Violet (VO) It's been five years since me and my best friends, The Benton Gang, have departed from each other. Arrington isn't quite the same anymore. Drugs, serial killers, and an infamous redheaded psychopath Eleanor Reese and her psychotic surrogate daughter, Scarlett Sweeney, to sum it up.

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CLAIBORNE, WYOMING

IN MY APARTMENT THE NEXT MORNING I'm jogging on a treadmill, listening to some electronica music on my Bluetooth earbuds.

My phone buzzes in my leggings pocket. I pulls out my phone and looks at it.

Maggie

I answer it with my Bluetooth earbuds. "Hey, Maggie. What's up?" I asked on my phone.

"Hey, Violet. And it's not good." Maggie tells me on the phone, worriedly.

I press the 'Stop' button on the treadmill and stops walking. "What's wrong, Maggie?"

"It's complicated, Vinny." Maggie said on the phone.

"Okay, I'm on my way." I said on my Bluetooth earbuds.

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HOMETOWN OF ARRINGTON —
JEN'S DINER

THAT AFTERNOON After I arrived back in the small town Arrington, the cab had dropped me off at Jen's Diner.

With my duffle bag, I slowly walks inside the diner. It's barely empty.

"Hi, Violet." Jen said, greeting me with a smile, sauntering up to me. "My goodness. How much you've grownup."

"Yeah. I know." I said.

Jen and I exchange smiles as we hugs each other and gently pulls away from the hug.

"How are you? How have you been?" Jen asked me.

"I've been pretty good myself." I said to Jen.

"Maggie's here." Jen said.

"Okay." I said, glancing at Maggie sitting in a booth table, and slowly walks up to her. "Hey, Maggie." and slides into the booth table across from her. "I came as I could. What's up?"

"It's not good, Vinny." Maggie said, glumly. "It's not really good."

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Maggie and I are slowly wandering around in Arrington. Trash is everywhere. Boarded up homes and closed down small shops.

"The small shops had closed down and went out of business." Maggie said.

"What about the garbage trucks?" I asked.

"It's a few of them." Maggie said, and we stopped walking. "And it gets more messed up."

"What do you mean by that?" I asked her, folding my arms.

"Eleanor Reese and Scarlett Sweeney had both escaped from the Arrington Asylum Facility five years ago." Maggie tells me.

"Oh, crap." I said, folding my arms. "I have to phone call the guys."

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THAT EVENING AT FLEURY MONNE SPEAKEASY LOUNGE

After making some phone contacts, I slowly walks down the four steps and into the dimly lit main room.

The Benton Gang looks at me sitting around on the three seat sofas and round lounge tables.

"Hey, guys." I said.

"Hey, Violet." The Benton Gang said in unison.

I gently sits atop of a round lounge table. "Guys, I know it's been five years since we've seen each other, but it's great."

The Benton Gang and I exchange small smiles at each other.

"But anyhoo, Maggie has told me that Arrington isn't what it used to be. "I said to my best friends." Small shops have closed down and went out of business.
Boarded up homes. Piles of trash. Arrington is ruined, but I know that we can clean it up, what do you guys say?"

"I'm in." Jonny said.

"I am too." Sonya said.

"Me too." Ava said. "Besides, you know we're all in, Violet. She added with a smile.

I smile. "Okay, then."

The Benton Gang and I exchange small smiles at each other.

"And there's something else. Eleanor Reese and Scarlett Sweeney has both escaped from the Arrington Asylum Facility five years ago." I tell them.

"Damn." Jonny said.

"I know. But what I do know, is that we can clean up the small town Arrington." I said to them.

"Like Ava said, we're all." Jonny said.

Jonny and I exchange smiles at each other.

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SPECIAL AGENT OPS FIELD OFFICE

That night, Maggie and I are sitting at the table, looking at a file folder. She said that there's a serial killer named The Scarecrow, who somehow, escaped from the Arrington Asylum Facility as well.

"I've been trying to track him, but it's no use." Maggie said.

"We'll get The Scarecrow." I said to Maggie, and glances at a picture frame of her and a guy. "Who's the guy?"

"My boyfriend, Craig Hudson. He and I have been dating for a while now." Maggie said. "But you can go ahead and go home, I'll let you know when I have something."

"Maggie?" Craig Hudson said, slowly walks down the stairs and into the main room and looks at me. "You must be Violet Benton."

