After the party; tensions between Adelaide and Courtney were reaching boiling point. At breakfast, they refused to even look in each other's directions or sit at the same table. The side of Adelaide's face was still a little red from where Courtney punched her while Courtney still had scratch marks from above her eyebrow to just under her eyes from Adelaide's nails.

DogNut tried to get them to at least talk to each other like civilised people but that only resulted in sending hateful looks towards each other and insulting each other once again, refusing to talk about anything but how much they wanted each other dead. Causing him to eventually give up on trying to create some sense of peace between the two girls.

Since it was obvious the girls refused to talk to each other like rational human beings; he had to talk to them separately. He talked to Courtney first; but before he could even begin to talk about Adelaide to her, she spoke up first. She admitted that she was in the wrong and wanted to start over with Adelaide but she knew that Adelaide wouldn't allow it so she wouldn't even bother trying. She also admitted that she felt as if she didn't belong there, and she wanted to go home – back to the tower, to which DogNut agreed. He said he'd talk to Adelaide before making plans to leave.

After talking to Courtney, DogNut was walking through the museum, trying to find Adelaide but he found her without even having to ask anyone if they'd seen her. She was in the library, surrounded by at least thirty kids – all between the ages of six and eleven – and was reading them a story. As he watched, he noticed more and more kids sneak around and join in the crowd.

It wasn't hard to see that Adelaide was loved by the younger kids – it seemed she wasn't just a surrogate mother to Esme, but she was a surrogate mother to almost all of the kids as well.

Watching her, DogNut realised how much he cared about Adelaide, perhaps even loved her. He didn't know but what he did know was that whenever he saw her, he knew that he couldn't let anything touch her or hurt her. If that was love, then he was too far into it to back out.

He walked over towards her and leaned over to her ear. "Once you're done here, meet me on the roof. We need to talk," he whispered, pressing a kiss to the side of her head before leaving her to go to the roof.

Adelaide nodded before he left, feeling her heart sink inside her chest at his words of "we need to talk". That was just code for "I'm in deep shit". Forcing herself to smile, she finished the story and left the kids to do their own thing before returning to her room.

She looked at herself in the mirror to calm her nerves before picking up a bottle of alcohol and her beloved polaroid camera and leaving her room to go to the roof.

Arriving on the roof, she quickly found DogNut sitting on the edge, waiting for her. Placing her camera and the bottle down, she sat next to him, their shoulders touching. "What's up?"

"We're leaving," DogNut told her simply, not looking at her.

"When?"

"We're planning on tomorrow so this would be our last day here."

Adelaide nodded, remaining quiet for a moment before she placed a hand on DogNut's cheek, bringing his face to look at hers. "I'm going with you, and you're not allowed to say no."

DogNut smiled, pressing a gentle kiss to her lips. "Of course you're coming with me, princess. Didn't come all this way to get you to just leave you here."

Adelaide smiled, moving her legs to drape across his while his arm wrapped around her waist. "DogNut I-"

"Jacob." He cut her off, looking down at Adelaide's legs.

"Huh?"

"My name... it's Jacob, Jay for short but my real name is Jacob."

"Jacob..." Adelaide paused for a moment, taking in the fact that he'd just told her his real name, one she was never told. He was always DogNut to her but now he had an actual name, "why did you just tell me your name?"

He moved her hair out of her face, tucking it behind her ear. "I just wanted you to know it, I mean, you're my girl."

Adelaide blushed, pressing a kiss to his lips. "I'm yours, just as much as you're mine."

"And I wouldn't have it any other way."

The pair continued to laugh and kiss long into the afternoon and evening, only stopping to take a few drinks from the bottle or for Adelaide to take photos of DogNut or of them being together, ignoring his protesting about how he wasn't photogenic – she did it anyway.

Note

Just as a head's up; the next few chapters will take place over one day and they'll probably be really short but I'll try to make them long for you guys without making them boring – if that makes sense. This was originally two chapters but laziness took over so I just combined them. Sorry it's short and crappy, zero inspiration for this.

DogNut's real name is never mentioned in the books (as far as I know, if it has been and this is wrong and I've been a blind dumbass – please tell me so I can fix it!) so I just made one up and he seemed like a Jacob to me so there's my reasoning behind it.

Until next time;

Lorna.