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Laurie, in shock and disbelief, bauled uncontrollably as she sat there just staring into the face of her one true love, the others had nothing to do but sit and stare. None of them knew what was going to happen to them next or how long they'd be stuck in the damp basement, which one of them would die next, if they even had a shot at making it out of that basement alive.

Natalie, a sophmore, clutched tightly to her older brother, Jeremy crying at the sight of their brother, Ben's death. "How are we gonna tell mom?", she cried. All Jeremy could do was stand there and hold tightly to his sister, trying not to scare her even more but never believing that either of them would live to tell her what happened to their brother. 

"He's crazy!", Libby finally said through tears. "What happened up there?", asked Derrick as he stumbled to his feet, still holding tightly to his gunshot wound. "Are you allright, Derrick?", asked Meghan, a classmate of Derrick's. "Yeah, it just went in and out so I'll be fine.", he responded. "Why don't you tell us what he did?", Derrick asked, his attention focusing back on Libby."and what's with the dress?"

"He said I reminded him of Emily", Libby began. "that we could pass for twins at her young age." Mr. Clemmons rose from his dusty spot on the basement floor and began pacing around the basement floor. "Emily had straight blonde hair when she was 16 and a petite figure, as you do. It's when she and I began seeing each other. Logan used to come in my room whenever she came over, always trying to annoy us... I just thought he was being a typical teenager. I knew he was jealous because he didn't really capture hearts when we were younger but I never thought he'd take it this far."

The students sat there, taking in all this newfound information about their captor, wondering how an obvious teenage crush would turn so fatal for them. "I think there's more to it than that", Derrick said finally, turning his gaze from Libby to Mr. Clemmons.  "I do too", said Tonya through tears. "But it doesn't matter cuz we have to figure out how to get out of here before it gets any worse!"

"How could it get worse?", shouted Laurie. "Don't you see what he did to Ben? We're all on his list and he's just going to pluck us off one by one until we're all dead! We've checked this basement from one end to the other and there is NO WAY OUT! We're all going to die down here and you all know it!" She returned her gaze from Tonya back to Ben and began crying all over again.

Noone wanted to admit it, but they all agreed with her. "We can't give up now.", stated Derrick. "That's probably what he wants anyway and if we're supposed to die down here anyway, I'm not going down without a fight! There's nothing left for us to lose but our own lives and if he's planning on taking that from us anyway, let's make it a fight to the finish!"

"He won't kill me", stated Libby. "What do you mean?", asked Tonya. "What happened up there?" "He took us upstairs to his 'love nest' as he called it", Libby began. "He had a set of handcuffs and he cuffed me and Sophie together on the radiator and made us watch him with Layla.", her voice began to break and everyone knew that they didn't really want to hear the next part.

Libby's tears began to stream down her face as she continued with her story. "He rolled her over on her stomach and ripped her clothes off. Then, he..." she began crying so hard they could barely make out the next thing she said. "cut her throat and he... he.. he raped her while she died on the floor, bleeding to death."

They sat there, shocked and terrified as they listened on to Libby's horrific encounter of this madman who had kidnapped them.  "He did the same thing to Sophie. He made me watch him with her just like with Layla. Then, he took me to another room and made me put on this dress. He said it was Emily's."

"She wore it to our senior prom", Mr. Clemmons interrupted. "She lost it shortly afterwards, or so we thought. He must've had it all this time." Mr. Clemmons began crying like a baby, thinking of how his relationship with Emily had caused his young passenger's capture and deaths.

"Go on", interrupted Tonya, facing Libby. "He took me back to the room with Layla and Sophie. He just pushed their bodies to the side like it was nothing. Then, he.. raped me. He called me Emily the whole time and told me how much he loved me and would never hurt me. It's like he thinks I'm her!", she cried. "Is that where the blood came from?", asked Tonya. "Yes", answered Libby. "Some of it's mine but most of it is Layla and Sophie's." She began weeping all over again.

"I don't believe this!", shouted Derrick. He bent over and picked up a rock he'd found on the floor and with no concern for his wounded shoulder, he hurled it with all his might at the back wall of the basement. To everyone's surprise, the rock went clean through the thin wall, leaving a circle-shaped hole.

They all crowded around the wall to investigate the hole and saw that they could easily break through it if they all worked together. There was a dim light they could see through the hole and Derrick was first to glimpse inside and see what lied on the other side of the wall. "It's full of pictures and jewelry", he said aloud. "It must be Emily", shouted Mr. Clemmons.

"From what I can see..", Derrick began. "he's got a shrine of her in there. He's completely warped!" Just then, they heard a noise from upstairs. It was Logan, hustling to the door of the basement. "He must've heard the rock!", shouted Tonya. "What if he knows it went through the wall?" "She's right", said Libby. "He must have a seperate entrance in there. What if he saw it?", she panicked.

"Quick, get away from the wall and start banging on the other side! Maybe he didn't see it yet and will just think we're panicking, trying to get out!", Derrick said as he heard Logan fumbling with the lock. "How's that supposed to work?", said Tonya. "You got a better idea?", he asked. "He's right. Just do it!", said Natalie. So they all scattered around the room and began banging on other ends of the wall as Logan opened up the basement door.