Lauren and Hazel walk as slowly as they can to the other side of the town where Jared was. Lauren looks down. "Are you okay?" Hazel asks her. "Hm? Oh, yeah. I'm just thinking about....Mike." Lauren answers as her eyes fill tears. Hazel nods. "L-Lauren?" A quiet but familiar voice asks. Lauren turns to her left to come face to face either Austin. She gasped as he pulls her into a warm hug. The two sob into each others arms. After a while they pull away. Lauren wipes her eyes as Austin smiles. "Oh my god!" Austin yells and grabs Lauren's hand. He pulls her through the town. Does he know that Mike's dead. Probably not. "Um Austin. Hey..can...please....just stop." Lauren says as Austin continues to run forward. Lauren sighs as he pushes her in front of him. She looks left and then right. Her eyes then go forward as she gasps and covers her mouth. "Lauren!" Mike tells. His eyes fill with tears as he stares at his girlfriend in front of him. "You're...dead." He says. She shakes her head as tears fall out of her eyes. Mike pulls her into a tight hug. Lauren silently cries as she hugs her boyfriend back as tight as she could. Mike and Lauren didn't notice that Juliet and Korey ran out of the woods and hugged Zach and Melanie, then Austin. Mike keeps smiling into the hug as tears fall down his face. Lauren wipes her tears and looks at the boy with tear stained cheeks. She grabs the sides of his face and pulls him in for a kiss. Mike grabs the back of her neck and kisses her back, just as passionately. Lauren and Mike smile into the kiss. Mike pulls away and points to Melanie, who was behind Lauren. Melanie's eyes had a couple tears in them as Lauren hugs her tightly. Lauren pulls away and hugs Zach. Zach silently cries into he hug. Dr Jared was somewhere with Hazel. Mike hugs Korey and they pat each other's backs. Lauren hugs Juliet quickly. She turns around and smiles at the whole group as they smile at each other too. Lauren hugs Austin again and smiles. Austin makes a gesture, inviting the others in for a group hug. Juliet hugs behind Lauren. Korey was next to her. Mike smiled and put one arm around Austin and the other around Juliet and Lauren. Melanie and Zach laugh. Melanie walks into the hug and puts one of her arms around Austins middle and he other around Korey. Zach chuckled as he hugged Korey and Juliet. The group laughed through their tears. They all finally pulled away. Mike wrapped and arm around Lauren and Zach. He smiled at the two. Lauren put her arm around Mike's waist and Melanie's shoulders. Melanie rested her head on Lauren shoulder and put her arm tightly around Austins middle. He laughed and put his arms around Melanie's waist and Korey's shoulders. And the group sat there smiling at each other in a circle.
Safely.
