Halloween Night

Chapter 26

Suddenly there was a beep from Austin's phone. "Dez texted back!" Ally yipped, quickly.

"They locked me in the toilet. Where is Trish?" The text read.

Ally ran her fingers through her hair in frustration. "They took Trish." She told Austin.

"I know. I saw. I was going to go after her," Austin whispered. "But I had to make sure you were safe first and...they got away."

"Shh. It's okay. It's not too late." Ally comforted him, moving closer to him. "We just need to get Dez."

Austin nodded. "But how?"

"I...have no idea." Ally admitted. She looked back to the haunted house seeing plenty of ghosts, zombies and vampires haunting the grounds. "He's in the port-a-potty. If I can just get there unseen..."

"No way in hell." Austin spat. "I'm not risking you." He told her, sitting and seeming to recover nicely. He pushed the hair out of her face.

"But we can't just leave them for dead!" Ally argued.

"You mean like we did with Trent and Bella?" Austin said.

Ally began to cry, not realizing what they had really lost that evening. "I'm sorry." Austin whispered, hating to see her cry and being the cause of it. "I didn't mean it."

"We can't lose anymore friends tonight, Austin." She cried.

"Ally, I can't lose you..." Austin pleaded with her.

She looked out of the corner of her eye, a ghost face was walking their way. "Austin, where is that knife?"

"It's poking me in the leg." Austin commented, grabbing it out of his pocket.

She grabbed it from him with her good hand. "Stay down!" She said in a hushed voice and stood quickly out of his grasp.

"Ally? Alls?" Austin whispered after her.

Ally was scared our of her mind but knew she had to act quick. The ghost was coming their way and she had to do something to save her friends. Even if she knew what she was about to do would haunt her forever.

"Hey there ghost face!" She lured him in with a grin and he started towards her quickly.

"Ally?! What are you doing?!" Austin asked, starting to get up.

"Please, shhh. I know what I'm doing...I think." She whispered, gently pushing him back down. She hid the knife behind her back until he got close enough. Once he reached her she pulled the knife out from behind her back, stabbing the ghost in the gut. She breathed out a sigh and cried a little for the man she just killed.

Ally Dawson never thought for even a minute, that she could one day kill someone. She couldn't even kill a fly for god's sake, and here she is, knife in hand having just stabbed someone. She never imagined she would be fighting for her life either. All in one night, her whole world has changed forever.

She looked around to see if anyone saw her as the ghost-face collapsed on her. She grabbed him by his underarms and dragged him back, dropping him next to Austin and ducked into the ditch.

"Shit...holy crap, Ally!" Austin almost screamed. "Are you okay?"

"Not really." She admitted. "But I had to do something to save some lives here."

"Is he really...?" Austin trailed off.

"Yes. He's dead." Ally whimpered.

Austin frowned. "We really are never going to be the same, are we?" Austin muttered.

Ally frowned and crawled into Austin's lap. "No Austin. We won't. But we have to make sure we get out of this together. Because all of that stuff you talked about in there, about team Austin and Ally?"

Austin nodded. "Yeah?"

"I want that. I need that with you." She felt tears falling down her face. Austin reached up and wiped her tears away. "I love you, Austin."

"I love you too, Ally. I'm so, so sorry this is happening." Austin looked at the body next to him. "But, you were right to do is kill or be killed."

Ally nodded, and pulled the mask off the man. He looked like a regular, everyday guy beneath his mask. Nobody they recognized.