Daybreak had come. Sarah's eyes flickered as the sun warmly twinkled through the drapes. The chirps of the morning birds echoed from every corner of the room. She grasped tightly onto Lancelot who had consoled her through the night. In the blurry vision of awakening Sarah could faintly see the poster of the Escher room and the ornaments of fairies and goblins. She saw her dressing table and mirror and looked at her confused reflection. She slowly rose from her bed and gazed around. She couldn't believe it. She was back in her bedroom. Her own bedroom!

"Oh no" she said realising that it was half past ten. The wish had worn off. She only asked to be in the Labyrinth just for one day and that was yesterday morning. If only she had gotten up earlier. She didn't even get to make her final wish.

Sarah jumped back onto her bed and screamed into her pillow.

"You idiot!" she shouted, supposedly at Jareth since he was the one who had stalled her previous wishes and he was the one who had failed to wake her early enough. Sarah said soaked her pillow with tears before a knock on her door made her jump.

"Sarah are you there?" asked her stepmother.

"Yes I'm here" Sarah finally said once she had got herself together.

"Where were you yesterday. I came up to your room to ask you if you wanted any lunch and you were gone! You never said you was going out. I waited up half the night but I didn't know you was already in your room. What the hell is going on Sarah?" She sounded mad, Sarah could tell this because Karen hardly ever used profanities.

Sarah opened the door so she could speak with her face to face. Karen looked tired and angry.

"Look I'm sorry okay, I went out yesterday because I needed to get my head round things. The loss of my mother had gotten to me and I didn't want you to know so I just snuck out and spent the day with Lysander. I came home at two in the morning. I'm sorry I should have called or something."

Sarah was a good liar, that was one thing she had gained from her acting classes as a child. But for some reason Karen wasn't buying it.

"Sarah, I may be a lot of things but I am not stupid. Don't you think that I would have called Lysander to check where you were. I've just been on the phone to him for half an hour trying to understand where you have been. Don't lie to me Sarah, tell me the truth."

Oh no, looks like Sarah's acting skills weren't so useful after all.

"Why should I tell you the truth! I'm twenty years old for God's sake! I should be aloud to go where I please without you sticking your nose in!" She couldn't believe how mad she was at her stepmother. She hadn't acted like this since she was a teenager. She noticed the hurt look on Karen's face. "I'm sorry…I shouldn't have shouted like that."

"It's okay Sarah" Karen said after a long pause. "I know this is a hard time for you. But what you need now is to be around people who care about you not to lock yourself away. I know I'm probably not the best one to talk to. So Lysander said that as soon as you're found he wants to meet you in the park." Karen put her hand on Sarah's shoulder. Will you go and see him?"

"…Okay" Sarah said softly.

Ten minutes later, Sarah had gotten dressed into jeans and a green vest-top and headed off to the local park to meet with Lysander.

When she arrived she noticed that he was alone sitting on a secluded park bench. His blond hair shimmered in the sun light, and when he saw Sarah, his eyes lit up and his white teeth beamed her a friendly smile. She sat down next to him on the bench as he gave her a warm hug. He looked at her and sighed.

"Sarah, where have you been" he said calmly. Sarah felt comforted by the sound of his voice. She felt a sort of safeness in his prescence. Like she could trust him with anything - well almost.

"Look I'm sorry for worrying everyone I…I just wanted to be alone yesterday okay" she said.

"Okay…I can understand that, so where did you go?" he asked inquisitively.

"You know just out…around….I went to a few places"

"Anywhere nice?" he asked.

"Not really, I just took a long walk, then I went for a bite to eat at Rosie's Diner, nothing special."

"Well it must have been pretty lonely, you should have asked me to go with you."

"Well I would have done, but you see, I…I was with someone."

"Oh, anyone I know?" he asked cheerily. Sarah was getting annoyed by all of his questions.

"No, it was just an old friend."

"Really? You've never mentioned any of your old friends before" he said puzzled.

"Yeah well, I've only just came into to contact with him."

"Ah, so we know it's a 'him.'" Lysander nudged Sarah and smiled, "Have you got yourself a new secret boyfriend" he said teasingly.

"No no, he's not my boyfriend, I hardly know him really. Come on let's go for a walk" she said standing up trying to change the topic.

"Well who was he then?" he asked.

"Just someone okay! Stop asking questions." she yelled as she started to walk off.

There was a slight pause for a second. Sarah wondered why Lysander was not saying anything or walking after her. He was never usually this prying. But anyhow Sarah was relieved that he was no longer asking questions. That was...until...he spoke again...saying words that made Sarah's heart jump out of it's comfort zone and into a chilling place.

"Was it Jareth?" said Lysander.

Sarah stopped walking. Did she hear him right? Did he say 'Jareth'? How did he know about Jareth? She slowly turned round to look at the friend she thought she knew. His face was no longer cheery, but displayed a seriousness, something that Sarah was unfamiliar with.

Uh oh, what does Lysander know? Tune in soon to find out. Better still put this story on your alerts if you haven't already. Very appreciative of the reviews so far - RK xxx