Hello again people. This is the second to last chapter which means I've almost completed my first story! Well that's enough of the introduction lets get on the reviewers.

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Chapter 24: One by One

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Bri was setting people up and helping the ones that were coming back to the present. John was down at the other end of the hall doing the same thing as well. It seemed something big had just happened because they had about one hundred people wake up at the exact same time.

The gothic girl had just helped a girl she knew to be a cheerleader up when she caught something in the corner of her eye. She turned to where the group was and her eyes widened slightly at what she saw.

"JOHN!" She called out while running past the disoriented people in the hall. She found the boy helping the some person down near the stairwell. He turned as soon as he heard her yelling his name.

"What is it?" He asked impatiently but upon seeing the slightly excited and worried look on her face he decided not to be sarcastic.

"You have to follow me!" Bri exclaimed as she grabbed his hand and pulled him back to where she had come from. They stopped at the opposite end as she pointed to everyone. John showed a mildly shocked expression as he saw that they all had turned a light blue. He looked down toward Bri who was making sure they wee set up alright.

"What does this mean?" he asked her quietly.

"It means that they're dying…" she whispered back.

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Emma broke the surface of the freezing water in the middle of the Atlantic holding onto only one person. The salt burned her eyes as she opened them to see Zack beside her also gasping for breath. She sighed mentally.

"Of all the people to hang onto I get you…" she groaned slightly. He looked at her with slight amusement…or insanity. Emma couldn't tell at the moment.

"Oh why not? Would you prefer to have your boyfriend Matt here?" he asked her laughing. She made him regret that as she splashed water into his mouth. This was not the time for jokes.

"We should go find everyone else…" she said as she tried to block out all the screaming. It was not helping the mental stability of the situation.

"Yeah I guess so…" Zack said as he nodded. They were about to take off swimming when they both felt themselves go back underwater.

Emma had kept her eyes opened as the water rushed around her again. She knew that some jack-ass was holding her down and what she saw underwater told her that someone was holding Zack down too. Whoever was on top of her wasn't letting go easily as she tried to pry them off of her. After thirty seconds though she grew weaker from lack of oxygen. She looked back over to see that Zack was no longer there. 'What the?' she thought as a sudden pressure was taken off of her shoulders. With all her strength she swam to the surface.

"Are you ok Emma?" came the worried voice of Kristen. The brunette looked to see that everyone was around them, with all of her friends looking worried, and all the boys cheering Ryan on. He seemed to have several bloody knuckles and one could only figure out that he was the one that had gotten the people off of her and Zack.

"Yeah…" she croaked out in response. Her friend gave her a pat on the back before motioning for her to follow all of them to a large piece of wood. It actually looked like it was a long piece of a wall. They all crowded around it, each grabbing a little section to place their arms on. It was becoming eerily quiet. Out of the corner of her eye Courtney saw Rose climb up onto the door with Jack hanging on. This gave her an idea.

"You know there's enough room on this board for someone to lie on it. I say we get the person on here that needs it the most." She said logically while everyone nodded.

"Then who do we put on?" Dalton asked and before he had finished all eyes turned to Kristen. The thin girl had turned an interesting shade of blue right now. Even in their state at the moment the girls couldn't help to smile at how much their friend looked like a smurf at this moment.

"I'd take all of you staring at me as an insult if I wasn't so cold at this moment." Kristen complained as she pulled herself onto the board. They all smirked inwardly at this comment.

"So now what do we do?" Matt asked.

"We just wait." Ashley said as she looked at the stars.

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"Alright I need all passengers transported from one boat to the other!" an officer yelled out to a lifeboat full of scared and tired people. One by one they all nodded and moved into the lifeboat next to them. Lauren sat there and watched as they all left.

"Miss we need you to move." The man said to her urgently. Lauren cast a glance in his direction.

"No…I'm staying here. I have to go find my friends." She said sternly. The officer was about to argue until he saw the determined look on Lauren's face. He sighed.

"Fine miss, if you insist." And with that he ordered the other officers to start rowing toward the wreckage. Lauren smiled triumphantly until she felt a thud next to her in the boat. She turned and almost screamed when she saw TJ sitting there with a stunned expression on his face.

"Where'd you come from?!?!" she asked not restraining any of the shock in her voice. His eyes were blank for a minute before turning back to her.

"I-don…don't like aliens." He said quietly looking back up to the sky. Lauren looked at him as if he was crazy.

"So…you weren't on the Titanic because you were ……..abducted by aliens?" she asked carefully. TJ simply nodded.

"Yeah." He said with as sincere face. "But I guess I'm lucky cause now I get to share a lifeboat with someone I know." He turned with a smile to her.

Lauren pushed him out of the boat.

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"This sucks…" Ashley said as loudly as her voice could muster. Courtney and Emma looked in her direction while Travis opened his eyes in response to a sound other than the few people that were left screaming.

"Why are you just noticing this now?" Courtney asked sarcastically. Ashley would have stuck out her tongue except she was afraid it would freeze. Emma rolled her eyes in an effort to keep them open. Falling asleep was the worse thing to do at this moment. It would be like signing your own death certificate.

Chelsea had been floating there, looking up at the stars, until Ashley had spoken. She then had lowered her eyes to the group only to feel them widen slightly. For the past two minutes she had been trying to get people to notice her. Finally Courtney turned her head.

"What is it Chelsea?" she asked as her voice cracked on every sound. Chelsea, who seemed to have decided to save her voice, merely pointed toward one end of the board. All eyes traveled there and saw that Richy was in the exact position he was in at the start minus one thing, his breath. Zack, who was next to him, nudged him with his elbow but he still didn't move. Everyone knew that he wasn't coming back.

"This really sucks." Ashley said again but then turned to the boys. "But it just proves that you guys aren't that strong. He died within ten minutes."

