I woke up early, remembering I had just met the love of my life; Cole was sleeping beside me. I wanted to kiss him again.

I waited for the others to get up. When they did, Zane looked at the cut on my leg. It was still bad and I could barely look at it, but he bandaged it up again.

Then we all went down to the lobby for breakfast. They didn't have any. We headed up to our room in a somber mood.

We were all hungry. I probably didn't have much more money. What was I going to do? Go back home?

This was a huge mess.

I had decided that I was going to have to tell them the truth. But I never got to.

There was a knock on our door.

We all looked at each other.

"Room service?" Kai asked.

"I don't think this hotel has room service," I said.

Cole shrugged, headed to the door, and opened it.

"Hello, is Anna McAlister here?" the man at the door asked. He was a sheriff.

We all came to the door. Kai stood next to Cole, me and Jay were almost huddled together behind them, and Zane was behind us (protective mechanism on our part).

The sheriff smiled nervously when he saw me. "Hi, are you Anna McAlister?" 

"Yes, that's me," I said, now shaking, and nauseous.

"You're not in trouble, but we're here to take your friends home."

My eyebrows narrowed. "Take them home?"

"Yes," he nodded. "I can explain."

"Ok," I nodded, too scared to think.

"Would you like to come out here for me to explain the situation to you?"

"Sure." I followed gingerly, glancing numbly back at my ninja.

"There was a technology incident," he said with a lowered voice as soon as we were outside with the door closed. "This has been a project for a while, and they finally got it to work, but they were generated in the wrong location."

"What?" I gaped.

"Those characters were created, brought to life, through technology, and we need to return them to where they came from."

My silence conveyed my shock.

"There they can go home," he continued, "where they belong. Back into their show."

"No, no," I gasped, "this whole thing is impossible."

"I know, it sounded impossible to me, too, when I found out." The sheriff had kind, brown eyes, and wanted to help. I trusted him.

"What do we do?" I asked.

"We will fly them up to Canada, free of charge, where they can be sent back home."

"I can't just leave them yet," I protested. "I have to go with them."

He glanced at the wall in thought. "I'm not sure if that will work. But I will see."

"Thank you," I said.

He nodded. "You can go tell them."

"Ok."

I shakily opened the door. They were all talking to me at once. I slowly closed the door, and collapsed to my knees on the ground. They fell silent.

"They... can take you home," I said slowly, without looking up.

"That's great!" Jay said.

"Anna, what's wrong." Cole knelt to my level.

"I can't tell you. Yet, at least. It depends. But I don't know if I'll ever see you guys again."

"Oh."

"Are we ready to go?" I asked.

"Yeah, I think we got everything," Kai said.

I nodded, and got myself up off the ground.

"I'm probably not leaving you guys yet, but can I have a hug?" I asked.

"Of course." Cole gave me a hug, and the others joined. I started crying.

"I love you guys so much," I sniffed, hugging who I could tighter and then crying more.

They actually hugged me.

That meant a lot.

I eventually pulled away. "Let's go."