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Zoe stood in a dark place. She didn't know where, but it was dark and empty.

"Hello?" She called out.

The sound of Zoe's own voice was the only thing that echoed back.

Zoe grew cold. She shivered in the darkness.

Hands gripped Zoe's shoulders. She let out a short scream and ran a few feet in front of her.

Frightened, Zoe stood in place. In the distance, Zoe could hear screams.

A Single light beamed on a figure: Anna. She was chained and bloody and extremely skinny.

She looked at Zoe and her eyes lit up, knowing that there was some hope. Her face drained of life as she fell to the ground, the reason unclear to Zoe.

When Anna's body hit the ground, Zoe let out an agonizing scream.

The light then flashed on Kara. She looked the same as Anna, chained up, bloody, skinny and tears strolling down her face.

The same thing that had happened to Anna happened to Kara. Zoe let out another scream as Kara's lifeless body fell to the ground.

The light now flashed on Rose. Knowing what was going to happen, Zoe tried to run to Rose and save her. But something was wrong, Zoe ran and ran, but it seemed that Rose was only getting further and further.

Rose let out a scream before she fell to the ground.

It got dark again, but in a matter of seconds, the light now shined down on Zoe.

With tears rolling down her face, Zoe looked down at herself. She was chained, bloody, skinny, and tears strolled down her face.

Knowing what was about to come, Zoe braced herself and closed her eyes. When nothing happened, she opened them.

The light was still on her, but why hadn't she fallen to the ground yet?

Zoe felt like someone was behind her. She tensed when she heard the small, muffled sound of someone breathing. Zoe remained silent and began to rotate her body. Slowly, she made a 180 degree turn. Her mouth opened and she let out a loud scream when she saw the hooded figure behind her.

A brought his hand up to his face and removed the mask. Under it was Daniel, smirking that smirk.

Zoe screamed again and tried to run, but Daniel grabbed her chains and pulled her closer to him. Clawing at the ground, Zoe tried to get away, but she couldn't.

Now under Daniel, Zoe stopped fighting. Hands on her shoulders forced Zoe to roll over and look up at Daniel.

He smiled at her and lifted a knife.

The light turned off and Zoe was faced with the darkness again.

A sharp pain shot into Zoe's neck and she screamed.

Zoe shot up from her bed screaming, covered in sweat and blood.

She screamed louder when Zoe noticed the blood was everywhere. Where had it come from?

Alison and Emily burst into Zoe's room looking terrified.

They rushed over to Zoe and pulled her from her bed. Both parents cradled Zoe and whispered things like, "It's okay, your fine, he can't hurt you and it was just a dream," into Zoe's ear.

Zoe sobbed into her mothers' chest. This wasn't the first time a nightmare had woken Zoe up in the middle of the night, but it was the first time blood was involved.

Alison noticed first. She released Zoe and noticed the blood on her shirt.

She grabbed Emily's hand. "Honey, where did the blood come from?"

Zoe shook her head. "I don't know." She repeated over and over again. Zoe brought her hand up to her head and felt a warm sticky substance that had to be blood.

Zoe's eyes widened as she brought her hand down her face and onto her throat, which stung.

Zoe felt the blood seep through scratched on her neck.

"Oh my god its mine." Zoe said.

Emily quickly turned on the light and both parents gasped.

Blood was everywhere. Zoe was shocked that she hadn't passed out yet.

"Get her downstairs." Alison said to Emily, as she grabbed one of Zoe's arms.

Emily quickly grabbed the other and the three made their way downstairs.

The whole way down, Zoe kept saying. "It's mine, its mine." Over and over again.

Her parents shushed her, but Zoe couldn't get over the fact that she sliced her own neck open in her sleep.

Now down stairs sitting at the kitchen table, Zoe looked down at herself.

Her parents were saying something but Zoe drowned them out. Zoe's fingernails were covered in dry blood. She must have taken her nails and scratched her neck.

Zoe snapped back to reality when a warm washcloth was pressed on her neck.

Zoe looked into the crying face of Emily.

