OK, this chapter is a little different that the previous ones. I hope you like it, and I will now write so not to keep you away any longer. Have fun, and I am introducing mre characters. Wow, I only got 8 reviews. I am feeling a lottle unloved. Well, not really. D Hope you review this chapter!

P.S. Thanks to Monica, my Beta.

"YAHOO!" Damien yelled, pumping his fists into the air. Everyone around turned around and lookedat him. And Lily, for once in her life, was glad she was deaf. She was wearing her hearing aids today, and though she could normally hear much, she could almost hear Damien loud and clear. She smiled, looking at the cast list. Damien Cantrell and Lily Bolton--lead role. It looked as though Max and Shelle had parts of two people who hated each other. They were doing a school play that she had never heard of before. Not many other peoplethat Lily knew had made it. She turned to Damien, who was still smiling like a lunatic. Michelle walked up and looked over their shoulders to the list. Although she was the panio player, she had also addutioned. She smiled widly and started signing. She had learndsign laungagethat when she had met Lily and Damien.

'This is so cool. I got a part! I can't wait. My mom is going to be so happy! When she was in school, she was the lead in all the school plays...exceptmost of theones for her high school years.' Suddenly, something hit Lily. No, it really couldn't be...

'Michelle, who are your parents?'

'Oh, my mom is a part time actor for small shows, and my dad works with computers. Why?'

'No, names, please.'

'Oh, my mom is Sharpay and my dad is Zeke. My dad is african americain, so that is why my skin is dark. I can't believe you haven't met them. Want to come over some time?' Lily nodded numbly. Wasn't Sharpay her parent's competors in the musicals? And wasn't Zeke on her dad's Basketball team? Well, used to be. Her dad had said that he had quit a few years ago when he had to move. Appearently, he had move back. Well, it would make sense, Michelle had just started going to school two months ago. Man, this was weird.

'Lily, what's wrong?' Damien asked, a worried look on his face. She just then realized that she hadn't responded for over two minutes.

'I'm fine.' She said, grabbing his hand and pulling him off to where Michelle had ran to go to their Math class. During class, they got quite a few ugly stares from Max and Shelle. She just grinned back, and Damien didn't even notice.He was to busy trying tokeep himself from drawing smily faces on his paper. Which theirteacher hated.Lily then looked over to Michelle. Shestill couldn't believe it. Michelle, her best friend, the daughter of the woman that her mom and dad spoke not so highly of. After Math, they went to history. School was pretty much normal. When it was over, Damien and Lily went to the mall. They were going tohang out and have something to eatbecause Lily's parent's had to work late, and Damien's were never home anyway. After eating, they got up and started walking around.

'So, what do you want to look at?' Damien asked her.

'Um...Music Albums. My mom said that her friend, Kelsi, got a new CD out. My dad and mom sang on it for the song Breaking Free.'

'Isn't that the one we sang?'

'Yea. Isn't it so cool?' They walked to the music section of the mall and spent a good twenty minutes shuffling through piles and piles of CD's until they finally got a salesman to help them. He showed them where her CD's were at and politly walked off.

'Cool. It is only $13.00. I think I will get it for mom for mother's day. It's coming up, and I can't think of anything else to get her.' Lily picked up the CD and paid for it with her allowance. After that, they wandered amlessly through the differentsections of the mallfor about an hour. They were in the rock collection section looking at different stones when it happened. Suddenly, a man in a black ski mask kicked the door open. Lily gasped and went white when she saw what he was holding. It was a gun. He started yelling.

"Everyone on the floor! If you set off an alarm, I will shoot everyone!" Lily couldn't hear, so Damien had to pull her onto the ground. They sat quielty in the corner while the man made sure everyone was down. "Now, stay like that. If anyone gets up, I will shoot. I don't mind the mess." He smiled wickedly as three other men entered the room. The lead man pointed the gun at the manager. "Got a phone?"

The situation was on the news within ten minutes. The men were holding everyone hostage, demanding 1,000,000 from the bank in cash.