"You shouldn't say that Ashley." Emma said quietly. Of course though Ashley didn't listen to Emma.

"Why shouldn't I Emma? So far he's the only one that has died." She said but was cut off when Emma shook her head.

"Look again…" Emma said pointing a very stiff looking finger toward the top of the board. All eyes turned to where Kristen was laying and a couple people let out a small "eep!" when they saw her. She too had no breath, but she was simply staring up at the sky, her eyes frozen open. It was creepy to say the least.

"Crap…" Ashley whispered to herself. This was hurting the chances of winning the contest (I know one track mind huh?)

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Ten more minutes had passed for the group. They had been holding breath checks every two minutes to see who was still alive and after twenty minutes in the water, only two of them were left. After Kristen and Richy had died, Ryan had passed on about three minutes later. He was followed by Ashley, Dalton, and Matt who had all died together. There was a great amount of quiet sniggering after this because they all knew Ashley would have hated to go that way.

After the cousins had died it was a good five minutes before Zack went, then followed by Courtney no more than thirty seconds later. It then became a battle of the most stubborn between the remaining three, Travis, Chelsea, and Emma. No matter who you are you know that if you're fighting any girl to see who's more stubborn, you're not winning. Travis had put up a good fight but after three minutes he to just lay there. That left Chelsea and Emma floating there, with all their dead friends around them. They were in complete silence but kept staring at each other to make sure the other one didn't die.

Finally Emma broke the silence. "Chelsea listen…" She said quietly. They intently listened to the area around them, and both heard what they knew to be Rose crying quietly over Jack's body and the faint sound of someone in the lifeboats calling out if anyone was out there.

"Emma we can get to the lifeboats!" Chelsea said excitedly. She was taken aback though when Emma didn't respond but just kept staring at Rose, who was off to their left by about six yards. "Emma what's wrong."

"Rose should be leaving the door by now, but she's still crying over Jack." Emma said quietly. She then turned thoughtful for a minute before looking back at Chelsea. "CC we have to make sure the movie goes according to plan." The brunette said quietly. Chelsea looked longingly in the direction of the lifeboats before looking at the distressed red head a few yards away. She sighed in defeat.

"Fine Emma let's go." She said as she let go of the board. Emma nodded as she too let go of the wood too. Before she began swimming though she turned around and faced all of her friends. "Don't worry guys, we'll be back in a minute." And with that she followed Chelsea in the water.

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Rose was still lying there, crying over Jack's body, which still had yet to go underwater. Her mourning was cut short though as an impatient cough caught her attention. She could have sworn that she was the only one alive in the area but when she turned her head she saw Emma and Chelsea swimming beside her door.

"This isn't the time to be mourning right now Rose. The lifeboats are coming and leaving and if I recall correctly, you promised Jack you'd survive this. Now how are you going to do that if you don't let him go and swim toward that lifeboat?" Emma asked with a slight smirk. Hopefully Rose would be so cold that she wouldn't ask her how she knew that.

"But, how am I supposed to live without him. I loved him more than anyone I've ever known." Rose said grasping Jack's frozen hand. Chelsea smiled sympathetically.

"You'll see him again Rose don't worry. True love can never be separated even by death. He'll always be waiting for you." She said in as sensitive a voice as she could muster. A light flashed over their heads and they all turned to see that the lifeboat was leaving.

"Come back…come back!" Rose croaked out as hard as she could. Emma and Chelsea looked at each other and then back to her.

"Listen Rose, we'll leave you alone to say good-bye to Jack. After that you have to swim over to that officer over there and blow the whistle that is in his mouth. The lifeboats will hear that and come back." Emma said sternly so she left no room for argument. She then turned and began swimming back.

"And when you do get in the lifeboat point them in our direction. We might still be alive." Chelsea said quietly before she turned around as well and was back at the float.

"So Chelsea, who do we say is the winner, you or me?" Emma asked with a shiver in her voice. Chelsea looked at her thoughtfully until she stuck out her hand.

"Rock, paper, scissors. Winner take all." She said happily. Emma let a smirk out before raising her hand as well.

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Lauren sat in the boat, rowing an oar carefully around the lifeless bodies. Next to her sat a very wet looking TJ. Much to her protest the officer said they couldn't leave him in the water so he was now helping steer the ship. They had picked up Rose just then and were now listening to her tell where Emma and Chelsea were. Finally they came upon a large piece of wood with eleven teenagers all clinging to it. All of them were dead as well.

"We came too late," The officer said as Lauren and TJ both got sad looks on there faces. They rowed around the group until they spotted Emma and Chelsea at the far end.

"What the…?" Lauren stuttered out.

"What were these two thinking?" TJ said as he leaned over the side of the boat.

The two teenage girls were floating there, Emma's hands in the shape of scissors while Chelsea's was in the shape of a rock. Chelsea, they also noted, had a large smirk on her face.

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"GUYS THERE COMING!!!" Bri yelled out into the hall. Everyone crowded around the two girls bodies which were starting to stir slightly. There skin was also returning to normal colors. After about thirty seconds Emma and Chelsea opened their eyes to see everyone crowded around them in their school's hallway. After a few blinks they looked at each other and Chelsea's smirk grew wide.

"I win…" she said with a laugh.

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YES I AM ONE CHAPTER AWAY FROM COMPLETEING MY FIRST STORY! THANK YOU EVERYONE WHO HAS READ IT AND REVIEWED! NOW AT THE END OF THE NEXT CHAPTER I WILL HAVE A WRITTEN VERSION OF A MUSIC VIDEO COURTESY OF INSANITY-ANGEL-DEVIL-ME! EVERYONE GIVE HER A ROUND OF APPLAUSE. NOW REVIEW!!!!!!!! ARIGATOU.

KYREE