2D stared at Tara. "You do?" he asked. Tara nodded. "It's crazy and out there, but it's the best hope we got, considering the circumstances, right?" she said. 2D nodded. "Go on," he said. "Well hopefully it will work..." Tara said.
"Yeah, go on," 2D said. "Okay," Tara said. "So here's my idea. We had to come here somehow, right?" "Yeah..." 2D said. "Right," Tara said. "So there's got to be a way out, and my 'educated' guess is that it's the exact same place we got in!"
"You think so?" 2D asked. "Yeah!" Tara said. "It's worth a try, anyways." "So... If I go back in my room, I can make it back to the regular dimension?" 2D asked. "Maybe," Tara said. 2D smiled and hugged her. "Let's try it!" he said.
"I'll be back," 2D wrote on the paper. "Tara's got an idea. You'll see me if it works." He walked in the direction of his room, motioning for Tara to follow. "Okay," he said, when they got there. "I woke up in my bed, right," 2D said. "So... if I go there, I'll go back?" he asked. "I hope so," Tara said, squeezing 2D's hand. She kissed him. "Rock on, 2D," she whispered.
He went over to his bed and sat down. "So... now what?" he asked. Tara shrugged. "I don't know, wait, I guess." 2D sat on his bed, feeling kind of stupid. "I don't think it's..." he started to say, but stopped. He had a weird feeling in his stomach, like he was on a roller coaster or something, and falling fast. Then he couldn't see Tara anymore. "Tara?" he asked. "I... I think it worked!"
Tara grinned. "Sweet!" she said, but she knew 2D couldn't hear her. She grabbed the pen and paper out of his hand. He blinked. "That you?" he asked. "No, it's most definitely the Muffin Man," Tara wrote. "And this is a stick-up. Give me all of your muffins. Now." 2D laughed. "Are you going to try and get back now?" he asked.
"Yeah," Tara wrote. "I don't think I can get back the way you did. I can try back at my place. It's kind of far, though..." 2D thought for a moment. "Erm... I think we could drive you there," he said. "Follow me," he said, and went back to the lobby.
"Oh, so it really was you, dullard," Murdoc said. "Yeah, I'm not dead, see?" 2D said. "Can I have the keys for the Geep?" "What for?" Murdoc asked. "You can drive?" "'Course I can," 2D said. "Better'n you."
Murdoc punched him in the arm, but gave him the keys. "Don't crash it," he said. "Not like you haven't done that loads of times," 2D said, leaving for the carpark. He turned around to see if the floating pad of paper was following him. Check.
2D got in the Geep. The other door opened and closed. "You in?" 2D asked. "Yeah," Tara wrote. "Let's roll." "Okay, but I'll need to know where you live." Tara wrote down her address, 2D started up the Geep, and they rolled away.
They parked in front of Tara's house. "I'll see you. Stay here," Tara wrote on the pad, and left it on the seat. 2D nodded. "I can't wait to see you again," he said. Tara smiled. She opened her door and went in. 2D turned on the radio and waited for Tara to come back visible. He leaned back in his seat.
He waited. And waited. And waited some more. He blinked. What was taking Tara so long? He wanted to keep waiting, but what if she was hurt? Or dead? And what if she just didn't like him anymore and was trying to get away from him? He was confused. He wasn't sure what he was going to do.
He waited a little longer. He was about to leave, dismayed, when the door opened again. His heart started to beat faster. "T... Tara?" he whispered. "The portal thing," Tara wrote shakily. "If there was one... it closed. Or never happened. 2D, I'm stuck here. I can't get back." 2D stared at the paper.
"We... we can go back to Kong!" 2D exclaimed. "Maybe you can get back the way I did," he said, sadness in his voice. "We have to try." "Okay... but I don't think so," Tara wrote. 2D sped back to Kong. "C'mon, Tara!" he said. They ran to his room.
"Okay. Sit there." 2D pointed to his bed. Tara sat down. "I don't think it will work... she mumbled. They waited. It seemed like an hour. Tara felt the roller-coaster feeling... but it stopped. She suddenly had a vision of a blue circle getting smaller and disappearing.
"Tara?! Tara?! Where are you?" 2D asked. Tara tried to call to him, but he couldn't hear... and suddenly she couldn't feel anything. She tried to hold on to the bed, but it was like she was disappearing...
"2D!!!!" she cried, but she felt herself becoming less and less... and finally she was nothing... nothing... not even a ghost.
"Where... where are you..." 2D whispered. Suddenly words appeared on the notepad. "Thanks for everything, 2D, but it's over for me."
"Tara... no..." 2D said, and started to cry. Poor kid could never keep a girlfriend.
The next day, he made a cardboard tombstone and stuck it out in the graveyard outside. "I miss you," he whispered. As he looked off into the distance, he could have sworn he saw Tara, smiling and waving like she was still there. But no, it was just a mirage.
"I'll never forget you..." he whispered. It was probably another hallucination, but he could have sworn he heard her answer. "I won't forget you either."