Year one, Halloween.

"Come with me and you will see. This, our town of Halloween..." the movie played as background noise. The two teens snuggled up together on the couch. Jenna played with Tyler's soft hair as he slept quietly.

Jenna was close to dozing off as well until the doorbell rang. She had to get up off of Tyler to go to the door since her parents left her the responsibility of handing out candy. She opened the door revealing; little red riding hood, a vampire, a transformer, and iron man. Jenna smiled sweetly as the children said, "Trick or treat!"

She held out the bowl for the kids. "Now let me guess, Little Red Riding Hood, Dracula, Iron Man— great choice if I may say so— and... a transformer but I do not recall which one." She said.

The transformer lifted up his mask to reveal a toothy grin, "I'm Optimus Prime!" He cheered. Jenna laughed at the kids enthusiasm and handed him another candy.

When they left, Jenna turned back towards the television to see Tyler looking back at her. "Wanna go out?" She asked, "I can stick the bowl in front of the door so we don't have to hand out candy. We can go to Taco Bell or something."

Tyler shrugged, "I'm good with whatever you want to do," he said. He was already tugging on his jacket. Despite their original plans of staying inside all night, the couple still dressed up for Halloween. Tyler was wearing suspenders that uncomfortably held up his pants and he slid on some obnoxiously white shoes that could be seen from a mile away. Jenna stared at him, enjoying the view of her 1980's themed boyfriend. She didn't admit out loud but Tyler looked good in glasses, really good.

Tyler caught Jenna staring at him. He smiled and tossed over her own sequin decorated jacket. "Let's not stay out too late?" Tyler suggested. Jenna nodded knowingly.

***

It was quiet at night. Josh looked around the streets of the city. He hid behind a building that looked old enough to collapse any second. When he was sure that all the streets were clear, he moved more into the open.

"Boo!"

He jumped back, tripping on himself and falling to the ground. He looked back to see Debby laughing on her knees. "You're a bitch you know that?" He said trying to get his heart rate back to normal.

"Oh shut up, you love me," Debby wiped a tear coming from her eye. Josh's face became red, his cheeks heated. He got up and helped her up.

"What are you doing out here?" Josh asked.

"Following you," Debby responded, "you know that kids are running around at night in masks? Perfect for bishops to hide and steal more citizens for this prison."

Josh looked at her, "How do you know that?" He asked.

"Almost escaped last year at this time. Then I got caught and well ya know."

Josh thought for a moment, "what if we escape tonight? If one of us makes it out then we can get help."

Debby frowned. she knew what he was talking about and how it could never work. "Josh, it's dangerous—"

"What's more dangerous than being here? Debby, you're two marks away from getting sent somewhere even worse than here. There's no way I'm gonna let you get hurt. Please, if we have a chance, let's take it."

Debby pouted, her eyes calculating every possible problem they could run into. "Josh,"

"No, you're going to get out of here."

"I'm not ready to say goodbye to you!" Debby said. Josh looked shocked at her. He reached out for her hand and smiled slightly.

"Debby, I'm not planning on saying goodbye to you forever," Josh said softly, "but I don't want to be stuck in this hell hole for the rest of my life."

"Neither do I but we can die escaping. We're basically digging ourselves into an earlier grave," Debby said, trying to smack some common sense into her friend.

Josh sighed, "Maybe dying is better than staying here and living some black and white life-"

Debby laughed uncomfortably, "Josh, please never say that again," she said, "there's no way you're going to die. We will not die. I can't have that. You are my only friend and I can't lose you."

Josh looked around uneasily, "Debby, we have family out there. There's police out there! Don't you think that we can get help from outside of Dema? We can prevent anyone from being dragged here again!"

Debby sighed, suddenly going up to Josh and pulling him into a hug. Josh's heart was beating fast, unsure of what he was supposed to do in this situation. "Josh, please don't leave me," Debby mumbled into his shirt.

Josh wrapped his arms around her, "I can't let you get hurt."

"Then I won't," she looked up at him, "I'll obey all the rules until we find the perfect way to get out of here. Okay?"

Josh's heart was breaking just looking at her. He wanted to do anything to make her happy and smile but he felt that he couldn't do that in Dema. Unwillingly he heard him say, "Okay" just to assure her that he won't let her stay there forever.

***

"Hey bitch! Back the fuck off!"

Tyler said to some guy that had been following him in Jenna for the past minute and a half. He looked old and wore a strange red cloak.

"Ty, let's just go back to my place and eat, okay?" Jenna said pointing to their bag of Taco Bell and trying to keep her protective boyfriend from getting too mad at some random old man.

Tyler kept looking back at him, felt like a bad feeling was following him. "No, I don't like it. And we're not just going to let him follow us to your house."

Jenna rolled her eyes, "Look at him," she said pointing out the obvious, "he's limping, what damage could he do?"

"I still don't like it."

Suddenly, Jenna was being dragged back by the old man with incredible strength. Tyler blinked and panicked. He brought himself to grab a chalupa from their bag of Taco Bell and throw it at the old man.

He ran after them, getting unpleasant dejavu. Jenna looked as if she was dead and he horribly wished that she was just unconscious.

Tyler ran faster, adrenaline flooding him with fear. "I'm not losing you too!" He called out to his girlfriend. He caught up and somehow pushed the man to the ground and falling hard on the asphalt of the street.

He scrambled back up, despite his scuffed up knees and elbows stinging in pain. He looked towards Jenna to see her laying on the ground still unmoving. The man that he had been running after is nowhere in sight.

Tyler sighed, thinking, what the hell just happened?

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