Ok. Thank you to…'Sherra1018' especially for reviewing first, and then to 'jasminekpk,' 'Baby D,' 'GeeTheCrazyStalkerGirl' and 'Elinka' for reviewing too! You guys are all amazing!! Here's some more of the story now….(it's kinda long. sorry.)……

Nate was lying on his bed, staring up at the ceiling, when he heard a knock on his door.

"Nate? It's me. Shane. Mitchie's waiting downstairs so open up, will ya'?"

Nate made no move to unlock the door.

"Nate, I have a key if it has to come to that…"

Nate moaned and opened the door.

"Finally!" Shane said as he stepped into the room. Nate rolled his eyes and lay down on the bed again.

"What do you want," he whispered.

"You need to leave this room and get something to eat. Jason told me yesterday morning, before he left for the weekend, that you've only had a half of a glass of water since it happened. That was like, two or three days ago."

"I'm not hungry," Nate stated softly.

"Listen. I know what you're going through. But I'm sure Linda wouldn't want you to starve yourself worrying about her." Shane put his hand on Nate's shoulder. Nate shrugged it off and stood up.

"Shane, I appreciate your wanting to help, but…" he paused and listened.

"What is it?" Shane asked.

"Mitchie's calling my name," Nate said, flinging the door open and running downstairs. Shane hopped up and dashed after him.

"What is it?" Nate asked as he reached the bottom step.

"There you are," Mitchie said. "I've been calling you for five minutes now. A package just arrived for you." Mitchie handed Nate a small, rectangular brown box.

"A package? For me?" Nate whispered to himself. He flipped out his pocket knife, sliced the tape open, and then carefully pulled open the brown flaps. Inside, filling up almost the entire box, were hundreds of little, blue packing peanuts.

"So much for that," Nate said, sighing. "I thought it seemed light. Probably a practical joke or something."

"Dig through it," Mitchie coaxed, obviously wanting to know what it was.

"Ok," Nate said, burrowing through the peanuts until he got to the bottom. There, lay a single, black tape with nothing on it but a small label marked, "Nate."

"What the heck is that?" Mitchie asked, looking at the small tape curiously.

"I don't know," Nate mumbled, walking over to the stereo and stuffing the tape into the closest empty slot. A deep garbled voice, that had obviously been slowed down and tampered with, appeared a few seconds later. Nate felt his blood chill as he listened to the words.

"Hello, Nate. Yes, I know who you are. Unfortunately for you, you've made a few big mistakes and I intend to see that they don't go un-punished. It's going to get ugly, Nate. I tried to warn you before, but you just ignored me. Let's see if I can get your attention now. Oh. And, Linda says hi." At that moment on the tape, a shrill scream came and then the tape stopped. Shane shuddered and Nate just sat there, staring into space. Mitchie looked over to Shane, confusion clouding her face.

"Wait. What's happening? That….person is with Linda?" Nate rolled his eyes and wheeled to face Shane.

"You didn't tell her, did you?" he asked.

Shane bit his lip, but didn't answer.

"What? Tell me what?" Mitchie asked, turning her head back and forth between Shane and Nate.

"Linda's been kidnapped," Nate answered.

"We think," Shane put in quickly. Mitchie's eyes grew big.

"What?!" she cried, staring at Nate in horror.

"Yeah. Her place had been ransacked and…" Nate put his head in his hands, tears starting to well up in his throat and fill his eyes. Mitchie turned angrily to Nate, her face hot.

"Shane, how could you not tell me this?" she shouted.

"Mitchie. Come on. Think about it. I was just trying to protect you. You can be real emotional sometime and I didn't want to say anything until it was sure that she'd been kidnapped."

Tears started flowing down Mitchie's cheeks. Shane reached over and wrapped his arms around her. Suddenly, she gasped.

"What is it?" Shane asked, nervously.

"We should take that tape to the Police Station. Maybe they can mess with it and we can find out the identity of the voice."

Nate looked up at her.

"Mitchie, you're a genius," he said, jumping up and running to the door.

"Umm, Nate?" Shane called.

"What is it?" Nate asked, turning back. Shane held up a little black object.

"You forgot the tape," he said. Nate smacked his hand on his forehead and hurried forward to grab the tape.

"And us," Mitchie said, standing up and starting towards the door as well. "We want to go with you. I want to be as much help as I can."

Nate sighed and beckoned for her and Shane to follow him.

Soon, they arrived at the Police Station. Nate hurried in first and went up to the front desk.

"May I help you?" the young officer behind the desk asked.

"Yes. I'd like to speak to the Chief, please," Nate said.

"Concerning?"

"A couple days ago, Linda Colen went missing and I received a threatening, anonymous letter. The Chief was there at the scene and told me that if I received anything else to bring it to him. And I just did. A tape with a threatening message. The voice on the tape was deep and it sounded like it had been tampered with so I was wondering if you could, maybe….mess with it. Get it back to normal so we can hear the voice."

The young officer looked up at the large clock above him and then back at Nate.

"The Chief is just going into a business meeting. However, if you'll give me the tape and come with me, I can get some men working on it."

Nate nodded and handed him the tape.

"This way please," the officer said, opening a door beside him and beckoning Nate to go through. Nate motioned for Mitchie and Shane to follow him.

Twenty minutes later, Nate was standing in the room where the men were working on the tape, looking out the window when Shane came up to him. Shane's face was ashen and he looked worried.

"Umm, Nate? They finally got the tape back to its original state. You need to hear it." Shane led Nate over to the station where the tape was being tampered with, handed Nate one of the headsets and pressed play. Nate's eyes went wide with disbelief. The voice now playing on the tape was Jason's.

Omg!! Did you like it? Cliff hanger!! (again. i know. that's just my style, sorry…it keeps people interested. most of the time...). Anyway. Some more REVIEWS, por favor. Thanks for reading!!