Autumn's POV
As we are flying back to the house where we stayed at last night, I hear yelling. Louis immediately brings us down to the street. Kora is on the roof, yelling. I'm about to tell Louis to fly me up, when Freddy's head pops out of the doorway. He motions us inside with his hand.
     "What's going on? Is Kora alright? What did you do to her?" I almost yell.
     "Shh... Ok remember when I sometimes get angry and snap? Well, yeah we just recovered from the sickness and I was not in the mood to play around... And I accidentally snapped at her. So she ran away... And here we are now." he explains.
     "Oh..." is all I say.
Flashback:
A sixth grade version of me walks up to Freddy. He looks really sad. I sit down next to him.
"Are you alright...?" I ask him.
"No." is all I get in response.
"Aww, c'mon! Cheer up! After all, tomorrow is winter vacation... And we have our Secret Santa in five minutes!" I say, trying to stay positive.
"Just go away Autumn..." he says.
"Come ON Freddy!" I say louder, trying to pull him toward the classroom where the Secret Santa would be held.
"LEAVE ME ALONE AUTUMN! I DON'T SEE HOW YOUR'E NOT UNDERSTANDING THAT THIS IS WHAT I WANT!" he yells.
I shrink back immediately, tears springing to my eyes.
"I just wanted to help..." I say, starting to cry. And then I ran away.
He looks regretful almost instantly but I don't care. I run to the courtyard in the school and sit on a bench in the corner. I don't care how cold it is outside, I just want to be away from Freddy right now.
The quiet boy from my class is the only other person outside. He's eating his lunch about 15 feet away, just looking at me curiously right now. He sets his food down and sits next to me on the bench.
"Are you alright?" he asks me.
I shake my head.
"Here, take my coat. You look cold. I have a sweatshirt on underneath so I'll be fine." he says, handing his coat over to me.
"Thanks," I reply quietly.
"Your welcome. I'm Louis."
"I'm Autumn,"
"Do you want to talk about what happened?"
"Not really... Just one of my friends is being weird right now and he's scaring me..."
"Oh. I don't have any friends..."
"I'll be your friend,"
"Really?"
"Yeah."
He hugs me suddenly. When he lets go, there's an awkward silence between us.
"Too soon?" he asks finally.
"Yeah..." I say.
For the rest of the week after that, I only hung out with Louis, ignoring all of my other friends, especially Freddy and all of his texts.
     I shiver as the memories pass through my head. Those were the weird days...
     Louis grabs my hand, giving me reassurance. Then I remember the good news.
     "Guess what Freddy?" I ask.
     "What?" he replies.
     "Well, this might seem weird but... I'm engaged."
     "Um... Wow that escalated quickly, um... congrats?"
     "Wow thanks for being excited," I say sarcastically.
     "Well I wasn't expecting this to happen this quickly! I though this would've come later, maybe a few months, years possibly..."
     "Whatever. But don't you dare tell Kora, I want to."
     "Ok, ok. Bye now I guess."
     Louis and I walked out of the building and Louis started to fly is back home.
     I lay my head against his shoulder and then I fall asleep, dreaming about what my wedding might be like.
Russ' POV
Sasha and I make our way back to town. It's dark outside. Then we hear yelling and someone crying. Footsteps pound on the pavement, the sounds getting farther and farther away.
We enter the square to find Freddy all alone, sitting on a mattress with his head in his hands.
"Are you ok?" I ask.
"No... I snapped and scared Kora away." he says.
I nod. Sasha and I have been his friends for a long time and he's snapped at us quite a few times, although it was the scariest the first time.
"Well, what about Kora? Do you think she'll ever talk to you again?" asks Sasha.
     "I have no idea. We just recovered from being sick an-" starts Freddy but is cut off by Sasha freaking out.
     And then she falls. Luckily I catch her. We lay her down on the mattress.
     "What do we do?" I ask.
     "We wait for her to wake up." responds Freddy.
     And that is what we do.
Sasha's POV
The memories of my family, disintegrating into that think, black, unnatural dust whirls through my head like a tornado.
Freddy and Kora were sick...? They could be close to dying, even if they thought they were healed.
The world around me starts to swirl and I stumble. Then everything goes black and the last thing I feel is Russ' arms.
I keep on thinking... Thinking about my family and all of those who died... It scared me to think about my friends like that. It scared me to think about one of them dying.
     For what seemed like hours I my mind kept on rambling on and on about sickness and death. Then the world starts to get lighter and lighter.
I open my eyes to see a worried Russ staring at me. Freddy was nowhere to be seen.
"Are you alright?" he asks me.
"Yeah... I'm fine." I reply.
He pulls me up so that I was standing on my feet.
"Come on... it's been about a half an hour so it's going to be really dark soon. Let's go to sleep." says Russ.
He tugs me in the direction of our bed from the night before. When we finally get there, I lay down and close my eyes.
That night, my dreams are filled with everyone I have known and loved before dying right before my eyes, turning into piles of dark gray, ash looking dust.
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Hello everyone! This is just a fill in chapter to show what some of the characters are up to at the moment. The next chapter will get more eventful... Anyway, I hope you liked this chapter! Comment ideas, mistakes, or maybe just what you thought about the chapter. Thanks for reading!!