I would like if I had the minimum of three reviews on each chapter or more. I'm greedy. Thank you for all your reviews! [hugs all of you] You truly are inspiring. I was going to add a SaSon scene but decided to push it to the next chapter. I really wanted to put a SnB scene also but again that will be in the following chapters. Sorry! Thank you all for taking my poll it will be taken down at the end of the night. I REUPLOADED THIS CHAPTER BECAUSE ALL OF THE SPELLING ERRORS, SORRY

The sound that I heard from the hallway was indescribable,grotesque, and truly unforgettable. I wish I will never hear it again, it woke with a dirty sheet of cold sweat all over my body and a pounding heart. I stood up so fast my vision blurred, my balance off.

"Help! Please!" A girl screamed from outside my door, her nails scratched desperately at my door. She was the terrible scream that I had heard. I ran to the door, opened it and saw that the entire hallway was pitch black. I turned my bedroom light on and found a girl with blood all over her bare thighs., tears streamed down her porcelain cheeks, her hair matted to her face as one of her hands reached towards me. It was Elizabeth. "Help..."

Brenda cried into my shirt, "Sam that could have been us! How could we have not heard her scream?" I heard her scream. Brenda hiccuped sobs, "I feel terrible!"

"It's not our fault Brenda" I soothed.

Brenda pulled away, "We're altogether here, we are supposed to watch each others back. We failed"

I shook her by the shoulders, "It is not our fault Brenda!"

"It is certainly not" Our mother said, she walked down the hall to us, "My motherly instincts are telling me to take the both of you home with me" She said looking pointedly at Brenda. "But you two are adults now and I can't--what are you doing?"

Brenda took out her phone and began texting, "I'm telling my boyfriend that I'm going with you" That was interesting why hadn't she just said Sonny's name? Why say 'boyfriend'? "I'm coming home mom"

"I wish that was true, I would love if my babies came back home" Mom cooed, kissing us both on the foreheads.

"I mean I can drop out of college if you want me too" I teased.

"Funny, go get your back so we can go"

After my final shower of the night I curled into my childhood bed and thought about Elizabeth, she hadn't deserved what happened to her, no one did. And now her scream would forever haunt me. Brenda and I had thought about visiting her but we didn't want her to think we were just there for gossip. I rolled over towards the edge of my bed and cranked my fan on high, focusing on the sound. It wasn't working I still wasn't getting lured to sleep. So I reached for my phone and called Jason.

He answered on the first ring, "Sam! Are you alright?"

"I'm fine Jason, I can't sleep though" I reassured him, smiling some what on the inside that he was worried about me.

"So you thought you'll call me talk for a couple of minutes and slip into a coma?" Jason sounded as if he as actually hurt, I knew he wasn't.

"Not at all, I thought talking to you would calm me down" I sighed.

"I was worried about you" Jason confessed, "When I got the call that someone had been raped at your campus my heart dropped"

I twisted my fingers in my hair, "Liar"

"Not at all" Repeating my earlier words.

"What are you doing?" I asked, going for a subject change I didn't want to talk about what happened tonight.

"Cleaning my gu--uhh thinking about what-"

"What did you say? Cleaning your gun? What brand is it?" I asked curiously, I had wanted to purchase a gun but my mom went crazy when I brought it up. I knew if I ever registered for one she would definitely check up on it and go berserk.

"It's a...a Smith & Western" He answered hesitantly.

"I'm more of a Glock girl, I have my eyes on a 38"

"Are you serious?" Jason didn't believe a girl like me could want a gun. Well he was going to learn who the real me was.

"As a heart attack" I yawned, my eyelids dropped.

"You aren't slipping into that coma are you?" He was moving, I heard a click and it sounded as if a gun was cocking back.

"Hmm?"

"Good night Sam"

"My babies" Mom squealed as she piled pancakes on our plates.

"We missed you too mom" Brenda smiled digging into her plate.

"What have you and Mac been doing lately?" I inquired she and Mac had gotten married four years ago.

"He's working on a case and he's been working over time, I'm usually with him but I decided I needed to stay with you two"

"What case?" Brenda asked, beginning to cut her pancakes in tiny rectangles. I noticed that she had opted for her curly look, which consisted of a thick bush of pretty spirals.

"Well there has been a big scene of gang crime downtown that we've been investigating" Alexis explained.

Brenda abruptly choked on her food, I slapped her on her back and she was able to swallow her food.

"Brenda!" Mom gasped, "Are you okay?"

"Yeah I'm fine, I guess my food went down the wrong pipe"

She was definitely lying, what did gang crime have to do with her? It wouldn't but her all so mysterious boyfriend just might Jason even has a gun. I remembered that Sonny was talking to that guy Luke at the bar. He had been known to make trouble back in the day.

"Why are you staring at me like that?" Brenda questioned her big brown eyes opening even wider.

"Just realized something"

"Care to elaborate Sam?" Mom asked, looking motherly interested.

I cursed myself, and turned towards her "That I might have left my room unlocked"

Brenda cracked up, we could sense when the other was full of bullshit "Maybe you could call the headmaster and ask if she could check"

"That's a good idea Brenda...maybe you should call So-"

She stomped on my foot under the table, saw mom's reaction and said "Have you done something new with your hair?"