Day 1. Alex

"Jeremy! Jeremy! Jeremy! We're waiting for you!" screamed a young boy, Alex, happy as could be. His golden brown curls bouncing over his shoulders, messy tendrils of amber sticking out through his sea of hair, sticking to his heavily freckled face. Running towards Jeremy as he ran into the church, grinning so much that you could see his dimples as clear as could be. His icy blue eyes could be seen shining from miles away. There was no malice behind his tone as he smiled brightly, calling his friend over impatiently.

"Hold on, I'm coming" A taller boy mumbled to his overly energetic friend, sliding his sockless feet into his old, small and beat up shoes.

The town of Mable was relatively peaceful. It wasn't big, but most people were content with the size as it was. People in this small town enjoyed it. It was civilized and not many crimes occurred. Each fight that would happen- if there was even any- was about trivial things, that could be resolved in minutes.

It was perfect. They kept their own economy, separate from the rest of the world. They all had a form of law and nobody disobeyed it.

"Are you done yet!? Taylor and I have been waiting for ten minutes!" Alex' exasperated voice resonated from across the church, echoing due to the almost hollow building.

"I was doing something important with someone.." Jeremy muttered to himself, as quiet as a mouse. He had always been fairly shy, being unable to stand up for himself, let alone correct anyone.

"With who? Nobody ever comes to this church anymore, and the only nun that still comes and cares for you is in the hospital and probably on her deathbed." Alex spoke skeptically, slowly making his way to Jeremy as his shoes pattered against the wood.

"Don't say that!" the usually quiet boy snapped, rage and fear swirling through his voice, startling Alex. "She's the only person who ever cared for me! And the only person that I loved who didn't die!" Jeremy's caution melted away, his voice bouncing off the tall walls of the almost abandoned building. A light tint of red rising to his cheeks, glazing over his ghostly pale skin

"I-Im s-sorry.. I forgot.." Alex's flamboyant demeanor was knocked down in an instant, trying to keep his friend from getting even more worked up than he already had been.

"You forgot that all of my family died in their own special way?" his midnight colored eyes shined with tears, as he continued with his almost violent shouting.

Jeremy suddenly snapped out of his rage blinded state, realizing what he had said. He has always been extreme when anyone tried pushing the topic of his family into the discussion. He had never even gotten the chance to know what his family was like. He always wished that he could meet them, even if it was just once, he just wanted to be like other kids. But instead, he was trapped in an abandoned church, with the only one that genuinely cared for him being a nun that was already half way into her grave.

"H-holy crap.. I-Im sorry Alex.. I didn't mean to..-" Jeremy's voice was laced with fear, tears running down his reddened cheeks.

"It's fine. I shouldn't have said that anyways.. I know how you feel about that nun.." Alex's tone softened, adding an almost endearing sense.

"Come on, let's go. Taylor has been waiting for us at the playground!" he spoke, somehow pushing Jeremy's sudden outburst out of his mind. Granted, he was diagnosed with severe depression after his family died at the age of two, and the only nun who ever cared for him, the one he thought of as a mother, was extremely sick.

As Jeremy and Alex left the church, the young boys didnt know that in just a few hours, the yearly cloud of mist would come through and it would choose children to take to what the townspeople called, The Abyss. They didn't think of anything when they didn't see any of the other usual kids there. Granted, they were only 10 years old, so they wouldn't possibly understand that it was the day of the year the mist cloud came through and took a few children's souls to The Abyss for the rest of eternity.

As they got up a hill they could see Taylor sitting on a swing. Her long, dark and beautiful hair in the wind as she goes up. Her giant smile shows when she sees Jeremy and Alex running up the hill. Her tan skin glimmering in the sun's rays as it beats down on the play equipment.

"Guys! You actually came, Jeremy!" She said as she jumped off of the swing, landing graciously on the ground, sticking the landing, flawlessly.

She ran over to them and they all started talking. They all had a lot of fun and it felt like hours went by in seconds. The sky grew pink, as it started to be covered in clouds.

"Oh no.. I forgot.. Today's the day the mist cloud comes through the village.." Alex said, terrified and stuttering on his words.

"We need to get inside somewhere!" Screamed Jeremy as he took their hands and ran back towards the church.

Jeremy looked over to his left while running at full speed, and saw a huge tsunami of mist, swallowing the west side of their town fully. People screamed and children cried as they ran towards the church.

"We're almost there!" Screamed Jeremy as Alex and Taylor followed behind, terrified for their lives.

The mist cloud came flooding towards them, submerging them before they could enter the church. Jeremy fell and started coughing as the dampness of the mist started to make him wet. He got up and looked around for the others.

"Guys?" He said, frightened and worried for him and his friends.

As the mist cleared, he felt the setting sun's heat shine down on him. He ran around, looking for his friends.

"Alex!? Taylor!?" He screamed as he ran around the outside of the abandoned church.

"Im here.." Taylor said, getting up and brushing off the dirt from her pants slowly, immediately after she started coughing.

"W-where's Alex.. Where is he!?" Screamed Jeremy, frightened and wanting to know where his only other friend besides Taylor is.

He ran frantically as the sun went down slowly behind him, causing the skys natural blue color to slowly fade out behind him. The tall child ran through the village, as everyone else seemed to have just, forgotten, about Alex already. He ran and ran until he found himself sitting on the top of a hill in the village, with a single tree in the center.

"He was taken.. Wasn't he.." Jeremy said through tears as Taylor came up the hill behind him, panting, but in tears as well.

"I-I'm going.. I'm going to find Alex! And all the other children that went missing from the mist cloud!" Screamed Jeremy, in tears as he pounded the dirt with his fists until the skin opened wide.

"J-Jeremy.." Said Taylor, stuttering.

"Dont talk me out of this! I've made up my god damn mind, Taylor!" Screamed Jeremy, in tears as his knuckles had ripped skin, but somehow wasn't bleeding at all.

"No.." Said Taylor, "I'm going with you..! I'm going to find Alex with you!" said Taylor as she grabbed Jeremys hand and started walking southwards of the village, the same direction the mist left from, hoping, with just a chance, they could find their best friend.