As he watched her leave in silence, he followed her undetected all the way to the school gates, sighing as he watched her leave. He silently cursed the fact that he could not leave the school lest he disappear from the existing plane and into an alternate world that he had no verification if it existed or not. He perched himself on the east gate post, watching students leave at all intervals of the day leading into night, never once forgetting the kind smile she had given him. He hid his face in his hands, but kept his eyes open, and stared through his blue-tinted hands at the entrance to the world he was stranded in. She was his last hope.