At school Kristen sat outside near the benches. She hadn't had gotten any sleep last night and she sure felt it.

Three cups of coffee wasn't hacking it anymore. And she was sure as hell glad Rick hadn't seen her like this yet.

She had searched the parking-lot for either Joey or Kincaid, hoping to talk to them and maybe finally put her foot down about this feeling she was having and maybe bring up that they should call Dr. Gordon who was now living in New York. She mumbled to herself knowing that Kincaid would have some smart ass remark, but at this point she would tell him to shove it.

She wasn't feeling this way for nothing.

Smoking a cigarette she heard Alice sit down beside her with her books. She saw her hair was still wet from a shower.

"There you are…Rick has been looking everywhere for you."

Kristen threw down her smoke looking at her very fair and weak looking friend. So much love for her rushed into her heart just then, wishing she had Alice for a sister.

"Have you seen Joey or Kincaid around?"

Alice gave a faint smile for a second.

"I'm sure their around."

Kristen then remembered but she had heard from Debbie and Rick, she hadn't of had a chance last night to call her. A weak smile came over her as she elbowed her.

"Heard your night in shinning armor broke Mark London's nose yesterday."

Alice blushed.

"Kristen…"

Kristen smiled, knowing all along Alice had liked him, but in a strange way didn't want anything or anyone to get close to them. She wasn't jealous, or scared something would happen. She just thought since the two of them liked being off to their own so much, Rick wouldn't like the idea of settling those two up.

But Joey had a mind of his own, and Kristen knew him better then anyone else, and knew he would treat her well.

"He's really cute, I'm sure he likes you."

Alice shook her head still smiling.

"No…he doesn't."

"Oh yeah, when why did he kick the shit out of two guys for you?"

Kristen laughed as Alice shrugged it off.

"He was just trying to be…"

Just then the first bell rang, students had ten minutes to get to their classes, the sound made both girls break their train of thought as Kristen looked at Alice's pale face.

She smiled lighting up another smoke before class.

"We have matching luggage…nightmares?"

Alice slowly nodded, as much as she thought she would have had a good night's sleep after yesterday, she kept having little dreams of her father…and his drinking.

"God I hate dreaming…"

Kristen shook her head, knowing that really was the truth, putting aside her gift, dreams had brought her too much pain and trouble.

Alice gazed out smiling in her own little thoughts.

"I love to dream."

"How can you control them?"

"My mom taught me when I was little…did you ever hear of the dream master?"

Kristen smiled.

"Sounds like a game show host to me."

"No, it's just the way of showing you how to deal with them, like a guard…just dream someplace fun, remember your in control."

"How do you know so much about dreams?"

Alice knew this was the truth, since her mom had died and her father took up drinking it was her only escape, always dreaming away what she really wanted her life to be like.

"Well when it's all you have you sort of become an expert on it."

Kristen gave her friend a faint smile when the bell rang, both girls gathered up their books.

"Come on before your brother sends out a search party."

Both girls went inside holding their books as they started for English class, the halls were crowded like always and they managed to push through in order to make it before the bell. Then Kristen stopped.

"What is it?"

Kristen saw Joey standing in the doorway of the class room, his hands stuffed in his pockets and his eyes looking blank and almost empty,

Right away she knew something was wrong.

Walking towards him almost in a daze he put his arm around her shoulder and within seconds they disappeared into the crowd. Alice stood there almost having no idea what to say…then the bell rang and they were gone.

Alice slowly entered her classroom, where everyone was still standing up and talking before the teacher came in. Rick saw her and walked over.

"Where's Kris?"

Alice gulped.

"Joey…umm, they went down the hall to talk I think."

"What?"

Rick's face changed right away and pushed her to the side a little as he stuck his head out the classroom door. No one else was left in the hallway.

Soon enough the teacher came in and called them to their seats, Alice watched Rick for a while who looked pretty bothered, then started to day dream while looking out the window.

Outside in Joey's car Kristen sobbed against Joey's chest, hot wet sticky tears rolled down her face as her chest started to hitch.

Not Kincaid, please not Kincaid.

