right. When you get there look for a red Chevy pickup truck. Should be the only one out there get in and lay low. We don't want anyone seeing you. I will be out shortly."

"What if this doesn't work...it can't be that simple."

"Look...the nurses are all on call at this time going in rooms and checking on patients. They will not be at the main desk. They will never see you if you have on this hat." He hands me his hat.

"I don't know....what if this doesn't work then they keep me here. I don't know if I can do this."

"Don't you want to be out of here? That is all you have been talking about for the past few months. You can do this." He leans in to kiss me again. "Go on...I will be right behind you."

I gather up my nerve to walk out off the room. I look down the hall and no one is in sight. I make my way cautiously down the hall to the stairway. I scan the badge while looking down at the floor. To my surprise the door opens right up. I open in slowly and find myself in the stairway...I walk down to the very bottom and have to scan the card once again for the door to open.

The fresh air overwhelms me causing my eyes to tear up. The sun is going down in the distance. I search around the parking lot...almost in shock that it was really that easy. I make my way to where all the cars are parked and find the red truck. I open the door and slide in, closing it right behind me. And I wait.

The driver side door opens up and startles me; I practically jump out of my skin. His eyes flash before mine and he has a shit eating grin on his face. "Shit...it worked...I can't believe it happened that easily."

"I know right...so where too...where are we going?"I think of all the amazing places that we could go...to the beach or to the mountains...anywhere but here.

"Well guess we go can go to my place if you want?" He puts the key in the ignition and the truck rumbles to life. I wait until we are far away from the hospital before I sit up all the way in the seat.

As I sit looking out the window he turns on the radio. I glance his way and he pats the space beside him. "Come on darlin' why don't you scoot that little behind over here closer to me."

I scoot over right next to him; close enough for him to place his hand on my leg. I let him rub my thigh and then between my legs. He is still rubbing me when we pull off the side of the road. We travel down a narrow gravel drive between trees and come to a trailer in the middle of nowhere.

I thought of a million place that we could go...but I never imaged coming here.  I hope this is just for tonight. I hope tomorrow we will be on the road again.