An hour of complete silence is what they drove through, no music, no talking, no humming, nothing was exchanged. Blair sat in the passenger seat, Jenny in the seat behind Serena, their belongings in the seat behind Blair. Tiffany and Vanessa sat in the back seat. They drove by miles of tall fully green trees, cars barley anywhere in sight. The only car that drove by was some red Volts Wagon.

"Are we going the right way?" Blair asked in a tone of aggravation.

"Wait, I think that's the first gas station," Serena said.

Blair looked out her window, desperate hope on her face. As they rounded on it 3 mechanics stood around talking. One of them, wearing a red jump suit that said AL's Greatest Gas on the front of it, waved with a big smile on his face. Blair's face scrunched up.

Tiffany and Vanessa looked at one another but shrugged their shoulders knowing it was better than nothing, and at least they'd be able to get out the car and stretch their legs.

Serena pulled beside a gas tank and stopped the car.

"Do you think it's safe to get out?" Jenny asked a hint of intimidation in her voice.

"Ye-yeah" Serena said though sounded unsure.

Blair rolled her eyes and got out the car. The rest of the girls followed.

"Hey, ladies, what brings you to Al's Gas Station?" The man wearing a white greased shirt and baggy faded blue jeans asked. His hair line was receding back, and when he smiled he was missing 5 of his bottom front teeth.

"Not you" Blair responded rudely. Tiffany pulled out the gold credit card and walked over to a guy that looked about their age, his hair jet black that resembled Nate's,, his eyes bright blue a soft facial expression. As she approached him she handed the card over to him.

"Can we get 2 gallons of gas?" She asked

"Sure thing" he said. He smiled and Tiffany saw that he had bright white teeth. She held back a smile, thinking he wasn't that bad looking, in fact he was hot. When she went to go follow him she felt an arm grab her shoulder. Blair spun her around.

"Gas?" She asked

"What?" Tiffany was confused

"You asked for gas! We have the credit card of the one teacher that we hate the most and all you ask for is gas!"

"You hate her," Tiffany said.

"Stay here, I'll take care of it. Watch and learn McNairenal..." Blair walked off towards the gas station and walked inside. Tiffany shook her head and walked back over to the car, where the man in the red jump suit, was putting gas in the tank.

"So where are you fine ladies heading to?" He asked

"My Aunts," Serena lied.

"Oh, how nice" He said. The man with the greasy clothing walked over and began to examine the car. He then got on his hands and knees and looked under the car. The four girls exchanged looks wondering what he was doing.

"Is something wrong?" Tiffany questioned.

"Sure is, you have a broken brake" He said

"But how, it's a rental, we've barley had it for a few hours" Serena said

"Nonetheless..." he started to say as he got to his feet."It's still a car miss. It'll take only a half hour to fix" He directed to Serena. Serena nodded.

Blair then came out the gas station with 3 bags in her hand, filled with paraphernalia of gas station groceries.

"What- what is that?" Serena asked iriation evident in her voice as she walked up to Blair.

"Necessities" Blair replied.

Serena pulled out a cheap pink hairspray container. "When are we ever going to need this?"

Blair merely shrugged her shoulders. She went to walk over to the car but cam to a standstill when she saw one of the mechanics working on it.

"What happened?" she asked

"Brake's broken" Vanessa said.

"Could this day get any worse?" Blair asked

About a half hour later, the girls were pacing back and forth until the man pulled out from under the car and got to his feet. He bent down and picked his red tool kit.

"Alrighty girls, that should be about it. You're sure to have a safe trip." He said and gave a wheezing laugh. Blair picked her bags up and headed toward the car.

"Finally, let's get the hell out of here," Blair said and got inside the car.

Serena sighed and got into the car also...

They got back on the road, everyone taking their original seats. Jenny was going through, what she looked to be as crap, the things that Blair had bought for no reason. A mere hour went by when the silence was finally broken.

"Can we listen to some music or something?" Vanessa called to Serena.

Tiffany smiled faintly thinking the exact same thing. 'uh, sure, um..." she looked at the car stereo. "Oh, damn the car only takes CD's" Serena said.

"That's no problem; Tiffany said and grabbed her purse from the chair in front of her. She dug in her purse and pulled out Lady Gaga. "Here give this to Serena please," Tiffany said to Jenny.

"Awesome," Jenny commented on the CD and did what Tiffany asked.

Serena blindly reached back to grab the CD while keeping her eyes on the road. When she got the CD she looked at it and smiled.

"Cool" Serena commented. Blair looked over at the CD, and then looked back at Tiffany.

"Nice choice" She said. Tiffany smiled feeling prided for her music choice and their approval.

