《apartment 201• a.i》

four

{Luke}

After I explained the entire experience to Cammie and Michael is sat back, releasing a loud sigh, still not believing this really happened. I just wish I could wake up right now and see this is all a dream. We have to use some lame excuse at school for her all the time like "she's out of town". I wish we could tell people but I don't want to cause yet another thing going around the school, there's enough rumors and gossip for people to talk about. Eventually all these excuses aren't gonna work anymore, and what we do then, I have no idea. But I'm hoping and praying that this doesn't go on for that long.

After thinking about what I told Michael and Cammie I completely forgot one thing, "Oh, and we did find this creepy photo that Jay said looked identical to one of her mom's old photos of her as a kid.."

"That's really weird.." Michael said "but what are we gonna do to get Jay out of there?"

"I have no idea, but it's not like we can go back in that place, I don't want anything else to happen." I stated.

"Well we have to figure out something" Michael said.

"And fast.." Cammie added quickly.

"I know, I know, maybe we should just try to sleep and think about this later. It is past 1am now.."

Cammie and Michael walked home and I continued to sit on the couch, my head in my hands. I constantly kept blaming myself for this incident. If I wouldn't have pushed her into going there then this would've never happened. Somewhere inbetween all my thoughts, I fell asleep on the couch.

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{Jay}

My fingers tapped repeatedly on my knee as my eyes kept drooping shut. I didn't want to fall asleep, since I didn't want to leave my guard down. Ashton seen my struggle to stay awake and scooted closer to me.

"Hey" he whispered "if you wanna sleep you can, it's been a rough day for you, I'll make sure nothing happens".

I let my eyes drift shut after a few seconds. For the first time in the 15 hours I've been here I felt like someone was on my side. Ashton was the only one right not that I could count on, yet I barely even know him.

After several hours of sleeping, my head eventually ending up on Ashton's shoulder, I woke up and remembered where I was. This wasn't a dream, I wasn't getting out of here anytime soon. My eyes started to bug out and my breathing picked up.

"Jay, what's wrong?" Ashton asked, obviously concerned.

"I just realized this is actually real, it's actually happening, I'm not getting out" I said, stumbling over my words.

"We can get through this." He said.

"How can you be so positive about this shit?" I questioned, my voice getting a little louder, causing some of the other victims to jump a little.

"It's because now I finally feel like I have someone here who I can stay sane with, all these people here have gone crazy. They chew on their own skin and pick at their faces. If I stayed here even a week longer, alone, looking at these people, I would've gone crazy as well. You may not think you mean that much to me, and we've only talked for a few hours. But those few hours have made up for the weeks and weeks of isolation I've had here. I just wanna look at this like a challenge we can get out of". Ashton said, taking a deep breath when he finished.

"Ashton I'm s-sorry I just kinda snapped at you, I mean I basically feel the same, I feel like now I need you here to remind me to not fall into this demon's trap". I said with tears in my eyes "I'm just scared....so scared".