This is my new sequel to Dial R for Revenge! Enjoy it!

December 3rd...

Luke looked at the newspaper, like every day.

And every day, it had more information about Bryce Anderson, a dangerous criminal on the loose.

He had already hospitalized three girls and a boy.

The first girl, well… that was by accident.

But that was almost a month ago now.

Anyways, Bryce Anderson was always the front headlines.

But today…

Luke yelled, "MOM!"

His mom, and his dad too, came rushing down the stairs, wide-eyed.

"What is it, Luke?"

"Look." Luke pointed his finger at the title.

ROWLEY JEFFERSON, 13, FOUND UNCONSCIOUS AFTER ASSAULTED BY UNKNOWN CRIMINAL

Rowley Jefferson, 13, was found unconscious in his neighborhood after having been assaulted by an unknown attacker. However, police have their suspicions that the criminal is Bryce Anderson, a known criminal at this time. Apparently Bryce is on the loose after attacking his girlfriend, Olivia Peterson, who is the ex-girlfriend of Rowley's cousin, Luke. All of this may be connected.

Rowley Jefferson, luckily, is fine, having a slight concussion and some bruises but otherwise okay. He says it was 'the scariest thing that ever happened to me.' Fortunately, Mr. Jefferson seems to not have been traumatized at all by the experience. At the moment, he is at the hospital.

Luke was out the door and on his bike before his parents could react.

As he pedaled down to the hospital, he found himself looking around for Bryce.

He didn't see him, and he arrived at the hospital without being attacked by a crazy eighth grader.

He jumped off the bike and waved to the secretary, who was used to seeing him there by now. But he asked this time, "Hey, where is Rowley Jefferson right now?"

"Oh, he's… next to your friend Olivia—"

The secretary didn't have time to finish.

Luke blasted up the stairs and into the room where at one end, Trista and Patty lay in two of the beds, resting, but wide awake. Greg was there too, eyes closed but still fine.

At the other end lay a girl with blond hair and closed eyes.

Next to that girl was Rowley.

"Rowley! What happened?"

Rowley calmed Luke down and explained.

"I was walking home when all of a sudden, I felt something hit me in the head, and the next thing I knew, I was in the hospital."

"Oh."

"But I found this in my pocket, and—"

Rowley held the folded note out to him.

You're next.

Luke refolded the note and put it in his pocket.

"I saw what it said," Rowley told him. "Think Bryce put it there?"

"Yeah. Hey, Rowley, why are you acting so mature about this? Normally your mother would be holding your hand right now. Also, we never got a call from your parents about you. What's up with that?"

"Well, my parents told me that the phone lines had been cut. I bet Bryce did that too."

Luke sighed and sat down on a stool next to him.

"I gotta go. I need to take care of some stuff with these girls. Okay?"

"Bye."

Luke walked out. He had been hiding out for the last few weeks, trying to avoid being found by Bryce. But now, Bryce was after him anyways, so it didn't matter as much.

He first called Holly. It would probably be easier to get rid of her.

"Hey, Holly—"

He was greeted by sobbing.

"Holly?"

"Luke! Help! Bryce, he-he's…

"What is it? Holly?"

Then a new voice, one he remembered, spoke over more terrified sobbing.

"Listen, Jefferson, all this is just to show you how easily I can get to the people you care about. I bet I could just stroll into the hospital right now and make sure that Olivia never woke up again. But I won't. Anyhow, the police are going to find your little fake girlfriend in a few minutes, because I bet you'll call them. And then the headlines will tell everyone I'm still at large. But they won't catch me."

Luke heard a click. He quickly dialed three now familiar numbers, that he had dialed before, for Patty and Trista and Greg.

"Hello? Yes, Bryce Anderson just threatened me, again, and this time…" Luke rattled off the now familiar script. He then closed his phone and hoped they'd find Holly in time.

Well, he thought, time to take care of Jennifer.

As Luke biked down to Jennifer's house, he rehearsed in his head what he was going to say to her.

Jennifer stepped out onto the patio when she saw Luke.

"Hi Luke!" she beamed.

"Listen, Jennifer, you ruined my life. Olivia's too. So I don't want to see you or hear from you EVER AGAIN!" Luke snapped at her.

Then he pedaled away as fast as he could.

Behind him, Jennifer said to a bush, "You can come out now."

There was rustling, then Bryce Anderson stepped out.

That concludes the first chapter!