Author's Note: Thank you so much for the reviews. Especially xxchocolatekissesxx, troypayrocks, and deathcab4lor for being the only 3 to review the last chapter. But I appreciate all reviews, don't forget that. :)

I think I mentioned that Ryan's girlfriend was named Melanie. She's not in this chapter, but she will play a bigger part later on. McGuireGirl suggested that I give Ryan a girlfriend, so I did. :)

Disclaimer: I do not own High School Musical.

Chapter 3

Thursday

The next day, Principal Matsui appeared on the television for a special edition of his Matsui Morning Report. With him was the sheriff of the police department.

"Hello students," he started somberly, "I'm sure you all have heard by now about the tragic deaths of two of your fellow students, Mindy Smith and Steve Collins."

He paused for a moment and then continued, "Now, the police do not want to cause a panic, but since the murders are still unsolved, there are some things that the police want you to beware of. Take it away, Sheriff."

"Thank you Mr. Matsui," the sheriff answered. "First of all, we would like for everyone to know that this was found at the crime scene," he held up the Ghostface mask. "So if you know someone who owns a mask like this, or if you see someone with this mask, please notify the police immediately."

"We also advise everyone to walk home with a buddy or a group of friends," he continued. "And try to make sure that you're never home alone. Now there will be a curfew of 11:00 p.m. effective today, and we strongly suggest that you be home with your parents at that time." The sheriff finished.

"Until those two murders are solved, there will be several police officers patrolling the school grounds," Matsui ended his report with this. "Please heed the sheriff's warning. We do not want to lose any more students."

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When Kelsi had completed all of her homework for biology class, the teacher, Ms. Brown, would let her go to the auditorium to work on her compositions. That's where she was going now. Everyone knew she would be in the auditorium at this time; it was a habit of hers. Even if she wasn't composing anything for a musical, she would be composing something just for fun. I guess you could call it a stress reliever of sorts. When she was playing, she felt no fear; all of her troubles went away. And that's just what she needed right now, with the two murders and a killer still on the loose, everyone was on edge.

She entered the dark auditorium tentatively, but immediately reached over and switched the stage lights on - she had always been scared of the dark. She made her way down the steps and onto the stage. The piano was where it always was (stage right); no one had bothered to move it off the stage after the last musical. She spread the sheet music out so that she wouldn't be bothered to flip any pages. She positioned her hands over the key of 'c' and began to play, her fingers gliding over the keys with ease.

She didn't know how long she had been playing when she thought she heard a chord that wasn't in her composition. She really didn't think that she made a mistake, so she stopped playing, and sure enough, she could hear the sound of the other piano.

She felt her body go weak. No one ever came into the auditorium at this time; everyone had a class that they couldn't miss. Who could it be then? She wanted to know. Though deep down her mind was telling her to just turn around and run, she made her way to the opposite side of the stage and pulled back the curtain to the place where extra props and such are stored.

Her hands began to shake. For, sitting at the piano bench, was someone in a black hooded cape. When this person turned around, she noticed the ghost mask that they were wearing, the same mask that the person who killed Mindy and Steve had been wearing. Could this just be someone's sick idea of a practical joke?

The person got up from their seat and unsheathed their knife. Even if this was just a joke, Kelsi wasn't going to sit around and find out. She took off sprinting off the stage and up the stairs. She tried pushing on the door, but it was locked. How long had this person been in here with her? How could she not have heard them come in? There was no time to worry about that though, because Ghostface was coming up the stairs after her.

There was only one other way out of the auditorium, and that was into the basement. The door was back behind the stage though, so she had to run back down the stairs. She sprinted to the other set of stairs and to the basement door. She let out a loud sob when the knob wouldn't turn. There was no other way out, she was trapped.

Ghostface was closing the distance between them. Kelsi's heart was beating so fast. This wasn't how she wanted to die. She wasn't going to go down without a fight. Out of the corner of her eyes she saw the stairs that led up to the mezzanine. It was her only way to get out of the corner, so she took the opportunity and ran up the stairs.

Once she was in the middle of the mezzanine, she fell to her knees, unable to stand because of her difficulty breathing. She glanced over her shoulder, expecting to see the person who had been stalking her standing behind her, but to her surprise no one was there.

She regained control of her breathing after a few minutes. She got to her feet slowly. She started to turn around to go back the way she came up, but then froze. The person could still be down there. She glanced over to the other side. It didn't matter which set of stairs she chose to descend, it was impossible to know where this person was.

She got back down on her knees and peered down over the edge, hoping that luck would be on her side and she may be able to see where they were lying in wait. No such luck.

She started to get up again, but before she could push herself up, she was roughly pulled up and brought face to face with her killer. They held onto her arms with one hand and pulled the knife out with the other. Kelsi screamed and kicked with all the strength she had. She did get one good kick in and the killer lost their hold on her, but unfortunately, this also caused Kelsi to lose her balance and stumble backward.

As she was plummeting to her death, the killer ripped of their mask, revealing their identity to Kelsi before her body crashed onto the concrete stairs of the auditorium. Blood pooled around her head – she died on impact. The last image she saw was the face of her killer.

The killer threw their mask down and it landed right next to Kelsi's body. They pulled the hood over their head and walked away, soon fading into the darkness.

So what did you think? Are you mad that I killed Kelsi, or are you just glad that it wasn't someone like Troy or Gabriella? Please review, I'm so close to getting 20 reviews. I'll try to send everyone who reviews a cookie or something, lol. I would if I could, seriously. But I really would like to know if this chapter turned out ok. I tried really hard but I'm on painkillers so it didn't turn out exactly how I wanted, but it really only matters what you think anyway. Ok, I'll stop rambling now. :)