I was shocked and scared. My best friend was being held prisoner by a man who haunted my dreams. A man I don't even know the name of. He was a stalker and a murderer and now a kidnapper. Taylor wasn't safe and I am pretty sure neither was Troy, Chad, Jason and Kelsi.

I couldn't take in the fact that my friend's last words to me might be 'Don't listen to him, Gabi'. I was worried about Taylor and my friends, but mostly my mother. She didn't know he was back and I don't want to tell her. I am supposed to be the smart one I had to make a plan.

Think, Gabi! These are your friends in danger.

"What do you want?" I heard myself say.

"You." His answer was so simple it made my head ache.

"Why do you want me? I am of no use." I answered in a, hopefully, strong voice.

"I will tell you only because I to am smart and know you will only help me if I fill you in on my plan. You are smart and can build anything I tell you to. Your friend is smart as well and I can easily threaten you and fulfill my threats and I you don't cooperate next is Basketball Guy. If you can figure out whom that is. I'm sure you can."

I had to focus on breathing, they were threatening Troy. The only boy I ever liked. This was not on my list of a great day.

"What do you need my help with?" I asked, still in the dark.

"We'll worry about that when you get here."

"How will I get there?"

"You'll be kidnapped of course. Go to the park and bring no one with you. I am armed so don't think of anything and the car will be a black mustang with the hood on."

He hung up before I could answer. My friends were in danger, but I couldn't think of any other way without harm coming to them. I turned off my cell phone incase it rang and blew the only plan I had. I felt so crazy handing myself over to a man who had haunted my childhood. I wish Troy were with me, and then again I didn't want him to be in any danger.

Like I can keep him out of trouble. His every move is watched, especially by Sharpay. I hate that girl. Everyone does, except Zeke, but someone needs to love even her. I think her brother is even growing tired of her.

TROY'S POV

I was over at Chad's and we were silently sitting on his couch waiting for news. I pulled out my cell phone and phones Gabi. She needed to know her BF was missing and what else could I do, but sit down and I was getting tired of that. I also wanted to hear her voice, but instead I got a voice mail saying the number was invalid. Just my luck.

I called two more times then gave up. I looked over at Chad he hadn't moved since I got there…four hours ago. I don't know about him, but I was starving.

"Hungry, Chad?" I asked him, although it appeared he didn't even realize I had talked. I was about to talk to him again when I realized that if Gabi had been kidnapped I would want to sulk in my thoughts.

I stood up and went to the door. I was going to see if any of the girls needed help. I hated going to Sharpay's, but she was still Taylor's friend, for the most part. If I'm lucky she'll be shopping and just Ryan will be there and we can have a short chat then I can leave.

I rang the doorbell. Guess who answered it.

Yup. My luck has just been perfect lately, hasn't it?

"Troy, why, I wasn't expecting you here." Sharpay said in a voice that was supposed to sound like honey, but to me sounded like a scratched tape. Of course, Sharpay always had that effect on me.

"I just wanted to see how every one was cooping with the thing Taylor's disappearance."

"Oh, Troy, you don't need to find excuses to come and visit me."

"Good, because I didn't. Is Ryan here?"

"No, he's at Jason's."

"Well, by then."

"You don't want to talk to me?" She sounded astonished.

"Not really." She left with a 'humph' and slammed the door.

I walked the block and a half to Jason's house. No cars were in the drive was, but I expected Jason to be home. I knocked and Jason immediately opened the door. We walked into his room and, sure enough, Ryan was there.

"Hey, Sharpay said you guys would be here." I told them.

"You talked to Sharpay?" My friends said in at the same time.

"I was hoping she would be shopping, but my luck hadn't been oh, so great lately. After I turned her down I walked here."

"What do you want to talk about?" Jason asked.

"Well, you and Ryan are friends with Taylor and since Chad hasn't moved from the couch I was going to see how you were doing."

"We are a type of friend, but still if anyone went missing I would feel bad, no offense to Chad, but I'm glad it's not Kelsi." I looked up to see a red faced Jason. In all my years of knowing him he had never been this red and I wasn't about to let it slide.

"I little red, aren't we Jay?" I said using the nickname Chad made for him in grade school.

"Yeah, well, what about Gabi, do I see a blush on just a mentioned name? It looks like he has it bad, doesn't he Ryan?"

I was beat red. Yes, me. The star basketball player was a darker color red then I thought possible at just the mention of a girl's name. I will never admit it, maybe on my death bed in a whisper to Gabi only, but I DID have it bad.