He was the tough one, he was the one the protected, the one who never showed fear.

"I'm gonna last longer then all of you."

Kristen remembered him saying back in Western Hills.

Soon she looked up at Joey, his sweet very lost face looking down at her.

"He got him I know it…"

"No you don't."

"How can you say no, that bastard killed him!"

She started to cry harder but Joey made her face him again.

"Kristen, Kincaid died from a heart attack, his father told me…"

"How can you be so stupid, you know what's going on!"

"Kristen…he couldn't come back, you know that."

Kristen backed away from him shaking her head.

"We're next Joey…you'll see the second you fall asleep…"

"I slept all of last night and nothing happened, why wouldn't he of killed me huh?"

Kirsten kept shaking her head.

"No…no…"

She put her head in her hands and began to sob again.

"Kristen…Kincaid was still on medication for his spasms, they said that's what maybe caused his problems with his heart, you know more then anyone those drugs they pumped us full of could still effect us, come on!"

Kristen started to breath heavy, she stared at Joey's dashboard and tried to reach out to hold it for support, but the more her head started to spin, the more the dashboard seemed further away as her hand reached for it.

"Kristen…I just had to go back to the hospital, what less then a month ago for chest pains…it's the drugs they gave us, that's probably what happened, and your not doing yourself any favors for not sleeping."

"We need…we need to call Dr. Gordon."

"Kristen!"

Joey grabbed her by the shoulders.

"I lost a friend to, but you need to get a grip on things…he can't come back, you know that."

Kristen looked at her friend and started to cry again, Joey's face soften and he took her back into his arms. He loved Kristen with all his heart, she seemed so beautiful all the time, between her outer and inner strength. She was the leader, and now it was only the two of them.

"We're all that's left."

He whispered in her ear as she shook.

"We need to take care of ourselves…"

Kristen cried for a little longer and looked at him.

"I'm not crazy…I know something is wrong."

Joey touched her face, trying to tell her again that Kincaid died from an accident, in fact from the way they had been acting it was almost a huge surprise that they hadn't dropped yet.

Kincaid, their friend and brother was now dead, and even if Joey did have that small feeling deep inside him he knew it had to have been from an accident, it wasn't he wouldn't of woke up this morning.

Just then there was a slam on his passenger window, so loud both jumped. Rick stood there looking pissed as hell, Alice hid a little behind him.

"Rick…"

Kristen opened her door.

"What the hell is going on here?"

Rick then saw Kristen's eyes, his face changed yet again as he kneeled down to eye level to her and touched her face, worried.

"Kris, what happened?"

"Kincaid's dead."

Both Rick and Alice stood stunned.

"What?"

Kristen shook her head.

"Look your going to hear a lot of stories…"

Joey sat behind the driver's seat almost spacing out himself, he saw Alice for a second looking in on him, worried and a little scared.

Rick hugged Kristen, trying to calm her nerves.

"Oh baby I'm sorry…"

Kristen nuzzled against his shoulder, looking up at Alice's wide green eyes.

"I know he got him, I know it…"

Joey sighed looking out from his windshield, it was one thing to be this way, but why tell them…now they for sure were going to think they were crazy if it wasn't enough.

"Who?"

Kristen then turned and looked at Joey, tears still rolling down her cheeks.

"Can we go…please?"

Joey nodded as Kristen stood up for a second, lifting the seat so she could climb in with Rick. Alice took a second and then took the passenger seat, she looked at Joey for a second.

"Hey…"

"Hi…"

He looked at her for another second and then started the engine.

They drove for a while and Kristen told Rick she would go back for her jeep later. Holding on to him for dear life she told Joey to drive to "The House." He eyed her in the rearview mirror and then parked right in front of it.

Joey knew she was going to tell them, there was no stopping it. They had both promised each other they would never tell anyone the truth since no one would believe them…no matter what.

Also…what if did come back, would this make it worse?

No he couldn't think that way, Kincaid was dead now…and Kristen was driving herself crazy as Alice and her boyfriend watched.

Kristen wiped her eyes and then looked at the house.

