Uh, like I said I cut it short. So, here's the next part.


Dave leaned against the airport walls in the little town of Raleigh in North Carolina. Others around him said it was fairly large for them, but being from Houston, Texas, Dave begs to differ.

He had already rented a rental car for the weekend. Now, all it needed was it's passengers...Speaking of passengers, where the hell is Rose and Jade?

Right when he's about to leave them, he hears a honey sweet voice that rings clear as day in his mind, to the right of him.

"dave~!" Jade. He turns his head to see the two (late) teenagers. He then nonchalantly saunters up to them with a smirk.

"what took so fuckin long?" He jokes, making the two younger's smile at him.

"Hello to you too, Dave. Where is your luggage?" Rose asks, sarcasm laced into her tired voice.

"in the car." He directed towards it with a tip of his head towards a black and red sedan. Jade is slightly hesitant before she staggers alongside Dave and Rose.

"dave, doesn't that look, i don't know," Jade begins as they load their stuff into the back. "a bit shady?"

Dave shrugged. "i dont think so. i think its awesome." He grins. Of course, it would be rare to see him smile, but now that he found out that his best bro was alive and kicking, he couldn't help but smile all he could until he arrived there.

Jade sighed as she climbed into the front passenger seat. "everything black or red is awesome to you, dave..." She grinned back at Rose, who was smiling softly down at her notebook.

"rose, come on. pick your head up." Jade asked her blonde friend behind her by looking at the mirror in the middle of the windshield. Rose did so. "be happy. you're going to go see john. come on rose."

Rose chuckled. "Yes, I suppose I should be cheerful. Though, Jade, Dave..." Both teens began to listen, but Dave still focused on the road ahead of them. "What if it's not real?"

"what are you talking about rose?" Dave asked, looking at the GPS beside him. "i talked to him a few days ago and today. how could you say its not real?"

"Remember the dream bubbles? And how we could see the deceased? This could be a dream bubble. We could be living the lives we want to live, Dave. Who knows if we even beat Lord English yet? Dave, what if when we see him we jump out of the bubble and everyone is dead? What if you and Jade are dead when we wake up? I can't take anymore deaths, Dave..." Rose looked down at her lap with a forlorn look on her tear-beaten face.

Jade silences herself in thought of what to say next, and Dave turns into the city where John is supposed to live. Warsaw, Dave told Jade and Rose when they asked.

Dave pulls over to the side of the road with a confused look, not that the other two girls saw it through his shades. "uh..." Dave blinks. "why does john live in such a ghetto neighborhood?"

Jade smacked Dave's arm lightly. "dave!" He shrugged at that. "don't you think that's a bit rude to call such a lovely town 'ghetto'?"

Dave looks over at Jade with a smirk. "why do you think its rude jade? have you even been to a ghetto neighborhood?"

Jade puffs, looking away from him. "no, but that doesn't give you permission to-"

Dave sets his crimson eyes back on the road with an amused grin plastered on his face. "exactly you have no right to tell me otherwise jade because you havent been to one so hush."

Rose chuckles. "Dave, John (or so you say) texted you."

He picks up his Blackberry, looking through the messages. After a while, he turns it back off. "he said to find someone named cindy if i got lost which ironically i am."

A tap on the driver's side window causes Dave to look over. A black girl with rainbow-colored hair pointed to the window and down tot eh ground, meaning to roll down the window. Dave did so, and the girl rested her arm on the spot where the glass would come out of.

"hey, where ya guys from? at least you look from the U.S." She pointed to Dave with an pumpkin colored fingernail.

Dave nodded. "yea. im from texas and my friends here are from...out of country. were coming to visit our friend."

The girl raised a brow as she popped a bubble gum bubble. "oh really? i might know them. whats their name?"

"John Egbert." Rose calls from inside the sedan, still focused on her notebook She was actually reading from her book, but it was true, and the seemingly-young girl stood on her own two feet with a nod. "johnny boy? why you lookin for him? you guys friends with 'im?" She sounded like she was from Alabama or New Jersey with her heavy accent.

"uh, not meaning to be rude miss-" Jade began.

"call me cindy."

"okay...why do you talk like that?" Jade asked, obviously not getting that people take heavy offense to stuff like that. Thank god Dave said she was from out of country.

Dave hit his head on the top of the wheel. "oh my god jade..."

Cindy laughed heartily. "hell! it's fine boy! by the way, where is she from?" Cindy wondered with a devilish gleam in her eyes.

"Well, Cindy." Rose started, shutting her notebook. "Her name is Jade, and she's normally in isolation where she comes from. She doesn't have many people to talk to." Rose is a much better liar than Dave takes her to be.

"well, Jade." Cindy politely starts. "first of all, welcome to North Carolina. second, i picked my accent up from a friend. she's just outside a town if you need a place to stay. she's skilled with bargaining with higher ups." Cindy smiles. "hope you guys have a good stay. oh, almost forgot, john lives right over there."

