After 15 minutes of walking in the rain, the group arrived at an old neighborhood with small houses that each looked the same. "Well...the blue one's mine.." Kalen said to the group as he pointed at a cornflower blue colored house. "We can camp here but no one's allowed in my room." Charlotte yelled as she ran to the front door. "Shit, Kal, it's locked." Kalen walked up and tried unlocking it but the key was the wrong one. "Did you seriously only grab the mailbox key?!" Charlotte rolled her eyes and did something to the lock, it opened. "Yea OK well locking my door isn't gonna be any help-" Kalen looked at her with his arms crossed. Dallas pushed through them and ran into the house. "Finally- warmth" he laughed and set down his stuff. "How many bedrooms are in here?" Dallas asked. "Three, and then there's the couch." Dallas nodded and threw himself on the couch. He pulled out his speaker and scrolled through a list of songs, eventually sweater weather started playing. "No one bother me, I'm vibing." He points to Charlotte and she rolls her eyes. Ryker then practically threw himself on top of Dallas, he then stole Dallas’ music and changed the song to Stupid by Brendan Maclean.
“ Hah- Deal with it!” Ryker laughs.
“ Agh- God, you’re heavy!” Dallas groans. And he tries to push Ryker off of him. "Kalen- help me- please-" Dallas looks at his friend and Kalen can't contain his laughter. He walks away leaving them alone and he starts watching Netflix. After a while of the two fighting over music, Kalen walks out of his room with a curious look. “Hey- ok- so this may sound ridiculous but you guys should watch Daybreak, it’s almost identical to everything that has happened to us-” Dallas and Ryker look at each other and laugh. “Yeah right, that’s not possible.” Dallas scoffs. Kalen rolls his eyes and goes back to his room. Dallas gets up and walks to the kitchen, “This place has everything!” he excitedly yelled as he dug through one of the pantries. “What are those- no way- Jackpot!!” Dallas pulled out a full container of oreos. He sat down on the couch next to Ryker and opened the container. Ryker reached for a cookie and Dallas slapped his hand. “My cookies!” he moved the cookies away and took out 5, he shoved them all in his mouth at the same time. “Jeez- slow down!-” Ryker said. “Let me be! I haven't had one in like two years!” Dallas said, his mouth still full of cookies. He grabbed the remote and signed into Hulu. “uhm...well- looks like there's only a few options, Stand By Me and all 3 of the IT movies-” Dallas pointed to the movies on the screen, he clicks over to the 2017 IT, “How about we watch these in order!” Dallas smiled and clicked the watch button, he rests his head on Rykers shoulder and watches the movie. They eventually watch it and move onto It Chapter 3.
“Hey looky looky-” Ryker points at Dallas in the movie “ That’s hot.”
Dallas rolls his eyes and laughs, pointing at the Ryker in the movie, “ Hey that idiot looks like you!” Dallas smiles and kisses Ryker on his cheek before getting up and grabbing his bag, he digs through it and pulls out Alorah’s purse. “I think I should probably give this back to her..” He thinks to himself “Hey, uh, i’m gonna go for another walk to look for Alorah, I’m gonna give her purse back to her.” he said to Ryker, “I wont get bit this time though!” He jokes. He puts the purse back in his bag and walks out the door, he turns and waves to Ryker, when he gets outside he plugs in his headphones and puts one in his ear so that he can still hear, “Now I can finally listen to sweater weather!” He walks for a few minutes and reaches the highschool. Everyone is gone except for Alorah’s ripoff Anderson car. He leaves her purse on the driver's seat since the window was open. Just as he was about to leave he heard someone say his name. “Oh, Hey Alorah..” Alorah smiles and steps up to him, “Hey, D.” she's blushing and holding her replica helmet in her hands “I uh, I just came to drop off your purse, I found it yesterday,” Dallas stuttered, she smiled and thanked him. He turns to leave but she grabs his hand and pulls him back. Before Dallas can say no she kisses him. It lasts for like 5 seconds before he pushes her off. “I just wanted that one last memory...You can go now…” Alorah nervously says, fiddling with her rings once again. Dallas smiles awkwardly and turns to go. Eventually he gets back to Kalen’s house and walks to where his parents slept. He sets his stuff back down and lays on the bed, confused, and overwhelmed. He grabs a pillow and screams into it again. “Fuck.” he whispers to himself. Kalen knocks on the open door and walks in. “Everything alright, D?” He asks. Dallas sits up and shakes his head no. “What’s wrong?” Kalen sits down next to him. “...She kissed me..” Kalen already understands what he means without any context. “Oh shit- I thought you dropped her?” He asks. “I did...but I went to go give her purse back to her and when I went to leave she just went for it...and the worst part is that I didn’t hate it...it weirdly felt right…” Kalen puts his hand on his neck and thinks for something to say. “Well who do you like more…?” He looks at Dallas. “I don’t know… on one hand Ryker and I have been best friends since kindergarten and whenever i'm around him my heart just about beats out of my chest, I don’t even know what I am to him...But Alorah..Ryker is my friend, we’ve barely had any moments that are more than friends, yet i’ve had so many with Alorah..and each one was so...electric. It sounds cheesy but it's true...I don’t know Kal...Im torn…” Kalen looks at Dallas and hugs him. “I'm sorry in advance because i'm about to sound really really cheesy, but follow your heart D. You might just need to get to know both of them better before you make up your mind. C’mon, i'll make some ramen and we can watch a movie.” Dallas looks up and smiles. He walks out of the bedroom and into the living room where Ryker is asleep and the credits of IT chapter 3 are playing. “Wake up douchebag” Dallas said as he playfully punched Ryker.
“ Gah!- Oh fuck you” He laughs and sits up. “ What do you need?” Dallas looks down the hall and points to Charlotte's room. “She hasn't come out all day, go get her, i'm gonna help Kalen make some food.”
“ Oh- Okay?” Ryker pulls up his pants as he stands up and walks down the hall, “ Hey Charlotte- I have an extension to your flamethrower, and some more poptarts?” He knocks on her door. No response. Her door is unlocked and slides open. Ryker walks in and sees the barren room and open window.
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Jailbreak
RandomDallas Conner was a normal teen boy, average grades, average popularity, bisexual, etc. He was best friends with one of the popular boys, Ryker O'Malley. They were friends since kindergarten and had been inseparable for Almost their whole lives, onc...