She hadn't shut it all the way. She hadn't wanted to make trouble for herself on the way back out. Stephanie chided herself for thinking, at first, of...just going back to her bedroom and waiting for the stranger to reappear and use her again. No, she needed to try to save her brother, the other girl and herself.Gingerly, the bound blonde made her way down the hallway to the top of the stairs. Using the wall, she slowly sat herself down. Stephanie had decided the best way of getting down those. ..Before he could finish the thought, he realized he'd slipped again,realized he was coming up, waking up again. The timelessness of a deepsleep made it impossible for him to tell how long he'd been out. It wasonly Katy's voice calling to him that hauled him from his coma."Vince? Vincent? Can you open your eyes for me, sweetheart?"He tried, tried harder, was about to apologize and reply that hecouldn't when his eyes cracked open.Her cool hand massaged his forehead. "That's a good boy."He could. 30 pm. Do you think you can be ready to go by six? We will walk, it's not that far. Ok?"He fired those questions so quickly at me, and all I could do was agree by nodding and smiling. After that we sat mostly in silence as we finished our coffee. It was as if the cat got my tongue every time I was around him. I needed to get over that if we were going to have any fun at dinner that night. I soon excused myself and got on with my work again.At lunch I wondered where we would be going. I walked. "Of course I do," she said, smiling. "You're fairly handsome yourself." Of course I am," he quipped."This has gotten a little strange," said Chuck, over dinner."It's certainly turned out differently than I thought it would," said Tiffany."How so?" he asked, just to keep her talking."I did not come here thinking about sex," she said calmly. "I didn't come here to meet an interesting man, though I'm not complaining. I thought I was coming here to get some information that would do me some good in.