After Alois had been fed dinner, I went back to my room and slumped onto my bed. I was tempted to just remove my maid dress and put my nightdress on, but Alois could call me to do something or other and I needed to keep presentable.

Wait, hadn't I put my phone next to my bed? I quickly searched to find it under the covers for some reason. Pushing the power button, my jaw dropped. 15 MISSED CALLS!?

The first two were from Maddie's phone, but the others were from my mom and dad. My friends had apparently not done a great job at explaining were I was and why.

Gathering my courage, I dialed my Mom's Face time. She answered in less than five seconds.

"NICHOLE WHERE ARE YOU!? YOU DON'T COME UP ON OUR FAMILY APP AND THE POILCE ARE SEARCHING FOR YOU! YOUR FRIENDS MADE UP A FAKE STORY ABOUT YOU TRAVELING IN TIME AND-"

"Mom, be quiet. Alois or Claude will hear you. Please stop screaming and crying. They were telling the truth." I sighed, covering my speaker so my mother's screams didn't make that loud of a noise.

"NICHOLE I-I-…." It almost seemed like she didn't know what to say, "This isn't happening. You can't really be in London rescuing that boy that looks like a girl and facing danger! You're thirteen! COME HOME NOW!"

"Mom, I can't. You know how I told you about Alois's past and you nearly cried. I have to save him. I'm really in London, 1890, and I really am fine."

"No…that's impossible. Alois Trancy is a FICTIONAL character from that show you watch! That machine in the basement Cate refuses to get away from is nothing! You aren't in the past…you can't be. And not with A DEMON!" She was in tears, and I could hear my friends in the background, screaming their heads off about how I was telling the truth.

"Stop yelling. Seriously, Alois will be skeptical and come in here. Or Claude, and that's not good. Mom, I really am in the Trancy manor working as a maid. It's all true. Please believe me. I'll even show you Alois or Hannah, the other maid, if you want! It might blow my cover, but if it appeases you-"

"Yes. If you really are in this place, as you say, show me that blonde boy Aloisish. I won't believe until you do. I'm either dreaming or worse."

I jumped off my bed and started out the door. "Be quiet now. I'm off to find Alois. I'm hiding my phone in my pocket now, and don't make a sound until I tell you to. If he calls you anything, just go with it." Without waiting for her to reply, I put my phone into the pocket on my maid dress and scurried off.

Alois would be in his room by now, either drinking from his secret stash of wine (I found it when I was cleaning his room) or trying on clothes. As I headed up the stairs to his room on the east side of the mansion, I pondered. What would I tell him? That I came from the future and was rescuing him from his best friend who was secretly planning to kill him in two days? Nah.

As I neared his room, I heard a noise that sounded like something being thrown against the wall. Listening, I heard Alois's voice shouting from his room.

"IT'S NOT FAIR! WHY DON'T YOU LIVE!?"

Nervously, I tapped on his door a few times. After he didn't answer, I called to him. "Alois….you okay?"

Silence.

"Master, are you okay?"

..."Come in."

I slowly walked into his room, surprised at the lack of light. It was only six o'clock. Why was it so dark?

Alois sat on the edge of his pink colored bed, his hands holding something that I couldn't quite make out. His body was as still as a statue. Looking over my shoulder, a golden cage that must've made that awful noise was in pieces near the wall.

"Life isn't fair, is it Nichole, especially when it comes to me?" He said, his voice quivering, making him sound crazy yet happy at the same time.

"I guess it is. Why? What happened?" I said as I approached him slowly, afraid that he'd lunge at me, trying to hurt me out of his insane rage.

Alois laughed as if I'd told him a funny joke. "Death happened, that's what! My spider died while we were away! Isn't that just great?"

He stared at me with a completely insane look in his eyes. They were wide, and Alois had a sadistic smile upon his face. In his hands he revealed a dead tarantula, its legs coiled beneath it.

More afraid than sorry for him, I refused to move any closer to him as I talked. "Master Alois…it'll be okay. Your spider is in Heaven now, right? Isn't that good?"

"No." Alois said, raising his cupped hands to his mouth and apparently whispering loudly to the spider's corpse. "I'm sorry I caused you pain, my dear spider. Come back from the depths of Hell where you are and take your revenge on me." And with that, he kissed the dead insect.

Its official, the kid had lost his marbles. "Calm down. Everything dies. It was your spider's time, I guess. And why would your spider be in Hell? What did it do?" Man, my MOM was listening to this conversation.

Alois lowered his hands and stared at me, his face expressionless. No tears fell from his face, but I could see them at the edge of his eyes, threatening to come out.

"You don't understand."

Gathering my courage, I sat next to him. "I do. My cat died a while ago. I loved her as much as you loved your spider. But I moved on. You will too."

Alois put his hands to his heart, and sighed. "As I said, you don't understand…none of you do."

The way he said 'none of you' confused me. Who else was he talking about? Hannah and Claude? The triplets and Ciel?

"Hey Alois, remember I have fairy friends? Well, one wants to see you. Is that okay? She's really nice."

Putting his dead pet onto his pink and green bed sheets, Alois looked at me excitedly; the craziness had instantly left his eyes at the word fairy. "Really? I want to see her!"

"Well, she is shy, so she appears in this weird box-thing called a…Fairy Finder." I pulled my phone out of my pocket, with my mom looking anxiously at me. "Her name is…Cynder."

My mom rolled her eyes, but once she saw Alois, her face froze. "Hello there…"

Alois grabbed the phone from my hands and stared at her. "Woah…you don't look like a fairy."

