"Bitch!" He cried out in pain, grabbing the bat as she began to swing again. Terri tried to pull the bat back, she pulled with all of her might, but Andy had it now. "That was a mistake." He told her and pulled out his gun. The girls gasped and all of them leaned back in the corner waiting for the shot to ring out.
"AJ! You have a call!" Tim, their manager told them as the guys lounged around on a break.
"Ok, thanks." He replied as he hopped up and took the phone. "Hello?"
"Mr. McLean?" A deep male voice asked.
"Yes, who is this?" He asked leaning against the soundboard.
"Would you like to talk to Terri?" He asked with sick amusement in his voice. AJ's face immediately sent an urgent message, catching the guys' attention. The next voice AJ heard was Terri's.
"AJ?" She cried.
"I'm here honey, are you alright? Who is it, Andy?" AJ asked with his voice quivering. The guys shot up and gathered around AJ, their faces also filled with fear.
"I'm ok, we are all ok. Yes, I'm so scared, AJ-…" She whimpered.
"Terri?" He asked, but he then heard Andy's voice.
"If you want to see your precious girlfriends again, get the charges dropped against Nancy. Also, get her a car and $950,000. Got it, good bye." He added with a sinister sound to his voice.
"Wait-let me just talk to-…" AJ heard the phone line go dead.
"What's going on Bone?" Kevin asked.
"Andy's got the girls." AJ replied softly as tears filled his eyes, "He wants his girlfriend's charges dropped, a car for her and $950,000." He added, the boiling tears staining his face.
"Oh my God…" Brian muttered, his voice shaking as tears formed in his, as well as everyone else's eyes.
"Tim, we gotta go! It's an emergency. I'll call and explain tonight." Howie called to Tim as the guys rushed out to call and find Shannon.
"What?! Wait guys! You have to-…" They heard Tim yelling as they left. They didn't even bother taking their own cars, instead they piled into Nick's Durango.
"Do you really find this necessary?" Terri asked, all five girls were tied to chairs from the dining room.
"Do you have a better idea?" Andy asked sarcastically.
"Yeah, actually. FUCK OFF!" She yelled. He had already beat her so much, she didn't care what happened from there on. Andy walked over to her.
"Do you want me to kill you?!" Andy yelled right up in her face.
"If you do, or anyone else you won't get the charges dropped, or anything else you want. In fact, did you ever think that the police were just going to let you and Nancy go? They'll just find you guys and you both will be charged. You can't do anything horrible to me, or the others." Terri replied with a disgusted glare.
"You don't think so?" He asked with a grin. He was about 6'2", dark hair, dark eyes, and olive skin. He was attractive physically, but she hated him whole-heartedly.
"She's right you know, about everything. If you do anything that will hurt us fatally, you'll never get what you want, just a jail sentence." Amber told him.
"Maybe that's what you think." He replied, walking over to Becca and Erin. "You two are very pretty…" He told them, touching their cheeks with his hands, they both jerked away. "I bet you'd put up a good fight too." He sneered. He looked at them both for a moment and then untied Becca, "You first." He told her.
"What are you going to do?!" Terri demanded, stressing the boating line he used to tie them up so much her limbs began to throb.
"I think this whole experience should leave a long impression." He announced, dragging Becca out of the room.
"NO!" Becca screamed, knowing that he was going to rape her.
"ANDY STOP IT!" Terri yelled.
"ANDY! BECCA, NO!" The girls yelled, fearful for their friend who was now being dragged up the stairs, her screams ringing out.
"He called your cell phone, or the studio?" Shannon asked in her office, all five guys standing in front of her.
"Studio. He said he wanted Nancy's charges dropped, a car for her, and $950,000." AJ told her.
"Do you know where they are?" Shannon asked, pacing the floor.
"Yes, or I think I do. Jimmy Buffet's house, in Key West. That's where we were hiding them." Brian told her.
"How did he find out?" Nick muttered.
"That doesn't matter right now, what does is that we get the girls out of there safely." Shannon replied. "Do you have the number there?"
RING
"Oh, damn!" Erin sighed. It had been half an hour since Becca had been dragged up their, her screams had stopped twenty minutes ago. They all looked at the phone that was on the counter. Terri began inching her chair towards it, she got within a foot or two of it when it stopped. "Damn it." Erin sighed again. Moments later it began ringing again. Terri again inched towards it until she could hit the speakerphone button with her nose.
"Hello?" Terri answered softly.
"Terri?"
"Nick?" She asked, excitedly.
"Yeah, are you all alright?" He asked.
"Yes!"
"Lexi, I love you!" He said excitedly.
"Love you too." She replied with tears in her eyes.
"Where is Andy?" Nick asked…silence followed, "Hello?"
"Andy is in bed with Becca…" Terri trailed off.
"Oh my God…" Nick muttered, not knowing what he would tell Brian, but decided he better use his time wisely. "Guys, we have police that are ready to come and surround the house, where should they come from?"
"The West End, we are on the East End, he'll never see you coming." Terri replied.
