I woke earlier than mostly everyone as usual. I quickly pulled on my mask and shoes. Same outfit as yesterday, but it wasn't like I had a choice in the matter anyway. I really didn't want to see him and I was sure he felt the same. That really wasn't a real problem though. I was good at avoiding social contact when I wanted to. Good at avoiding people. I was good at hiding and avoiding in general. Talking wasn't one of my strong points so no one really questioned it when I felt the need to distance myself. My two best chances were to head down as usual and eat quickly before Masky got down there. Then again it might just be better to wait until breakfast was made and then 'steal' whatever was leftover when everyone was clearing out. There really wasn't anything like sneaking around. Nothing like stealing. Especially when you were good at it. No one noticed until you were long gone when you were good. Back when I was alone on the street I took what I needed or wanted without anothers notice. On the rare occasion that I was noticed, that was why I wore hoodies, I could just as easily evade the cops. That one time I did get trapped… well lets just say some things happened and then a cop was no longer in the world of the living. Then… many cops left this world and I ended up here. Fun. Point was this was going to be easy. So I leaned back and waited.

I watched the clock. Seconds ticked by and I enjoyed the dull rhythm. It was calming to have something so simple after such a complicated night. I let my leg swing back and forth off the side of the bed just as rhythmic as the old clock. Very soon matching the slow beat. Back and forth. My mind wandering though I forgot the subjects rather quickly since I wasn't paying too much attention to them. That was pretty sad now that I thought about it… Click. I pushed myself up and started toward the door. Might as well go and check now. If I missed it completely I wouldn't get anything. Then again I could always make myself a sandwich or something. I didn't really mind doing the grocery shopping later if anything needed to be replaced. It would get my mind off things.

I closed the door with care. Silent. I was not to be noticed near the area in question. I was not to be thought acting suspicious. I was unnoticable. I walked the empty hall to the stairs and went down. Past the second floor. The floor with Jeff's, Toby's, BEN's, and Masky/ My rooms. Then onto the first floor with consisted of the living room, kitchen, an extra room that was used as a meeting room, and a back room with was used for storage. Sally sat with her dolls and Ticci Toby in the living room. Sally chatted with him about her dolls and he listened with a smile. Sally seemed happy which was good. She got lonely pretty quickly when she had no one to play with. I passed and looked into the kitchen. I turned and walked away as I saw that it was pretty packed. Had to be happy the kitchen was pretty big. Full table. The stools at the counter were taken. Just like usual. I walked toward Sally and Toby in the living room. I leaned over the back of the couch.

"Playing with your dolls, Sally?"

"Yeah." She smiled brightly, her voice cheerful. "Toby's playing with me. Want to play?"

"Sure. Why not?"

I walked around and sat next to her and Toby and created a little triangle between the three of us.

"This one's Luna." She held up the doll in the red dress. "She likes to dress up, but she doesn't like to go out very often." Sally set her down and picked up a old stitched up cloth doll. "This is Diana. Her head is a little lopsided so I pretend she got into an accident. She protects me at night from the darkness. She's my favorite." She set the doll back in her lap.

"I figured you liked her the most. You take her everywhere, don't you?"

"Yeah." She nodded.

"What about this one?" Toby picked up a doll in a summer outfit of a t-shirt and capris. "I haven't heard about her yet."

"That's Anna. She likes to play soccer and really anything to do with running. She's always happy and she's always trying to make friends." She then picked up a newer looking doll with glasses and dark hair. "This is Danny. Her real name is Dante but she doesn't like it sounds too much like a guys name. So she likes to pretend she has a prettier name when she uses Danny instead." She then picked up a little bear with a crescent moon over its right eye.. "This is Luneth. He's afraid of about everything but he's nice."

Sally continued to show each of her dolls one at a time until those from the kitchen started to slowly drift from the kitchen to the livingroom and other parts of the mansion. Sally looked up.

"Is the kitchen finally clearing out?" Sally asked.

"Seems like it. Lets go and get some breakfast." Toby stood.

"Yeah!" Sally practically jumped up. "Take care of everyone, Luna." She told the doll as she took a hold of both mine and Toby's hand.

We walked to the kitchen against the small crowd. Sally took a seat at the emptying table after pointing at a plate that she wanted and Toby getting it for her. She let her tongue peek out of the side of her mouth as she reached with her for to get a pancake and drag it to her plate. She was pretty cute when you got past her devious nature. I sat with them. Why be sneaky when I could just blend in with them? Besides it wasn't like Masky would bother me if I was around Sally. She never liked it when anyone fought. I chatted Toby and with a delighted Sally. I didn't need Masky. I easily ignored the white mask in my peripheral vision. At some point in the conversation Eyeless Jack slid in with us.

"Hey. I was wondering when you were going to come down."

"They were playing with me in the living room." Sally quickly jumped in.

"Oh really? What were you playing?"

"We were playing with my dolls. I was introducing them to them."

"Really? So what's next on your agenda?"

"Well I was going to have a tea party. Want to come?" She glanced around at the three of us.

"Sorry, Sally, but I have a job to do in a bit." Toby smiled apologetically. "Maybe another time?"

"Oh. That's ok." She seemed a little disappointed.

"Well I don't have anything going on. I'd be honored to come, Princess Sally."

She smiled brightly, quickly perking back up.

"I won't be doing anything until later so why not?" Jack shrugged.

"Yay!" She did a little happy dance in her chair. "Let's bake cupcakes for our tea party!"

"Ok then. We'll make cupcakes."

Toby left after breakfast with a new assignment and Jack and I made cupcakes with Sally. We sat there frosting cupcakes with a variety of frostings since only one would be boring apparently. So we made a little rainbow of cupcakes on the table.

"I want sprinkles!" Sally cheered.

"Ok ok. Settle down squirt." Jack chuckled as he went through the cupboards for the sprinkles. "Stars or regular? Stars right?"

"Yeah!"

As it turned out cupcakes weren't enough so we had a baking day. Cupcakes, cookies, and then brownies. Then we finally made the tea. All in all it was pretty messy and took some time to clean up. Sally gathered her dolls in the kitchen as we started setting up the table. She set up her dolls in the chairs with pillows to elevate them. Sally stood on her chair and poured the cups and passed them around since she couldn't reach over the top of the table very well from the ground. She happily snacked on the sweets as she talked with us and her dolls. At some point Jeff walked in.

"Ooh, cookies."

"You can't have any." Sally glared.

"And why not?"

"You're not invited to this teaparty."

"And what are you going to do if I take one?"

"Nothing. But your sweatshirt may just turn pink in the next wash." Sally smiled deviously.

Yep. Told you she was devious.

"You wouldn't."

"I won't, but Diana might."

Jeff just glared at her and slowly left the area. Then when BEN entered much later Sally happily invited him to join. Sally just didn't like Jeff too much. He apparently got annoyed with the fact that she talked to her dolls and cut up her favorite bear. The bear's pieces are currently in the Trenderman's possession, one of Slender's brothers. He was going to fix the bear apparently much to Sally's delight. I enjoyed the time spent with Sally. It was a lightheartedness that I needed after the incident with Masky. One sugar rush later and she skipped off to go and play with Laughing Jack. I took the time to put the remaining sweets in ziplock bags with Jack as BEN collected the rest of the dolls to put away.

"She's a real nice kid if you manage to stay on her good side." Jack smiled.

"Yeah. I doubt Jeff is going to be spared now that the kid is on a sugar rush."

"She can get real naughty when she wants to be." He agreed. "So do you want to help me out with my job tonight?"

"Sure. It's not like I have anything to do anyway."

"Cool."