It was August now. My ankle had healed from the injury, albeit it sometimes I kinda limp, but it was'nt too bad. The envelope has been on my mind a lot lately though. I feel like I've something about this somewhere on the internet somewhere, but I don't know where exactly. Maybe I should look up again sometime. It could be usefull.

As for me and Noah's sleeping habits? Well, the nightmares are kinda starting to get worse. We both keep seeing eyes in our dreams. Hundreds of eyes, everywhere. Just staring. I think in some of my dreams I'm with Noah, the both of us scared. But I don't really remember anything other then that. I don't know if Noah had anything similar to that in his nightmares. I never asked him.

My sleep would probably be better without the nightmares.

Beep, Beep

And if that damn beeping would stop! It's been beeping like that for the last few days and it is starting to piss me off, like hell. I got out of my bed and prepared to walk to my door untill Noah opened the doo, camera in hand.

"Good your up. C'mon, help me find the source of this fucking beeping", he said before walking out.

"Hold on, let me get a flashlight", I muttered as I quickly pulled a flashlight out of one of my drawers and quickly went after Noah.

Beep, Beep

"You sure it's not the smoke alarm?", I asked Noah as we began to look around the house.

"I checked. I thought it was a low battery but when I took the batteries out I heard the beeping so it can't be the smoke alarm".

"What about the one in my room? Should we check that?"

"Let's look around a bit more before we look at any more smoke alarms", Noah suggested, just as the beeping sounded again. "I...I think it's comming from the spare room. Y'know, the one with the electric piano".

"Let's look in there then", I said. I was going to lead the way but Noah got ahead of me.

"Just stay behind me", was all he said before we went into the room. It was cluttered since it had been last used by Milo back in '08. Because of that we usually just put stuff we were'nt really using in here. We followed the echo of the beeping.

"Is there anything plugged into the surge protector that should'nt be?", I asked when Noah looked at said surge protector.

"No, only what should be here", Noah muttered, as he looked elsewhere but stopped when he came to some of the plastic bins. "What the fuck is that? What the fuck is that?"

"What is it?"

"There's something back there", Noah said. "Do you think you can reach it for me?"

"I'll try", I said and I moved around Noah and reached for what he was looking at. It was some kind of device. It was small, and from what I could tell it was made of random electronic and computer parts. I held it up for Noah and the camera to have a better view.

"What the fuck is this thing?", Noah asked, just a few seconds before it beeped. We found the source at least.

"This isn't mine, and I'm pretty damn sure it is'nt yours", Noah stated as he took the device from me and looked it over. "What the fuck is this thing?"

"Some sort of...very complicated device?", I guessed before I noticed a wire coming from behind the blinds. "That has a wire leading to the blinds", I mumbled as I took the wire gently and turned one of the blinds around to reveal a small solar panel taped to the back of it. I did'nt hesitate in ripped it off and held it up for Noah to see.

"The hell is this shit?", Noah asked before he took the solar panel and turned it around only to drop it onto the plastic bins. On the back of it was the Observer's symbol, along with the message,

'WE ARE LISTENING'

"No...not again, not again, not again", I kept repeating to myself in a shaky voice. After all this time, were the oddities me and Noah dreaded so much going to start again.

"Oh, shit, no... Oh no, no, no, no, no... Not this shit again. No, no, no, no...", was Noah said, but we both stopped when a noise came from behind us, from the shut closet door. Then a banging started on it, and I swear I could have heard a voice of some sort behind it as well.

"Stay back, Rach'", Noah said as he pulled the sheets off the bed and took out a knife! ...The hell?! How long was that knife there?! Please don't tell me Noah put weapons all around the house and did'nt tell me?

"Who the fuck's in there?", Noah yelled as he came up to the closet door, knife in hand as he reached for the closet and quickly opened it. There was no one inside but the light was on.

"Oh...God damn it! Fuck!", Noah yelled and walked back out and stormed out of the room. "Where are you?"

