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The two continued their walk deep into the night. “I don't understand, why do you go to church? You're not religious.” Elaine questioned, Rai just shrugged in response. “I dunno. It's fun?” It wasn't fun. Elaine knew that, she had been before. “No it isn't- wait..is it the priest?” She sounded mad, Rai feared that. “Gregor? What's wrong with him?” Rai tried avoiding the question, but Elaine wasn't letting that happen. Elaine stopped walking, now she stood with her hands on her hips and stared at Rai. “Railyn, what is he doing to you? Is he hurting you? You have to tell me!” “He isn't doing anything to me, he's nice Ei he isn't a bad guy!” “How do you know? He could be horrible! He could be pretending!” Rai was becoming incredibly fearful by now. Scared something might come between them. “Ei I trust him, isn't that good enough?” “No it isn't! I want an actual reason for why you care so much-” “Because he cares about me!” Rai yelled, she never yelled. At least not at Elaine. “He cares about me! More than my dad did..you know what he did to me- I told you what he did! Not many people know because I don't trust them! But he knows, he knows because I told him- because I trust him- because-” Rai stopped, tears fell out her eyes. She crossed her arms and looked down. “Nevermind.” She mumbled, Elaine felt a little bad now. The two sat in silence before the two kids walked up again, but with the priest this time. “We are sorry Miss Rai..” they said in unison, she quickly dried her tears and crouched down to talk to them. “Sorry for what? You didn't do anything.” “We were bothering you, it was mean of us..” the one in the skeleton costume said. “We should've left you alone..you don't have to watch us-” she quickly cut off the other kid. “Nonsense! I don't mind watching you two. It's the best part of my day. The two got all giddy, until the priest stopped in. “No, they need to learn. It may be fun watching them, but it's also fun to have some alone time.” She stood up to face him. She had a small smile, which he gladly returned. Elaine only glared with suspicion at him. “Come now children, we still have more people to apologize to.” He called to the two younger kids, they nodded and started walking. She was shocked that they weren't running like normal. The priest put a hand on Rai's shoulder, they exchanged a small smile before he walked off. Rai and Elaine hadn't said a word to each other.

The two girls are still out walking late, they haven't said much to each other. Rai is trying not to cry while she comes up with a way to apologize. Elaine isn't thinking at all, she's just walking. “I-i'm sorry..for yelling earlier I mean..it was stupid of me..you were only thinking the best- and I- I was being stupid-” Rai tried to apologize, but she just ended up crying. Elaine stopped and looked down, she panicked. Rai had never cried in front of her before. “Hey- hey wait- I..uhm..do you want a hug?” Elaine wasn't sure what to do, but Rai nodded slowly while trying to wipe away her tears. Causing Elaine to slowly and awkwardly wrap her arms around her. Rai held her close and put a head on her shoulder. She wouldn't stop apologizing for, well she was apologizing for everything at this point. Elaine continued to try and tell her not to apologize, but she just felt horrible. Eventually all that was left was sniffles from Rai. “Are you feeling better?” Elaine asked, Rai nodded in response. Her face still dug in Elaine's shoulder. Elaine would think for a couple of minutes, then get an idea.

“Hey, why don't we post something about how cool it is to be outside late at night?” Rai lifted her head, she looked incredibly confused. “What do you mean? Everyone goes around at night.” “Well, just for fun. Plus it'd be nice to have you in my camera roll more.” Elaine giggled as Rai took herself off of her as her face turned bright red. “I..uhm..sure..but it has to be on your phone. My camera sucks.” Elaine quickly pulled out her phone and started recording. “Hold on..oh! Got it!” She pointed the camera towards Rai. Rai just covered her face, Elaine giggled. “Come on! No one will see it. Promise.” After a moment, Rai took her hands off her face. She walked around to be next to Elaine, the camera moved to be on both of them. Elaine kissed Rai's cheek, making her giggle. The two then talked about their night to the camera. They talked for about fifteen minutes before Elaine saw something in front of them. “.hold on..what's that thing?” She flipped the camera, a red blob showed up. It became bigger and more clear the closer it got to the camera. It looked like some kind of demon. Elaine quickly tried to run, but Rai stayed in place. Frozen in fear as the demon ran closer, Elaine yelled for her to get out of the way, but she didn't move. The demon ran up and jumped on Rai, the camera couldn't catch that part. The camera started working again soon after though, Rai looked around like she was looking for something. She now had horns, sharp teeth, and orange eyes. Elaine yelled in fear and just continued to record the phenomen, she didn't know what else to do. Until the two kids and the priest showed up again. The kids run up and go in front of Rai, almost defending her from the priest. Something Elaine could agree with those two for one. The priest runs up and yells, the camera couldn't capture it properly. Elaine started yelling in confusion, “what's going on?!” “Quiet! get- OUT OF THIS BODY MOLOCH!” He yelled before throwing water on Rai. She screamed and threw up some kind of goo. She laid on the sidewalk as the goo would slither away, slowly morphing back into the demon. She stopped recording as she ran up to Rai. Holding her as they ran off. “WHAT DID YOU DO?!” She yelled at the priest in horror as she held her lover.

