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A bunch of people recomended that Joe and Alice have more alone time and that seemed to bring me out of my REALLY long writers block! This is just ONE chapter based more on them! Enjoy!

It was dark. Nothing could be seen, nothing could be felt, but as Joe stood there, he knew he wasn't alone. He didn't like it all and started to run, there wasn't a sound. He was scared of something he couldn't even be heard, yet he knew it was there. This caused him to run harder and faster. Then before he could comprehend it, something got his ankle, bringing Joe smashing down to the ground. He pushed his body up from the floor with his arms, but his right leg was suspended and stuck in the air. He was picked up and lifted upside down, higher and higher. He came to a stop, hearing a familiar audible growl, which sounded too much like a dark laugh for his liking, before he was let go.

Joe woke up for the second time that night. The room was bright, causing him to be momentarily blind and not sure if he was still sleeping or not, but the comfort that helped him believe he was awake was from the blond sharing his small cot. He found that his arm was wrapped around her waist, but didn't remember placing it there before he fell asleep. Did he put it there, or did she?

Either way, Joe quickly pulled away thinking about that chance Alice could wake up and question him about it.

He sat up and yawned, stretching his arms out and up towards the lights they still don't know how to turn off. Seeing that once again he was the only one awake, he let out a soft sigh and walked to the single lonely table. He moved the scattered cards into a pile to see the scratches on the table counting the days all six of them have been in the room. Alice thought it was silly to keep track of the days, but the rest of them were too anxious to not count.
Joe recounted the scratches like he does every morning and added a new one with a nail they pulled out from under the chair. 49 days all together. Time was almost up. Joe turned around to look at Alice. She laid there looking as beautiful as she always does every morning.

They were all taken care of; everything they need was there for them. From showers to band-aids, but what Joe really wanted was to have time by himself with Alice. He wished he could take her somewhere, like another date, to make her feel special. Joe sighed at the idea and sat down at the table, turning his back to Alice. He rested his head on the table on top of his folded arms and used this rare moment of silence to let his mind wonder or at least he tried too. The nightmare that he woke up from just moments ago wouldn't leave him alone. The nightmares were normal, they happened every night, but this one was different, like it had happened once before.

Joe's thoughts were halted when icy hands gently touched his back. The hands glided up to his shoulders then he received a clear 'Good Morning' and a kiss on the cheek. Alice then grabbed his hand and sat on the table by him with a very bright smile. Joe loved it when she woke up before the rest. Only a second passed before they realized they were not by themselves.

"UGH! Mother and Father are being affectionate! Bury your faces!" Cary's voice was
unmistakable. Joe turned his head towards the rest the see all four of his friends with blankets pulled over their heads or pillows blocking their eyes.

"Oh stop it!" Alice stomped over to their side of the room and stood by Cary's cot, pushing the pillow away from him.

He started to laugh in a joking like manner. "I knew you two weren't just saying hello in the morning!" Cary looked at Joe and winked. "And now you're caught! Good thing too, because I bet thing were going to get a whole lot worse!"

Joe watched Alice blush a soft pink. She looked toward the door and almost as if she commanded it, the door opened.

"Time for breakfast!" she shouted to everyone in the room, even Joe.

Martin rolled out of his cot with his leg completely healed. "Coming Mom!" He laughed. "I mean ma'am!"

Alice gaped at Cary, Martin, Preston and Charles, who found that to be very amusing. Joe thought it was funny also, and knew that it was best not to join in, but couldn't help it and let a smile crack.

"Joseph Lamb!" She shouted and walked towards him.

"Run!" Charles screamed behind her and the boys ran out the open door.

Before Joe, Alice got extremely close, almost bumping into his nose. "What was it you found so humorous?"

He swallowed and avoided her eyes. "Well, uh, you were kind of acting like a mother there." When Joe looked back at her he expected her to be angry at him, but he found the opposite. Her bright blue eyes glowed as she locked his full attention to her.

"Hmm," She hummed. "Mother...well I was looking for maybe girlfriend first!"

This caught Joe by surprise, running too many different thoughts through his head, but the main one was that she wanted him as a boyfriend.

"Do, um, you want me to ask you out?" As soon as he said it he realized that he said it too bluntly.

She laughed at him a little. "We have sort of been going out for the last month or more, don't you think?"

"Oh," He laughed with her. "I guess we have!"