"What happened?" She whimpered.

"I had a nightmare." Zoe whimpered back as Emily wiped all the blood from Zoe's body and wrapped something around Zoe's neck to help stop the bleeding.

"Not the nightmare." Emily said into Zoe's eyes.

Zoe knew exactly what they were talking about.

Alison walked over to Zoe and held her hand. "Please, Zoe. This thing that happened to you is obviously terrorizing you, I mean look at yourself."

She didn't need to look to herself to know that she looked terrible.

Maybe this was the last straw. Sure, Zoe has hurt herself intentionally before, but now she is attacking herself in her sleep.

Zoe nodded. "Can I put on some clean clothes first?"

Both parents agreed and Zoe took her time changing. When she came back downstairs, she saw her moms waiting for her on the couch.

She sat across from them and tried to avoid eye contact.

Without a warning, Zoe began.

"It started the week I skipped school. I remember that Jason was here and we just found out how it was Rose who wrecked his car. You both wouldn't t let me leave and all I wanted to do was go outside. I don't know what changed your mind, but you let me go."

Emily and Alison kept their mouths shut.

"I wasn't doing anything wrong, I was only walking! Then I heard Daniel call my name. I thought that if I kept walking, he would ignore me. No, he needed to talk to me. He grabbed my shoulder and started yelling at me because I told the cops how he hit me. I don't know what sparked it but he got really aggressive and I tried to run away but he was faster than me. He caught up and knocked me over."

Tears started to form in Zoe's eyes. She had never dug this deep into the memory before. It surprised Zoe how much she remembered about that night.

Her parents looked like they were about to start crying to. Zoe could understand why, and Zoe hated the fact that she needed to make her parents go through this. She was tired of seeing her moms cry.

Zoe continued with tears now streaming down her face.

"I kicked and punched, I did everything I could to get away. He dragged me into the woods and pinned me down. I screamed, hoping that somebody would hear me, but nobody did. He started to…" Zoe was hesitant on getting to the actual rape part. She had to do it.

"He started to kiss me all over the place." Zoe said through gritted teeth. She was more mad then sad now.

"He moved his hands all over my body and he stripped me down. The whole time I was screaming but nobody heard. Then it happened, it hurt and I couldn't do anything. All I could do it scream."

Zoe wiped away a stray tear and sniffled.

"That seems like the only thing I'm good at: Screaming. I've had plenty of practice." Zoe said to herself. She was tired of screaming and she was tied of being afraid.

"When did it stop?" Alison asked.

Its felt like forever since one of them talked.

Zoe couldn't say how A had attacked Daniel yet, so Zoe had to make one more little lie. She hated it but she couldn't betray her friends.

"It stopped when he wanted it to stop."

Alison and Emily both had tears streaming down their faces. They were gripping each other's hands to the point where there knuckles were white.

Emily got up first. She lunged at Zoe and wrapped her into a tight hug. Alison quickly joined.

They cried and Zoe cried.

That was another thing that Zoe was sick of. She was sick of crying.

Zoe took sharp breaths as she cried in her mothers' arms.

"I'm sorry." Zoe kept saying.

Her parents took turns shushing her and saying that it wasn't her fault, but it was.

If Zoe wasn't such a weakling, and was strong enough to stand up to Daniel, Zoe wouldn't have to go through all the pain that she does now.

Even though it sucked, Zoe was happy that she finally told her moms. Now there was only one secret instead of two.

"Zoe, we got a call from Toby earlier today." Emily said out of nowhere.

The three broke apart and Zoe stared at her parents suspiciously.

"What was it about?" Zoe asked.

"We wanted to tell you as soon as we got the news, but Cory was over and we didn't want to interrupt you two." Alison added.

"What is it?" Zoe said, urging them to spill it.

"Remember that bag of clothes you gave Toby?" Emily asked.

"Yes." Zoe responded, hoping to get good news.

"Well, they ran tests and found Daniel's DNA on them." Emily said.

Zoe's eyes expanded. "Does that mean that…" she trailed off, not getting her hopes up.