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“Why are your friends here?” Rai asked, “Why is your girlfriend here?” Her brother, Robert asked. Rai was quit for a moment, “Uhm..” She looked at Elaine for a second before looking back. “Something happened.” She wasn’t going to go into further detail just yet. “Well something happened with us to!” He argued, “I was possessed by this crazy- demon- thing!” One of his friends, Roy yelled. The girls froze, Elaine started choking on her drink. Roy crossed his arms all smug like, thinking he won the argument or something. He wasn’t too sure why he was proud. “I was too! Did..” Rai hesitated, “Did the priest guy help?” She knew they didn’t know his name, “The priest..” Robert muttered for a second, “Oh yeah he did!” Roy’s smile quickly disappeared as he realized it wasn’t just him that experienced it, he was a little upset he couldn’t use it as an excuse against her during arguments. “Why? Did he help you too?” Their third friend, Ross asked. Rai just nodded slowly, what she had seen beginning to come back. “Well, they’re staying here because Roy didn’t want to be alone- OW!” Robert yelled out as Roy punched his arm. Muttering something about what his friend said. Robert glared before turning to face the girls, still rubbing his arm. “Why are you here? Didn’t want to leave her alone?” He asked Elaine, who just stared for a moment. “Something else happened besides that possession thing..” The two flinched when it was mentioned, they didn’t like that experience. By the way Elaine had worded it made him realize that it wasn’t best to talk about infront of Rai. He just nodded, “well we already ate, so…bye i guess!” He waved as the three went to his room. Rai just gave a slight nod as an answer, deep in thought about the priest. Elaine was about to say something but stopped when Rai looked up all the way. “Alright..well..we should finish eating. Radford will be home soon.” Elaine wasn’t sure why that was relevant, but she wouldn’t question it. Not wanting to upset her.

The girls now sat in Rai’s room. Elaine had moved the bean bag next to the bed so she could sit next to her. They were watching TV and making bracelets. The cat was lying on Rai’s pillow, asleep. They could hear the boys from the other room across the hall. “Ugh..i’m bored, and i'm out of ideas for bracelets.” Elaine complained, “Eh, I stopped a while ago.” Rai put her hands down, “That was an option?” Elaine looked up, Rai just shrugged. The two sat in silence for a few minutes before Elaine got an idea. “Hey, wanna go bother the boys?” Rai smiled wide after the suggestion. The girls giggled as they got up and walked out of her room, the cat following. Rai kicked open the door to her brothers room and plopped down on the bed. Elaine sat on the chair at his desk.

The boys had stopped laughing and talking when they walked in. They all stared at each other in silence for a few minutes. “What? Something happen?” Rai asked, acting completely oblivious. “Why are you in my room?” Her brother muttered. “Because I can?” “Well get out?” “No?” The two argued for a moment. Everyone else just watched. Ross looked over to Elaine, they gave each other slight nods, they got along pretty well. Roy had started to record the two argue. Roberts yell was cut off as Rai tackled him. The two began to have a physical fight, hitting each other with pillows, kicking each other, and just straight up yelling. Roy was laughing so hard he couldn’t hold the phone anymore, so Ross took over in recording. Elaine had started recording on her own phone. Until the door banged open again. The two stopped, Rai had a handful of Roberts hair and Robert had a tight hold on Rai’s arm. It was their older brother, Radford. He had just gotten off work. “Where’s the leftover spaghetti?” He questioned, “Oh! I ate it.” Rai stated, Radford only stared for a moment before joining the three in their fight. Roy couldn’t breathe at this point, Elaine had dropped her phone, and Ross was actually laughing out loud instead of a small chuckle. All the siblings were yelling at each otherand fighting, but everyone knew it wasn’t serious, if it was it’d already be over. Everyone was calling them by full names, middle names, last names, and even crude nicknames they had for each other.