"Where are you?"
"The kitchen." She told him. Footsteps were again heard coming down the stairs. "Andy's coming, we have to go." She told him and immediately shut off the phone, she began inching to where the rest of the girls were, but couldn't reach there in time.
"What are you doing over there?" Andy asked angrily.
"The phone rang and I was trying to get it." Terri replied. Becca was behind him, and he had a hold on her wrist. Her face was stained pink from crying, and her lip and whole body was quivering.
"Uh huh. Well, who's next?" He asked, eyeing everyone.
"I will." Amber replied, trying to protect her friends.
"No! I will." Terri replied, knowing that Amber was still a virgin.
"Me…I'm used to this kind of thing." Lexi whimpered. She had been a stripper, but not a whore.
"No! You don't know, you weren't a whore. I will, I know that is what you want." Terri told Andy.
"I-…"
"No, Erin." Terri told her. Hoping to buy time for the police to get here.
"Fine, if you want me so badly." Andy replied, still smiling as he untied her.
"You wish." Terri sneered and rubbed her wrists once they were free.
"Come on." Andy muttered, grabbing her wrists and dragging her down the hall.
"Terri!" The girls called after her.
"Are you alright?" Erin whispered to Becca, it was a stupid question, but that's all they could think of.
"I'll be ok." She whimpered. "I wish Brian were here." She mumbled, her shoulders shaking as she cried.
"Yeah. I wish all the guys were here." Lexi agreed.
"I can't believe Terri did that…" Amber sighed.
"She's brave." Erin sighed.
"And it didn't even phase her to sacrifice herself for her friends." Amber sighed as tears formed in her eyes, "I hope the guys get here soon."
The girls soon heard a window break, luckily it wasn't very loud because it was the police.
"Are you girls ok?" one of the five officers asked as they were all untied.
"Yes, but there is another one, upstairs with Andy." Lexi told him.
"Alright, you go out the back door and around to the front on the West End. Police officers and five young men are waiting for you." The officer told them. One officer ushered them out while the other four headed quietly upstairs.
"Damn he is stupid." Terri thought to herself. She heard footsteps out in the hall and knew that it was police officers.
"No, you can't escape that way, I have the key." Andy replied and dangled it in front of himself.
"Maybe he's not so stupid." She thought. Andy took a step towards her and she screamed, knowing that would bring in the officers. They pounded against the door to no avail.
"Mr. Stroh, you are surrounded! Please come out with your hands on your head." An officer called in. Andy dashed and tried to grab Terri's arm, but she dodged it, running to the other wall where the window was. Andy turned and smiled.
"You're trapped." He grinned. Terri knew she was and frantically looked around the room. When she saw nothing that could be of use to her she bent her arm and threw her elbow through the window three times, leaving a large hole in the 6'x6' slab of glass. Andy grabbed her arm and pulled her back, putting a gun to her head.
"I'll shoot her!" He yelled, "I'll blow her fucking brain out!" He added. He had her in a headlock now and stood by the window. "Where is Nancy?" He yelled leaning out the window, a single shot rang out and Andy stumbled back in shock. It was stupid on his part to do that. He had been struck by a police officer's bullet as he leaned out. Terri pulled away and leaned against the wall, breathing heavily. Andy looked at her and a sheepish smile spread across. He pointed his gun at her and shot. The police officers broke the door down and took the now empty gun from him and arrested him.
"Take her to the hospital, NOW!" the paramedic yelled as Terri was put on a stretcher, AJ not too far from her. The other girls had returned more or less safely to their boyfriend.
"Is she going to be alright? What happened?" AJ demanded the information from the paramedic.
"She was shot in the shoulder, I don't know if she'll be ok." The paramedic told him as he walked to the girls to see if they were all right.
"Where is she going?" AJ asked, his eyes were filling with tears.
"Island Hospital." The medic replied, "Are you alright?" The medic asked Erin.
"Yes, we have to go." She replied and rushed off after AJ who was climbing into the girls' rental Suburban.
"I'll drive." Kevin told him, taking the keys from him. AJ just nodded and climbed in the back. AJ stared out the window, tears were streaming down his face but he said nothing, finally he broke down moments later.
"It'll be ok, she'll be fine." Amber told him, holding him as he wept.
"It's all my fault, she didn't want to stay here alone, she knew something was going to happen. I should've stayed or let her come…it's all my fault." He sobbed as Amber rocked him back and forth.
"There is no way you could've known…it's not your fault." Nick told him, rubbing his shoulder softly. Brian was in the very back, holding Becca.
"Becca, what happened to you?" He asked her, she was silent and all she did was clutch him tightly.
"Brian…he-he…" She broke down in his arms. He didn't understand at first, but as he rocked her back and forth he realized what she had tried to say and he also began to cry for her, and for himself.
"Oh my God. I love you Becca, I'm so sorry." Brian whispered, trying to keep his composure for her sake. He held her tighter and kissed her cheek as Kevin drove them to the hospital.
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