"Yes, Zoe. They caught him. Daniel is guilty, they are taking him away." Alison said.

Zoe's mouth was hanging open. She didn't know how to respond to it.

"I'll never see him again?" Zoe asked hopefully.

"Nope." Both moms said at the same time.

Zoe let out a weird noise that was a mixture of a squeal and a sob. Both from happiness.

Zoe leaped into her mothers' arms again. She sobbed in their arms but this time it was tears of joy.

She was still crying, and Zoe hated crying, but at least it was a start.

Rose didn't want to get up.

Ever since she found out about Zak, Rose crawled in bed and didn't get up.

Even when her parents came home from their date, Rose didn't get up to greet them.

They had to come to Rose and when they asked her how it was going, Rose only grunted.

She found herself crying on and off. She would cry, but then stop and remind herself that she needed to be angry, but then Rose would start to think about Zak again and the tears would roll down her face.

Rose rolled over and looked at her phone.

No A texts.

Rose knew that exposing Zak wasn't going to fix the A problem.

There was still a second A that Rose was too dumb to ask about.

Rose sat up and picked up her phone. She started to send out a group text and ask for Anna, Kara and Zoe to come over so Rose could tell them about Zak.

She thought about how she would say it. She couldn't say, "Hey, guess what I just found out, my boyfriends A, isn't that fantastic!"

Rose knew she would break down saying the words out loud.

She put the phone down. Rose just found out a few hours ago, she still needed time to process what was going on.

She would tell them soon, but not now.

Rose flopped back down and covered her face in the blankets. She pinched her eyes closed and tried to forget about everything, but the darkness only brought the image of Zak in the black hoodie.

A small sob escaped Rose's lips. She was trying to be as quiet and possible. If Rose's parents heard her crying, they wouldn't stop questioning until they knew the problem.

Rose stayed extremely quite when she heard footstep by her door. When it was silent again, Rose let the noises escape her mouth and the tears escape her eyes.

To add to the pain, Rose's stomach growled extremely loudly.

The room was silent.

"You hungry?" Rose heard her mother say from under the covers.

Dang it.

Rose sniffled silently. "No."

Rose heard footsteps cross her room. "Rose, honey, when was the last time you ate?" Her mother asked, stopping at the foot of the bed.

Rose threw the covers off her face and said, "Can you please leave, mom?"

Aria looked at Rose sympathetically. "You've been crying."

Rose turned her head and wiped the stray tears. "No I haven't."

"You can wipe the tears away but your eyes are still red."

Rose grunted. "What do you want?"

Aria now sat at the edge of Rose's bed. "I want to know what's wrong."

Rose rolled over, facing away from her mom. "Nothing's wrong."

Aria grabbed Rose and pushed her towards her. "Rose, I can tell when you're upset."

"I just don't feel very well." Rose lied.

Aria could tell.

"Rose. If you don't want to talk to me, fine. But at least talk to someone, like Anna or Zak."

Rose's heart dropped at the sound of his name. Another sob escaped her mouth and she covered her face.

Aria's face grew a serious look. "Rose?"

"What?" Rose said, tears still going down her face.

"Rose, what's going on?" Aria said a little more seriously.

When Rose said nothing, Aria pulled the blankets off of Rose.

"Rose, answer me." Aria said after the blankets were off.

Rose shot up from her bed when the coldness of the open air hit her legs. Her face was right in front of her mom's.

Aria studied Rose's face. "How long have you been crying?"

Rose sniffled. "All day."

Aria grabbed her daughter's hand. "Honey, what's wrong."

Rose couldn't take it anymore. She needed her mom. All Rose did was mutter a single word and her mother understood everything.

"Zak." Rose said extremely quietly. She was surprised her mother could hear her.

"Did he break up with you?" Aria asked showing an extremely sympathetic look.

Rose let out another cry and fell into her mother's arm and continued to cry into her chest. "I broke up with him." Rose said, still sobbing.

Aria wrapped her arms around Rose and began to rub her back. "What did he do? Did he cheat on you?"

