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True One
Chapter Three: Somewhere Down the Road

Early dawn was beginning to come over the grassy horizon. Light pierced through the cloudless sky, while Seth and his friends looked on in horror. The place where their home once was had vanished.

"I'm dreaming…" Seth thought, "I have to be." The boy was weak in the knees, and couldn't muster enough strength to stand. June and Kira apparently felt the same. They were still lying on the ground.

Garrett was the only one of them who was on his feet. "How could this happen?" he said in confusion, "Where did everything go?"

Kira was speechless, while June seemed to be the only stable one at the time. "Guys," she said calmly, "we're not at the same place we were last night."

"What?" Garrett asked, "We're not?"

June pointed at the long dirt road that went on as far as they could see. "The road isn't at the same place it was earlier. We must have moved somehow."

"How is that even possible?" Kira asked, breaking her silence.

"That's not important now guys." Garrett stated, "Now we can't look back. We weren't planning to go home anyways right?"

The others couldn't say anything, he was right. They all promised that they wouldn't turn back, but the fact that they could go back home if they needed to was, well comforting. Now what they were doing was definite, and they had to do it alone.

One by one, Garrett's friends silently got on their feet. "He's right." Seth said, rubbing the back of his head. "We have to keep moving. Let's hope that somewhere down the road we find the town again."

"Well let's get going then." June announced, "Sitting around won't get us anywhere."

Garrett and June started packing up their supplies, but were still in a bit of shock. Seth noticed that Kira wasn't adjusting to their situation as fast as the others. He approached her to make sure that she was okay. "This looks like it's going to be a long trip." he told her, "You think you're ready to go?"

"Yeah, sure." she answered him with a vague smile. "It's just,… all happening so fast you know."

Seth knew Kira was a little shook up. The fact was that he was too, he just hid it a bit better.

"I'll be fine, don't worry." she told Seth, "I'll be okay. Let's go with Garrett and June." She grabbed his arm and tugged him over to the others, who were waiting on them.

This kind of emotion in Kira is something that Seth never saw before. Kira always seemed so put together and sure of herself. "Maybe it's because she knows that she doesn't have control." he thought to himself.

Seth grabbed onto his pendant, remembering the day that he and Kira found it, while they walked down the road.

"Hey Seth, whatcha doing' in the park so late." asked the voice of a young girl, "You ought to be at home."

A young Seth was lying down on the grass, watching the stars. Kira was a few feet away, and looked particularly annoyed.

"Come sit with me Kira. Who knows, you might end up having fun." he told her. Kira reluctantly plumped down next to him. "See, isn't it fun?"

"I guess it… hey what is that!" Kira shouted. She was pointing at a star soaring through the sky. "It's so pretty. Right Seth? Seth?" The young boy seemed to be fast asleep, until the girl started violently shaking him. "Wake up!"

"Hey ouch, I'm awake!" he yelled.

"Didn't look like it!" she replied.

Seth placed his hands on the ground, to give him enough strength to stand. But he felt something sharp and hard in his palm. The young boy opened his hand, revealing a silver pendant.

"It's so shiny." Kira said looking in awe. "You're so lucky you found it."

Seth cleaned off the dirt on the pendant, and admired the rare find. "It looks like it's worth something too."

"You're not going to sell it are you!?" Kira asked like he was doing something morally wrong.

"Well I was wishing I had the money to buy some skates." Seth said to Kira, "Lucky I found it."

Kira restrained herself from telling her friend off. "If I found something as pretty as that, I'd keep it forever." the young girl commented.

Seth was snapped back into reality when Kira let out a massive yawn. She was still holding onto his arm, and the sun was beginning to set. Apparently they walked down the road all day long, and she still hadn't let go of Seth. Why didn't he sell his pendant like he wanted? Did he simply keep it because Kira told him to? "No that wasn't the reason," Seth thought, "but if that wasn't the reason, then what?"

