Doctor Marsh... the name seems very familiar somehow, the same with Stan. The only Doctor Marsh I can think of is my mom's friend's husband, but it can't be him. It just can't be.

"You okay, Kyle?" Annie asks, noticing my confusion.

"Annie, I have an idea, but you have to promise not to tell anyone."

Annie laughs.

"Who am I going to tell? Everyone would snitch on us."

I pull the key out of my pocket and pass it over to her. Her eyes widen in shock, but she looks impressed.

"I'm going to sneak into his office tonight, but I need your help. I need you to keep watch outside the door for me so when I'm snooping around we don't get caught," I tell her, taking the key back, "I'm going to look through his computers or anything I can find for any kind of information or clues on how to get out of here."

"Sounds like a plan," Annie nods, "I trust you."

So for a while we think about our plan, thinking of hand signals we might need or verbal cues in case someone walks past and Annie needs to subtly tell me to hide. Our planning is probably way too over the top, but it's better safe than sorry, right?

After a while, the door to the library creeks open and Esther walks in. She looks very astounded by the size of the library, but doesn't say anything.
Annie and I instantly stop talking as soon as we heard a noise, so hopefully she didn't hear anything. Esther is nice and all but you never know who you can trust in a place like this.

"I thought I heard voices in here," Esther finally says, "it's dinner time. Chef's gone all out, you'd better come quick!"

Annie and I quickly scrabble to our feet and follow Esther to the dining room. When we get there, our mouths instantly start watering at the amount of delicious smells coming from the full table.
The table is covered in plates and bowls of food, all of which look delicious. There's no meat touching any dairy products and I notice most of it is kosher too, which is a nice surprise.

Stan is nowhere to be seen, but Chef is stood at the head of the table holding a stack of plates and Nelly is stood next to him with a tub of cutlery in one hand and a large unlabelled bottle of wine in the other.

"Okay guys, please form an orderly queue to get your stuff and then sit down." Chef commands, winking at me when we make eye contact.

We all form a queue, but there's an awful lot of shoving and I almost get pushed onto the floor by the girl in the indigo dress, who for some reason I have still not been introduced to. She doesn't say anything, but she shrugs when I look at her.

Soon we are all sat down at the table, all happily eating the excellent food. Chef really did a good job.
I end up sitting next to Nicole and Bebe, who doesn't seem very happy about it.

Almost everyone looks like they're enjoying them self, except Annie who is stabbing a piece of broccoli with her fork whilst staring into space.
Wendy is sat bedside her, which is lucky since she's not dead.

"Here Kyle," Bebe interrupts my thoughts by dropping a slice of bacon onto my plate, "have some more food."

I stare at it for a second, unsure of how to react to the situation without making her provoke me more. If I tell her I'm Jewish she'll probably do it again or something similar, but if I don't say anything and just move it she'll just assume it's okay and do it again. Probably.
Girls are confusing.

"What's wrong Kyle?" Bebe whispers, leaning closer to me, "don't like bacon?"

"Bebe, what in the hell are you doin'?" Chef demands, walking over to our side of the table, "Kyle is Jewish, didn't you know that? Silly girl, you're ruining his meal!"

He grabs a clean fork and takes the bacon off my plate, dropping it back on the bacon plate. I give him a smile as a thanks, which is returned quickly.
Bebe scowls at the both of us and starts viciously attacking a turkey sausage.

Chef walks off to speak to Esther, but he keeps a close eye on Bebe for the whole meal.

When everyone is stuffed full of amazing food, we all start heading off to bed. There's no point even offering us any dessert since we're all so full we could probably burst.
I'm stood at the back of the line, so Annie has to fall behind so she can talk to me.

"Are you ready for later?" She whispers.

"Slightly scared, but I'm ready as I'll ever be," I admit, "this is the best chance we're going to get at sneaking into the office so we'll have to do it flawlessly."

"We can't leave anything behind." Annie adds as we walk into the hallway which leads to the bedrooms.

Before we have the chance say anything else, Nicole pulls Annie into their room and shuts the door behind them.
I go into my own bedroom and wait until one o'clock in the morning, when Annie and I are going to carry out our plan.