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Gravedigger jumped out from behind the
tree and started to pursue Adrian.
    “Rachel! Run!
Save yourself!”
    “No! I’m not
leaving you!”
    “Go now!”
    The Gravedigger
attacked Adrian. Rachel started to scream.
    ***
    “Oh my God.” I
turned into Sean’s shoulder. He put his hand on my head and told me it was
almost over.
    ***
    Rachel turned
and started to sprint, screaming for help as she did. The Gravedigger was
faster though. He soon caught up to her and attacked her as well. The scene cut
to the townspeople coming across their dead carcasses. Then, the screen faded
to black and the credits started to roll.
    ***
    As the lights
came up, I realized that I still had my head buried in Sean’s chest. He seemed
to have also become aware of it. There was a sudden tension in both of our
bodies and I glanced up.
    “You okay there,
Sam?” he asked, half amused.
    “Oh, shut up,” I
said as I lightly slapped his shoulder, stood up, and stalked off as far as I
could.
    “Hey! Wait up. I
was only kidding,” he said, catching up to me.
    “Yeah, and now I
won’t be able to sleep for weeks.”
    “I’m sure you
will,” he disagreed.
    We walked to his
truck and once again he helped me up. The drive to my house was silent, but it
wasn’t awkward this time as we both seemed to be lost in our own thoughts.
    There seemed to
be something between us, something that neither of us wanted to admit…well,
something that one of us didn’t want to admit. What if this whole night
was just two friends hanging out and I just got it mixed up? What if all the
messages that I read as him liking me were really just nothing? I wanted to
know how he really felt about me, but I was too afraid to ask.
    He pulled into
my driveway, got out of the truck, and came over to my door. He opened it and
held out his hand for me to get out of his truck. For the second time, I fell
into his arms, but this time, he didn’t let me go. I looked up at the stars
just in time to see a shooting star blaze across the sky.
    “Make a wish,
Sammy,” Sean whispered.
    “Only if you do.”
    “Alright.” We
both closed our eyes and made a wish. I made the same wish that I always
made…that he would come to his senses and go out with me. When I opened my
eyes, he was looking at me with uncertainty in his eyes. I tried to make my
departure smoothly.
    “I had a good—”
    Suddenly, his
lips were on mine. My body was going against my better judgment, but the line
had been crossed and there was no going back. We moved up against his truck as
my hands slid up to his face. Our lips glided together like waves washing up on
the beach. The world seemed to disappear. All of my worries just vanished and I
was lost in the moment…we were both lost in the moment. Then, as suddenly as it
started, we both realized what we were doing, and he pulled back from our
embrace.
    I stared at my
feet and mumbled, “Thanks for taking me to the movies. I’ll see you tomorrow.”
I turned and ran into my house, shutting the door behind me. The movie isn’t
going to be the thing keeping me up tonight .
    ***
    I made sure
everything was locked and drug my feet up the stairs. My head was buzzing. What
did this mean? What was he going to do about Tasha? How could I have been so stupid? I opened the door to Sarah’s and my room to find Sarah lying on her
bed—awake, of course, typing away at her laptop. Why does she have to be
awake tonight, of all nights ? We had plenty of space in our house for us to
have our own rooms. Sarah and I shared more out of habit than anything else,
but at times like this I wished I had my own room.
    She looked up
and stopped typing as I softly shut the door behind me.
    “Holy crap, Sam.
What happened to you?”
    “I did something
terrible,” I told her as I dropped my bag to the ground and sank into my bed. I
began to tell her everything, from the first awkward embrace, to my head in his
shoulder during the movie, to our parting kiss.
    “Wow,”