I open my sleepy eyes and realise that Annie and I fell asleep together.
Annie's chest rises and falls rhythmically as she breathes gently in her sleep, her head leaning against my chest and her hair tickling my skin.

If anyone walked in this would probably look weird and maybe inappropriate due to her age, but we both know it isn't and that's the main thing.

Annie groans slightly in her sleep, stirring gently as she wakes up.
She brushes some loose hairs out of her eyes and sits up slowly.

"Kyle?" She mumbles sleepily, "what am I doing here?"

"When I woke up in the middle of the night you were watching some dumb Nickelodeon show on the floor," I tell her, "you can't remember that?"

Annie shakes her head, which worries me a little.
It was the middle of the night, but I can remember it. What if she can't make new memories because she's so traumatised by being here?

She gets to her feet carefully, as if the floor were made of lava and she was trying to step on a small rock, then heads towards the door.

"Thank you." She whispers before leaving.

I get out of bed and head to my wardrobe. I've got one grey shirt and a pair of blue jeans left, which means I'll have to either ask Bebe to pick me up some new clothes or head down to the closet myself.

I quickly change into the remaining clothes and then head down to the isolation room to see if Heidi can hear me through the door.

When I get there, I kneel down in front of the door and press my ear against it to see if I can hear anything, but no such luck.

"Heidi?" I whisper, "Heidi can you hear me?"

"Kyle!" I hear Heidi gasp, "Ky, is that you?"

"Yeah!"

Then I remember the little flap in the door for sliding food under it.
I lie flat on my stomach and lift it. There's not much of a view into the room, but if Heidi did the same we could see each other.

"Heidi, the flap," I tell her, "if you lie down I'll be able to see you!"

Two seconds later Heidi and I are face to face. Well, almost.

She smiles at me and I smile back. It's almost as if we're in the same room.

"Oh god, I've missed you," Heidi reaches through the gap and grabs my hand, squeezing it tightly, "it's only been a few hours but it feels like years."

"I know." I agree.

A comfortable silence falls over us as we stare into each other's eyes, not quite sure what to say but still understanding the other perfectly.

I wish i could let her out, but without the butler's keys there's no way she's getting out of here, and getting those keys is going to be very difficult, especially since I don't know where the Butler is when he's not with the master.

"How did you sleep?" I ask.

"Terribly," Heidi sighs, "the bed is made of metal and there's no blanket so I was freezing and my back was aching... ugh. It was so bad."

I rub Heidi's hand with my finger comfortingly.

"Well, I'm going to get you out of here, so you won't have to put up with it for too long."

A different voice speaks next, one that makes the hair on the back of my neck stand on end and my heart to thump faster in my chest. It makes Heidi gasp.
We're in so much trouble.

"You're going to do what?"