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(𝐒𝟏) 𝐄𝐩𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐝𝐞 𝟑𝟕

𝟏ˢᵗ 𝐏𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐎𝐍 𝐏𝐎𝐈𝐍𝐓 𝐎𝐅 𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖.

"𝐇𝐨𝐥𝐝 onto something i'm going to make a swerve." I tell them as i make sure they were all holding onto something. I make the swerve and are now closer to the graveyard.

"Logan, press the button!" Ashlyn tells Logan through the walkie-talkie. I then heard Logan voice through the walkie-talkies soon after.

"O-okay!" I decide to do a quick spin. I then spin the car in a circle as i grin.

"Are you crazy?!" Tyler asked from beside me. I chuckle. "Relax! We're all going to be okay. I know what i'm doing." I tell him, grinning. I then drive towards the graveyard again.

The wall opens and i quickly make my way through.I then do a little turn to park the car in the middle. I could see the wall then shut from behind us.

We open the doors of the car and slowly get out. I then turn to them. "Are y'all okay?" I ask them.

"I'm going to be sick." Tyler says as he then throws up near the side of the car. I cringe at the sight and look away.

Everyone else gets off the car. Taylor helping Ashlyn, and Aiden leaning on Ben for support as he hops on his non-injured leg. They all looked tired. I sweatdropped.

Taylor then whispers. "..We did it.." i look at her a bit confused. Taylor then smiled and exclaims happily. "..We did it haha!"

Tyler wipes his mouth as he grins. "Yeah.. we're pretty great, huh?"

"Great?? We were awesome!" Aiden says as he smiles. Tyler looked at him unamused.

"What do you mean by 'we'? You sprained your ankle and we're basically useless from the get-go." Tyler tells Aiden as he deadpans.

"I was not! Did you see me dual wielding those flashlights?! Without me and Ash, you guys wouldn't have stood a chance against those ceiling phantoms!" Aiden tells Tyler as he exclaims as he grins.

"Logan was pretty cool too!" Aiden says as he smiles. I nod in agreement. Logan looked confused as he had said that and i agreed.

"The phantom that was attacking Ash had a hole right in the middle of its head! Perfect shot!" Aiden says as he does a gun motion with his fingers and points it to his head.

"I actually agree on that. He also took out the phantom that cornered me and Ben. Honestly, we all probably wouldn't all be here without him." Tyler says.

"U-uh not really- you guys did most of the work.." Logan began to say as he was a bit flustered by the compliments, he then got cut off by Tyler.

"Stop. You've barely had any experience with a gun outside of Aiden's air-soft, which i doubt comes anywhere near to the real thing. You should be proud." He tells Logan as he smiles.

I nod as Tyler words. "Yeah, Tyler's right. Plus, you shouldn't bring yourself down. You should take pride in your achievements!" I tell him as i chuckle.

Taylor nods and smiles. "They're right, Logan, you're really talented!" She praises him as she smiles.

"We should really do something to celebrate!" Aiden tells us as he continues smiling. Taylor then looked at Ashlyn with a curious look on her face.

"Ashlyn, are you okay? You haven't said anything, do you need to sit down?" Taylor asked Ashlyn a bit worriedly. Ashlyn shakes her head. "..No."

She smiles and chuckles. "I'm alright." Everyone looks at her with a flabbergasted look on their face as she smiles.

I look at her with stars in my eyes. "You look so pretty when you smile.." I mumble, it was loud enough for everyone to hear me. Ashlyn looks at me and she smiles in my direction.

"Other than that.. just a little.. dizzy-" Ashlyn says as she then passes out. We all panic as she passes out.

"Ashlyn!" We all yelled out a bit worried for our red-haired friend.

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Word count; 615
May 1ˢᵗ, 2024
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EDIT;
Word count; 682
June 19ᵗʰ, 2024

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