Can't It Be A Happy Ending?

If I hold your had and never let go, will you stay with me for this moment? Forever? Or will you find a way to sneak away when my hold becomes limp?

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A gasp, and drops of sweat flying. Kai's eyes were wide as he panted unevenly and the maid at his bed squeaked when he glanced at her. He sprang out of the covers, not thinking about how messed up the covers had become when he tossed them aside. He scrambled to the door and ran out. He raced through the neighborhood and stopped after a few minutes. His breathes heavy as he glanced around as the houses blurred and electrifying sounds vibrated through the air. His ears started ringing with peoples voices. The maid had run out too, standing at the door way calling out Kai's name, the male didn't reply, the ringing in his ears was too loud to hear the worried maid at the door.

"Please stop."

"Run."

"Stop fighting!"

"Please just go back and pretend for the sake of yourself."

"Please save yourself."

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"Please save me"

Kai was hyperventilating and soon enough he fell to his knees.

His scenery changed as he was now in front of the usual music place he came to every morning before this day. He sat on the ground, his breathing uneven as his thoughts were soaring, fear--no confusion circulated his head. Everything started spinning in his head as he tried everything he could to make himself stay conscious. "Hey. Are you okay?" a male voice snapped him out of his distress. Those same light gentle eyes, stared in to his. Kai stayed quiet and didn't answer, darting his eyes away from the brunette, earning an exasperated exhale from Nixon, who instantly sat down in front of the ravenette. Nixon raised an eyebrow once again catching the males eye. "This reminds me of yesterday, any idea why?" Nixon's voice was husk. Kai exhaled a very quick breath as Nixon leaned towards him. He gulped, his green eyes wide staring in to the lighter one.

"..You were a dragon," his voice came out very low, barely audible. Nixon's eagerness to tease the male fell instantly as his face twisted in to a serious expression.

"What?" he asked, his voice also low, understanding its best to be quiet.

"You... you were the only one who didn't want to kill me," Kai spoke, his body relaxing from the tension he didn't realize was in his body.

"What?" he repeated once again, his gaze turning confused.

"Well look at this, isn't this just adorable?" Ember's voice startled the two boys. They abruptly turned their heads and scrambled to get up but failing miserably, resulting in Kai tripping over his own leg and falling again, pulling Nixon down with him. Nixon hissed and Kai growled as Kai pushed off the brunette and got up.

"Ember this isn't what it looked like." Kai started. Ember rolled her eyes and shook her head in response to his attempt to hide the fact in the kind of situation they were just in.

"Oh really? That position didn't look friendly at all, I was almost ready for you both to make out." Ember teased, smirking and giving Kai a wink while Nixon was still cleaning himself off from the fall. Kai took a deep breath, his attempt to not flush pink had failed, bringing even more humor to the blond.

"I regained some of my memories, and.. I heard something." Kai started, ignoring the fact his face was still flushing pink. Ember's joyful mood faded and was replaced by a curious expression. "Nixon..was a dragon..and for some reason everyone hated me. My mom talked about illegal love and she was..she had pointy ears." Kai spoke, gesturing his hands even more then he was speaking. His hands had been shaking. "And when I woke up, I ran to the street, and I heard voices telling me to go back, to turn back and to save myself. And then followed by a tiny voice telling me to save them. But that voice...was so familiar.." he trailed off, his eyes darting back and forward.

"Hey guys! What's with the long faces?" I cheered as I approached the three. Kai eyes widened and he pointed at me, I shot him a look of curiosity.

"It was her voice. Hers." Kai said breathlessly, Ember's and Nixon's eyes darted towards me with confusion..maybe panic...? I blinked a couple times and gave them a wry smile.

"Did I do something?" I asked, glancing at them confused, also a little anxiously.

Kai re-explained everything to me from what I had missed by my very late entrance. By the time he finished explaining the lady who always is watching us had come out.