Serena put the CD in and skipped to track three. "Poker Face" began to play. The girls began to sing along. Even Blair couldn't resist but let loose and sing along.

But it wasn't long before the music stopped and the car began to make a strange noise then came to a complete stop. The girls were in shock.

"What's going on?" Jenny asked.

"I don't know" Serena said in a low voice. She tried to start the car up again but I didn't budge.

"Oh, God, we're gonna die" Blair whimpered.

"I don't think the cars going to start up again" Serena said with horror in her voice. Tiffany's eyes went big. Then without warning the car began to smoke. Blair jumped.

"I second that" Jenny said.

Serena got out the car, the others doing the same. They huddled around the over of the car and Serena lifted the hood up and smoke came out fast.

Serena huffed and turned around. Tiffany went back to the car and grabbed the directions. "Well, the next place that has any existence is the gas station that's like going to take like 3 hours to get to on foot" Tiffany said.

Blair tore the directions from her hands and saw that she was right. "Fu-" She wanted to swear but she held it in. "What in Gods name are we gonna do now!" She yelled.

"First of all, relax" Tiffany said. "Then we're just gonna have to walk to the gas station. It's the only way to call for help. Mrs. Carr said cells would be useless,"

"Of course they are" Blair gritted through her teeth. Blair began to walk, Serena close by. They barley walked twenty minutes, seeming like it was forever, as Blair complained on and on about Mrs. Carr.

"So you and Nate are friends?" Vanessa asked. Tiffany pulled her attention from the squawking Blair and looked at Vanessa.

Tiffany nodded. "Yeah, he's really sweet and a great friend. He's the type you can talk to about anything, understanding you know?"

Vanessa gave a half nod "I do," Vanessa said. Tiffany saw what looked like a downhearted manner about Vanessa body language.

"You like him?" She asked.

Jenny rolled her eyes not wanting to talk about this. "Who doesn't" Vanessa replied trying to make things less awkward than they already were for her.

Jenny looked back, keeping a gaze on the road behind them for a moment.

"Jenny, look out!" Vanessa yelled.

Jenny looked forward then found herself tumbling forward hitting the hard pavement.

"Ow!" Jenny cried. Blair and Serena had turned around to see what was going on. Tiffany and Vanessa bent down at her side as Jenny turned on her back and sat up,

"Ow, ow, ow, ow..." She cried looking at her ankle. Tiffany carefully tried to touch it but that seem impossible as Jenny screamed. Tiffany looked to the others. "I think she might have broken it."

"Great, just what we needed," Blair complained

"Oh will you shut up! This is your entire fault anyway!" Jenny yelled.

"Don't blame you clumsiness on me" Blair laughed.

"You jinxed us, and you won't stop complaining, I wouldn't even be here if Serena didn't ask me to because she didn't want to suffer you alone!" Jenny yelled

Blair gaped at Serena, "Suffer me?" Blair repeated.

"No- I didn't mean it like that-"

"Save it, like I care anyway" Blair sneered,

"I don't think I can walk" Jenny groaned.

"We're gonna have to spilt" Serena stated.

"Tiffany, Blair, and I can go for help-"

"My feet hurt, I'm going to stay with Jenny" Blair interrupted,

Serena was taken by Blair inquire but did her best not to show that it bothered her. "O-okay...I guess me and Tiffany can go for help" Serena said

"Sounds good to me" Tiffany said standing up. Tiffany and Serena began to walk off.

"This day is so getting worse," Serena bleated.

"And to make matters worse, it's getting dark. Also, even if we get to that gas station it's going to be too late for the basket ball game," Tiffany said

"Serena took in a deep breath."I'm sure Mrs. Carr will understand when we tell her what happened." Serena said, sounding as if she was trying to convince herself that's what Mrs. Carrs going to do for sure.

They walked for a while, the others out of sight. "So, uh- I know it's none of my business but, what's going on with you and Dan?" Serena asked,

"Nothing, really....we're just...whatever" Tiffany said not knowing how to explain what they were. Come to think of it she didn't really know herself.

"Oh..." Serena said

"I don't really want to talk about it" Tiffany said shortly.

"Right...sorry...I'm just nosy" Serena gave a nervous chuckle.

Then they heard a faint scream interrupt the silent sky. They both turned around in the direction of the scream. It was a terrorizing scream, the kind you would hear in a horror movie, when the girl was being attacked by some disarranged lunatic.

"What the-" Tiffany started and they began to run back.

It took minutes for them to reach where they had thought they left the girls but found no sign of Blair, Jenny or Vanessa. But what they did find was something that had them speculate the deranged lunatic scenario. A knife was on the floor, coated in blood. They were shocked, panic risen in there body.