“I can’t believe he did this” Brook thought to herself. She was now sitting on the couch with Lisa and Maggie, as she felt unfathomable sadness overcome her. The pure and utter betrayal of her first love and her best friend seemed to be too much for her to handle.

“Brook, listen. I know what your going through. Believe me when I saw that you can’t blame Will.” Maggie said to her softly, rubbing her back and hugging her.

“Its just that I-I-I thought he loved me?”

“He does, Brook. Trust me, I know he does. What Anna did wasn’t something that he could control. Anna manipulated Will, she used his weakness against him. Just forgive him, trust me, right now he needs you, he needs all of us and we have to be united to save him.”

“I want to forgive him, but, I just can’t-”

“Brook!” Lisa yelled, suddenly jumping up from her seat on the couch, “Quit being such a little cry baby! Will loves you just as much as you love him! Now get that denial crap out of your head right now! We have to save Will!”

“Lisa, I-”

“No!” She yelled back, grabbing Brook’s shoulders and shaking her, “Forgive him, cause right now he needs you more than ever! So woman up and get your shit in gear!”

Brook stayed motionless for a minute. She thought about Will, how he would smile, his laugh, his cute boyish face, his wavy black-brown hair, his perfect white teeth. Brook thought about all the things they had talked about, she thought about how he had said he loved her. She clenched her fists and stood up and faced Lisa.

“You’re right, I have no choice, I’m going to save Will!”
Maggie smiled to herself as she heard the enthusiasm in Brook’s voice. She remembered the way Will acted around Brook. She thought about the way he spoke to her, the way he looked at her, that was love. And regardless whether or not it was romantic love or just teenaged love, it was still love, and those two defiantly had it.


Though in broad daylight, Darby and Will crept their way back into the town. Hiding behind trees and weaving their way through hills, the two stealthily crept towards Will’s house. It seemed like hours, but eventually the pair ended up close to the empty land behind Will’s residents. It was now about two, and Will expected there to be little commotion left in the area, yet as they ventured closer, they saw that officers were now scouting the immediate area, looking for any traces of Will.

“Go over to that hill over there” Darby said quietly pointing south of their location, “There’s an abandoned well at the top, you can’t miss it. I’ll go to your house, tell your cousin were you are, and meet you there in two hours, understood.”

“Yeah, and uh, Darby, I think I should tell you something, its just-uh, well I-”

“What is it, Will”

“it’s just, I-I know that we kinda had that moment back on the mountain, but I-”

“Will, you said this to me earlier, I want to be friends too. And even if you don’t have the same feelings for me that I have for you it doesn’t matter, I…I can’t say that I’ve ever said this about someone else before, but…I-I love you” She said, kissing Will on the cheek.
Unable to respond to such an unanticipated response, Will froze. Without speaking he turned around and ran from Darby, focusing on finding the well on top of the hill.

“Oh god” he thought to himself, “Why the hell would she love me? Things are going to become complicated, very, very complicated.”


Darby walked over to a small creek about a quarter of a mile from the empty land.