P.O.V. Hannah
I am so bored right now! We've been here a week already, and I feel like a zoo animal in the winter. I mean, I'm used to really only having Jack to talk to, but I can barely see him and that's not cool. We should at least have a window so we can sit and talk. I mean, I love jumping on my bed as much as the next girl, but it loses the fun after a few hours, let alone days. I'm also getting next to no sleep. I'm not used to sleeping alone. When I was little, I would always climb in with Zach, for a while I would fall asleep with the traitor, when Grant and I were always together we would fall asleep while watching a show or movie, if Grant wasn't there I would fall asleep with Jack. I see it's 5:37 am, so I know one of the boys will drop off breakfast in 8 minutes. It's not like it's even bad food, I hate to admit it, but it's great! Ugh, I don't care who brings me my food. They are staying to talk to me, unless it's Joe or Zach, but Grant or Jonas I will happily speak with. I wait the few minutes, and then I see Grant poke his head in. "Hannah, you should be asleep. You have bags under your eyes, and you look half dead." He tells me, as if I don't already know.
"You know I can't sleep alone. It's part of the curse of being a twin. I've never been alone before." I say, because the sad truth is that before this, the closest thing to alone I've ever been, was just without somebody close to my age. That was when my mother gave me to Joe.
"Hannah, that can't be true" He says as he sits down, and sets my food on the end of my bed. I lie down and put my head on his lap, and I can hear Jonas talking to Jack.
"It is, and I'm sick of it! Tell me something, anything that's going on outside this cell! Please, Grant, pretty please with sugar, caramel ice cream, chocolate sauce, cherries, and sprinkles on top!" I say sounding sad and desperate.
He looks into my eyes, and says in a excited whisper "Tomorrow night we have this dance, but it's not really a dance, it's a test that happens to have music that we, depending on what or cover is, get to dance at."
"Oh, and is there a certain girl that you want to dance with?" I ask with one eyebrow raised
"Why, yes there is" he says and I can see it in his eyes that he really likes her.
"Well, spill! What's her name? What is she like, hair, eyes, height?" I drill.
"I don't know if I should be telling you this." He says jokingly, and I give him the tell or I tickle look. "Ok, fine, you win! Her name is Bex, she's fun, sporty, competitive. She's just awesome, I know you would like her. Everything about her is beautiful and amazing." He says
"Does she know you feel this way?" I ask
"I don't know, you girls are always so complex" He says. Oh no he didn't. He can't blame girls for his inability to get his point across. I glare him out till he gives "I really don't know! I try to show it whenever there is a boy/girl pair up for anything. I always make sure she is my partner, we talk all the time, and I have Zach drop hints to Cammie to let Bex know." He tells me, then we glance at the clock and see it's 6:17 a.m. "Crap! I'm sorry Hannah, but I've got to get to breakfast, it's going to be really weird if I'm late!" He says and rushes out.
I wait 4 minutes before asking Jack "Did you get it?"
"Yeah, it's a mold but if you give me some of your jewelry to melt, I can make us a key, and we'll be out of here whenever you think the time is right" Jack tells me.
"I'll find some right now!" I say and go over to a small box labeled "broken" and pick out the few pieces that I really want to fix, and put them in my jewelry box. I move the food Grant brought me onto a chair, and I pass the box through the bars to Jack " Will the key be ready by tomorrow night?" I ask
"If I start now, it will be" He says and heads into his bathroom. Great! Everything is going perfectly! Soon, we'll have the key, and we'll be free! I know we won't be able to take much of this stuff, and any passports we had. Now we'll be in the system, but we can take things that mean something. Like, I can bring the necklace that my mother gave me when I was 7, the rings that Jack always buys me, the bracelets my father gave me, and the book that Zack gave me and 3 of my lock picking kits. I know Jack will wear the shirt I got him in Florida, the locket he doesn't realize that I know about, with the picture of his family before they moved in with Joe, and the one with the four of us, the palm pilot that they don't know he has, and his lucky socks. Now I just need to find out a little more about this dance, so we can blend in when we escape.