I looked inside of the closet and tried to see if there was something Noah found here. I spotted a ping pong ball on the floor and picked it up. Once again there was that symbol drawn on it, and on the back was another message.

'TROUBLE SLEEPING?'

I clenched the ball in my fist and gritted my teeth. I was really getting pissed off now. I swear I am going to kick the ass of whoever think that this is funny. Then we'll see how funny they'll find it when I...when I...

I felt something wet on my cheek and touched it. Was...Was I crying? I rubbed my face frantically, trying to get rid of the tears quickly. I had to be stronger then this. I don't care how upset or frustrated I am about all this, if the both of us broke down who's going to think straight?

"'We're listening', huh?", I heard Noah say as he came back into the room, but I did'nt bother to look up. "Alright. Well, listen to this. You listen fucking carefully. I'm gonna fucking find you. I'm gonna fucking kick your ass. I'm gonna rip your fucking eyes out, and take whatever the fuck that thing is and I'm gonna shove it so far up your ass, you're never gonna be able to get it out. Fucking regret the day that you started messing with me. Love to see you make a fucking video after that. God damn it... Not again...".

I swallowed and tried to keep myself together and stood up slowly and walked over to where Noah kneeling down. I knelt down by him and put my arms around him, ignoring how shakey they were.

"Rach'", Noah said to me. He seemed close to tears of frustration and I could'nt blame him. "You...You really should'nt be bottling it up". I chuckled weakly.

"Someone has to keep a level head here, no matter how much it hurts", I mumbled.

"Just, let it go".

"Wh-"

"Let it go", Noah said seriously as on of his arms went around me. "Besides, if we have a breakdown together, it'll make it more bareable if we're both having it at the same time", Noah tried to put some humour in his voice here, but it was barely noticable. I tried to chuckle, but it came out as choked sobs as I clung to Noah's shirt. Noah just kept a tight grip on me as we both broke in frustrated cries. It was'nt going to solve anything but it kinda felt good to get it out with Noah. It was a good way to remind us both we were'nt alone I think.

The day after the discovery of the device, things calmed down a bit. Noah disconnected the battery so that should return our privacy. Luck seemed to like us for once because our friend Edward from school was visiting his parents here in Florida for the week and he's a tech specialist so having him here is like a God send! I did'nt know Edward as well as Noah did, but I still considered us friends. So, we were in the kitchen and Noah was holding the camera to record all this. He was a bit of a bulky person, with light, brown hair that was a bit curly.

"Hey, guys. Noah here, along with Rachel. My buddy Edward's here with me, too".

"Hi", Edward said when Noah panned the camera on him before back on himself.

"And the three of us go way back. We used to go to school together, way back when. He's down in Florida visiting his grandparents for the week and we're very fortunate and thankful that he's willing to come over, 'cause a lot of people aren't. He also happens to be a tech guru, which is useful. He works at his dad's electronics shop. He's like his protege. What exactly do you do there?", Noah asked as he turned the camera to face Edward again.

"Well, it's like you said. I work in my dad's electronics shop. We repair new and old electronics. That sort of thing", Edward explained.

"Exactly. Great. Well, I know you know your way around electronics better than Picasso knows how to paint". Ain't that the truth? "So me and Rach' need you, if you can, to help us figure out what the hell this thing is", Noah told Edward as he gestured to the device on the table. "What it does, or just any sort of information on it. I don't know what it is in the least, so if you could tell me anything about it, that would be very much appreciated".

"Yeah, 'cause we're kinda stumped about this thing", I said.

"Sure thing. I'll give it my best". Edward then picked the device up and started to examine it. "Well, just looking at this thing... I can tell it's made of different circuit board parts from various other devices. This top part here is a speaker. Under it is what looks to be the guts of a beeper or pager. Judging by the sidebar, might be a SingTel. Not sure".

"That makes sense, 'cause it was beeping last night", Noah told him.

