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"Ah!" Jimmy screamed while waking up. His pupils contracted as the bright light of the sun came into view. He jumped off of the ground and looked at his shaking hands. "It was just a dream," he whispered to himself.

He took a look around at his pathetic bed. A jacket lay on the ground with a pillow, a backpack at the end. At its side lay a sleeping Cindy, lying on a park bench. He rubbed his aching back while walking over to her.

"Cind. Cind, we've got to get going," he whispered while gently shaking her.

Cindy grumbled, but sat up. She took a few moments to shake the drowsiness from her eyes before standing up. She looked over to see Jimmy taking things out of his backpack.

"You get anything that day we were apart?" Jimmy asked. Cindy tossed him the wallet she swiped from Thomas.

Jimmy nodded. "Alright. We've got my pen laser, ten bucks," he said while opening the wallet, "the broken cell phone, and those credit cards."

They both stared at their small pile of supplies. "So," Cindy finally said, "guess we better get heading out?"

Jimmy threw the items into his backpack. "Yeah, guess so." He took a moment to look at his surroundings. "We're at the border between Oklahoma and Texas. We might as well head north. If we'll be running for a while, we might as well head that way. The northern states have a lot of woods to hide in. Of course, let's hope we'll get this thing fixed by then."

Cindy nodded as she put her backpack on. "Guess." She turned around and frowned a little. "See ya, Texas. Maybe we'll come back one day."

Jimmy nodded while taking a step forward. Cindy followed suit. They hadn't gone ten yards when they heard somebody screaming behind them.

"Let go of me!" a boy around their age shouted. Jimmy and Cindy turned around to see the boy being tackled to the ground by a teenager.

"Boy, I've been waiting a long time for this, kid!" the teen shouted while standing up and drawing back his fist.

Jimmy and Cindy ran at the teen and both tackled him to the ground. The boy crawled a little bit backwards and jumped to his feet.

"Come here you little pieces of shit!" the bully angrily yelled while kicking Jimmy and Cindy off of him. He mumbled various obscenities as he pulled himself up. Jimmy lay on the ground while Cindy jumped back up onto her feet.

She took a fighting stance as the teen came towards her and swung his fist. She ducked and did a roundhouse kick. It connected, but it did about as much effect as kicking a steel door.

Barely knocked back, the teenager regained his composure and viciously hit Cindy across the face. She fell face first onto the ground.

The boy, whose name was Adam, stared at Cindy for a moment before glaring at the teen. Jimmy did the same.

"Hey!" they both shouted at the same time. Jimmy and Adam gave each other a strange look before returning their attention to the bully.

"Leave these guys out of it, Sawyer!" Adam yelled.

Cindy rubbed her aching cheek as she watched the three boys glare at each other.

Sawyer smiled as he looked at the two puny kids. "Uh-huh." He started to walk towards them.

Ready to fight dirty on account of what Sawyer had done to Cindy; Jimmy bent down and picked up a large rock. As Sawyer realized what he was doing, Jimmy smiled a little and flung it into his head.

"Damn it!" Sawyer shouted as blood began to pour from the wound. Adam rushed forward and slammed his fist into Sawyer's face several times.

Jimmy and Adam pulled back a few feet as Cindy stood up and joined them. Sawyer cursed as he stood up, still determined to fight. He fell back a little as he saw the three kids in front of him, fists raised.

"Touch her again and I kill you," Jimmy seethed. Sawyer was about to retort, but saw another rock clenched in Jimmy's hand.

"See ya when you don't have your little posse around," he grumbled before walking off.

Adam smiled a little as he saw Sawyer slowly walk away. He turned around to see Jimmy examining Cindy's wound. "You alright?" he asked, genuinely concerned.

"I'll be fine," Cindy grumbled while gently tossing his hands off of her face. She softened as she saw the hurt look on his face. "But thanks for caring."

"Hey, you guys ok?" Adam asked while rejoining them.

Cindy gave him a look like he was an idiot.

"Ok, stupid question," Adam said with a slight chuckle. "Thanks for your help. But of course I could have taken him myself," he joked while cracking his knuckles. "I've been in my fair share of fights."

Cindy cocked an eyebrow. "Win any?"

Adam stopped smiling. "You guys got a name?"

"I'm Dave," Jimmy told him.

"And I'm Sarah," Cindy said. "And I take it your name is Adam?"

"Yep," Adam said while outstretching his hand. Jimmy and Cindy both shook it.

Adam looked at his watch and frowned. "Jeez, that pothead made us late for school. Come on you guys, we better get going."

Jimmy and Cindy nervously looked at each other. "Um, well, we don't go to your school," Jimmy explained.

Adam gave them a strange look, but then laughed. "Good one. You had me there for a second. Everyone knows this town's only got one school."

Jimmy and Cindy shot each other another nervous look. They were about to protest some more when a police officer walked up to the three kids.

"You kids must be late. Shouldn't you be heading to school?" he asked them.

Cindy hid behind the boys to hide her bloody face. "No officer, we were just about to get going," Adam explained while shooting Jimmy and Cindy strange looks.

"Good. You kids better get on your way," the cop said before going on his way.

"You guys coming?" Adam asked while heading off.

Jimmy and Cindy shrugged as the cop turned around and looked back at them. They grabbed each other's hand and started off with Adam.