Halloween Town

5th

the next morning, corbyn was released and jonah was by his side. corbyn had his fingers entertained with jonah's as they wandered townsquare.

"thank you, for saving me." corbyn whispered.

"you're welcome, corbyn." he whispered back as they sat at a picnic table. a maple tree sat above them and leaves fell slightly.

"i'm glad i found you." corbyn leaned his head on jonah's shoulder and jonah laid his head on corbyn's head.

"i am too." jonah turned his head and kissed his temple. corbyn looked up at him and their eyes met.

"sup, bitches." they turned their heads away frim each other and looked at jack, daniel, eben, and adam walking towards them.

"hey, guys." they responded as corbyn sat up.

"how are you?" daniel asked as he sat down next to corbyn.

"better than i was yesterday." he smiled and daniel smiled back.

the rest sat down at the table. conversations started immediately and everyone seemed light-hearted.

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"who wants lunch?" jack asked as they were getting ready to go play a game.

"we'll eat after we play." the skele-boy nodded and kissed daniel's cheek.

"are they dating?" corbyn asked jonah and the brunette nodded.

"they have been for years." jonah replied and corbyn nodded.

"ah."

"yea." the two followed the group until a hamd gripped corbyn's arm. he turned and saw a familiar brunette.

zach.

"hey, can i talk to you?" zach asked as he eyed the group of monsters.

"sure? wassup?" he asked and zach eyed them again.

"alone." corbyn rolled his eyes gently. he let go of jonah's hand and the brunette furrowed his brows.

"i'll be right back." he told jonah and the brunette nodded. he walked away and underneath a tree. "wassup?" corbyn asked and zach sighed.

"i'm gonna give it to you straight here, corbyn. why are you hanging out with monsters? yes, you're half one, but still! why?" zach asked and the way zach said 'monsters' made corbyn's stomach twist.

"because i can, zachary. i'm seventeen. mom's gone. and dad doesn't care, so guess what? i'm going to hang out with people who wont try to hide the best part of me." corbyn spat back and zach sighed.

"corbyn, stop! they're monsters! you're not! come hang put with me, jason, and jules. jason wants to ask you something anyway." zach grabbed his hands. "please?" corbyn looked at zach, then at jonah, jack, daniel, eben, and adam, before looking over at jason and jules.

then he looked back at zach.

zachw as right. no matter how much he loved his new-found friends, jason, jules, and zach ha been there his entire life and he belonged with them more.

but he couldn't just blow off the gang by going off with these three. that would be rude and mean.

zach gave him his best puppy eyes and corbyn sighed.

"fine...just...just let me go tell the others first." he said and zach rolled his eyes.

"does it matter?" zach asked and corbyn bit his lip. yes, it did matter because it would be mean if he just left them.

no, it wouldn't matter because they'd do the same just like corbyn was taught.

"okay." zach smiled and drug corbyn away towards jason and jules. jonah looked over and saw corbyn walking away with the other three. the tallest had his arm wrapped around corbyn's waist.

"wha-?" he asked and daniel shook his head.

"every time." they continued on to the beanbag game they were going to play.

as corbyn walked away, he looked back and saw them having fun. he had a thought that he was doing the wrong thing, but an arm closed around his waist and jason smirked down at corbyn while the blonde smiled weakly back.

"don't worry about them, baby. I'll make you feel so much better." jason murmured into his ear and corbyn shivered. but something didn't feel right. he felt as if something terrible was going to come from this. and he was right.

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"jonah!" the blonde ran after the zombie. "jonah!" the boy turned around and corbyn crashed into his chest. "what's wrong?" concern was laced in corbyn's cerulean eyes.

"nothing's wrong, corbyn." he looked down at him. "just...just gove me spac." he turned and corbyn grabbed his arm. he turned jonah back to him.

he leaned up and their faces were mere centimeters apart. they were frozen like that. their eyes stared into the other before nervously looking down to the others lips. they moved closer until arms yanked corbyn back.

"yo, back up, bitch." jason growled and corbyn gasped.

"jason, you asshole!" corbyn shouted and pushed away.

"get out of here, freak." jason growled and jonah sighed. he turned and ran awya.

"jonah!" corbyn called after him, but jason grabbed his arms. "jonah!" his heart broke as he ran away. he pulled himself from jason's grip. "you're an ass!" corbyn growled then ran off in the other direction. jason rolled his eyes and followed the blonde, but at a leisurely pace.

meanwhile, jonah was sitting against a tree. he was thinking of the mistakes he made.

why was he so stupid?

why did he think a human was going to love him?

he stood up and let out a breath before heading towards the house. once inside, he walked to his bedroom and collapsed onto his bed.

his mind kslr wandering until finally, he fell asleep.