"Justin....I thought we said we wanted to talk," she complained as she flew open the door. All of a sudden she was grabbed by someone who pulled her back in the room. A gasp escaped her lips as a switch blade was flipped up right in front of her. I was watching this all happen right in front of my eyes. For the first time I recognized who the mystery man was.

"Jeremy...what are you doing?" I managed to squeak out as he brought the blade to her throat.

"You hurt me and now I'm going to hurt you," he tormented. A single tear fell down Emily's cheek.

"Why do I always get picked on?" she whispered to herself.

"Shut up! Don't say another word." he rasped. Emily clamped her mouth shut. "Now come with me Deanna or Emily will pay." I slowly walked towards him. I was so scared. But I was only thinking about Emily right now. I didn't want to see her get hurt. The tears were flowing freely down both of our faces. He let go of Emily, grabbed my arm and held the blade to my throat pressing me tight against his body. He scrabbled backwards out of the door not letting Emily out of his sight with the blade still at me. Emily stayed frozen in her place as she watched the two of us disappear with the fear in my eyes that we desperately needed help.

As soon as we were out in the hall, Emily ran for the phone and dialed the hotel that Justin was staying at. It rang a couple of times as tears streamed down her face with silence in the room. Come on Justin...pick up...please.. By this time Emily was sobbing. Finally after the fourth ring Justin picked up.

"Hello?" he uttered into the phone.

"Justin....Deanna........Jeremy.........Knife...." she sobbed. That was all she could get out before bursting into tears again.

"Wait? What happened? A knife? Emily!!!!!" Justin screamed starting to panic. Before Emily could respond Jeremy burst through the door.

"On second thought I'm taking you with me. I knew you were going to call someone!" Jeremy hollered. Emily screamed as he grabbed her arm.

"JUSTINNNNNNN!!!!!!!!" Emily shrieked into the phone before Jeremy pulled her away forcing her to drop the phone. He got her into the hall and joined Deanna. The phone sat there, dangling off the side of the counter with the voice of Justin screaming Emily's name.

In Hallie and Hollis's Dorm

"JUSTINNNNNNN!!!!!!!!" someone screamed.

"What was that?" Hallie asked with demand in her voice.

"Oh my gosh! I can't listen to that!" Hollis screeched. They put a cd in and turned it up full blast.

In the Hotel Room

"EMILY!!!! No!!" Justin yelled into the phone. "SHIT!!" This isn't happening. He tried to assure himself knowing the truth. JC came out of the bathroom whistling happily until he saw Justin pacing around the room.

"What's wrong?" JC wondered once he saw the tear falling down Justin's face. He got a bad feeling in the pit of his stomach. " Dude, what's your problem?" He asked again when he didn't get a reply. Justin had his head low with his thumb nail in his mouth as he walked back and forth until JC stood in front of him to put him at a halt. JC fiercely reached out his hands and grabbed Justin's shoulders as he shook him to grab his attention. They looked at each other in the eyes and without Justin speaking a word, from the doleful crystal tears that filled his baby blue eyes that ran sweetly down his soft, smooth, perfect (enough Emily!) cheek.

" I don't know what exactly happened, something with Deanna and Jeremy and a knife then I heard a man's voice and there was silence on the phone," he sobbed as JC sat him on the bed.

Once the word ‘Jeremy' hit JC's ears he popped up from the bed and started heading for the door.

"Where are you going?" Justin choked out through his now congested nose.

" To the dorm to see what the hell is up," he snapped with anger at the thought of what Jeremy could be doing to them at this moment. Justin scrambled up to catch up with JC and locked the door. He skipped down the hall and caught up with JC as they paced themselves down to the parking lot.

JC punched the gas as they rode to the dorm. He had this strange feeling of deja vou. The only difference was instead of running from Deanna he was running to her. Why was this happening? They had finally worked everything out.

Justin was lost in his own train of thought. All he could think about was Emily and her words. She mentioned a knife. Just the thought of what could have happened made him shudder. More tears fell down his face as he thought more and more about it. He glanced over at JC who was concentrating on the road. He seemed as if this wasn't affecting him at all. How could he control himself? Justin didn't know and didn't care as the tears kept coming.

They finally made their way to the dorm and saw the door wide open. They ran in the room to find the phone off the hook. JC hung up the phone and looked around the room. On the floor were the 2 roses they had brought over earlier. He picked them up and sat on the bed. He brought them to his chest as the tears welled up in his eyes. He quickly brushed them away before they fell down his cheek.

Justin went across the room to where he heard loud music bursting and knocked on Hollis and Hallie's room. He hit the back of his knuckles hard against the firm wood. Hallie answered the door to see Justin standing there with a worried look on his face.

" Oh, your done!" she shouted with a smile as she waved her hand behind her to direct Chris to turn down the music.

" Done with what?" Justin asked confused. " Jeremy was here and there was screaming and we don't know where he took the two girls. Did you hear anything?"

" Oh! So that's what the screaming was about! We thought... well... never mind that. Yeah, we heard it," she replied as she gasped at the thought. She placed her hand over her mouth and then whispered," you don't think he...."

" Killed them?" he finished their sentence as Joey, and Lance gathered around the door.

" Who's Jeremy?" Lance and Joey broke in as Justin winced up at them and Hollis turned her head.

" A murderer!!!!!" Justin wailed as he grabbed Hollis's arm and everyone else followed. They went back into the our dorm where JC was holding a pillow and sobbing uncontrollably. He looked up with red eyes. We all stayed silent as our eyes traveled from one person to the next.