"Oh. Well, the beeping you've been hearing is most likely coming from the pager, not this top speaker. See, there's a smaller pager speaker right here", Edward pointed to the pager speaker. "Under this is what seems to be a computer fan. It's supposed to keep whatever this is from overheating, which is weird in itself, because pager components don't get particularly hot. It's connected to another smaller board. I'm not sure where it came from, but...", Edward stopped as he spotted something and tapped on it lightly to point it out. "Wait. That's a mic. I think it's a tiny microphone. I think this might be the innards of a sound recording module. There's an audio jack here. Looks like a standard 3.5mm TRS connecter leading to...", Edward to the solar panel. "What? It's a solar panel. A small solar panel. That's pretty interesting. The audio jack was converted into a power jack. The guy who made this resoldered the connections. That might explain the 9-volt. Is there any heat that comes off of that?"

"It was pretty hot when I picked it up", I said., thinking back.

"I took off the battery cap. I disconnected it since then", Noah then said after me.

"So the fan is a heat sink for the battery, which is powering the device... but also storing the power. Solar panel looks like it could charge the 9-volt during the day, but not much. It's pretty tiny".

"What's that, though?", Noah asked.

"What's what?"

"The little metal thing sticking out of the side". Noah pointed out to a thin metal thing that was sticking out.

"Not too sure", Edward admitted. "I think it might be an antenna. Yeah, my guess is that this thing records and transmits audio. I mean, whoever made this was no amateur. They knew what the hell they were doing. It's pretty well soldered. What really strikes me as odd, though, is the USB cable. It connects into this here, but it's not even anything. It just hold the USB head. Where does this lead? Let me see here", Edward followed the cord untill he found what he was looking for. "Yeah. In between the pager boards is another component that they soldered to the device. At the end of the USB cord... This could be a memory component. Flash memory, maybe. Possibly to store what it records. That's liable to heat up as well. Have either of you tried plugging it into your computer?

"No way", Noah answered. "I don't want to plug anything foreign into my computer. Last time I did that... Plugged in a unknown flash memory... It installed some crazy shit and my computer got hacked, so... Yeah, no, I'm not doing that". I faintly remembered the incident, but not too clearly to actually describe it.

"Well I'll tell you what I can do. Let me take a few more looks at this and I'll give you my verdict on what you can do", Edward offered.

"Alright. Thanks".

"These means a lot man. Want more tea?", I offered.

"Thanks, but no", Edward said as he began looking over the device again for about half an hour before he was finished.

"Alright. This is the deal. Speaker is the oddball of this device. It's out of place. It doesn't seem to have a purpose. It might be activated by the USB cable. It connects right under it. This is a data USB cable, though. If you don't want your computer to recognize the drive, you can cut open the cable. Inside, there will probably be several colored wires. From my experience, there'll probably be a red, green, white, and black one. The white and the green carry data and the others would be for power. If you cut the white and green ones, you'll turn the USB cord into a power cord. Plugging it in might activate the unit, but maybe nothing will happen. I don't know. This is a very impressive piece of work guys. Where did you two get it?"

"Um..."

"Garage sale", I answered for Noah. " Noah thought it looked kinda cool or something".

"How much did you get it for?", Edward asked.

"Twenty bucks? I don't remember", Noah answered.

"'Cause this is some serious stuff here. It's fascinating. It's like a spy walkie-talkie, or something. You could sell this for a lot more than twenty dollars. Do you know who made it? I mean, I'd want to shake their hand. They did a damn good job-"

"Edward, do you have to leave soon?", Noah interrupted.

"Uh, yeah. Actually... Shit. I should've been on the road ten minutes ago", he muttered as he got out of the chair.

"Thanks for the help, it means a lot", I said as I opened the door for Edward.

"It's nothing. Just try and see if you can get the number of the guy that made that thing for me".

"I'll try", I lied and closed the door after we all said our goodbyes.

"So, Noah...When do you want to start?"