Author's Note: Okaay, this is both the Prologue and Chapter one on the same page hehe...

Prologue.

"Elizabeth?"

No answer.

"Elizabeth? Where are you?" Abigail repeated to her twin sister. She couldn't see anything, the room was to dark.

No, it wasn't just dark- it was pitch black, deadly dark. She couldn't even tell if her eyes were shut or closed.

Thump.

What was that?

Thump.

"Wh-who's there?" Abigail asked to no one in particular- her voice came out squeeky and choked- from fear. From pure terror.

Thump.

Abigail held her breath and crawled under the bed.

Tump.

They were footsteps.

Thump.

And they were coming closer.

"Abby?" A voice whispered. Abigail let out her breath- she could hear her heart thumping loudly in her chest. This time she couldn't tell if it was from fear, or from the overwhelming realization that struck her.

"Elizabeth? Is that you?" Abigail asked the voice- her own voice quivering.

"Yeah, it's just me. Where are you?" Her sister replied.

"Under the bed."

A few seconds later, Elizabeth crawled under the bed and joined her sister.

"He's out there." Abigail said- her voice barely above a whisper. Elizabeth didn't reply.

"He's in the house." She repeated.

Thump.

Abigail covered her mouth with her hands to keep from screaming. Her sister was under the bed right next to her, and their foster parents weren't home- which left them to be the only two in the house. Except for the intruder, and now he was in the room with them...

"I know you two are in here." A husky voice said from only a few yards away from the bed.

"It's been a while. We have some catching up to do, ladies." He cackled evilly- Abigail could tell he'd been on drugs or something, just by his menacing voice and his dry cackle of a laugh.

Abigail shut her eyes tightly and held her breath again and stayed completely still- keeping dead silent, and still as death.

She nudged her sister slightly- just to make sure she was there- she hadn't said a word. Elizabeth nudged her back- assuring her that she was still there.

Abigail felt tears form in her closed eyes. He was coming closer.

"Come out, come out wherever you are..." The man said.

Thump.

Thump.

The intruder was walking around the room- Abigail could tell. He was stomping his feet purposely to frighten them. Well, it was working.

She thought she'd seen the last of him, she'd thought he was gone forever. She hadn't seen him for years. She was seventeen years old, and she thought she was away from him forever. Her foster parents had told her so. They had promised that he'd never come back.

But he was back, back for her and Elizabeth, and he was in her house, in her room. And she was sure that he wasn't leaving until he got what he wanted.

And what did he want?

Abigail and Elizabeth dead.

Why did he hate them so much? What did they ever do to him?

And how did he escape from prison?

The footsteps suddenly stopped. Abigail opened her eyes slightly and felt an on coming scream deep in her throat when she saw the firghtening sight.

She mentally smacked herself for opening her eyes.

Right in front of the bed, Abigail saw the knife.

It was a large , tall, knife- it almost looked like a spear, and it was silvery and shiny, and brand spankin' new it seemed.

She could see his reflection in the glint of the sharp knife, he was looking down at the bed- his eyes full of a sickening hatred, his jaw set hard, the wrinkles in his forehead...

"I've found you." He said bitterly.

Abigail stayed silent.

"I've brought a new knife for the occasion." He said- and then cackled again.

Abigail gasped loudly as she heard the loud RRRRIIIPPP of the mattress right above her.

It was even worse when she heard her sister scream loudly and piercing. Only Elizabeth could pull off a shrill scream like that.

And without having to look, Abigail knew that Elizabeth had been stabbed in the back- literally, right through the thin mattress.

"Elizabeth!!!!!" Abigail shreiked- tugging at her sister's blonde hair, to see if she was alive- forgetting about him for a split second. Her twin sister didn't answer.

Right at that moment Abigail felt something warm and sticky on her bare arm.

What was that? She couldn't tell because she couldn't see anything. But it only took her a second to realize what the gooey liquid was.

Blood.

Elizabeth's blood.

Her sister's blood.

Abigail screamed- not as ear piercing as Elizabeth had, but pretty close.

"One down, one to go." She heard him say. Oh no! She had forgotton that he was in the room- right above her bed, but before Abigail had a chance to scream again, or move, she heard another RRRIIIPPP, and half a second later, she felt something sharp and pointy stabbing into her back.

"NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!" Abigail wailed as she felt a surge of pain shoot through her entire body.

A few seconds later, she felt another hard stab, but she didn't scream this time, because this time the blade had seared straight through her skull, killing her on the spot.

The man smiled evilly- pleased with his work and pulled the knife back up.