Rose did a mixture of a laugh and a cry. "Worse." Rose said in a voice muffled by her mother's chest.

Aria stopped rubbing Rose's back and stayed silent.

After what seemed like forever, Aria finally said. "What did he do?"

Rose copied her mother and stayed silent. If she opened her mouth she would spill that Zak was A.

"Rose." Aria said. She repeated this several times but Rose kept her mouth shut.

Aria grabbed Rose's face and made Rose look at her. "Rose, what did he do to you?" She said sternly.

Rose closed her eyes as a stray tear rolled down her face.

"He destroyed me." Rose mumbled.

Aria scrunched her eyebrows, confused. That gave her no information.

"He destroyed me." Rose said a little more angrily. "Me, and Kara and Zoe and Anna."

Aria stayed silent, still having no clue.

"He broke us." Rose said looking away. "He picked with our brains and made us believe things and hurt us emotionally and physically. He would torture us with the texts and we would be terrified for what it meant and we would go crazy waiting for it to happen. And the worst part is that he played me. He let me believe he loved me while he went and played with us like dolls."

Aria's eyes grew dark. The doll reference maybe made her understand.

"Rose. What are you saying?" Aria said, her voice shaking.

She didn't care anymore. She didn't care if Kara, Anna and Zoe hated her. Rose felt like she had no soul anymore. It ripped out of her and walked out the door with Zak. He got what he wanted. He has officially broken her.

Rose lifted her head and looked at her mother in the eye.

"Zak is A."

Aria released a big breath she was holding. "What?"

"I mean that Zak has been sending the four of us texts labeled as A and he has been stalking us with cameras he set up in each of our houses in almost every room, and he knows all our secrets, he has all the information on when you were attacked by A. Zak has been terrorizing us for months and has been making us lie to you. He and some other freak are the one who dragged Anna in the woods and cut up Anna's back; they kidnapped Kara for a night and locked her in Anna's shed full of snakes. They beat up Kara's dad and forced him to do work he didn't want to do. He tricked me into thinking you were dying by playing you screaming on a loop. He led me to the basement and locked me down there and forced me to watch you in the dollhouse. Then, when all the footage was watched, he attacked be and strangled me and pinned me against the wall and probably would have killed me. He dropped a flash drive with all kinds of A stuff and when Zak begged me not look at it I couldn't help myself. I looked and saw him wearing the black hoodie. The terrorizing and manipulation wasn't the worst part. It was the fact that he managed to make me fall in love with him and make me trust him, so I would tell him all the news and he would use it to find another way to mess with us, and the part that disgusts me the most is that I still love him. I love A, and I know he did terrible things but I can't wrap my head around it and it sucks." Rose finished with sharpness to her voice.

Aria was speechless as tears began to form in her eyes. "Zak...A...Zak is... Zak is A?" She fumbled with her words.

Rose nodded her head. "There's more than one, mom. And this time, they have new targets."

Aria let out a shaky breath and stood up. She mumbled to herself, "A is back." Several times.

Eventually Rose slumped back down onto her bed and covered her head with the blankets to block out the sight of her mom pacing. The pacing was stressing Rose out.

"Ezra!" Aria screamed for her husband.

When he didn't come, Aria walked out of the room to go get him. "Ezra, we have a problem!"

Rose kept her eyes shut to prevent more tears. Somehow, none came.

Yes, Rose betrayed her friends, but she only did what they all were afraid to do.

Maybe Rose wasn't the weakest one after all.

Short but affective chapter.

So yeah, this is what I meant when I said that one of the girls was going to be so damaged and finally tell so yeah, you can thank Rose!

I also want to give credit to Leapyearbaby29, she gave me the amazing idea of Zoe telling her parents after a nightmare. Thanks Leapyearbaby29!

Also, I know I say this a lot, but I know for sure that I can't post a chapter next week, I'm visiting my sister for the weekend but I will try to post early in the next week.

But... the next chapter will be the parent reunion so get prepared for it!

I love you!

-Jessica