"You've been staring at my ceiling for the past five minutes, Troy; I can guarantee it isn't that interesting." Jason laughed in front of me. I realized I had spaced out and looked to see what Ryan was doing.

"If you're wondering I'm doing research on Taylor's past to lead up to something like this. So far, nothing." Ryan said and I saw that he was on his laptop and sitting on Jason's chair.

NORMAL POV

With Troy.

Troy was walking home from an exhausting day of confusion. He never thought confusion could cause exhaustion, but it did to him. He walked in his front door and made his way into the room his parents were talking in.

He was about to enter when he heard Gabi's name.

"Don't tell Troy this," His mother was saying, "But I just got a call from he mother and Gabriella has been gone for most of the day and her phone is turned off. She said that she has a feeling that her friend Taylor's disappearance was somehow connected. She's been trying to think of a place that Gabriella would go.

"She hadn't told Gabriella about her friends disappearance and she doesn't think any one called Gabriella and if they did her daughter would keep her phone on for any update. She told me about a stalker they once had and that they had thought he was dead, but it was still possible he was alive.

"There is no name and…"

Troy decided he should pretend he just got home and walk into the living room.

"I was over at Jason's. Did you mind? I forgot to call." Troy said apologetically.

"Well, with that girl being missing I would like it and feel more comfortable if you called every few hours, just till we have more information." His dad said firmly.

"I know and understand. I'll be up in my room." Troy walked up the stairs and went over to his computer and pulled up some information on Taylor. He looked all over, but for two generations the only thing her family had done wrong was exceed the speed limit, like that could lead to kidnapping, and they were the ones with the tickets. This wasn't making sense.

I wish Gabriella was here.

Gabi looked around herself she appeared to be in a small room. She glanced at the unconscious figure in the corner and smiled, happy Taylor was alive. She started to wake up.

"Where am I? Last I know o was talking to you on the phone." Taylor asked, suddenly it all came back to her. "How'd you get here?"

"I didn't want anyone to get hurt. Just do as he says and we should be fine."

"Where are the others?"

"Hopefully, they're fine."

Gabi sighed.

I think I fell into a trap.

It was the one time she wasn't happy to be right.

I haven't updated in a while, but I will now be updating more since I finished my other story. Thank you those who kept me on their alert list. I am sorry about how long it took.

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Gabi and Taylor sat in the corner of the room as the man walked in.

"Now to be polite I will introduce myself to you young ladies. My name is Daniel Ross. I am telling you this, for you will never leak this information. Whether I let you go or if you die." Daniel said. His words were like a threat.

"Why do you want Gabi and me?" Taylor managed to say in a cracked voice.

"Why would I want two smart girls who will do anything I say on account that I can easily dispose of their boyfriends anytime I want."

"Troy is not my boyfriend." Gabi said, quietly, wishing that he was.

"It doesn't matter if you're really dating. You both would do anything for each other; therefore it means you care enough about him to do as I tell you. Clear?" Daniel was serious.

He got up and left without waiting for an answer, knowing what their answer would be.

Gabi shrank back down on the wall and tried to fight the tears in her eyes. The song she first sang with Troy was brought to her memory.

Living in my own world
Didn't understand
That anything can happen
When you take a chance
I never believed in
What I couldn't see
I never opened my heart
To all the possibilities
I know that something has changed
Never felt this way
And right here tonight

This could be the start
Of something new
It feels so right
To be here with you
And now looking in your eyes
I feel in my heart
The start of something new

Now who'd of ever thought that
We'd both be here tonight
And the world looks so much brighter
With you by my side
I know that something has changed
Never felt this way
I know it for real

This could be the start
Of something new
It feels so right
To be here with you
And now looking in your eyes
I feel in my heart
The start of something new

I never knew that it could happen
Till it happened to me
I didn't know it before
But now it's easy to see

It's a start
Of something new
It feels so right
To be here with you
And now looking in your eyes
I feel in my heart

That it's the start
Of something new
It feels so right
To be here with you
And now looking in your eyes
I feel in my heart
The start of something new
Start of something new

Gabi wished beyond wishes that she could have told Troy she liked. She doubted she would ever see him again. Her father hadn't been able to escape this man so why would she?

Troy's POV

Nothing led up to the kidnappings. Troy remembered Gabi mention her father had been killed when she was six. He typed in Howard Montez (I'm bad with names) and it a list of names came up. He clicked on one and started reading.

