Ray comes upstairs and stands in the doorway to the basement for a minute watching as Debra sits on the couch with a book on her lap, fast asleep. She looked so happy, so peaceful. He found himself doubting his earlier convictions that this woman had once been locked in a basement room by parents who cared nothing for her. He puts those thoughts from his mind, he just couldn't think about it anymore.
As Ray shuts the basement door Debra wakes up.
"Ray is that you?" Debra asks as she picks up her book.
"Yeah, why?" he replies.
"I just wanted to make sure it wasn't one of the kids up again." She says as she turns around to look at him.
"Oh." Ray says as he moves to sit down beside her on the couch.
Debra looks at him with a quizzical look on her face.
"What's up with you?" she asks.
He looks into her eyes for a second and quickly turns away to turn on the television.
"Nothing." He replies.
Debra rolls her eyes as she goes back to reading her book.
As Ray flips through the channels he wonders if he could be wrong. But there are too many facts that are hard to ignore. But how could he ask her if it was true? What if he was wrong or she didn't want to admit it, where would that get him? He was going to have to find out for him self, for once and for all, if the little girl in the newspaper story was the same person sitting beside him now.
After a couple minutes Ray is still flipping through the cannels. Debra puts down her book as she looks over at him.
"Are you sure you're ok?" she asks.
Ray continues to stare blankly at the television for a couple more seconds.
"Ray!" she says more loudly and punches him in the arm.
Startled, Ray looks away from the television.
"What did you do that for?" he questions her angrily.
"Ray what's wrong with you?" she asks, now with a note of concern in her voice.
"I told you, nothing." He replies, sounding a bit irritated.
"Nothing's wrong? Then why have you been flipping through those channels for five minutes, passing numerous sports shows several times?" she says.
"I'm just tired. Leave me alone." He says as he turns off the television and goes upstairs.
As Debra picked up her book again, she began to wonder what was wrong with Ray. He had been acting weird all evening, turning off the computer as soon as she went downstairs, saying he was working on something and he wanted it to be a surprise. She didn't believe it. He was up to something and she was going to find out what it was.