Alice only knew very little about 1428 Elm Street. Only that the old sheriff's daughter lived there with her mother, and went crazy after watching her boyfriend get murdered across the street.

Her mother committed suicide soon afterwards and she was locked up for a while. Alice remembered hearing some scandal along with it when she was little, but last year a new family moved in. In fact she remembered their eldest son who was a year ahead of her class. They both had the same bio class together.

Jess or something?

That spring fourteen kids were killed in a bus accident, soon afterwards his family moved out and over the past year the house started to fall apart. Now there were stories that surrounded it, and only on Halloween little kids would dare to go up on the porch and ring to old rusting doorbell.

"What's with the house?"

Rick looked out the window, Kristen went closer to him and stared.

"Kids died in there…"

"What?"

Joey stayed silent the whole time, he only bit his lip and looked out the windshield. As much as he wanted Kristen to shut up, how they had promised not to tell anyone, or let anyone they got close with to know how crazy they were to hear the truth. But somehow, knowing that Kincaid was dead it seemed to numb whatever pain there was to blame it on something else.

Now Alice would know…and most likely she would never look him in the eye again.

"Twenty years ago there was a child murdered named Fred Krueger who kidnapped and killed at least a dozen kids in this neighborhood, when he released from the courts a bunch of parents, my parents, Joey's parents, even Kincaid's got together and hunted him down…"

Joey eyed Alice for a second and looked away, hearing this out loud made him ache.

"They burned him alive and hid the remains, now for the past seven years or so…he's come back, but he can only kill the children of the parents who murdered him through their dreams…he makes them look like suicides, or accidents, Joey and me are the last of the children who killed him now."

"What?"

"I know it's crazy…that's the reason we were all locked up at Western Hills, we did anything to stay awake since our friends were being killed, then a woman, the same girl who lived in this house came to help us, we thought we had killed them, but he's back and he's after us now…"

She drifted off and started to cry, Rick held her.

"That doesn't make any sense…"

"Than don't believe it."

Joey didn't mean to sound so uncaring, but he just couldn't understand anything right now…how could this of happened.

"I know he's back, we're history if we fall asleep…"

"Hey don't worry, I'll protect you…"

Rick nuzzled Kristen again as she shook her head and looked out the window.

Alice looked at the two of them worried and then at Joey who wouldn't even face her. Looking out the window she stared at the house and said under her breath.

"Now I lay me down to sleep…the master of dreams my soul I keep…"

Her memory faded, but she did remember that much of the rhyme her mother had taught her.

Just then a loud horn sounded through the air, making everyone jump.

Parked outside was Kristen's mother in her BMW, honking the horn. A good ole' friendly face Joey missed.

"Kristen get away from that house!"

She kept sounding the horn, Kristen looked and sighed.

"I better go…"

She started towards the door when Rick held to her.

"Look, you don't have to go…"

Kristen smiled at his sweet face.

"I'll call you…"

He smiled looking at her big blue eyes.

"We'll figure this out together, don't worry…"

Joey pushed up his seat as Kristen climbed out. Looking at her mother who at any second was about to race away, she eyed Joey who looked just as drained as her sitting beside Alice. Somehow that seemed right at that moment.

She leaned in to the window, touching Joey's hand.

"Whatever you do…don't fall asleep…"

Joey looked up at her.

"Kristen, we'll…"

Just then her mother's car horn went off again, sighing she gave a silent nod to Joey and then waved goodbye to Alice, slowly getting inside her mother's car and speeding away.

"What is all this shit man?"

Joey eyed Rick in the rearview mirror.

"It's true…"

"Horseshit…"

Joey started up his car, planning on dropping the two of them off as quick as possible before going home and taking something to get some rest and get away from the deep grief he felt inside over his friend.

"Yeah maybe…"

"That's what you guys were locked up for?"

Joey started to drive down the street and further away from the house.

"Yeah…

He didn't want to talk anymore, holding back the tears he kept driving…Alice watched him and finally turned her attention towards the window.

She kept repeating the verse, then glanced at him once final time.

"Their the last…"

Somehow the words rang deep inside her as they drove further and further away.