Gabriella's POV

I woke up to find my legs and arms were bond. My mouth was tapped. I looked over at Taylor and she was in the same position. She looked over at me and I saw the door swing open. I feared that Daniel Ross was back, but no one came in. Then Gabi heard voices, voices that made me want to call out, but the tape preventing her. I glanced over at Taylor she to looked like she was scared and joyful, until we heard what they were saying.

"Guy's we've got a problem." It sounded like Ryan.

"Who was that?" Troy. My heart soared.

"That was the guy we've been looking for on Jason's cell phone."

"So Ross has your friends?" An unfamiliar girl's voice asked. My heart took a nose dive.

"At least Jason and Chad and Zeke, I'm so glad we didn't take Sharpay or Kelsi with us." Ryan said.

"We can just let him have them. Millie, can you get us to where he worked?"

"Yeah," Millie answered.

Then the door shut. I cried as I thought of who this girl might be. They had left us here. We were right in front of them and they didn't see us. At least they knew who they were looking for. If they got called away then they would come back. Right? And Ross said he wouldn't hurt Troy as long as I cooperated. Right? I wish I could help them, but wishes don't come true. 0

Troy's POV

I felt like we had left something behind as we were driving toward the abandoned computer factory. It was close to the border with New Jersey. I only saw Chad's car. Maybe they had left.

"Do you think this is a trap?" Millie asked.

"I hope not." Ryan said. I think that Ryan was starting to like Millie. He trusted his laptop to her.

"Come on." I said as I walked to the door. We got to the door and I had an idea.

"Wait! What if this is a trap? I think only one of us should go down there." I said.

"Agreed," Ryan and Millie said at the same time.

"I'll go down there and you two go back to Ross's house. I feel like we missed something big in that basement." I said.

"Are you sure you want to go down there?" Ryan asked.

"Yes, now go, before you're seen or something." Ryan and Millie left with my car and I slowly opened the door. It creaked and I held my breath. When nothing happened I opened it a little more and slipped inside. It looked like it hadn't been used in years instead of weeks. I carefully walked on the tile floor and peeked in all the open doors. There was a closed door at the end of the hallway.

I put my ear to the door.

"I won't shoot if you don't move." I heard a voice. Ross. "I don't like people snooping around my stuff. When all your friends show up then we can get down to business. I plan on letting the black girl go." I hated the way he said 'black'. Taylor was black, but that didn't make her different. "I need the Montez girl dead. Her father stole my job from me and gloated about it. He had already stolen most of my money from me. I killed his wife. Then he got happy again, so instead of killing his new wife I killed him. Later I found that he and his first wife had had a daughter. Gabriella isn't Mrs. Montez's child."

Gabi looked too much like her mother for that to be true. I had seen a picture of Mr. Montez first wife and Gabi looked nothing like her.

Gabi doesn't look like her, but who does? A voice asked in my head.

"Millie," I said a little too loudly. I heard footsteps and the door opened. I was pulled in and looked into his eyes. They were cold and hard. His face was well groomed and he didn't look like a killer…besides the eyes.

"Spying, huh? Well you can join your friends over there." He looked out the door. "Hey, where is that other boy?"

"He and a friend went to call the police." I lied. It was necessary. His face tensed up and he glared at me angrily.

"I have not spent the last seventeen years murdering to end up in prison." Something about him admitting to being a murderer made everything seem even more depressing.

"Well it looks like your going to have to." I didn't know what possessed me to say that, but it was a teenager thing to do, meaning, BIG MISTAKE. He took the gun in his left hand and aimed it at me. Without having the chance to move much, I felt a great pain in my lower stomach. The pain was unbearable and I blacked out.

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