Chapter 6

Instead of playing with the cube or blocks like I normally did every night I ended up laying down on the bed.

I felt oddly weak.

I blinked lazily up at the ceiling as I closed my eyes.

I covered my heart with my hand where the word Henry was, wondering what it meant.

Henry, Henry, Henry.

I felt like it had meaning but wasn't sure what.

It was important though.

I heard the sound of the cell being opened and was startled so badly I fell to the floor.

I blinked looking up, feeling like I was panicking for a moment before calming to see Sarah and the humans had returned.

Jay walked in behind them and yawned.

He looked down at me on the floor and looked confused.

So did the rest of the people.

Sarah slowly grinned at me.

“I watched the camera this morning and I think he was sleeping.” She declared.

Me? Sleeping?

Had I slept?

I wasn't sure, a lot of time had passed and I hadn't been aware of that till just now as I looked out the window.

My tray today didn't have meat but had some long thin things with red over it.

Ah wait there was meat but in sphere form like the green lump on the long things.

There was a white thing on the side that shined lightly and more of the white stuff from before.

I liked the things from yesterday I think and was happy? there was more today.

A cup of liquid was placed next to the tray as well.

“Uh…. what are you guys doing?” Jay asked as I was unmuzzled and the man backed away.

He looked at me, recognition flashing in his eyes before looking at Sarah.

Ah….he hadn't been here for a while, I realized.

Sarah looked at him and grinned before nodding at me.

I took that as the signal to eat and hesitantly walked to the tray, looking down at it.

I didn't know how to eat the long things with the tool…...fork….that's what it was…

But I knew the meat so I stabbed and ate those first.

The meat was covered in red sauce and I was a little hesitant, thinking it was blood but the taste was nothing near it.

I chewed, feeling a bit pleased.

It was definitely better than all the meat from before.

Jay stared at me in utter shock as I fed myself.

Once I ate all the meat I stared down at the long things in mild confusion.

Sarah came over and I backed away, placing the fork down.

She twirled the fork in the middle of the long things and picked it up.

Oh.

I see.

“Spaghetti.” She said and put the fork down.

I went and copied her movements, taking a bite.

My eyes flashed wide in surprise as it was a bit harder to get it in my mouth.

But the taste was amazing.

It was mildly tangy and I easily finished it all, moving onto the white chunks.

“Apple slices.” Sarah said and I blinked at her then down at the sweet things.

Apple slices….

Ok.

After doing the normal routine I was left alone.

I sat down on the bed, playing with the cube.

I stared at all the mixed colors and blinked.

Oh.

The objective was to get them all with their colors I realized.

I spent the rest of the day working towards that and eventually finished by nightfall, falling asleep with the cube in my hands.

*Max*

*Max*

*Max?*

I blinked as the sound of the cell door was opened.

I slowly sat up, still clutching the cube in my hands as the people filed in.

One of the men stared down at my hands and then his eyes widened, letting out a strangled sound.

“He- he finished the cube.”

The humans stared at me in disbelief.

I looked down at it, blinking.

Yeah so? I thought.

As they got my food ready I put the cube down on the table and started eating some kind of saucy meat thing.

I blinked, hearing a clunk sound to my side and looked down at my cube.

To my dismay one of the men had grabbed it and messed it all up.

I frowned down at it in annoyance.

I had first liked it messed up but now I wanted it to look pretty.

I put the fork down and picked up the cube, angrily twisting it and had it back to normal within seconds.

I picked up the fork and ate more of my meal.

I glanced at the people who were staring at me in shock.

I paused.

Was something wrong?

Sarah slowly stood up and went to stand in front of me at the table.

I put down the fork and started to move away but she put up a hand and stopped me.

She stared at me deeply, seeming lost in thought.

She looked incredibly familiar to me and so was Jay but I still wasn't sure whe-

Ah….I may have known them before I got sick.

Yeah…..I think I knew them before.

Sarah…..a Doctor…..something about hating the color pink.

Jay… he liked Sarah but never told her before and despised peas.

I found it funny that a giant man like him would hate peas.

Sarah kept staring at me.

I glanced at her.

She had gotten a bit older than I remembered….

I remembered.

Dear God I remembered them.

Henry….oh my God Henry.

Henry Henry Henry Henry.

He was important to me oh God he was the most important person to me where was he!?

I backed up the bed, letting out a moan as I clutched my head.

Henry Henry Henry!

Something about Blue raspberry suckers and warm hands…..

Maxy!

“*Max we should see about getting a new bed.*”

I remembered sighing and rolling my eyes.

”*Maxyyyyy wanna try out some of this wine?*”

I could hear his laughter.

Kissing under the mistletoe at Christmas and trying to not be caught as I would sneak out at night to be with him.

Before this nightmare.

I couldn't even draw up his face or remember what he looked like but I could remember his voice and warm hands as he held me.

I was crying.

Making muffled sounds and I covered my mouth, trying to hold in the pain.

I was Max. My name was Max David Sharp and where the hell was Henry!?

Henry, I struggled trying to pull up his face but my head ached.

Henry Luke James….

Henry Henry Henry.