Thankfully, my mom decided to play along with my plan. "Well, fairies come in many different forms. As Nichole said, my name is Cynder…" She looked at me, and gave an OMG-it's-really-him-I-can't-believe-it face.

"Master, please don't intimidate her. As I said, she's very shy." I winked at my mom, who was still in shock of the whole thing.

"I won't!" Alois tapped on the touch screen, trying to touch her. "This is amazing! Nichole, are you a fairy too? If you are, I won't be freaked out!"

Because I've already met demons and Grim Reapers and other really disturbing things, "No, but only I can see them. Why? I don't really know…It's a mystery."

…..

After Alois asking lots of questions to my mom (I had to help out a lot), my mom turned back to me. "Alois, dear, can I please speak to Nichole again?

"Sure! It's dark out anyway, I best get ready for bed. Nichole, talk to your friend while I get dressed." He handed the phone to me, which I took happily.

"I'll step outside and wait for you." I said, and got up and walked out of his room. Once I was out, I faced my mom and smiled. "Believe me now?"

"Honey, I don't know what to believe at this point." She said, chuckling. "You know the police won't leave until they find you, right?"

"Well just tell them that you found me, but I don't want to come home yet. I don't know! Mom, tomorrow I have to practically host a ball in a dress that is WAY too tight for me. Plus, in two days, Ciel and Alois have that duel I made you watch and that is when I take him back with me to this time. So I'll be home soon. I love you."

"I love you too honey. Don't get hurt! Keep your hands clean and don't catch a cold! Remember to-"

"Bye mom."

"Bye honey."

I turned my phone off as Alois opened the door with his nightgown on. He can really take those booty shorts off fast. "Nichole, can you help me with something? I need to start a fire in my fireplace. I'm holding a cremation for my spider."

"Sure. I know how to start one." I said, stepping into his room and kneeled down at his fire place. In all honesty, a boy who has mental problems and an unnerving past shouldn't have a place for fire in his room.

"Thanks. Last time I tried this, I nearly burned my entire mansion down!" He said, then laughed in his little girl way.

Well once we got to my time, the first place he was going was mental therapy. "I'm glad that I wasn't here when that happened."

After a while, I got a small fire started. Alois had put his spider in a black silky cloth and gave it to me.

"Throw it in there. I don't want to watch…" He turned around and stared at the wall silently.

"Yes, Master." I gentle threw the dead bug into the flames and watched slowly disappear. Once it was all but ashes, I turned to Alois. "It's done. You can sleep now."

Alois crossed his arms and looked at the ground, "Nichole…I hate the dark…it reminds me of my family…can you stay with me until I fall asleep?"

AWWW! "Of course, my master Alois. I'll stay with you!"

Alois jumped into his bed and went under his covers like a little kid would. "Sit there. Next to me."

I did as he told me to do. He turned onto his side, so only half of his face was visible. "Hey, did you have fun today?"

Yeah, going out and nearly dying because I needed to fit into a dress and then meeting ANOTHER demon is my perfect idea of fun.

"Yes, I did. I really like the dress you picked out for me. I look forward to being your…whatever you said at the party!" I said, smiling.

Alois chuckled at that and poked his pillow. "Do you have dreams Nichole? Not just darkness, but other things."

"Sometimes." I replied. The poor boy didn't have any.

"Nichole, you're lucky." He said, changing the topic and snuggling into his covers like a little kid. "My family was killed along with my only brother and friend. Ciel and his cursed family did that. Tomorrow I want you to write a letter to your family. Tell them about me and your job. Please. That's an order."

A letter? Who'd it send it to? My house won't be build for more than 50 years. And Ciel didn't burn your village to the ground. Hannah did it because Luka wanted to make you happy Alois. When you made that wish when you were five (the one were everyone who'd been mean to you would die), Luka made it become true because he loved you.

"Sure. I think they'll like that. Thank you, Master Alois." I said, staring at him. I restated my urge to hold his hand, fearing that if I did, he'd break my hand without thinking twice.

"It's nothing. I'd give anything to have a real family again." He said, closing his eyes and starting to fall asleep.

"Well, you have Hannah and Claude and triplets. Plus, me! Now go to sleep, tomorrow is a big day for you." I said, getting up and beginning to exit.

"You…have…..no…idea….." Alois then let out a sigh and fell asleep. Oh I did, Alois. You'd be all over the place tomorrow.

I made sure he was asleep and did the unthinkable. I quickly kissed his hand and walked out. I heard him stir a little, but he stayed asleep.

As I closed his white door and started to my room, I turned to see Claude, dressed in all black attire.

"I see you took my job. Honestly, I want to kill you right here and just end this stupid story between you two. But Master said that I couldn't." Claude said, his glasses glaring so I couldn't see his golden eyes.

"He ordered you to keep me alive?!" I nearly yelled, but instead whispered, afraid Alois could hear us. "Why?"

"Because he is a human, like yourself. Weak, dumb, and worthless."

Well that was hurtful to everyone in the world. "Once you even get a whiff of Ciel's blood, you'll leave Alois on the ground to die! I hate you, and I will make sure to save Alois from your black heart."

Claude gave the slightest smile as I said that, "Thank you, I take pride in my kuro shinnzou. Trust me, by tomorrow, Alois will wish for me to kill you."

"What does that mean? What are you planning, akumae?" I said, matching up with his Japanese words (I seriously have no idea how he knows Japanese. I know he's from an anime but still). "What are you going to do?"

Claude (like a creeper) licked his lips and fixed his hair, "Something, malady. Something you won't be pleased about."