Previously on "The House on Reaper Road";

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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Chapter Two - We're Trapped.

Chad was the first one to reach the front door of the house- everyone else sort of dragged their feet- savoring the last moments before they entered the gigantic, rotting house. The old wooden stairs creeked as they made their way up the front porch.

"Remind me why we're doing this again?" Taylor asked- looking around at the front porch. There was a broken flower pot off to the side. The rest of the porch was surrounded by spider webs.

Gabriella squirmed and shifted positions from where she was standing- she could have sworn she felt something crawl up her leg.

"Because your boyfriend practically forced us." Sharpay told Taylor. Taylor just rolled her eyes- not wanting to start a fight with Sharpay. Sharpay was still pretty rude to everyone- pretty much to everyone except Troy. And there was the occasions when she could be nice to Ryan, but that was about it. The only reason she was in this circle of friends was because of Troy.

But hey, they didn't call her 'The Ice Queen' for nothing.

"Are we going to stand around and talk, or go inside the damn house?" Troy asked to no one in particular- growing impatient- but hey, you'd get impatient to if someone was hugging you so tight you could barely breathe. He was crazy about Sharpay, but damn, she could probably strangle a professional wrestler if she wanted to!

"Yeah, come on." Chad said- reaching for the rusted brass door handle. Just as he was about to grab for it though, the door creeked open slowly- until it was fully open. Chad stared dumbfounded at the door.

"Now that was cool." he said.

"It must of just been the wind." Ryan said optimistically- blinking at the door as if he didn't believe what had just happened.

"Yeah- the wind." Taylor agreed.

"Wh- what wind?" Sharpay asked- looking around as if trying to see wind. But she couldn't feel any wind either- nope. The air was perfectly still- even though it was nearing the end of october. No one answered her question. Everyone peered inside the dark house- if it weren't for the natural light of the outdoors- and the door being open, it would have been pitch black inside. Taylor could make out a big dining table that was sort of lopsided and four chairs with broken legs surrounding the table- several yards away from the front door.

"That's funny- I'd think that whoever lived here last would have packed up first and then left." Taylor said.

"Nah, this house has probably been abandoned since those twin sisters and their foster parents lived here- the foster parents where probably to devastated about their foster children that they just grabbed what the mainly needed and wanted to get out of the house as soon as possible- either to rid the memories of the house the girls died in, or because the ghosts of the twins were haunting their own foster parents or something." Gabriella said with a shrug- as if what she just said was completely normal and obvious. Sharpay shot her a mean look.

"Will you STOP with those two damned twins of yours? The damn house is not haunted by two seventeen year old girls who were murdered here! I think you've been staying up to late doing homework or watching horror films or something. Tonight, do me a favor and go to bed early alright? You can always do your homework over the weekend. But you seriously need to get your head out of this crazy supernatural world that you live in!" she snapped at her.

Gabriella scoffed and shot her back a mean look as well.

"Oh please, if you don't believe that story- then why were you asking so many questions about it? And if you're 'not scared', then why are you clinging to Troy like glue? You seem the most afraid out of all of us!!" she said.

Sharpay looked at her two arms that were wrapped around Troy tightly and let go of him- taking his hand instead. She was about to say something back to Gabriella when Taylor interrupted.

"Will you two stop it already!? You've been bitching with each other ever since we walked onto Reaper Road, you're supposed to be friends, so both of you need to stop arguing!"

Sharpay and Gabriella just shook their heads and turned away frome each other- muttering things like "She started it" or "It wasn't my fault." under their breath.

"So...who wants to go in first?" Ryan asked. Troy nudged Chad a little.

"Chad, why don't you do the honors." he said- it came out more as an insistant than a question.

"Fine. Since the rest of you are to scared." Chad said- walking a couple feet into the house. Taylor was right behind him, followed by Gabriella, followed by Ryan, followed by Troy and Sharpay at the same time.

The six of them stood in a cramped circle in the center of the damp room they were in- making sure to leave the front door wide open for some source of light.

They looked around for a few seconds in silence before Ryan spoke up.

"Well, that was fun. I'd better get going now, catch ya'll later!" he said quickly-leaving the circle and running up to the front door. Before anyone could say anything to him, Sharpay screamed as the front door slammed right in front of Ryan's face- before he could leave the house. He had to jump back to avoid being hit by the door. He stared in a confused shock at it and then whirled back around to face the group- but he couldn't see them anymore, since it was now pitch black inside.

"What the hell?!" Troy asked.

"That was definitley not the wind!!" Sharpay said in a choked, frightened voice.

"That was weird..." Taylor said.

"Uh...maybe the door's just messed up, this house is old y'know..."Ryan said- finding the group, trying to be optimistic again.

"Well, if that's the case, then I can fix this." Troy said- walking up to the front door that was now shut tightly- with Sharpay right next to him of course.

"What are you doing?" Gabriella asked Troy.

"Well, if I can always fix Pay's locker- then this shouldn't be a problem." Troy said. He kicked at the door in a few different places- expecting it to 'pop' right open like lockers do- but it didn't do anything.

"Hey ace, how about trying to handle first like normal people?" Chad asked him with a snicker. Troy grabbed the front door handle with one handle, twisted it, and tugged on it a little bit- the door didn't budge. He pulled a little bit harder- nothing happened.

"Troy...why isn't it working?..." Sharpay asked him- completely freaked out.