"You're all here early!" she exclaimed, a smile spread on her face, not a glad smile. It was a suspicious smile, her eyes seeming to be carefully examining the four of us. Kai was bending over towards me, from when he explained what happened, he straightened his body out and met the woman's gaze. "Is there something that bothered that got you to come so early?" her voice sent shivers of fear down our spines.

"Kai had a bad dream!" Ember exclaiming, but she had stuttered. The woman tilted her head.

"You kids keep pushing in the wrong direction. Are you sure you want to keep remembering the memories you did everything to forget?" her expression had become more serious, her eyes sharp. Silence had fallen upon us.

"Memories we did everything to forget?" Nixon repeated, his voice airy. Nixon glanced at us, and we all met each others expression of fear and confusion. The woman chuckled softly.

"Again. It's entirely your choice." she turned around with that, and walking towards the building, before going in, she turned around and met the teens expressions. "You can live here, in everlasting happiness, away from the world or you can realize why you came here in the first place." she added, her face holding secrets they wished they understood. Nixon started laughing, loudly and startled all of us.

"Bullshit!" he screamed, the woman was already gone from their sight. Ember ran over to him, grabbing his arm and opening her mouth to calm him down. He aggressively pulled his arm away from her, and turned towards her. "Can't you see that this a jail!? We break rules everyday and this is just a jail, nothing is real. Would you really rather be here in a fake place with not a single person whose real with no real memories just the ones we receive here!?" he screamed. We all hung out heads low. What was going on? I didn't understand, I had wished, I never knew anything from the beginning. I felt a hand on my shoulder, getting me to raise my head and meet Kai's gentle glance.

"Eden, you're not alone." he whispered. It sounded like a secret, while Nixon was yelling with Ember at his side trying to get him to hush and calm down. He smiled and brought his thumb to wipe tears away, not knowing when I began crying. He moved his hand away from my cheek, and stroked my head comfortingly. I blinked once, and lowered my head, gazing at the ground rather than the black haired boy in front of me.

"Are you okay?" Ember's voice made me snap my head up, and Kai to move away with a soft sigh. She brushed my hand, carefully taking my hand. I removed it away from her sharply and shoved it in to my pocket.

"Now what?" Kai asked, by Nixon's side who seemed to have calmed down.

"I'm scared." I whispered so silently I was surprised to see Ember's stare change. She scooped my hands, holding them in hers and brushing her thumb along the back of my hand. Her eyes sparkled as she gazed in to my eyes with sincerity.

"Don't be scared, you're not alone. Eden, you have us." she comforted.

"Yah. Can you all actually cooperate? Get over here!" Nixon snapped, making us both jump away from each other and join Kai and Nixon who were already sitting on the ground with a pencil and paper, that god knows where it came from. I sat down and glanced at the sketches on the paper and sighed drastically.

"You call this a plan? This is chicken scratch!" I insulted, earning a deathly glare from Nixon. He pointed the erase end of his pencil at me threateningly. I rolled my eyes, not awaiting for his remarks before glancing down again at the paper, trying to piece one-and-one together through his illegible writings on the paper.

"I'm doing my best." he hissed, lowering his pencil down to continue drawing and making small notes beside the drawings he drew. This man was blessed, his writing is illegible too. I exhaled a long breath. "Wait." Nixon paused, his pencil freezing as he brought to his lips and pursed his lips, glancing between the three of us. "I haven't been caught yet." he proclaimed and hissed softly in wonder. "I wonder what I can't do then.." Nixon hummed in thought.

"Is there something you absolutely hated?" Ember asked, and the brunette hummed in thought.

"Mushrooms." We all glanced at Kai, who had said the word, confused. "I think Nixon, hated mushrooms." Kai added, clearing and averting his eyes. With that Ember get up abruptly, and ran inside the building, returning shortly with food. She sat down and offered it to Nixon who gave her a suspicious look.

"We'll find out. Eat." she offered and he backed away from the tray of food in fear.