Finally- after five years of following the twins around, plotting his crime scene, plotting to kill them, escaping prison in Idaho- it was finally the night, and he had succeeded.

Victory was his!

He turned on his heel and walked out of the room.

"Two down, zero to go." he whispered to himself as he exited the house.

"I can see the headlines now..." he said to himself.

"...Twin Sisters Abigail and Elizabeth Evans murdered in their own house."

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Chapter One - I Dare You.

"Ughh! Stupid locker!" Sharpay Evans muttered madly as she fumbled with the lock on her pink locker door- the darn thing was always getting stuck or something. She really needed a new locker, and the school had given her one to move to- but it was ugly and basic. She needed pink!

She messed with the padlock for a few more seconds before cursing madly and kicking her locker door in defeat.

She heard a laugh from behind her, she turned around and came face to face with Troy Bolton.

"Having trouble there Pay?" He asked her.

She groaned.

"Yes!" she said.

Troy sighed in a show-offy way.

"Step back, and let the pro take care of this." He said with a smirk. Sharpay rolled her eyes and smiled at him.

"You really need to gain more self respect." She told him sarcastically in a playful way.

Troy smiled and stepped up to her locker door and hit it in a few different places before it popped right open.

"I always wonder how you do that..." Sharpay told him.

"Well, if I told you, then I wouldn't be able to do it for you, and I wouldn't get my thanks!" Troy said.

"...So, where's my reward?" He asked her. Sharpay smirked teasingly and stepped close to him. She placed her hands on his shoulders and kissed him for a few seconds before pulling away.

"Thank you, locker man." She whispered.

"It was nice doing business with you."

He chuckled.

"The pleasure was all mine. Now how about a tip?"

Sharpay wrapped her arms around his neck and he wrapped his arms around her waist this time as they kissed passionately, only to be broken apart by someone clearing their throat loudly.

They pulled apart and looked up.

"Sorry to be interrupting your moment, but you're sort of making out in the middle of the hallway." Ryan Evans told his twin sister.

Sharpay sighed.

"Yes Ry, except school is over. SO it doesn't matter."

Ryan rolled his eyes.

"Whatever. Anyway, where's the rest of the gang?"

Sharpay shrugged.

"You should know where your girlfriend is, and I don't know where Tay, or Chad is."

"We were all supposed to meet at your broken locker right?" Ryan asked her with a smirk.

"Yeah." She said- brushing him off.

She turned to her now open locker and began to pull out her text books that she needed for homework that night.

History, and Algebra...ooh fun! She thought sarcastically.

"Hey guys!" Gabriella Montez greeted the three of them running up to them. She gave Ryan a quick kiss on the cheek.

"Hey Gabby!" Sharpay said to her friend.

"Hey Shar!"

"Hi." Troy said blankly.

"Hi." she said back bitterly. Troy and Gabriella didn't really get along that well, they used to date- for four months, until Troy broke up with her in June...for Sharpay. At Lava Springs. Sharpay had immediatley said 'yes' when Troy had asked her out, because she and Gabriella hadn't really been friends back then. And Sharpay had had a crush on him forever.

But then Ryan asked out Gabriella in July, and she had said 'yes', and Sharpay and Gabriella became friends since Gabriella was always coming over, the same with Troy and Ryan- they became friends because Troy was always coming over as well- forming the group of four- except Troy and Gabriella who just sort of had to put up with each other- even though it was now October...

Where did Chad and Taylor fit in? Chad was Troy's best friend and Taylor was Gabriella's.

"Hey man- great thing we don't have practice today, huh?" Chad greeted Troy as he ran up to the group of four- with Taylor following close behind.

"Yeah- awesome!" Troy said.

"So what does everyone want to do? It's Friday!" Sharpay said as they began to walk out of the school.

"I don't know- hey whose car are we taking today?" Ryan asked.

"Not mine, my dad had to drive me to school- the motor on mine needed fixing." Troy said.

"Mine and Ryan's are getting their every-2-month paint job." Sharpay said.

"Still don't have one." Chad said.

"Me either..." said Taylor.

"Same here." Gabriella said.

The six of them sighed and began to walk towards the twins' house after confirming that none of them had cars today.

"So, me and Ry were thinking of throwing a party this weekend- like a Halloween party, our parents are out of town for their anniversary!" Sharpay exclaimed as they continued to walk.

"You're parents got married on Halloween?" Chad asked.

"No, a few days before." Sharpay said defensively.

"But anyway, how does a party sound? Like everyone would have to put a costume on and stuff."

