And for some reason I didn't let go of his hand, it felt weirdly comfortable. That until I felt him waking up, then it suddenly was weird.

"Ha!"

Kerry.

I saw the flash from her phone and then she ran over to the elevator and got in. Damn her!

"Chase!" I shook him, "wake up!"

"Hm, what, what happened?" He said, confused, as just waking up.

"Kerry was just down here, we need to catch up with her!" I said, trying to get Chase up from off the floor. He didn't seem in that much of a rush to get the key from Kerry.

"But Bree, it's not like we are going to catch her, she's too fast, all that's going to happen is us chasing her, then losing her. No change, why waste our time when there are other ways to get the handcuffs off?" Chase said, not putting any effort at all of getting up.

"And what are those other options, if I may ask?" I asked, slightly rolling my eyes at this.

"Well, we could go to Perry, she'll laugh at us but she'll get them off for us. Or we could walk to my house and get some bolt cutters but have to explain this to my family with my brothers making fun of me" Chase explained.

"Ok fine, we'll do one of those ideas but what about the picture?" I asked.

"What picture?" Chase asked confused. Oh yeah, he was asleep and I never explained the picture thing. I just wanted that key.

"Kerry took a picture of us sleeping right before running back to the elevator" I quickly explained, not enjoying him not feeling like getting up to at least try to catch her.

"Well if we can't even catch her then I really don't think there's anything we can do about the picture" He seems oddly calm about this.

"She's probably going to send it to everyone in school saying that we are dating or sleeping together, or something!" I said, feeling very frustrated at the moment, while leaning back against the wall again.

Chase just shrugged.

"Really? That's it, you're just okay with that?" I questioned.

"I try to not obsess over things I have no control over, I've learned that in the end, there really isn't a point and you just end up stressing over it" He said, staying as calm as ever.

I don't even know what to say to that.

"Alright, fine" I said, trying to be calm, "then which idea did you want to go with?"

"It will take longer but at least we won't have to embarrass ourselves in front of the school. We can just walk to my house, it's only like a 7 minute walk." He said, finally actually getting up and pulling me up off the floor.

I mumbled, "ok". I really didn't know what else to say in the moment.

We went back upstairs from the basement through the elevator. And some people were literally asleep along the hallways. Perry is probably in her office and it's tempting to go to her and tell her about Kerry but I guess Chase is right. So I ignore that thought and as we are walking toward the front doors to leave, Perry stops us.

"And where do you think you are going?" Perry asks, running to get in front of us. Chase quickly pulls me closer and grabs my hand trying to hide the handcuffs behind our backs.

"Home" We both said at the same time.

"As much as I would love for you two to leave and get out of my sight, the winds are still very high and if I let you out I could lose my cats" Perry said out of annoyance.

"How would letting us leave make you lose your cats?" I asked, not seeing the connection.

"If I lose my job then I won't have money for my cats and then I will lose them" Perry said, as if it was the simplest thing in the world.

"Fine" I said, rolling my eyes.

"And I'm required to tell all students that blah blah blah there is food in the cafeteria"

Perry then walked back into her office as she saw us walking away from the door.

"Well now what?" I asked Chase, hoping he would have an idea.

"We could go get food and then try to sneak out?" He suggested. I'm starving so I guess that works.

We walked over to the cafeteria and there was actual food being served, not this normal school cafeteria food. I guess Perry is sharing her own stash of food. And sharing is something she never ever does or would ever do.

"And how do you think we should sneak out?" I whispered to Chase, leaning toward him so no one would hear us.

"Well we obviously can't go through the front doors but there has to be another easy way out. Ok, these are stupid ideas but we could pull the fire alarm and when Perry is distracted, we could sneak out or we could start a food fight and then sneak out that way." Chase whispered back, leaning in close. Closer than I leaned into him to talk.

"I'd do anything to get out of this school at this point." I whispered.

We got our food and sat away from everybody else that was in here to talk about which "stupid" idea we were going with.

"I think the food fight thing is better, because then the fire department won't show up. Plus a food fight would distract more people" I said quietly. Even though I'm pretty sure nobody can hear us or is even paying attention to us. But there are enough people in here that we should be able to get a food fight going in here pretty easily.

"Ready?"