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After a while Rai started coughing, she sat up and leaned over while coughing into her arm. Elaine sat on her knees and just held her hands over Rai. Just in case she needed support, Elaine was more focused on what she was coughing up. Some kind of black goo, she was incredibly fearful now. “Are you okay? Do you need water? I-i have water!” She took off her bag to get a water bottle for Rai. Rai's arm was so shaky as she took it, she could barely get it open. She took small, slow sips from the water bottle as Elsine just sat next to her. She was worried by how pale she was, but she noticed something. One of Rai's canines was longer than it had been. “Hey..your tooth..” She pointed out, Rai slowly put her hand up and felt it. She was definitely startled by it, “I..I need to see him..he’ll know what to do..he..he can help..” It didn't take long for Elaine to realize who she was talking about. “Are you serious? He's the reason it happened!” Elaine was furious, “what..? No..no he didn't…he was helping…he was getting rid of the demon..or whatever that thing was..” Rai tried to explain, but Elaine wouldn't listen. “How do you know that?! What if he summoned that thing?!” “He's a priest…why would he summon a demon..?” Rai tried to stay calm, she felt drained of all her energy after that. Elaine couldn't exactly argue with that logic, after a minute she sighed. “Okay, let's sit for a minute and we'll go. Okay?” Rai nodded in agreement, mumbling an okay.

After about an hour they walked up to the church. Rai was talking about Gregor the entire time. Trying to tell Elaine that he isn't a bad guy. Elaine was beginning to realize that he was like a father to her. She felt horrible, especially knowing about Rai's past. Rai continued to talk about how much he meant to her and how much she could trust him. Eventually the two made it up the hill, Rai was still limping because of earlier, so Elaine had to help her walk. Rai slowly knocked on the door, but there wasn't an answer. She was confused. “Maybe we should just wait.” She shrugged it off, and nodded to some trees next to the church. “Come on. Let's go sit and wait.” Rai tried to walk over herself, but still couldn't move properly. Elaine had to help her. When they sat down Elaine complained about the bushes in front of them. Rai was about to argue against it but stopped when she heard the doors open. She couldn't get up to run to him since her legs were still messed up. Elaine was slowly going over to help her, but stopped when Rai stopped trying to move. Rai was beginning to breathe faster, it was scaring her. Rai was staring at the doors, Elaine looked over to see what she was looking at. Someone in a red cloak was dragging Gregor out of the church. All Rai could see was the blood on his head. She began to breathe faster and faster, Elaine had to cover her mouth. When the figure in the cloak disappeared down the hill Rai had fallen into Elaine's arms. She began to sob, she was terrified. Elaine just held her, she did know what to do. Though she got an idea, she started to run her fist up and down Rai's back gently. She also began to hum, she would hum and sing songs to Rai. Rai just laid there, mourning the loss of a father. Though, she knew the town wouldn't be missing the father.

Rai cried longer than she ever had, especially infront of Elaine. She did stop eventually, but she felt numb. Like she could’t move or breathe, almost like she shouldn’t. Elaine just sat in silence, she wasn’t sure how to help, so she just held her. “Do you..want to go home?” Elaine asked in a whisper, Rai nodded slowly. “To your house or my house?” Elaine just wanted the best, if Rai wanted to be alone she’d leave her alone. “Do you think you can stay at my house..?” Rai’s voice was strained because of how hard she had been crying. “I’ll ask my dad, then while i'm walking you down there i'll see if he answers. Okay?” She was so gentle with her words, Rai nodded slowly and tried standing up. Though her legs were still way too weak. Elaine had to help her up, making it difficult to get down the hill. They walked slowly up and down the streets, for Rai’s sake. She was still shaking as if it was below freezing outside. Elaine tried to make conversation to keep her mind off of things, but it wasn’t working well. Everytime Rai would answer it was bland and short. She tried her best to avoid talking about the subject, but Rai just turned it around. After a couple of minutes Elaine just stayed quiet, hoping it might help.