"That sounds like fun!" Gabriella exclaimed.

"I am SO there!" Taylor chimed in.

"That's a great idea." Troy told her as he kissed her on the top of her head.

They continued to walk for a few minutes when Chad suddenly stopped by a street sign.

"Hey what are you doing?" Taylor asked.

"Yeah- were supposed to keep walking straight..." Ryan said.

"Well, I've been to your guy's house a couple times before, and I remember taking this street as a shortcut!" Chad said truthfully.

"A shortcut?" Gabriella asked- staring down the street as if she didn't know the meaning of the word.

"Yeah!" Chad said.

"Well, if you say so." Troy said as he began to walk down the nearly deserted street with only around ten houses on it- it was a small road..

"Wait- look at the street sign!" Sharpay said pointing at the rusty old sign. She was really looking for any excuse to not go on the road, she'd heard plenty of stories about the so-called 'haunted' street, and she'd had to pass by it everyday when she was coming home from school...and now Chad wanted to walk down it.

"Yeah...so?..." Troy asked.

"Reaper Road? I mean...really..." Sharpay said.

"Reaper Road? Like...The Grim Reaper?" Gabriella asked.

No one said anything for a minute, until Chad laughed- over exaggeratingly.

"That's cheesy. Don't be afraid of a road!" He said.

"Whatever. Come on and show us this shortcut of yours then!" Sharpay snapped- there was clearly no way out of this. And besides- what could possibly happen by just walking down a street?

Chad shrugged and they began to walk down Reaper Road.

"The shortcut is through those mini-woods ove there." Chad said- pointing to a mass of trees and plants that only he would call 'woods.'

"Ew. We have to walk through that?!" Sharpay asked.

"Yup."

They passed a few houses- which all looked pretty run-down but had cars parked in the driveway-so the houses had to be occupied- but who would want to live anywhere on this road anyway?

Just as they were about to enter the 'woods' Troy stopped suddenly.

"Whoa! Look..." he said-pointing to a really old looking, dirty house that was obviously abandoned.

"What about it? It's just a creepy house..." Sharpay said, looking around.

"...Make that the creepiest house of all..." she said with a shudder.

"We should go up there..." Chad said, everyone looked at him like he was nuts- well, except for Troy who was still eyeing the big empty beat up house- it actually could probably pass for some sort of 1900's mansion...

"No way. I've heard a lot of stories about Reaper Road, but especially about that house. Haven't you?" Gabriella said.

Everyone-even Troy now turned to stare at her.

"We've all probably heard stories, but none of us study history as much as you..."Sharpay said- stepping closer to Troy as if he was going to protect her from...something...

"Yeah- even I don't know that much." Taylor said.

"What have you heard about this house?" Troy asked her with a smirk- putting his arm around Sharpay.

"You think it's a big joke don't you?!" Gabriella snapped at him.

Troy shook his head.

"No. Tell us." He said- wiping the smirk off his face slightly. Gabriella sighed.

"Well, first of all I want to make sure it's the right house-what's the house adress?"

Chad looked at the rusted mailbox a few feet away from him.

"...I think it says '10 Reaper Road' " he said after looking at the old mailbox for a few seconds.

"Alright, it's the right one..." Gabriella said. Sharpay wrapped her arms around Troy tighter as Gabriella began her story.

"Well...I heard that along time ago- around the early 19'00's I guess it was, two twin sisters were living with their foster parents in this very house..." she paused.

"What were their names?" Taylor asked.

"Hmm...Abigail and Elizabeth something-or-other, I forgot their last name...because I studied this when I first moved here last year...the last name was very familiar though..." she paused again, the five of them were still staring at her.

"Anyway, Abigail and Elizabeth's birth parents were murdered when they were twelve. Someone had broken into their house and stabbed them to death- right in front of the twins, he was about to kill them to- but then the police broke in and arrested the guy before he could hurt either of them-"

"Hold up, who was this guy, why did he want to murder a family, and what does it have to do with this house?" Sharpay asked- inerrupting her.

"Let me finish."

"Fine."

"Anyway, as the guy was being dragged out by the police, he swore that he would find those two girls and kill them to- if it was the last thing he did. That all took place in Idaho. Well, Abigail and Elizabeth were adopted by a wealthy married couple, and they moved to Albuquerque- to 10 Reaper Road, and they lived here for five years, until..." she paused again.

"Until?..." Taylor asked.

"Until one day, when the twins were seventeen, their foster parents left them home alone for some reason, but they didn't say why. When they came home 2 hours later, they found Abigail and Elizabeth stabbed to death under a bed in I think...Elizabeth's room- or it might have been Abigail's..."