"What's this?" he asked, disgusted suddenly by the food. Ember pushed on the plate until he gave in and took the tray. Nixon started on munching away at the chicken spaghetti, in general he seemed to be extremely satisfied with free food. Before long, the four heard footsteps and a very disappointed exhale. "Looks like Kai was right." Nixon shot Kai a small smile with his cheeks stuffed with food. Nixon had gotten up and left the plate of chicken spaghetti empty, and turned his heel to face a woman who squeaked innocently. "Who are you?" he hissed, before the woman sighed and drew a circle with her finger before her. A black hole appeared where she drew the circle and stood there with her hands welcoming Nixon to step in. The brunette glanced at Kai, before stepping in, and disappearing instantly.

"Do you think he'll be okay?" I asked worriedly. I received silence as a response.

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The brunette stepped in to the room, his hands in his pockets and he didn't dare glance around. What made him glance around was the heavy feeling he was being watched, he turned his head to the left and he almost felt as if his soul left his body. Eyes full of sorrow and fear seemed to be staring at him. But they were only frames.. right?

"I'll keep this short." Daemon's voice came from the front, snapping Nixon's attention away from the frames, unaware how close he had come to one. Nixon heard his footsteps as he came closer, before he met his dark, evil eyes of pure hatred.

"Are they real people?" Nixon asked, his voice growing soft with fear.

"He didn't tell you?"

Nixon's eyes snapped away from the wall back at the creator, his eyes full of fear as he snickered with an edge. "Be careful what you're walking in to, boy." Daemon stroked the boy's cheek, who shook and backed away against the wall away from his touch. With that his vision had gone black, and fear seeped in to his mind.

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It was modern day, both were still in middle school. Trees and nature surrounded them, a ashy cement pathway leading further into the park, with distant sounds of cars driving by and soft chirping of the birds coming from the trees.. "Nixon!" Kai called out, getting the brunette to turn towards the ravenette. Kai beamed as he approached Nixon and planted a gentle kiss on his cheek. "Are you ready to go?" Kai asked, intertwining their fingers. Nixon nodded, returning the same excitement with a sweet smile. The two had begun on their way, walking at first before picking up their speed, and running letting go of each other's hands. As they ran down a few run down buildings came to sight, simple buildings that were simply vacant of their previous owners from the past. Laughter filled the air, happiness flooding them both sending them on cloud 9 as they ran, their lungs soon burning. The two boys hopped on a tree and on to the roof. Before scrambling up to the top of the red rundown roof. Nixon held out his hand, clinging on to the pole on the roof, and Kai momentarily took it as Nixon helped him up. They continued chuckling happily, before they sighed simultaneously and sat down carefully on the roof. Nixon leaned on Kai's shoulder as the two listened to the sound of the wind rustling the tress and the yelling of the kids underneath them. Nixon raised his head and met Kai's eyes.

"Do you think this will last?" Nixon asked, his eyes twinkling with unshed tears from laughing so hard previously. Kai gazed at him blankly without a response. Nixon narrowed his eyes, and took Kai's hand in his own. "Will we last? Will this last? We're only 14.. I don't want to let this go." Nixon whispered softly. Kai ran his thumb against the back of Nixon's hand, not breaking their gaze and gave him a small smile. Kai leaned in and pecked Nixon, getting the other to flush with embarrassment. "Hey! Don't just-" Nixon hissed, as Kai glared at him, instantly pointing down, signaling to shut up or they'll be heard by the people who were passing by giving them strange glances. Nixon clicked his tongue. "Don't just ignore my question and have our first kiss like that." Nixon whisper-yelled. Kai simply snickered.

"I thought this wasn't your first kiss?" Kai raised his eyebrow.

"I meant between us two, dummy.." Nixon responded, clicking his tongue and averting his gaze.

"I want this to last." Kai whispered getting Nixon to gaze at him again wordlessly.

"Me too."