Three hundred meters - that was the distance that separated them from the hotel.

They could see black silhouettes of phantoms wandering around and Logan gripped his gun tightly, ready to shoot. Aiden's smile looked hungry. 

"Be ready for an attack", Ashlyn whispered as they made it halfway. "They'll see us in a moment. Don't turn on your flashlights." 

The boys nodded and they came a little closer to the hotel, then she stopped. 

"What's wrong, Ashlyn?"

"Change of the plan," she crouched on the ground, they did the same. "I guess we won't get inside the building through the front door cause there's too many phantoms, Let's run and make it through the window. Aiden stop." 

"What? I did nothing!" 

"I say it just on the case you start running before I tell you to."

"I feel offended now."

"You should have thought about that before you jumped off the wall without a rope."

Aiden gasped dramatically. 

"How could you!?" 

Her mouth twitched in a small smile and she turned her head not to let him see. 

"Focus, Aiden. We don't want you dead again..."

"Ohe righty, I forgot you care about me that much-"

"...cause you won't be useful."

"Wha- damn! Fine, Pookie." 

"And don't call me that", she said just out of habit. 

"But you like it", he informed her. 

"Yeah I do, but now focus please. We should hurry as much as we can. Logan?" she looked at boy who was quiet. 

His gaze switched between him and her several times. 

"Umm, Logan...?" Ashlyn repeated, confused. "What's up?"

"Nothing", he replied slowly. "Nothing. Nothing at all. Don't mind me." 

Ashlyn glanced at Aiden, but he looked away. Her face  became noticeably hotter than a moment earlier, but she decided to ignore it. 

No time to think about it... about any unimportant matters.

"Well, okay." she turned back to another boy. "Can we... Logan- Logan! SHOOT!" 

A phantom behind him fell to the ground in the last second and Ashlyn jumped off the ground. 

"Great! We attracted them to us, we gotta run. Now!" Ashlyn rushed toward the building and she immediately  heard boys' steps behind her and covered her ears with her hands as phantoms started chasing them. She tripped over and Aiden held her up in the last second, always being there for her. She thanked him in her thoughts. 

She finally stopped at the nearest window and pressing her hands tightly to ears, turned to Logan. 

"Crash the glass with your gun!" 

He understood in a second and smashed the window. The shattered glass fell to the ground with a crash. 

"Go, Aiden" she pushed him to make him jump inside through the window and followed him, cringing because of gunshots. Logan joined them in the few seconds and they rushed to the door of the room they found themselves in. 

They got to the hallway and slammed the door. 

Safe.

That word echoed in her head. 

How funny - they weren't safe at all, but she internally needed the safety so much that her mind was freaking out, making safe anything that was simply 'more safe'. 

Aren't you hurt?" she asked and both boys shook their heads. "That's good. Let's move on." she glanced around the corner to make sure it was empty. "Clear!"

"Do you hear something?" Aiden asked as they moved along the dark corridor. 

"Only those phantoms we left outside. Well - I hope they're still outside." 

"So you hear them through the walls?"

"How do I know? I can't control this." (omg what if she could?? a/n) 

They moved on and the phantom noises finally dissapeared. Then Ashlyn suddenly stopped. 

"Wait a second... "

They stood in darkness, and it was quiet enough for her to heard their fast breaths. The noise shot her head and now Ashlyn was sure a phantom was coming from the opposite direction. 

"What do we do?" Aiden understood her look in the second. "Go back?" 

"That's only... Oh, dang." 

Two phantoms emerged from around the corner. 

"It's fine, we'll- Oh fuck" her head exploded in pain as more phantom sounds appeared. 

"We've got a slight problem..." Aiden pointed to the direction they came from - there were three more phantoms. Running towards them. 

"Guys! You distract those two on our way, and I'll go alone!" Ashlyn thought quickly. "Then fight the rest and stay here, I'll let you know when I'm there." 

"Good!" Aiden gave a thumbs up, and Logan raised his gun. One of the phantoms fell down.

"The second one for me!" Aiden announced, rushing at the phantom with the knife and in a moment Ashlyn jumped over a dead one and ran along the hallway. 

"Don't get yourself killed!" she heard Aiden's voice behind her and her heart tightened with guilt. 

"I won't", she whispered and turned the corner of the hallway. 

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