"Ugh, turn off the light," Gabriella moaned, snuggling into Troy's chest. There was no sound. "Guys?" She sat up and looked around.

"Oh my God!!" She screamed. Taylor was sprawled out in the floor in a puddle of blood and Chad was leaning against the balcony with blood smeared down the glass. In his blood, the words 'I'm back' were written. She whipped around toward Troy.

"Troy-!" He was laying in the bad, with his arms around her. His neck had a long cut through it and blood was dripping from the long slice in his flesh. She wiggled out of his grasp and tried to shake him awake. "Troy, wake up!" He didn't move. "Guys, this isn't funny!"

"Hello, Gabby," a deep voice greeted. Gabriella whipped around toward the voice. Her dad was standing there, looking at her with an evil grin on his face. "Long time no see."

Gabriella muffled a scream. "What are you doing here?!"

"I came back to collect my daughter," he answered, simply.

Gabriella raised her eyebrows as tears streamed down her face. "You are no father of mine!" She shrieked. "You killed my friends?!"

"Well, I had to, didn't I?" He asked. "They were standing in my way. No one gets in the way of what I want."

"WHY DO YOU WANT ME SO BAD?!" Gabriella cried out. "WHAT AM I TO YOU?! I LEFT BECAUSE YOU TREATED ME LIKE A PIECE OF FUCKING SHIT!!"

"You will not talk to me like that," He warned.

"What are you going to do about it?!" She screamed. "Huh? Nothing?! Because you're such a coward that you couldn't even fight off my friends! You just killed them."

"I did that, because I knew how much they meant to you. Especially Troy over there," He smiled maliciously.

"Don't say his name! You don't deserve it!!"

He laughed and shook his head. Gabriella rose to her feet. "Oh, come to give me a proper hello?" He asked.

"I'm gonna kill you!" Gabriella shrieked. Then, she burst into tears. "I loved Troy with all my heart and you had to take that away from me, didn't you? Just like mom?!"

"Don't speak to me about your mother!" He roared in response, charging at her.

"Are you going to kill me?! At least then I can be with Troy…!"

"No, I'm not letting you off that easily." He laughed, throwing her on the bed and pinning her down.

"Get off of me!!" She screamed, kicking and hitting and biting at anything in reach. "HELP!! TROY!!"

"GABRIELLA?! Wake up!" Troy's voice yelled. Gabriella sat up. She was covered in an icy sweat and Taylor and Chad were standing over her.

"Gabster, what happened?" Chad asked, as Troy hugged her.

"Oh, God, it was horrible." Gabriella whimpered, burying her head into Troy's chest. "He killed all of you!"

"Who?" Taylor asked.

"My dad!" Gabriella mumbled into Troy's shirt.

"I'm so sorry," Troy cooed, kissing her hair all over.

"Yeah, hon, me too," Taylor soothed.

"Me too, Gabs," Chad added. "But he's not getting rid of us that easily."

"Yeah, we'll fight forever to keep you okay," Taylor agreed.

"I'll never leave your side," Troy whispered into her ear. "Never."

"Don't let go." Gabriella murmured.

"I won't." Troy promised. "I never will. Now, you can go back to sleep."

Gabriella shook her head. "No, I don't wanna."

"C'mon, honey." Taylor encouraged her.

"No, it'll happen again," Gabriella said, looking up. "I know it will."

"You don't know that." Chad said.

"But this time it'll come true." Gabriella whimpered.

"No, it won't." Taylor assured her. "My mom and dad are here. Do you want me to call the rest of the gang over?"

"No, they'll just get hurt, too." Gabriella shook her head.

"Who's getting hurt?" Troy asked, rubbing her back.

"You guys," Gabriella replied, "if daddy comes back again."

"He doesn't know where I live," Taylor pointed out.

"It's not hard to look up. And he could've followed me and Troy home."

"I doubt it," Troy said. "There were no other cars. We were on a deserted high way."

"Maybe he wasn't in a car," Gabriella said.

"He can't be that fast!" Chad laughed.

"Yeah, we were speeding, 'Brie," Troy pointed out. Gabriella shook her head.

"You guys are just picking out the positive things," she said.

"And you're just picking out the negative ones," Taylor replied.

"But, you guys don't understand!"

"Yes, we do. We understand that you're scared. We know that he hurt you and what he did to you. We also know that he has to go through us to get to you." Troy told her, soothingly.

"I won't let you," Gabriella protested. "I won't let you guys die for me."

"Who said we're dying?" Chad asked.

"You don't know how bad he wants me. You don't know what he's capable of…"

"Gabby, we don't even know for sure that that was him out there following us," Troy said. "We just know someone was."

"I'm almost positive it was him!"

"How do you know that?" Taylor sighed.

"I just got this feeling when he was around. Like he used to come in my room in the middle of the night, but him being loud isn't what woke me up, because he was extremely quiet. What woke me up was the fact that I could feel his evil presence in the room with me. It was like a demon. It was like a warning feeling."