Haha, I am amazing! idk how this chapter will end, so I make no promises but am fairly certain that this is the chapter were Tru finally meets Rudolph, but once again I make no promises. Anyways please review and enjoy. This chapter underwent some serious rewriting from its original post. I'd re read it if I were you.

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Chapter 6

"Oh my God!" Tru winced slightly as Stephanie squealed "I have the most amazing bit of gossip." Stephanie stopped talking; making sure that Tru was listening.

"Okayyy!" Tru signaled, in mock interest. Stephanie smiled, pressing her lips together tightly, drawing out the suspense. Tru honestly didn't care what Stephanie was about to tell her but, she missed the way her life used to be, pretend you care what everyone is talking about and everyone pretends to care what you are talking about. Now she couldn't even go to school to pretend she cared about the gossip.

"Well, I heard that Taylor said that James told her that..."

"So this isn't a firsthand account." Tru stated, rolling her eyes at her blond ditzy friend.

"Well, no, but…" Stephanie paused then continued. "Oh come ON, let me tell you, PLEASE!" she begged.

Tru sighed "Fine, go on. What did James tell Taylor that she then repeated that you overheard."

"Oh never mind, you sound so uninterested.

"Do I? Sorry, because I care ssssooooo much about what Taylor has to say."

"Oh, I forgot you two had a falling out. Are you still mad about that, I figured you'd be over it by now" Stephanie commented.

"You mean am still mad that she told everyone I moved because I was pregnant with her brother's baby?" Tru paused for effect. "I had to block practically the whole school on Facebook, so no, I'm not over that."

Stephanie didn't respond for a few moments until. "Hey guess what? I'm having a slumber party and you are invited."

"I can't go." Tru answered flatly.

"But I haven't even told you when it is!" Stephanie whined.

"It doesn't matter when it is, I'm in Scotland!" Tru practically shouted.

"Oh ya, I forgot." The blond ditz answered.

"Abobo! Intoto!" Tru heard some form of gibberish coming from her brother's room.

"What was that?" Stephanie asked peering into the webcam, as if that would help her see further into Tru's room

Tru rolled her eyes Why does he have to yell? "My brother." She replied, limping over to the wall that separated hers and Tony's room. 'BANG BANG BANG' Tru pounded on the wall. "TONY, KEEP IT DOWN!" She yelled through the air-vent. Tru waited for a moment for a response but all she got was another bout of gibberish from her brother's room.

"UGH! Look I gotta go, Tony's being a moron and I have to kill him." Tru said to Stephanie, and without waiting for an answer, turned off her webcam logged off the computer

Suddenly, Tru heard a high-pitched squeak coming from her window. She stared at the curtains for a moment, then hobbled over, hearing the squeak again. After a few seconds she managed to jimmy the window open. Tru leaned her head out, looking for the source of the squeaking. Nothing, nothing was out there.

Tru furrowed her brow, she was sure she had heard something out here. She leaned her head out a little further when a bat flew up, practically smacking her in the face. Tru jumped back as she watched the bat falter slightly, obviously just a shocked by Tru as she was of it. Then, almost as soon as it paused it flew off, and into Tony's open window.

Oh crap! Tony's gonna freak. Tru thought as she made her way back to her window. She pulled herself into her room just in time to hear an odd bang-like sound. "Crap crap crap crap..." Tru continued to mutter as she headed for her bedroom door, which was difficult due to her sprained ankle and the fact that her room was a mess of boxes, shoes, and clothes.

A slight muttering could be heard followed by a gasp. Finely Tru reached her door and reached Tony's door just in time to hear something hit it. Tru turned the door handle and flung the door open only to see her brother hiding behind his desk by his window.

"Tony, are you OK? I saw a bat fly in here and I was worried." Tru exclaimed, her eyes trained on her little brother.

Tony remained silent, which worried Tru quite a bit. If he had screamed, she would have known he was afraid, but he was silent. Tony was rendered speechless, it was a miracle, but also made Tru wonder exactly what had happened in the minute and an half it took for her to get here.

Suddenly, the door swung back at Tru, hitting her in the shoulder and shoving back a few inches. A small cry of pain escaped her lips as she shoved the door back, whatever was back there was extremely strong.

After a moment of fighting with the door, Tru reached around to whatever was pushing it and dug her nails into their flesh. She heard a small hiss of pain and the door was momentarily free.

Tru used this moment to slip into the room and grab the stranger. Unfortunately, the person had gotten a hold of her arm before she could pull them out. They pulled Tru's arm behind her back, causing her shoulder to throb.

Tru thought back to a special on self-defense she saw on TV a few nights ago. She was supposed to flip the attacker over her back. Tru attempted this and failed. Stupid TV show, making it looks so easy to beat people up.

The attacker wrapped their other arm around Tru, grabbing her other arm and pinning it to her chest.

Tru attempted to flip the attacker over once more. When that failed, she did the only thing she could think of, falling over. Tru relaxed her legs, causing her to sink, extremely ungracefully, to the floor. The shift in weight was so sudden that the attacker fell forward, still holding onto Tru.

She took advantage of them both being on the ground and rolled them over so her back was on

top of the stranger's chest. She then drove her elbow into the attacker's diaphragm.

The stranger loosened their grip on Tru just enough for her to slip away. Tru stood up and headed for the golf club set that was sitting by the desk, were Tony was still hiding. She had just reached it when the stranger grabbed her ankle, causing Tru to fall forward. She grabbed for the golf bag, tipping it over and spilling the clubs. Tru pulled one out and twisted herself so she was on her back and swung the club down on the stranger, causing him to let go.

Tru staggered to her feet, her ankle burring from the pain of being abused before healing from her last attack. She hit the stranger with the club three more times before she was sure he wasn't going to attack her again.

The stranger was now splayed out on the floor, breathing heavily. "I'm too weak." he panted breathlessly.

That voice! Tru flashed back to her nightmare she had the night before she was attacked in the graveyard.

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Yay Rudolph showed up! Yay. Ok OK, I know that you probably weren't expecting that when you begged me for Rudolph to show up, but hey. Review anyway.