Chapter 1

Spencer p.o.v

The hairs on the back of my neck stood up and a shiver travelled through my spine.

There's someone else in the woods!

Sounds of leaves and twigs being gently trod on is visible in the far away distance. I move my head from side to side trying to find a way to the far edge of the woods. Where the lights of my house are shining. The woods is pitch black and I can't see a thing. The trees look like monsters in the night sky and the sound of the wind makes everything seem motionless.

I can feel someone staring at me. Like they are staring daggers in my head. I quickly turned around to see someone running in the other direction towards the edge of the woods. All it was, was a black figure. There face was not shown covered by a hoodie or hat.

At that moment my phone beeped signalling that I had a teaxt message. I pulled it out of my pocket and read the text:

I can c u

-A

I screamed and ran with all the power I had to my home where my parents and sister are sound asleep and everything is calm. Like nothing ever happened.

I woke up to the blinding sunlight shining through my window. The sound of birds chirping made me feel relaxed. I turned over taking the covers with me making the cold air hit my warm body.

There was a photo placed on my bedside table of me and my friends. Alison, Hanna, Aria and Emily. It was taken last summer before it all happened...

The day Allison went missing.

We were camping at the time. It had been planned for ages. All of us huddled up into a small garage in the middle of the woods. Pitch black outside. All the regular sounds of the woods taken up a decibel making it all seem more mysterious. And not including the horror stories that we told as we toasted marshmallows on a fire.

It all seemed normal until the moment we all heard screaming. We had been asleep for the past 3 hours and the sun was just visible rising up in the morning sky. It was still dull outside but the trees were visible.

We all looked around looking for where the noises came from. That was when we all noticed she was missing. We didn't panic. We thought it was just one of her pranks that she usually plays.

But two hours later she didn't return. That was when it all started to sink and we all started to panic.

That was 6 months ago and we are still waiting for her return. The only thing we can go on is hope.

But time is running out we all know it. Our hope is running out. We have to find out what happened before it is to late.

I picked up my phone and dialed her number. Aria's. She's the one that will understand the most. I hope. It rang and rang until a sleepy voice answered on the other end. I relaxed and told her the terrifying story of last night.

Aria p.o.v

The sun is shining in the morning sky making the whole world seem calm and relaxing. The birds are singing there tuneful song and people are out taking a stroll with there dogs at this time in the morning.

I squinted because of the sunlight that is beaming through my window. I rolled over in my bed and pulled the covers up over my head. I need more sleep. I met Hanna last night so we could catch up on what has been happening.

It was all going well until she mentioned a texted she got from -A. I thought whoever was pranking us had given up, since I haven't had one in at least a week, but obviously they haven't. We all thought that the texts were from Allison the first time we got them, we kept texting back and when she didn't reply we texted her again. But we knew something was going on. She wouldn't answer any of the texts. So it was simple we stopped texting her.

That was when the texts got worst. It was like he or she could read our mind. I got one first. I was seeing a teacher after school. Only because I was stuck on an essay that he had set and had kindly offered to help me. Only Allison knew about my past with a couple of young teachers. But as soon as I had agreed to meet him and walked out of the classroom, the text came:-

Lets hope this relationship isn't a fail as the rest of them were, teacher lover!

-A

That was the first time I knew that somebody was out to get us. Somebody who know's all of our secrets and isn't afraid to share them.

Since then they have got worse. We only hope that we find whoever -A is, then everything will be perfect again and we can get on with our lives. I hope.

The sound of my phone ringing brought me back from my thoughts. I picked it up off the bedside table and looked at the ID. Spencer. I pressed the button to take the call.

"Hello?" My voice was still sleepy.

" Hey, you sound sleepy." She claimed. I could tell she was smiling from the way she was speaking.

" Yep you know me one of the laziest people around." I laughed and she laughed as well.

" Look there's something I need to tell you." I could tell from her voice that is was no laughing matter.

" Go on."

" I was in the woods last night about midnight, I was just walking home when I felt someone was following me." I braced myself because I knew she was going to tell me something bad.

"I turned around and noticed a person all dressed in black, I couldn't tell what their face looked like, they were running the other way out of the woods and then I got a text from -A saying that they were watching me, by that point I was running for my life. What are we going to do? we've got to do something Aria."

I didn't answer back. I ended the call and threw it at the wall. Oh god here we go again.