After staying awake for so many hours, it's finally midnight, and Cassie stands up from the bed. She has arranged some of her clothes and tied them up with one cloth earlier in the evening after she was sure that Zoey was asleep.
Carefully, she stands up from the bed and tiptoe to where her cloth is, and picking them up, she holds them firmly to herself and takes a deep breath. Glancing back at Zoey who's fast asleep on the bed, her heart hurts badly that she's going to be leaving her dear friend, but does she have a choice? It doesn't seem like she does.
Her attention is...