Everyone continued to stare at her.

"...And? What happened then?" Sharpay asked. Gabriella shrugged.

"...The...end?" she said. Sharpay scoffed.

"That's it? Well, who WAS the guy who murdered the parents, who was the guy who murdered the twins, where had the foster parents gone, was the murderer of the twins ever caught, and how come if it happened in this very house, I've never heard that story before? Wouldn't it be like a huge deal around Albuquerque?!"

Gabriella shrugged.

"Those are the things that no one ever found out. BUT there were suspiciouns that the same guy who murdered the parents had murdered the twins to- because apparently he had escaped prison in Idaho."

"What was his name?"

"I don't remember."

"Was he caught after murdering again?"

Gabriella shook her head.

"No. He got away with it the second time- well, if it WAS the same guy. They never found the guy who escaped prison, or the guy who murdered the twins- which is why they thought it was the same guy."

"Oh, great- so he could still be out there, ready to murder the rest of us to?!?!?!" Sharpay asked.

"Uh...no. He's dead. This happened a hundred years ago." Gabriella said.

"...But anyway, now the story is that Abigail and Elizabeth's ghosts haunt 10 Reaper Road to this very day, and that they will stab whoever dares to enter that house- the way they were stabbed."

Everyone was silent for a few moments, until Troy suddenly started laughing histerically.

"Give me a break!!!" he exclaimed. Gabriella shot him a glare.

"OKAY then Mr. know-it-all, if you're not afraid, why don't you go up there and check it out?!"

"NO! Troy-don't. I mean it!" Sharpay broke in- hugging him tightly.

"Hey Chad, since you're the one who brough us on this street, I dare you to enter that house." Troy said.

Chad smirked.

"Then I dare you to come with me." he shot back.

"Come on guys really- I don't think that's a good idea..." Ryan said. Chad looked at him.

"Don't be a wuss, Evans. You should come with us. Unless you're chicken."

Ryan hesiated.

"Ry...you're not seriously thinking about it...are you?" Gabriella asked- grabbing his hand.

"Well..."

"I'm in." Troy said.

"Troy! No! Don't...please!" Sharpay insisted- gripping him as tight as she could.

"Pay- we'll be right out, I promise." Troy said- hugging her back tightly anyways. Sharpay still didn't let go though.

"Yeah, I'm in to- Evans, whatta ya say?" Chad decided. Taylor hit him on the arm.

"Chad, you'd better not. Don't go with him." She warned him.

"Tay, it's fine..."

Gabriella was still holding Ryan's hand.

"You're staying here right?"

Chad looked at Ryan. Ryan sighed.

"I want to proove to those boneheads that I'm not chicken."

Gabriella sighed.

"Then let's all go together. If you guys go, we're all going."

Sharpay pulled away from Troy.

"What? Are you crazy?! None of us are going!" she exclaimed- stomping up to Gabriella. Gabriella took a step back.

"I am." Troy, Chad, and Ryan all said in unison. Sharpay sighed. She whirled away from Gabriella and stood by Troy again.

"Fine- but all six of us have to stick together, and we're just going in and out- I mean, it's a haunted house."

"Oh, come on, just because it's old, creepy looking, and most of the windows are broken, doesn't mean anything!" Chad said.

"Maybe not, but the story about the twins do!" Sharpay said.

"Hey- I find it funny that they were twins." Chad said.

"What's your point?" Sharpay snapped.

"Y'know- twins. Like you and Ryan- and they were seventeen. Like you and Ryan."

Sharpay glared at him- she really hadn't thought of that.

"Chad, stop trying to scare her!!" Taylor told her boyfriend. Chad just laughed.

"I'm just messin' with ya Shar." he told Sharpay.

"Whatever." Sharpay grumbled.

"Abigail and Elizabeth were apparently both girls anyway." Taylor said.

Chad decided not to say anything- whatever he did say would be an insult- something like 'Ryan could pass for a girl' or 'Well, these two are both girls as well'. Chad was always insulting his friends- and they put up with it.

"So in and out? Agreed?" Sharpay asked the group. They all nodded.

Troy took Sharpay's hand and shifted his backpack on his shoulder.

"Alright what are we waiting for? Let's go."

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Author's Note: This story takes place during their senior year- in October, I figured the whole Halloween-ie scary vibe would fit better then Christmastime lol.

Please tell me what you think of the prologue and chapter...

Oh and read my other stories please (Troypay) thank you:D

-Serena/HeSaidSheSaidx.