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She didn't want to admit that his words were getting to her, even though both of them knew that Leo had a way of getting under her skin every time they interacted. Catalina pushed herself up to standing on the wooden dock, rolling her eyes at the other beside her. "Stop trying to scare me, Leo. No one is going to come out here and murder me with the sun still peeking through. Murders are totally a dark thing, and I don't care about your Nan and her weird STD or whatever that is that she got from dead people." Turning on her heels, she started to walk back down to the grassy area of the yard, yelling over her shoulder at him "Isn't there anyone else you'd rather keep from getting choked out?"

Leo rolled his eyes immediately and began to pick himself up off of the dock too as she began to leave. "I'm not trying to scare you" he insisted. He didn't want to scare her, he knew he had a way of getting under her skin and frustrating her but his actions were purely because he cared. "I'd want to stop anyone getting choked out but you're the only one out here alone right now" he pointed out once more following her back towards the building over the grass. "I'm literally just trying to be nice and you're making this something that it isn't!" He called out to her as he raised his voice.

"Yeah, at least we have the lake..." Ivy sighs melancholically. She doesn't hold Leo's somewhat poorly timed take against him; usually she was the type to try and see the upside in every situation as well. But currently there is none; it's time for compartmentalising and finding solutions. Ivy's known Leo long enough to know that there are no bad suggestions with him, so she feels more confident with him than some of the others to float some seemingly impossible ideas. "How long do you think it would take to hike back to the city? Obviously staying close to the roads and everything..." She asks, just casually enough to not insinuate it as an actual, viable plan.

"Uh.." he trailed off as he tried to think about her question. He was dumb but sometimes he spoke reason, he and Burak had done many crazy things in their time together so sometimes it really did come in handy and he was hoping that could come into play. "A lot of fuckin' hours that's for sure." He spoked bluntly, "What is it like a 2 hour drive minimum for the closest town from here? So to hike out of this forest first depending on if we walk fast or not is going to be hours on top of that alone. I'm pretty sure we are like dead centre in this place too and that would be hoping we don't somehow get lost trying to hike outta here.. that's before we even try to hike the 2 hour drive to the city too." He didn't want to scare her but he also didn't want to sit here and feed her a false narrative.

it wasn't like she didn't feel sad about aaron but fuck, there was no way she was about to let her pain see the light of day again after everything that happened to her. she's been through enough and if she has to numb herself to get through the day then so be it. arden wasn't about to let leo of all people judge her for it. "didn't realize you got so boring," she said as she sat down on the grass, feeling all the weight lift off of her. "tell me, how do you plan on getting out of here?" i'll pretend to care.

He shot the woman a look of confusion, as though to say did you really just say that? The man had been called a lot of things, insulted in many ways, yelled at for lord knows what in his life time but being told he was boring because he didn't feel like playing one of Arden's silly games right now was new. "So I'm boring now because I don't want to play truth or dare after we found our friend dead and I had to lug his dead body in the basement?" His brows still firmly furrowed as he looked at the woman in front of him. "I don't plan to get you out of here, I plan to get me out of here while you play strip truth or dare alone."

Her eyes peered at him as she listened to him talk, kicking her feet against the cool waters of lake. "I'm just on edge, Leo. I think a lot of us are." She defended herself, wanting to cross her arms but fighting against it so that he couldn't blame an attitude on her next. "A bitch? Really? You really know how to speak to a lady." Scoffing at him as she dragged her sight away from a face that was beginning to annoy her more than it usually did. "Shut up, you are just trying to scare me and I don't even get why. Why are you out here? Why do you feel this need to bother me?"

"Well, if you're going to act like one then I will tell you you're being one and it's the truth you're being a bitch right now." The man shrugged as he looked over at her. He wasn't the greatest at getting his point across and if anything had a way of upsetting people more than intended or making situations worse. "Why would I want to scare you? I'm tellin' you the truth, Cat. My Nan caught gout because of dead people germs and i'm just warning you. I'm out here because I didn't want someone coping out here and choking you out like Aaron."

"You can be such an ass, you know that?" Her fingers tightened around the wood on the side of the dock, trying hard not to roll her eyes at Leos comments. She knew that he wouldn't have stopped laughing if she had actually fallen in, thanking God that she hadn't. "The sun hasn't even gone down completely yet, what kind of killer kills people when the sun is still up?" Her hand reaching over to grab ahold of the beer in his hand, taking her own drink of it before offering it back to him. "It was like over there or something in the grass, I don't think this part of the area is contaminated. Those germs don't spread... right?"

"Be so for real Cat I'm not an ass I'm a good guy" He shot her a look, eyebrow screwed with a slight pout on his lips, "you're just being weird and I don't know why" he shook his head as she took the beer from his hand and drank some of it. "You're gonna call me an ass then take things from me? If anything you're a bit of a bitch" he huffed before taking the drink off of her and taking another mouthful for himself. "Probably any killer ever would kill in the day time, Cat. I'm not the smartest guy but I'm not as stupid as you i guess?" The cup placed beside him he leaned back to look around at the area they were seated in, "Yeah I heard dead people germs spread and are like contagious or something, pretty sure my nan caught something called gout because of it."

❛ can you stop being such a conceited little shit. ❜ the comment is not meant to be incendiary, only to get things moving. ace might think otherwise, but he's not having the time of his life telling him what he should be doing either. instead of going into panic or shutting down, burak had to do something with his hands. he can't stay still, explaining the short fuse at the inaction that took place earlier. giving a cue for leo to lift, he can't help the groan at the surprising weight, even shared. ❛ why is this tiny fucker so heavy. ❜ stiffness, cool air and remaining water soaking clothes might have something to do with it as he heaves the body, coordinating his steps with leo's. ❛ steps are short, just be careful at the door. ❜ his tone excessively more calm with leo than it is with ace, absolutely playing favorites in the moment. ❛ yeah ? want to come put your hand in his mouth and tell us if he bites you ? until you're not a little bitch about it, go make sure we have space to place him. ❜ @leoxpark

"If you coulda done this alone then why the fuck don't you, buddy?" Leo huffed as he shot Ace a disapproving look as he made sure their stance and grip on the body was up to his standards. The curly haired man had a lot to say in Leo's opinion for somebody that wasn't physically carrying their dead friend right now. "I'm going with he had a good feast last night because this fucker ain't as light as a feather right now." From every movie he'd watched he always thought he could do this with ease if needed, he worked out and was a bigger guy in height than most but this was proving everything he thought wrong. "Yo, Burak.. we might need to take breaks or some shit because I don't wanna drop him or anything." @spitfirxs

"it's cause i'm not as faded as i'd like to be right now but give it a minute, i'll be all sunshine in like five." she could almost feel it coming and she would know because leo's talking doesn't make her want to strangle the hell out of him. "or.. we could do something really fun like truth or dare with a nice spice to it."

Leo stood in silence for a moment, thoughts all over the place as he tried to come up with something witty to say or knowing him just down right stupid. After a moment he looked over at Arden, his eyebrow arched a little before finally speaking. "Arden-" he paused for a moment to collect his thoughts, "we literally just found our friend dead, i'm not really in the mood to play these kinds of games.." his voice drifting off a little, "no offence, I'd have loved them yesterday when we were all alive for sure."

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The man laughed as he took a seat beside her with a beer in hand. "Oh yeah, why would I have done that?" He questioned, "then I wouldn't have made you jump and missed the chance that you might have fallen in because of it?" Eyebrow raised as he looked in her direction while taking a swig of his drink. "Why are you sat out here alone anyway? What if you got killed? Also didn't they find the dead body here and now you're basically sat in dead body germs or something?"