They finally got home closer to midnight. Sarah was the last one out of the car and the last one into the house.
Toby had had more sugar than he should have and he was bouncing all over the house.
Sarah climbed the stairs quickly, before her parents could ask her anything.
She shut the door behind her, locking it. Glancing into the mirror, she checked to make sure Hoggle and the others were still gone.
Taking the crystal out of the bag, she held it in her hands while she sat heavily on her bed.
She had seen her friends from the Labyrinth less and less as the years slipped by. They came by when she needed them. They stopped by on her birthdays and anniversary of her trip.
She would see them in a few days on her 18th birthday.
She twirled the ball around in her fingers.
"Jareth." She whispered into her empty room, looking into the ball.
The goblin King was the only one who had not been around to visit her. In the years since she escaped the Labyrinth and brought Toby home, she had continued to dream of him.
Her dreams were the only place she had seen him.
Toby screamed from down the hallway as their parents tried to corral him into a bathroom for a bath before bed.
She sighed, keeping her eyes on the crystal ball. "I wish you would come to take ME away this time, Jareth."
She set the ball on her comforter, taking her shoes off. She stood and slipped out of her tights and changed into a comfy t-shirt.
There was a knock on her door. "Sarah?"
"I'm really tired, Mom. I'm going to bed now."
"Alright, good night dear." Footsteps retreated.
She dropped onto her bed, careful to avoid the crystal. The cold glass rolled into her thigh as she turned on a stereo to drown out the sound of her little brother's angry screams.