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Different. J.

This is going to be so weird. I wonder how people live down there... Pine told me that the weather is a lot warmer. Her grandparents knew a lot about the past and how it used to be. They haven't shared that kind of information with anyone outside of their family though.

June and Vapor made it to the actual end of the corridor. It's empty. But it does have an exit.

"Oh my god." says June.

Vapor stopped the engine. "This is actually it."

"We did it!"

"Shh." Vapor hushed her, "There's still an echo. And there is still a door. A 500 pound, 15 feet tall, 10 feet wide, bullet-proof, heat-proof, and undestroyable door, with a code."

"We nearly did it?"

Vapor sighed.

They both got out of the mini truck and walked over to where they had to put in the code.

"Numbers? What four numbered pin could it be?" asked June.

"Well, I don't know." Vapor studied the touch screen where the numbers appeared. "There are so many options, so many different pins. There's like never ending compositions. Never ending sequences, patterns to this code that could be the correct pin." Vapor looked back and stared at June. "What are you doing?" he started to panic.

"What? I don't wanna wear this mask anymore. Or the eye lenses. Seriously, how can you live with those things on your eyes twenty-four seven?"

Vapor froze, "You know what twenty-four seven means?"

"Yeah.. Like, always or forever right? Every hour of every day of the week..."

"Yeah..." he shook his head. "Why are you taking those off? What if we have to go back? They can't see you like this."

June put her hand on Vapor's shoulder "Calm down Vapor, I'll put them back on if I have to. My eye's are just hurting right now, and my face is ichy."

"Fine."

They looked at each other for a couple of seconds. June studied his face. His eyes were darker than she remembered and his cheekbones sharper. She could see the couple of freckles that he had on his nose, and the way he looked at her, as if he was doing the same thing that she was.

I missed that stupid face of his.

"Could the pin be one, two, three, four?"

Vapor laughed, "You're funny."he said, going back to the touch screen, like staring at it would open the door.

"Actually, I'm serious. They could of made it one, two, three, four because they'd think that someone that wants to go through that door, that doesn't know the password, wouldn't think that it's one, two, three, four."

"You're just confusing me.. And probably yourself too."

June sighed, "Then what do you think it is?"

Vapor studied the numbers... "Hmm... Two, six... One, five." He looked at her for approval.

"What?"

"Two, six-"

"No, I heard you.. But why two, six, one, five?"

"Because that's the year when the walls were made."

"Oh.."

Vapor looked back at the bright screen, "Should I try it?"

"I'm a pretty big risk taker if you haven't noticed just yet.. So, sure."