"What do you mean, you can't do that?" The man was on the phone. It was set to speaker, to he didn't have to point the large gun away from everyone. "Well, the longer it takes, the more people die. Once your hour is up, one every fifteen minutes. Starting with this lovely little girl." He walked over to the corner that Lily and Damien were in and pulled her to her feet. "What is your name honey?" Lily knewthat he was asking something, but couldn't tell what, so she couldn't answer. "I asked you name!" He yelled louder. Damien stood up.

"Sir, she can't hear you. She's deaf." Damien could only hear because he had chosen to wear his hearing aid that day.

"Fine. What's her name? And yours?"

"S-she's Lily and I-I'm Damien." His moment of braveness had worn off and he was shaking again.

"Ok, Damien." He walked off to the phone again, hauling both Damien and Lily with him. TheTV was on, showing the ploice standing right outside the mall door. Some people had gotten out, but the people in the rock section and the ones surrounding it were trapped. Lily was shaking with fear as the man threw her onto the ground, Damien landing right next to her. She instinctivly moved closer to him, shaking badly. He put an arm around her shoulders in attempt to comfort her. It worked a little and Lily stopped shaking as bad. She moved into him, holding onto him as if her were a teady bear. As much as he didn't want to admit it, he was just as scared as her. But she couldn't hear anything going on, hearing aids or not.

Gabriella was watching the news whenan important news announcmentcut into the weather. She had gotten home a little earlier than expected, and was now waiting for Lily. Troy had arrived minutes after her. As soon as the reporter started speaking, she knew something was serously wrong. Troy walked into the room and stopped, staring at the screen.

"Turn it up, will you, Gabriella?" She nodded without speaking and turned up the TV as Troy sat beside her. The reporter started speaking again.

"The robber, I guess you could call him that, is holding forty-seven people hostage inside of this very mall. He is demanding an outragous 1,000,000 dollars in cash within the next hour, or he will begin eleminating hostages each fifteen minutes. Here is an inside look from one of the security cameras." He stopped speaking and moved to the side as small screen appeared and grew until it filled the screen. There were people everywhere, the four men in black holding out guns. The lead man, it seemed, looked straight into the camera, which also recorded sound. He spoke.

"I have two lovely kids here which will be killed in, oh, my, forty-five minutes andthe next in an hour. Which one first?" He turned back to the two children. The young boy stood up, placing the little girl behind him. He spoke in a shaky voice.

"I-I w-will." The screen went blank and once agian the reporter came back.

"And that is what is happening. At this time we cannot relese any names..." That was all Gabriella heard. She turned slowly to Troy, tears in her eyes.

"That was Lily and Damien." She said in a shaky voice.

Lily was scared. Damien was terrified. The man was having fun.

"Really? You would die, to let the little girl live a little longer?" Though he had only known her for a short time, Damien thought he would do anything for Lily. He nodded.

"Very well. Oh, look. Forth-three minutes." He smirked up at the camrea then turned his gun back on Damien. "Now sit." He walked back over to the phone and started speaking again. Damien didn't hear much, because he was trying to get Lily to stop crying. He knew it wouldn't work, and that she had a right to cry, but it still hurt him to see her like that. He wanted to cry, scream, be held by someone himself,but he had to help Lily. She was a lot more scared than he was, or so it seemed. He held her. How could a man be so heartless to kill two eleven-year-olds, or ayone for that matter? Damiens still clung to the hope that they would make it. The police would make it, the bank would come up witht he money. Something, anything. The minutes slowly ticked by, the man making no more sick comments.

"What the hell is taking so long!" He yelled into the phone. Damien could just immagine the person on the other end cringing. The man dropped the phone and walked back over to Lily and Damien. "Seven minutes."Damien let a tear drop from his eye. Knowing this was it. He was going to die. And Lily was too. He looked down at her. The last few minutes seemed like forever. Finally, it came. The man looked Damien straight in the eye and smirked.

"Good-bye." Damien said to Lily the same time the man saidit to him. A loud, ear splintering explosion filled the room as Damien's body fell backword. Lily screamed.

Am I evil? Or am I evil? Well, I have to go practice. I am practicing Basketball because I plan to make the team in college. I made it in grade school, and in high school. I am going to make it now. I start soon. Anyway, gotta run. I am meeting Jessie, my boyfriend.He drove over to spend the weekend with us.I am gonna have a lot of run!

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