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Relief, Vicky imagined, was what she should’ve felt when Lexi’s head wasn’t popped from her shoulders by the monster. All she felt was horror. This wasn’t just more mean girl shit. Perhaps there was a part of Vicky that felt the world would be better off without another dumb bitch like Lexi, and perhaps that part of Vicky was damn near all of her, but this really stopped being about Lexi the moment Vicky witnessed Tyler hurl that piece of concrete. Earlier, Vicky had drunkenly bragged to Tuyen about being omniscient, and while that wasn’t the case, Vicky was observant—even while drunk. So when that piece of concrete swapped into a speaker, it was less like the first domino in a chain falling and more like the entire domino run had been flattened by a sonic boom all at once.

[color=32cd32]“Oh, [b]fuck![/b]”[/color] cried Vicky in realization at the same time Tyler said, [color=C0C0C0]“We can fucking [b]RUN[/b].”[/color]

She had been saved by Tyler Fox, swapped like that speaker, and now she was being dragged to safety by Tyler Fox. He was never going to let Vicky live this down. This was horrible, horrible, horrible! She would rather die than be saved by Mister This Fucking Guy. Yet instead of letting go of his hand, rushing back into the warehouse, and prostrating herself down before the monster to put her out of her misery, Vicky held on. She was simply too important of a person to throw her life away, and honestly, there was a fear that if she gave herself over to the monster’s clutches then the rest of the school would follow as if she had jumped from a bridge. She simply couldn’t bear to be blamed for the death of an entire class, like, it wasn’t her fault that she was a trendsetter! 

Plus, okay, she didn’t actually want to die, and even if she did, what had happened to Chef and the others looked so painful. Hard pass. Besides, there had to be a way she could turn this around and make Tyler look like a total chump here instead it was just kind of hard to think right now because she was panicking and it was mostly about the monster crashing the party but also a little bit about Tyler and, seriously, thought Vicky as her feet dragged on the ground and made Tyler put in all the effort on their escape, this little fucker was a quarterback and this was really the fastest he could run? Come on!

It was only when they made it to the tree line that Vicky released her death grip on Tyler and dropped to her hands and knees. For a split second her mind cleared itself of all her worries and insecurities and the tears that dropped to the ground were not from fear nor anger nor sorrow but of gratitude, a rare moment of peace where Vicky was simply happy to be alive instead of constantly worrying about how her life could be better. Then that hum returned to her head, the endless, electric buzz of an overloaded circuit that at any second could blow, and she remembered, even as her body still shook in fear, that the Game was still on, she had to play it, and she must win.

When she launched herself at Tyler, wrapped her arms around him, and gave him a tight hug it was a play, a stalling tactic. Likewise, it was just a move to make Tyler lower his guard when she cried, [color=32cd32]“I. Wan. Na. Go. Home!”[/color] And as she broke down into a complete, incoherent blubbering mess as she smeared her face into his chest and continued to wail, it was totally part of an absolute brilliant ploy to inevitably own Tyler and make him her little bitch. Otherwise, then it would just mean that Vicky was some boyfriendless loser whose only “real” friend had confidently abandoned her to her doom the second things got spooky and therefore forced her to be forever grateful to the biggest piece of shit she knew. 

Yeah, not happening.

So as a threat, Vicky hugged Tyler harder: she'd drag him under if he tried burying her. Until then, hurry up and get her the fuck out of here.