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“WHAT?! Why do I have to walk up the hill?” Rai complained. “It was your idea and my legs hurt. If he has candy, yell down and I'll meet you. If not, you can roll down the hill or something.” Elaine stated sarcastically. “Are you saying that because I'm fat?!” Rai jokingly accused. “Yup!” Elaine answered. Holding back laughter. Rai rolled her eyes and began to walk up the hill. She had put her earbuds in. It was only a three minute walk, but she liked the music. When she got up to the church she took them out. She hesitantly knocked on the door. Fixing the sleeves to her costume as she waited. Humming a song. The door swung open. A man was holding a pot of boiling water. He looked like he was about to throw it at her, but stopped. She was noticeably younger than other trick or treaters. “What are you doing here? You should be at a house party.” He assumed. “So sorry to bother, my friend was curious and wanted to know if you were giving out candy?” Her nervousness made him put down the pot slowly. “I'm not. I refuse to participate in the devil's holiday.” He turned his head. “Oh, my apologies then. I'll leave you be-” she stopped, jumping when she heard Elaine yelling at her from the bottom of the hill. He looked annoyed. “Your friend I assume?” “Yes, sorry about her.” Rai answered. She sounded extremely awkward. He almost felt pity.

She then turned around and began to say goodbye, but he stopped her. “Wait, I have a question. Why are you out? Normally kids your age are drinking and smoking at a house party.” She slowly turned back around. “Oh no no..i can't. Me and my friend would rather goof off and dress up. I don't care about the candy that much. I just like hanging out with her.” the man nodded and held out a hand. “I'm new in town. I'm the priest of the church. My name is Father Gregor.” She very hesitantly shook his hand. “I'm Raelynn. Normally people call me Rai.” She introduced me. “My friend down there is Elaine. Sometimes I call her Ei.” “Ei? Like the letter? That's..odd.” he asked himself. “I just wanted a nickname for her. I don't call her that often though..” she giggled at the thought. “Will I be seeing you at church ever?” He asked. Almost hoping to see her. “Probably not. I mean, my family believes I think? I'm not sure..it's a little confusing.” She sounded embarrassed. “I see. Well it isn't for everyone. I'm not disappointed in you or anything if that's what you're thinking.” He could see the nervousness on her face. She now had a wide smile. Then she said her goodbyes and left. Yelling at her friend down the hill. He watched her as she walked. Almost watching her to make sure she was safe.

When Rai made it back down the hill Elaine stared with her arms crossed. “What took so long?” Rai still had her smile, “Oh! The guy that was up there-” “Did he have candy?” Elaine interrupted. Rai gave her a look and just stared quietly for a moment. “No..he didn't. He's a priest I guess. Doesn't celebrate.” Rai answered as she put her earbuds back in the case and in her pocket. “I think he wanted to throw boiling water on me..but besides that he was chill.” She shrugged and began to walk, Elaine following. “A priest? Ew, what'd he talk about? Did he want you to come by?” She sounded extremely suspicious. “He just kinda talked, I'll be honest I forgot most of it. I think he said something about me coming by..but I don't know. Sundays are supposed to be my day off from band and everything. Oh! And his name is Gregor.” Rai didn't complain, she didn't even talk bad about him. Elaine didn't like it, she didn't trust him. “Gregor? That's stupid.” She rolled her eyes. “Well, he didn't like your name either.” “he WHAT?!” Rai started laughing at her friend's reaction. The two continued their conversation as they walked, Elaine being incredibly loud while Rai told her to be quiet.

Uhm,, I got bored

Robert is the easiest to draw, Ross is my favorite to draw, and Roy is good for when I want to just creep someone out.

I over exaggerated a couple things, mainly hair. I always give Ross those bangs when I draw him, but they are heavily over exaggerated in this. Roy's hair is supposed to cover his whole face but it just reminds me of an alpaca. Then I struggle with Roberts jacket really.

Tagging @mayisgoingnuts bc I said so aksjw