Alyssa The next morning, Alyssa woke up in her bed. It took her a little more time than usual to register where she was and where she had been. “Marcel?” She called out once it all registered in her head. She got up abruptly when she did not hear a reply or see him any near. She panicked, then she jumped into her sweat pants, opened her room door and walked to the stairs and called out, “Marcel?” “Yeah? Are you okay?” She heard him call out before he started advancing, she could tell that because of the sound of his foot steps coming closer. She was at the bottom of the stairs by the time he got to her. She giggled when she saw him. “What?” He asked her with a smile on his face as he opened his arms to her and gave her a very warm and long hug. She continued giggling, he look

