TAVERN BODGE LOCAL BAR AND LOUNGE CLUBHOUSE

THE NEXT MORNING, in the living room, Shane and I are sitting on the U shaped sofa, playing on the Xbox. And I'm wearing my hair in a ponytail as well.

"Did you have a nice senior prom?" Shane asked me with his eyes glued on the video game screen.

"Yeah. I had fun with the guys. We danced, drank fruit punch, and continued dancing." I said to him.

"Well, I'm glad you had fun. So, after you graduate, will you still be a Viper?" Shane asked me.

"Yeah, of course." I replied to him.

Aiden slowly walks into the Tavern Bodge. And he and I exchange glances at each other.

"Shane, you can go ahead and continue the video game." I said.

"Okay, but when you done, we're co-oping." Shane said.

"Okay." I said, gently setting down the video game controller on the coffee table and gets up, slowly walking up to Aiden.

"Aidy?" I said.

"I know you want to talk. So, can we talk in the garage?" Aiden asked me.

"Yeah, sure." I said.

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Aiden and I are sitting across from each other on the sofas. Talking about what had happened between us.

"Aiden, we can't talk about what happened in between us. It was just a tenderness moment that happened in between us, Aidy. Besides, you already have your on and off relationship with Gilmore on your shoulders." I said to Aiden, getting up and slowly walks away from him.

"But you know something's between us, Angie. I know it, you know it, even Yvonne knows it." Aiden said, getting up to his feet. "Why are you trying so hard to brush it off?"

"Because I love Rowan. And now, you want to be with me all of sudden." I tell Aiden. "We shouldn't have kissed and made out, Aiden."

"A part of you feels something for me, I know it, Angie. But I know a part of you still loves me, otherwise, you didn't stop us from kissing and making out." Aiden said.

"You want me now because Rowan and I are together, and you can't be with me because of your on and off relationship with Gilmore." I said, annoyed.

Aiden looks at me, bewildered at what I just said. "Angie?"

"Rowan loves me, and I love him. So, whatever tenderness that you and I shared, it's just over. I'm sorry, Aiden." I said to him, gloomily.

Aiden and I exchange glumly looks at each other. And he sits back on the sofa. And I gently sits on a stool chair.

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After my intense conversation with Aiden, I'm outside of the Tavern Bodge, getting some air.

Suddenly, a fabric bag is put over my head, and someone puts me in a sleeper hold, putting me to sleep.

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OAK VALLEY FOR TROUBLED PEERS

THAT EVENING, I regain my conscious and finds myself laying on a bed. I glance at a dress and slowly sits up straight.

The door opens. Miss. Bergstine slowly walks inside the room I'm currently in.

"Miss. Bergstine, what the hell's going on? Why am I here?" I asked her, bewilderedly.

"I cannot say." Miss. Bergstine said, and points to the dress, heels and the satin cropped jacket. "Amy Tooney wants you to get dress, and meet me in the main room."

"Miss. Bergstine?" I said.

But she walks away, not saying anything else as she closes the door behind her. I look at the dress, worriedly.

Now, dressed up, I slowly walks into the empty main room. And the Saunders Gang is there.

"Angie?" Robyn said.

"Guys?" I said, walking up to them.

But Amy Tooney grabs me by my arm. "I don't think so, Angie." She said in her English accent.

"Why am I here?" I asked. "And why are they here?"

"You're here because I want to do something for me." Amy said. "And your best friends are here for leverage, after all, I did poison them."

"What?!" Zach exclaimed.

"I poisoned you as well. But it's slow. You'll find the antidote in the backyard. Tick tock, Angie." Amy Tooney said, letting go of my arm.

The Saunders Gang and I walks out of the institution's back door. And outside in the backyard.

There are small buried holes in the backyard. I glance at a shovel and walks away.

I walks up to the first buried hole, digging up the dirt with the shovel in the process. After I finished, I put my hand in the hole and pulls an empty ziplock bag.

Oops! Try again. Is on the ziplock bag.

The Saunders Gang and I exchange worried looks at each other. And I become annoyed.

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Minutes after, digging up a few more buried holes with the same Oops! Try Again! Ziplock bags, I frustratedly slings the shovel on the grassy dirt ground.

"Damnit?!" I exclaimed, covered in dirt smudge on my cheeks, and dress, crouching down.

"Angie?" Aiden said, crouching down beside me. "You can't give up."

"I'm not. This is all my fault." I tell him, starting to sob softly to myself. "You guys are poisoned, If I don't find the antidote, you guys are gonna die. Plus, me."

"Amy Tooney can rot in a dumpster." Zach said, getting up and taking the shovel and walks over to another buried hole. He digs, and digs, and crouches down and pulls out a ziplock bag, containing the syringe with the antidote. "I have the antidote. But it's one."

The Saunders Gang and I exchange worried looks at each other. And slowly gets up to my feet.

"It has some dosage." Zach said, pulling out the syringe and injecting himself with it. "Yvonne." Gently tossing her the syringe.

Yvonne takes the syringe and injects herself and hands to Robyn, and she injects herself with it.

"It's one small dosage left." Robyn said, becoming worried, looking at both Aiden and Me.

"Take it, Aidy." I said to him.

"What?" Aiden said.

"Take it." I said, and falls onto the grassy dirt ground. "Take the dosage, Aiden."

"What about you?" Aiden asked me, worriedly.

"I'm more worried about you guys than myself." I said, and pants to myself.

"Angie, don't do this." Aiden said, crouching down beside me.

"You were right. I did feel something between us when we kissed and made out. But I brushes it off because I didn't to betray Rowan, but I am so sorry." I said.

"Angie?" Aiden said.

I take the syringe and inject Aiden in his arm, injecting him with the antidote and faints, laying on the grassy dirt ground.

"Angie?!" Aiden exclaimed, worriedly, and starts sobbing and he cradles me in his arms.

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