"I..." Troy pulled even harder. Nothing.

"Don't..." he began yanking on it. Nothing.

"Know!" he yelled out in exasperation as he yanked it with all his might and it still didn't move.

"Maybe it's like...locked or something." Sharpay said- barely above a whisper, trying to stay calm even though she was the farthest thing from. Troy fumbled with the door handle.

"There's no lock on it!" he said madly.

"Damn it!" he muttered as he kept on trying to pry the door open. He gave it one last hard yank, and the door handle came off in his hand.

"What the-" he eyed the door handle in his hand and then threw it hard at the ground.

"Damn it!!!" he shouted loudly.

"Troy stop it- you're freaking me out." Sharpay said- gripping his hand tightly. Troy sighed and kicked the door- maybe if he could break it or something they could get out of this house- the house was so old that the door should be easy to break down, right?

Wrong. It was like the door was indestructable or something.

"Clearly we're not getting that door opened now..."Ryan said.

"Did the handle come off?" Chad asked Troy.

"Yes." Troy muttered with another mad sigh.

Gabriella smirked- which no one could see because of the cold blackness that surrounded them.

"It's Abigail and Elizabeth. They've trapped us inside their cave- the house they died in."

"SHUT UP!!" Sharpay screamed at her.

"Shut up! Shut up! SHUT UP!! Just shut up!"

"Jesus- calm down, Shar." Ryan told his sister.

"Then tell your girlfriend to stop bringing up those god damned ghosts! We need to be thinking about how we're going to get the fuck out of here- not thinking about why the door won't open, but how we're going to get it open!"

"Look, I already said this- but it's obvious that we're not getting that door open." Ryan said.

"Then how are we supposed to get out of here?!!" Sharpay demanded.

"Like I freaking KNOW!" Ryan shouted back.

"Alrightie then- before this turns into a Sibling Smackdown, both of you need to calm down..." Taylor said- trying to play peacemaker again. Sharpay groaned and threw herself against the big door.

"Open damned door open!!" She shouted- pounding and kicking at the closed door with no handle. Troy grabbed her arm and pulled her back.

"Pay- don't go crazy. The door is just stuck, that's all- we'll just have to find another way out."

"What?! Another way out? You mean...we have to go further into the house?" Gabriella ineterrupted.

"That's what I'm saying..."

"Are you CRAZY?!" Gabriella shreiked in disbelief.

"Hey Mrs. Supernatural, I thought you weren't scared!" Sharpay snapped at Gabriella.

"Well...I mean...we can't..."

"You and your excuses." Sharpay said- rolling her eyes.

"First of all, can we get some light in here?! Anyone got a flashlight?" Chad asked.

"Yeah, Danforth. Because it's completely NORMAL for someone to just randomly carry around a-" Sharpay was interrupted by her sarcastic remark when suddenly a flashlight was shone around from face to face of the six of them.

"What the-"

"I had a mini flashlight on my keychain." Taylor said- waving the small beam of light around the room.

"Okay, everyone else take out their cellphones to use as light." she instructed. Everyone except Chad took their cell phones out.

"Chad- cell phone out?...we need light." Taylor said.

"I uh...kinda dropped mine in some chemicals at school in science yesterday..." Chad said- rubbing the back of his neck in embarrasment.

"What happened to it then?" Troy asked.

"It burned and melted in the green acid. Haha but it looked cool."

"You idiot!" Sharpay told him.

"Okay seriously Sharpay- you need to lighten up and stop being so rude to the rest of us!" Taylor said. Sharpay rolled her eyes.

"Whatever."

"Hey- why don't we just call someone to come and get us?" Ryan suggested.

"Ry-Ry, you're a genius!" Gabriella exclaimed.

"Who do we call?" Troy asked.

"Call your dad." Sharpay said.

"Why my dad?"

Sharpay shrugged.

"First person that came to mind."

Troy nodded and began dialing his father's cell number.

"Hello?"

"Hey dad ca-" Troy was cut off my his cell phone dropping the call.

"Hey! What the..." he tried dialing the number again but the screen on his cell was black. He hit it against his palm and tried to re-set it but it remained black.

"What's wrong?" Sharpay asked.

"My phone died. I guess I didn't charge it enough last night."

Sharpay threw her arms in the air.

"Oh, what else could go wrong?!" she said in exasperation

"No need to panic- look, me, Tay, you, and Ry-Ry still have our phones." Gabriella said.

"Here I'll call my mom." she continued. She looked at the screen on her own cell and tried punching in her home phone number, but stopped when the screen said 'Searching For Service.'

"Crap." she muttered under her breath.

"What now?" Taylor asked- just about to give up on any hopes of escaping this creepy mansion.

"No service." Gabriella replied bluntly.

"Oh my- ugghhh! You know when I said 'What else could go wrong?' well, it looks like I spoke to soon!!" Sharpay said.

"Are everyone's phones out of service?" Chad asked. Ryan, Taylor, and Sharpay all checked their phones.

"Mine is." Ryan said madly.

"Me to." Taylor said with an annoyed sigh.

"URRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Sharpay groaned loudly and madly.

"Well, that answers my question." Chad said.

"God damn it! Now what are we supposed to do?!" Troy asked everyone.

"...We're trapped." he added.

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Author's Note: oooohh shiiiiiiitt they're trapped :o

please review...

and what will happen next? DUN DUN DUN.

-Serena/HeSaidSheSaidx