The spiky haired artist didn't know what to think. This was the exact reason why he would draw, to get his feelings out on paper.

Kira yawned again, with June yawning a little after. "Hey Garrett." Seth said, "Maybe we should stop to get some rest."

"We can't stop." Garrett replied, "We need to find a town or something first. I can't stand being in this endless field any longer."

"But we're all a little exhausted." he told him.

"I'm not."

"We've been walking all day. The girls need to rest." commented Seth, getting a little annoyed with his objections.

Garrett ceased walking and turned to face him. "We all agreed we don't stop until we get somewhere. We don't have any time to waste."

Seth moved Kira's hand away so he could approach his friend. "So tiring ourselves out is a better way to spend our time."

"How long do you expect us to last out here?" Garrett asked, "We don't have much food or water. Do you really expect us to last long?"

The thought had never crossed Seth's mind, and by the look on June's face, it didn't cross hers either. "That must have been why Kira was lost in her thoughts." he thought, "She was realistically thinking of our chances."

Seth knew his idea was the right thing to do, but the problem was that Garrett thought that too. "Do you really think tiring ourselves out and using our supplies is a good idea? The girls are tired of walking!"

"Guys!" June screamed. The two turned and saw that she was on the verge of tears. "This isn't the time for you to fight."

Kira walked up and grabbed Seth's arm again. "Stop it." she whispered into his ear, "Let's sit over there to cool off for a while."

She led Seth to a spot a little off from the road, while June did the same with Garrett. They both sat down on the unruly grass while Kira pulled out her blanket from earlier.

"Take it." she told him, holding out a blanket, "The last thing we need is for one of us to get sick."

The boy let on a fake smile, to give her some sort of comfort. Then he remembered Garrett's comment about surviving, and then Kira's worrying. He reached around his neck to untie his pendant.

"Here." Seth said while taking off his 'lucky charm', "Hold onto this for me will ya?"

Kira was a little surprised from the gesture, but took the gift anyways. "You know, I always wanted to get my hands on it." She quickly pulled back her long blonde hair to wrap the pendant around it. "It's really pretty."

Seth laughed a bit, "I always had a feeling you did. Hold onto that until we get into town. It's supposed to give you luck."

The girl smiled, "Yeah, but I might not be willing to give it back."

The two spread out the blanket so they would be able to lie down. A couple of minutes passed before Kira noticed something.

"Hey look." she said, "There's a shooting star. Just like that night when we found your pendant." The girl closed her eyes and quietly whispered 'I wish we find a town soon.' Seth heard her wish, and felt his heart beating in his throat. It was entirely his fault that they were in this mess. Nothing could ease the guilt he felt for wronging Kira.

He turned to face her, but she was already asleep. The boy lied for a few minutes watching her sleep.

"Why am I feeling so bad right now?" he told himself, "I've never felt so guilty."

Then Seth realized something, "Am I falling for Kira?" He seemed shaken up at the thought. He had been admiring June since he first met her, but now he was falling for Kira. She had been like a sister to him his whole life.

"I need to vent." Seth said while grabbing a paper and pen from his bag.

He began to continue his drawing of June, but something was off. He couldn't get her facial features exactly right. The image of her in the park was long forgotten. The artist gave up on that drawing and turned to a blank page. "What to draw?"

Seth recalled his dream from the previous night. Being attacked by a strange black creature, with piercing yellow eyes. He could remember it so vividly. His pencil started moving across the paper. Seth didn't even notice that he was drawing, he was seemingly in a trance. Before he knew it, he had drawn, in detail, the monster from the night before.

Seth felt his eyes getting heavy, and could barely find the strength to sit up anymore. He wearily fell back down on the blanket and fell asleep next to Kira.

The next morning Seth was awoken by a cold, chilly wind. "Ugh." he mumbled. Slowly he lifted his head up and saw that he was still in an endless field. The problem was that's all he saw. Kira, June and Garrett were all gone, and he was lying on the field alone.