"You know me?" I asked him, a bit bewildered.

"Yeah. Maggie has a graduation picture frame of you at our loft apartment." Craig said, and offering me his hand. "I'm Craig Hudson, by the way."

Craig and I does a handshake and gently pulls away from the handshake. "Nice to meet you." and glances at Maggie. "I'll see you around, Maggie. "Love you."

"Love you too, Vinny." Maggie said.

And I walks away.

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BENTON HOME

That same night, Jonny and I are sitting at the kitchen countertop, drinking bottles of cider.

"So, how have you been?" Jonny asked me, starting a small talk conversation.

"Hmm? Nothing much." I said to him. "You're not still mad at me for the special agent thing, are you?" I asked.

"It's been five years, Violet. I can't believe you still recall that." Jonny said, a bit surprised.

"Yeah. I know, but answer the question." I said, giving him a soften look.

"I wasn't mad. I was just worried." Jonny said to me.

"I'll be fine. I had special agent training at the special agent academy at Claiborne, Wyoming." I said to Jonny, and drinks the rest of my cider. "Gotta get some sleep."

I start to walks away.

"I love you." Jonny said, blurting it out.

I stop walking upon hearing Jonny's profession of Love; and turns around to look at him. "What?"

"I love you. I've always loved you, Violet."Jonny said, and slowly walks up to me.

"Is that you? Or the cider talking?" I asked him, bewilderedly.

Jonny playfully snicker. "It's me talking.
And I'm saying I love you, Violet Benton. After senior prom, me and Monica went to Jen's. I told Monica that we kissed. She wasn't a bit upset, but she already knew about the chemistry connection between us. And we broke up."

"I'm really sorry." I said.

"I love you, Violet." Jonny said to me.

I smiles a little at him. "I love you too, Jonny Harper."

Jonny and I exchange smiles at each other and we share a kiss. He and I exchange smiles at each other and we kiss each other, passionately, gently wrapping his arms around my waist and gently cups his face with my hands.

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After intimately consummating our relationship, in my nightly bedroom with my nightstand lamplight turned on, Jonny and I, both shirtless, wearing his boxer briefs and my undies, are laying in my bed with the plush thick lavender bedcover covering his lower half of his body and my torso and lower half of my body.

"Let me guess, you didn't want to lose your romantic chance again, didn't you?" I asked him, playfully teasing him.

"Not really no." Jonny said, sitting up sideways with the bedcover covering the lower half of his body and with his blue cobra tattoo on his right shoulder. "It's been five years since I've seen you, V. And when I saw you, I waited for the right opportunity to tell you."

I sits up sideways with the bedcover covering my torso and lower half of my body. "And your right opportunity was with a cider." I added, playfully teasing him again.

Jonny playfully chuckles. And so do I.

"I know a part of you blamed me for not reciprocating my romantic feelings for you when I had my romantic chance. And I shouldn't have gotten slightly jealous of Aaron and You, but I guess my heart truly wanted you. I love you, Violet." Jonny said with a smile.

"I love you too, Jonny." I said to him with a smile.

Jonny and I exchange small smiles at each other and we share a passionate kiss.

I then, notice Jonny's shaggy brown hair and gently soothes his shaggy hair. "You have shaggy hair."

"Yeah. I do." Jonny said.

Jonny and I exchange small playful smiles at each other and we both lays down on the bed.

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- 3RD POV -

After getting a Jen's to-go paper bag Maggie walks out of Jen's Diner and into her Volkswagen car.

Maggie then, adjusts her rearview mirror and sees Eleanor Reese sitting in the backseat of her Volkswagen car.

"Didn't mean to startle you, Special Agent Pollard." Eleanor Reese said.

"What do you want, Eleanor Reese?" Maggie asked her.

"The real question you should be asking is why I'm not choking you with my bare hands?" Eleanor Reese said with a straight face.

"So do it. Get it over with." Maggie said.

"And if I did, it wouldn't be much psychological fun, would it?" Eleanor Reese said with a sly grin and grips Maggie's throat with her hand, choking her. "I know Violet Benton and her little besties returned back to small town Arrington. I'll see you around, Maggie."

Eleanor Reese stopped choking Maggie and leaves out of Maggie's Volkswagen car.

Maggie pant to herself, composing herself.

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