Prof. Thomas
You can try to run…
Prof. Thomas
But I’m still going to kill you.
Heather screams blindly, trying to cast her voice toward her friends.
Jax
Heather! Run towards my voice!
Heather lunges, but Professor Thomas heard Jax’s directive too.
Heather
Jax! Help — he’s got me!
Prof. Thomas
I do. You can’t escape now…
Heather feels cold metal against her temple as she realizes Professor Thomas is holding a gun to her head.
Heather
Jax! He’s got a gun…
Jax
No! I won’t let him hurt you.
Prof. Thomas
YOU CAN’T STOP ME!
Heather
Jax, I’m not going to make it.
Jax
Use all your strength — try to break free and get out of there!
Heather
I’m not strong enough.
Heather
Jax, I just want to say…I love you.
Jax
I love you, Heather. I wish I could hold you right now.
Heather
Kira? I love you too. You’re my best friend.
Kira
You’re my best friend too, Heather.
Kira
I’m reaching for your hand…just like before, at the Pizzeria.
Kira
Can you squeeze it, so I can at least pretend to feel it?
Heather
Wait. I do feel it.
Kira
Me too! I’m pulling.
Prof. Thomas
What? What is going on?
Heather disappears from the alternate universe.
Prof. Thomas
Where did you go!?
Kira
Sorry, Professor. She’s back with us now.
Prof. Thomas
You crossed the border? Again?
Heather
Oh my God, what just happened?
Heather throws her arms around Kira and then Jax.
But before she can kiss him, Professor Thomas’s voice thunders in.
Professor Thomas must be very close.
Prof. Thomas
This isn’t possible!
Prof. Thomas
No matter. I’ll come back through—
Prof. Thomas
A gun will work in any dimension.
Jax
Just try and kill us, dirtbag. Everyone, to the car, NOW.
Prof. Thomas
WHAT?! The border…
Prof. Thomas
It closed? But how did this happen??
Kira lets out the breath she was holding while Jax cheers.
Kira
Oh my God, we are SO lucky…
Jax
Enjoy life on the other side, Professor!
Prof. Thomas
Wait, it shouldn’t just close like this!
Prof. Thomas
Damn it, I will find a way through!
Prof. Thomas
I will destroy you! I will destroy you all!
Kira
Have fun with that, weirdo.
Prof. Thomas
I WILL find a way out of this dimension—
Prof. Thomas
And when I do, I’ll kill all of you!
Kira
Enjoy your stay, creep…
The next morning, Heather gets a text from Kira.
Kira
Hey — how are you feeling?
Kira
You blacked out almost immediately in the car.
Heather
Yeah. I mean, fielding questions from the police and my parents hasn’t been easy.
Heather
It’s been hard explaining how I’m still alive.
Kira
I get that. But I wasn’t talking about them—
Kira
I was asking about YOU, Heather.
Heather
I guess I’m still a little weird and tingly from when you pulled me across that border.
Heather
How did we do that?
Kira
Heather, I can’t explain anything that happened over the last few days…
Kira
I’m fine never thinking about, talking about, or otherwise reliving it ever again.
Kira
You’re back, and that is all I care about.
Heather
I have a hunch, though…
Heather
Yeah. It’s going to sound a little cheesy but…
Heather
What if you’re the reason I came back?
Heather
What if it was our friendship that helped me break through?
Kira
Aww, are you saying our powers of love defeated evil?
Heather
Haha, I know it sounds stupid, but…yes.
Heather
I’m so lucky we’re friends, Kira. And I love you.
Kira
I am too. LYLAS lol 👯
Kira
So, is Jax over there with you?
Heather
Yes. He’s napping on the couch.
Heather
My parents don’t want to deprive him of time with me, but they also won’t let him upstairs.
Heather
They said something about our “raging teenage hormones.”
Kira
I mean, you already died and came back?
Heather
Well technically, I didn’t die. And even though my mom’s over the moon that I’m alive…
Heather
She’s still petrified of teen pregnancy.
Heather
She said if I make her a grandmother before she’s 50 she’ll ship me off to a convent.
Kira
A convent? Wow, THAT might actually be worse than death.
Heather
So…what do we do now?
Kira
We try to get on with our lives, I guess.
Heather
On that note, want to come over and watch a movie? We can give Jax a makeover while he’s asleep.
Kira
Haha, YESSS. I’ll grab my kit and be there in 20.
Heather
LOL see you soon.
Heather
What flavor ice cream would you like?
Unknown
I thought you might like to know that I have a message for you.
Heather
Kira? I just got a really creepy text message.
But Kira doesn’t respond.
Unknown
Would you like to hear the message?
Heather
What do you want?
Unknown
THIS IS KIRA AND YOU JUST GOT PLAYED!
Kira
Oh, please. You love me and you’re laughing.
Heather
Maybe a little bit. And it does feel good. It’s been a crazy few days.
Heather
But I’m still worried…
Heather
Like, what if *he* figures a way out…
Kira
Then we’ll beat him again.
Kira
But for now, let’s try to get back to something normal.
Kira
That means inside jokes and an ungodly amount of pizza and tacos…
Kira
And enough makeup on Jax’s dumb sleeping face to make someone who works at Sephora blush.
Kira
See you in a bit — I’m going to put my phone away. After all this, texting and driving doesn’t seem like a great idea.
Heather
And now, everything can start getting back to normal.