Joe was a little nervous about this. Alice Dainard was to become his first girlfriend, that girl that was always in his dreams; this was something he wanted to remember forever. He stood up from the chair he had been sitting in and reached out for both of Alice's hands. She let her shade of color creep back on to her cheeks, and it made Joe joyful, it showed that she really cared. He looked straight into the blue of her eyes again, one of the things about her that he will never ever forget.

"Alice," He breathed in deep and calm. "Will you be my girlfriend?"

Joe could feel his heart pause waiting for what was next.

She lend in closer, wrapping her arms around his neck, saying one simple word, "Yes." and caused Joe's breath disappear as she kissed him like she's never kissed him before.

The next week soared before Joe faster than time has ever gone in the room. It was actually fun. Ever since he asked Alice out she loved to pull him aside from everyone for what she would call as 'secret kisses' every chance she had. They were always short because one of the four boys would be looking for them or the group would be on their way back from a meal, but Joe enjoyed them none the less.

The now 56 days in the room started to change everyone, mostly for the boys as they started to irritate each other quicker each day. This was described by Preston as a form of cabin fever, but he said it usually happens when someone is by themselves, so naturally no one believed him or cared to listen to his theories. Martin was able to remove his cast from his leg, and truthfully became less of a pain because he wasn't able to trip anyone with his crutches anymore. Cary stayed his same self through all of this, hyper and loud. Charles seemed to go through an emotional roller coaster. He started out mad at Joe, and then missed him, before getting homesick and short-tempered, then lastly incredibly content and his old original character. That happened to be bossy and always in control.

"Tomorrow is a big day you guys!" Cary shouted as soon as the door closed shut behind him.

Joe looked up from the table, as well as Alice, Charles, Martin and Preston.

"What gives you that feeling?" Charles asked.

Cary paced back and forth. "Well I was walking back from the bathroom and I heard a couple of people talking around the corner, so naturally I eavesdropped and basically they said that tomorrow would be a very important day for the six of us!"

Preston's ear seemed to perk up at the sound of this. "Okay, usually I wouldn't listen to Cary but school is going to start soon, so maybe tomorrow really is important!"

"Oh keep dreaming." Charles said in a flat tone.

"Hey," Martin exclaimed. "Maybe Cary's story is true!"

Cary grinned. "Thanks Smartin!"

"Shut up!"

Alice looked at Cary. "What else did you hear?"

"A chunk of it was their own personal lives, but they were talking about how they finally get to do some work and don't need to babysit anymore."

"Like what kind of work?" Joe questioned.

Charles answered this. "Drive us home?"

"Oh that would be gnarly!" Cary shouted, and then ran over to his bed. "I'm going to bed now so I can find out what it is so sooner!"

Joe watched as the rest nodded their heads in agreement, seeing as it was sometime after dinner. He personally had a dreadful feeling about the idea of tomorrow and didn't want to go to bed. Alice changed his mind though. After the boys were in bed she grabbed his arm pulling him to their cot. He was rather glad that he got to share his cot with Alice, because there was at first two cots, and then they all begged for more and got one. It was two people to a cot.

Morning came quick. Joe's nightmare was different than the ones before. He was completely alone this time. It made him feel miserable, but he just shrugged it off. He thought of this all before noticing that Alice was talking to him and trying to get him up because it was time for breakfast. He slept in. That was a first.

Breakfast was rushed by his eager roommates, who nearly ran to the cafeteria and back. Joe only listened and tried to feel included with them, but he just pushed his food around and remained trapped in his own head. Not long after they entered back into their room with smiles on their faces did Alice begin to feel sick. Next the same symptoms occurred to Charles, Martin, Cary and Preston, but not Joe.

"Was it something we ate?" Alice wondered.

Charles looked over at Joe, who looked same as always. "We all had the same thing to eat, right? What didn't you eat that we did?"

"Oh, I didn't actually eat anything, I didn't want to." Joe responded, but just as the last word left his mouth Alice became pale and Joe went over to her. He was about to ask if she was okay when she let out a quiet 'Oh' and fell limp, falling unconscious. A moment after this the door opened and that man in the suit stood under the doorway.

"It's been a long time since I've seen you all," He said as the men in the green outfits started to fill the room. "I know it's not much of a very nice way to say hello again to make you all feel sick, but it needs to be done. "

I tried as best as I could to make Alice and Joe act like they're really 13 and 14!

I hoped you liked this chapter!

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