Scientist Murdered!

Scientist, Howard Montez was murdered late at night on September 6. Sources tell us that his wife was on a business trip and his daughter down the hall. No one knows why this murderer did not go after his six year-old daughter Gabriella.

Troy gasped at the next paragraph.

Ever since his first wife had been murdered Montez has been saying that the man who murdered his wife was still out there. Now we have reason to believe he is died. A man was found outside Montez's house and had his hand on the gun. The gun has been checked and the only finger prints on the gun belonged to the man.

Montez's coworker Daniel Ross said that he had many enemies and people threatened him every day, yet none of them seemed to be the murdering kind. As soon as Mrs. Montez heard of her husband she took a flight home and faced the fact that she was a widow and had to raise her 6 year-old daughter by herself. The police decided that the man found outside the Montez household, Jim Rock, was indeed the murderer. No other suspects were found.

Troy was shocked at the news and called Jason and Ryan and Chad, to meet at his house in half an hour. This was going to be a long night, especially with them missing the brains, not that the others weren't smart, but Gabi and Taylor were defiantly the smartest.

Half an Hour Later

Everyone was shocked when Chad actually showed up.

"How are you, dude?" Jason asked.

"Fine, Troy you said that you found something surprising out." Chad said trying not to lose it.

"Yeah, Gabi's missing, too." Troy whispered so quietly that they barely heard him.

"Gabi's missing?" Chad asked.

"Do you think they'll go after, Kelsi or even Sharpay?" Jason asked.

Troy just handed them the news clip he had printed out. They all were shocked when they finished reading.

"I think that Taylor was only being used as way to get Gabi to cooperate." Troy said finally.

"Oh, so Taylor gets kidnapped only because she's friends with Gabi, great." Chad muttered.

"I would prefer that nobody was missing, but if Taylor was only bait that means that she is more than likely alive. If whoever this is ki…got ride of Taylor, then Gabi wouldn't help him."

Chad sat up straight against the wall and you could tell he was thinking everything over.

He finally spoke, "I think we should find this Ross guy, ask him what he knows. Ryan grabbed Troy's laptop and went to look for an address or something.

"We know that this man is slick if he's got Taylor and Gabriella without leaving a trial." Jason said, still shocked.

"Who said he didn't leave a trail?" Ryan said from his position on Troy's desk.

"What did you find?" Chad asked.

"Nothing, but how would Gabi's mother not know if she was kidnapped in the middle of the night."

"While I was waiting for you I called Mrs. Montez and she said that Gabi had been talking to the phone with someone late last night." Troy said.

Everyone thought for a minute.

"I have a theory!" Ryan said, startling Troy. "What if he called Gabi and put Taylor on the phone. Then he would threaten her and Gabi would do as he said. She could have walked right into danger to make sure that that Taylor was okay."

Troy got out his cell phone and dialed Gabi's home phone. Thankfully her mother picked up.

"Hello Mrs. Montez. If Gabi had gone anywhere where would she go?"

"She has only been to the park."

"Thanks Mrs. Montez." Troy hung up.

"The park near Gabi's new home. Her mother said that was the only place she had been."

At the Park

A girl sat on the bench when Troy showed up. She had light brown hair and it was shoulder length. She looked as if she had slept there.

"Excuse me, but have you been here a while?" Troy asked.

She nodded.

"Did a brunette come by here?" He asked.

She shrugged her shoulders.

"How old are you?" He asked again.

"Seventeen," She looked sixteen.

Jason, Chad and Zeke pulled up and walked up to the girl.

"You look a lot like Howard Montez' first wife," Zeke said.

The girl winced.

"First wife?" She asked, slowly.

"What is your name?" Chad asked/

"Millie." She answered.

The boy's introduced them selves and they asked her a few questions about Gabi.

"Actually, now that you described her, I did see a girl get into, what looked like a black mustang." Millie said, surprising them that she was now comfortable. "I think I can help you."

Sorry I haven't been updating. I've been grounded.

The new character is Millie.

Luvs-Zac-Efron Gave her to me.

Attitude: She is very protective of friends and family; she's funny (by

Being sarcastic), not afraid to speak her mind, and she's a

Girlie-girl, Oh yeah, one more thing she gets ticked when people mispronounce her name! It's Mill-e not My-lee!(Full name Milena)

Sorry for any grammatical or spelling mistakes.

Bookworm52