She points to a rather blue house, not very surprising for John, around the bend up ahead. Anyone could see the clear skies from there, ah, the irony is everywhere.

Dave thanks her as she walks away. He starts up the car and starts driving before he turns very quickly, startling Jade and slightly stirring Rose.

"dave, you drive like a maniac! you're gonna kill us!" Jade states, realizing her poor word choice after she said it. "oops, my bad. duh."

Rose simply turns a page in her notebook. "Jade, I must warn you that Dave drives like that everyday. Even without his license in tact."

Jade swallows hard. "dave doesn't have a license?"

"No, I don't believe so."

"nah i dont what do you expect ive been playing a fucking demon game for the past three to four years."

"true, but still, it couldn't hurt to get your license."

"we wouldve had to wait longer to see john."

"You're really tied to this being the actual John, aren't you?"

"of course we are, rose. why aren't you?"

"I don't know...It's just...too soon, I suppose." Rose ended their conversation like that, with a comment that explained everything from the end of the game up until now.

John stood in front of his house, carrying a loadful of groceries on his scrawny arms. Dave swings into the small driveway easily, making John clap.

"still trying to be the monster truck driver with a van, huh? you should really stop doing that. you'll get arrested." John walked up to the three. "you do have your driver's license now, you know?"

Jade and Dave just looked at each other with a bewildered look, since they both thought that Dave didn't have a license. Rose was just as confused because she was looking at Dave with a confused expression.

"dave, did you forget that the school gave you your license before easter break?" John tilted his head to the side with a mock cheerful-really confused smile.

"hell i didnt even know i had a license." Dave cursed, remembering suddenly that his shades were still broken from the game. He really needed to replace those.

He traveled around to the back of the rather large sedan, gathering his shades from his jeans pocket. He replaced the shattered ones with the newer ones, pausing for a moment before placing them in a Ziploc baggie that Jade gave him for emergency carry-outs.

When he put on his shades, the bags of the groceries hit the ground, making the static-y sound that all bags make. Dave jumps, turning the corner of the car. He froze in his tracks. What caused his sister to have such an out-burst of emotion, despite the fact that she saw John die right in front of her...Wait, I take that back.

Jade smiles and steps backs a bit. She mumbles something to herself, and what? I will not tell you because I am awesome like that. { :) }

This sudden reverse of emotions from the two girls made Dave walk up beside Jade. Jade's eyes were half-closed in annoyance, as it seemed. She looked at the soon to be couple, as it seemed to her, with hesitance clouding the dreams in her normal cheery lime eyes.

She was so out of whack, she didn't even hear Dave walk up next to her.

"jade?" He called. No reaction.

"jade? hey jade?" Nothing but a blink.

"jade you there?" A sigh.

Dave shook the zoned out girl with worry. She blinked a few times before looking at Dave. "yea? what is it?"

He took a deep breath of relief. He knew it was uncool to not admit something, so he did admit that he had feelings for John's ecto-sister, and more than a friend. "you were just zoned out for awhile there. thought you went grimdark on me. ive had enough scare to last me eternity."

Jade smiled brightly at the slightly older teen, affection implanted in her eyes ever so slightly. However, it was enough to notice for Dave because he had the ability to notice the smallest of things. He had that since his bro died in the game. Unfortunately, the game was being to much of a bitch towards Rose and Jade's feelings that it didn't revive Dave's bro.

Looking up at the two in front of them, Dave whipped out his Blackberry. He went on the Internet on search hotels. Jade obviously didn't have a phone {duh, she lives in the middle of the Pacific people} because she watched him do what he did.

Once he found one, he went into the sedan and set the destination for future use. As they were done, John was scrambling for his bags with a deep crimson blush. {Ha ha ha. Rose, you decisive little genius.}

Rose, on the other hand, was smiling softly as she collected the grey Wal-Mart bags. {*laughs to myself* I'm sorry.} Dave harrumphed with a sense of familial pride, even though Rose wasn't even a sister. In a sense, she was his step-sister to everyone who didn't play Sburb. The only problem was...

John forgot everything about the game. Everything. From the Cruxitruder to God Tiering to taking the shot from Lord English. Everything. That is why everyone was so protective of him, ya know, dying and all.

Doesn't matter though. Everyone's here now. Feelings have arose, feelings of love, towards other friends. Rose is now with John, and they're thinking fo getting a house together when they get out of high-school, which is too far ahead if you ask me. Dave and Jade are being the normal couple, ya know...

The kind that fights from time to time, but makes up a few days later, except with a bit more irony and a little bit of music. That's a perfect Harley-Strider combo life, isn't it?


I'm so done with this fandom. It really makes me cry... D':