They Walk Among Us | Book One

9

"So, that's everything," Brooke finished.

I looked at the pair in shock. How did we not see this before?

I look to my right and saw Peter was shaking like crazy. "You okay, Pete?" I asked him, walking over to him and placing my hand on his shoulder.

"Tyler, there's something I wanted to ask you..." Peter mumbled, staring into my eyes. I felt my face get warm - what was this about? "Can we leave the game first?"

I smiled. "Sure," I replied. I straightened up and reached my arm out. A bunch of virtual buttons appeared in front of my hand, and I pressed the leave button. Just before I logged out, I saw Peter, Ava and Brooke doing the same.

My vision went dark and it hurt my eyes, but when I regained my vision I saw all my friends. I smiled at them, and they smiled back. "Nice Impostor win, Ava, suck a dick- ah, fuck. Sorry-"

"It's fine, Kira," The girl chuckled in reply. "Thank Isac, he's the one who taught me that cheat."

Isac mumbled something like 'I told you not to use it' and he walked out of the room, clearly jealous of Fiona making out with Angie in the corner. I glanced at Kira again, and I saw that she was holding hands with Cory. I smiled again. Many relationships were made today.

"So, Peter... You said you had something to ask Tyler?" Ember asked, staring down Peter as if she knew something.

"I- Y- Yeah! U- Um..." He stuttered, trying to find what he was going to say. "I- I know it's nothing f- fancy, but..."

All of a sudden, he turned to me and dropped on one knee, and stammered, "Will you... Will you m- marry... Me-?"

I gasped, my eyes wide in surprise. "Pete..."

"Sorry, I know... I'm being stupid, we aren't even dating-"

"Well, will you go out with me, then?," I said simply.

He looked up at me, his face pink. "Wha- I..."

"I said..." Crouching down so I could see his blushing face better, I mumbled, "Will you go out with me?"

"I... Yes, of course! Yes!"

"Then I have the same answer to you," I answered, smiling, taking the bronze ring from him and carefully sliding it onto my finger. I looked up at him again and saw that he was crying. "Oh- No, don't cry please, I can't stand seeing the love of my life cry..."

He smiled and threw his arms around me, pulling me into a tight hug. He was shaking from the sobs he kept giving, but I knew he was happy. After all, this was the happiest I'd ever been. There was silence, until-

"Well in that case..." Ava muttered, pulling out a gold ring, covered in small diamonds and a large sapphire as the centrepiece. "I ask you the same question, Brooke."

Brooke nodded. "But we'll have to wait. You're underage."

"It's only one year, my parents are dead! I don't need to wait that long."

"Then we'll wait too. We can both get married together!" Peter piped in. I liked the sound of that.

Over the next couple of years, Peter and I had our wedding, as well as Ava and Brooke. I could still remember Kira and Ember doing the WAP dance in the isle, Opal cheering them on, Samuel and Cory mesmerised with their love for the two... Peter and I had our honeymoon on the Southern Coast of Japan. It was nice - we had rented a beach house for the week, and when we got home we adopted a child. We decided to call her Angie Brooke Brown.

I've never made a worse decision in my life.