Deanna's friend Ginny was the first person to realize something was wrong. Ginny worked at the tv station. She was working on a really crazy story and wanted to run it by Deanna to see what she thought. Deanna was always really good about returning texts and answering calls no matter the time. 15 minutes went by and Ginny didn't think too much about it. But when 30 minutes went by, Ginny felt it in her gut that something terrible was wrong. She rushed to her car and drove over to Deanna's apartment. The whole way over Ginny had a sickening feeling. Why would Deanna just not answer her phone?

She pulled into the parking lot of the apartment complex. She seen Deanna's little white equinox right outside her apartment door. Ginny was about to get sick. Did someone kidnap her? She tried to calm herself down by telling herself that Deanna might have went out with Tanner to get drinks. But with it being so late at night, that didn't seem like Deanna.

She went up to the door and rang the doorbell. She took a step back and waited for Deanna to answer the door. Nothing but silence. With a shaky hand she knocked on the door.

"Hey Dee it's Gin. Open up I've got a question for you." Ginny said in a shaky voice. She thought how pathetic of her. What if Deanna was in the shower. She would open her door in a robe and towel on her head and they would both get a laugh out of how Ginny panicked.

When there was still no answer she decided to call Deanna's phone. As it began to ring Ginny could hear something that made the hair on the back of her neck stand up. She got closer to the door. As she let the phone ring, she could hear Deanna's phone ring. It sounded like it was just inside the door. Why was Deanna picking up? Ginny started to fear the worst. She started looking around. Could there maybe be an extra key that was out to where Ginny could get in? She looked under Deanna's doormat and sure enough there was an extra apartment key that Deanna had forgotten to pick up. She left it for her neighbor when she went out of town last weekend so the neighbor could check on and feed her cat.

Ginny was sobbing and shaking so bad she could barely get the key in the door. As she entered the apartment her heart dropped. There in the floor was her friend. Deanna was lying in a pool blood. Ginny rushed over to her.

"Deanna! Deanna! You have to wake up, you have to get up! Come on Deanna!" Ginny screamed through the tears. Deanna didn't move her body was limp and she was unconscious. Ginny put her hand on Deanna's chest. Deanna's breathing was very staggered and shallow. She was beat up so bad that her own friend barely recognized her.

"Please stay with me. Deanna you've got to fight just please keep breathing." Ginny said through tears.

She pulled her phone back out and called 911.

"911 what is your emergency?" the dispatcher asked

"My friend I'm not sure what happened but it looks like she was beat up and she's unconscious." Ginny replied.

"Is your friend breathing?"

"Barely just please hurry!"

"Ok I am sending an ambulance your way."

It seemed like an eternity before the flashing lights pulled into the complex. Hesitant Ginny left her friend lying in the floor to motion the paramedics to the apartment. It was dark and driver never seen Ginny. The ambulance went to pull out of the complex.

"No you're not going to let my friend die. Not on my watch." Ginny said.

With that she started running with all her might, chasing the ambulance. She finally got close enough to bang on the side of the ambulance. That's when the driver stopped. Out of breath and her legs throbbing Ginny walks up to the driver's door.

"You have already past the apartment. It's apartment 25. Please hurry and get down there. I think she's dying." Ginny stood there for a minute trying to catch her breath.

By time she got back down to the apartment, the paramedics where hooking Deanna up to machines Her pulse was extremely low and her oxygen level was even lower. As they started to load Deanna into the back of the ambulance, a police officer walked up to Ginny.

"Where you here when this happened?" The officer asked.

"No I came in and found her like this." Ginny said sobbing.

"Can you think of anyone who would want to hurt your friend?"

"No she is the sweetest person you would ever want to meet."

"Did she have a boyfriend or have a fight with someone?"

"I can't imagine that she would. But her boyfriend's name is Tanner."

"Tanner…..wait…that's not Deanna Officer Tanner Perry's girlfriend is it?"

Ginny lost it. She couldn't even form the words to say yes. All she could do is nod her head.

The officer looked over Ginny's shoulder at the paramedic. The paramedic had a very grim look on his face and kind of shook his head.

The officer walked around to the side of his car, opened the passenger's side door. "We can answer more questions latter. Right now I think your friend will need you at the hospital with her."

Ginny slid into the car and the officer followed the ambulance out of the complex going to the hospital.

In the distance, Tanner stood by his car finishing a cigarette. He wanted to watch all the commotion and see if anyone could find Deanna in time. If it was up to him, no one was going to know he was the one that done this.