Post Death
Pre Death

"Okay, you guys!" Courtney Crimson shouted in her Katy Perry costume, crossing the gym. "Looks like we've narrowed down our finalists." She was announcing the costume contest. "We're going to choose the winner by applause. The costume with the most applause takes home two hundred smackers!" The crowd cheered, obviously excited to vote.

Elizabeth looked over at her boyfriend, who grabbed onto her hand. The two of them were, of course, finalists.

As Courtney passed by all of the finalists, she announced them, seeing who would get the most applause. When she called out Justin and Elizabeth, the audience erupted with applause. Elizabeth smiled as she looked up at Justin, and he wrapped his arm around her, obviously happy for once.

When Courtney finished, she crossed to the middle of the gym court. "I think we've decided on our winner!" She smiled before turning around. "Justin and Eliza!"

Elizabeth laughed as she wrapped her arms around Justin, pulling him into a hug. He kissed her forehead.

There were whispers from the crowd, for example "They're so in love" and "oh my god! Endgame!" Clay Jensen just rolled his eyes, not understanding the hype. Sure, they were cute, but his sister was dating an asshole. Clay knew Eliza deserved way better than Justin Foley.

Elizabeth frowned as she watched her brother get up and leave the gymnasium. "You okay, babe?" Justin asked her, furrowing his eyebrows.

"I'm perfect." Elizabeth nodded.

After the pep rally, Jessica Davis approached her best friend with a wide smile spread across her face. "Congrats, babe!"

"I mean, I won a costume contest." Elizabeth chuckled. "It's not like I won the fucking lottery."

Jessica laughed as Justin walked over to them, snaking his arm around his girlfriend's waist. "And here we have the second half of our winning team. Congrats to you, as well, Justin."

"Thanks, Jess." Justin nodded.

"I'm really happy for you two." Jessica looked between the two people standing in front of her. "I think that both of you have been through a lot, and you deserve to find happiness in each other."

"I love you, Jess." Elizabeth wrapped her arms around her best friend, pulling her into a hug.

*

Elizabeth Jensen stared down at her phone, trying to figure out who the two girls kissing were. She frowned. She simply couldn't do it.

"It's hot, right? The picture?"

Elizabeth turned to see Justin Foley standing next to her. "I've said it before and I'll say it again: you're disgusting."

"Well, am I attractive or disgusting?" Elizabeth looked at him with a face of pure confusion. "The last time we talked, you said I was attractive." Justin explained himself. "So, which one is it?"

"Just because you're attractive on the outside doesn't mean you're not disgusting on the inside." Elizabeth shrugged as she started to walk away from him.

Justin's next words stopped Elizabeth in her tracks. "Eliza, you gotta give me some help here."

"I don't want to be with you, Justin." Elizabeth frowned, not getting why he was not understanding that she was not interested.

"I know that's a lie." Justin took her hand in his. "Whenever I'm with you, I don't what happens. I just can't focus on anything else but you." He looked down at his feet. "I know you're only pushing me away because of Hannah." Elizabeth nodded. "So, if what happened to Hannah hadn't happened, you would say yes?"

"I don't know, Justin."

"What don't you know?"

"I just don't know."

"Just give me a chance." Justin ran his hand through his hair, obviously nervous.

"No. I'm sorry."

*

Elizabeth Jensen sat on the couch in Bryce's pool house as Justin paced around. "Babe, you need to calm down."

"No." Justin shook his head. "You're brother is such a little shit." Clay had sent a picture of Tyler Down's bare butt to the entire school, and Justin was freaking out.

"Why are you so upset about it?" Elizabeth asked her boyfriend as she stood up. "You don't even like Tyler."

Justin stopped pacing and looked down at Elizabeth. "It's nothing."

"Well, could you at least take it a little easier on my brother?" Elizabeth took Justin's hands in her own. "He's going through a lot right now, and I don't like it that you're just making it worse for him."

The boy looked down at the ground. Elizabeth has no idea why Justin was being an ass to her brother, but she loved him anyways. Justin wished he could tell her about everything with the tapes, but he couldn't. He could not let her know how much he screwed up when she asked him to watch Jessica for a few minutes, and if Elizabeth found out about the tapes, she would find out about everything.

"Yeah." Justin nodded, looking back up at her. "I'm sorry, he just gets to me."

"I get it." Elizabeth smiled. "But he's my brother, and I love him."

"I know."

"I love you, too."

Justin smiled in response, pressing a kiss against Elizabeth's head. "I love you more than anything, babygirl."

"Do you wanna watch a movie or something?"

"Yeah, sure. What movie?"

"Well, it's Halloween time, so-"

Justin rolled his eyes. "Please, don't say it."

"But I wanna watch Hocus Pocus." Elizabeth whined, wrapped her arms around Justin's neck. "And we don't even really have to watch it."

The boy smirked. "We can do Hocus Pocus."

"Thank you." Elizabeth giggled, moving towards the kitchen area. She popped a bag of popcorn into the microwave and started it. She glanced over at her boyfriend who was staring down at his phone. "No phones, please." She frowned. "You've already been distracted by it all night."

"Okay." Justin nodded, turning his phone off and setting it down on the table.

Rewritten
Word Count - 968

An: Here We go!

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Also, I'm super proud of myself because I put together those two gifs like wow.

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