As soon as Abigail and I were home we ran up to my room and started laughing some more.

"I don't know why I'm finding it so hard to believe that you did that, I mean you've always been the 'don't mess with me or you'll regret it' type of girl, but that was like a whole new level" Abi says looking at me with admiration. "You're pretty much my hero now"

I laugh at that and throw a pillow at Abigail which she catches just before it hits her face. "Shut up you dork, I'm nobody's hero" I say playfully.

"You are now" she states.

I accept the compliment with a small smile this time "whatever. Wanna watch a movie?" I ask

"Do you even have to ask?"

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After an hour and thirty five minutes of Nightmare on Elm Street, I'm so jumpy I swear I'm worse than I was when I saw that masked guy at the library.

"I gotta piss" Abigail announces as she stands up.

"Don't leave me all alone!" I cry out, jumping up.

Abi only laughs "Beth you're being silly. I gotta use the bathroom so unless you want me to pee all over your bed tonight, I'm gonna have to leave. I'll be back in a few minutes" she says before walking off.

I sit down on the bed and take a look around my room feeling no safety what so ever. As my eyes scan the room, they bypass a red masked face staring at me through the window. I whip my head back to the window but nothing's there.

My heart is beating a hundred miles an hour (or at least that's what it feels like) I slowly get under my covers trying not to make a sound, why? Not really sure.

I lay down and after a few moments my heart calms down and my breathing goes back to normal.

My eyes start to droop as I lay in heaven (A.K.A my bed)

Just as I'm about to fall asleep I hear breathing, but it's not coming from me. I open my eyes expecting to see Abigail, but instead I find a guy in a red mask staring down at me, the same guy from the library.

I'm about to scream when the guys hand quickly covers my mouth.

My screams are muffled by the guys hand. I bite down into the hand as hard as I can. As soon as he pulls his hand away I leap up out of bed and run as fast as I can to my door but before I get there he grabs onto my shoulder and yanks me back, smacking me hard across the face. I feel tears spring to my eyes at the searing pain that's coursing through my cheek but I don't have time to worry about it right know.

I slowly ease back up against my bookshelf "what do you want from me?" I ask, my voice cracking from fear. I grab the first thing I feel. Without thinking I throw it as hard as I can at the guy.

It hits the guy lightly in the chest and falls to the ground.

My teeny tiny paperback book sample. Of course.

The guy slowly starts walking towards me, I throw everything I can get my hands on at him, each book hits him but no matter how big or how heavy the book is, the guy never budges, he doesn't even flinch. Soon my whole bookcase is empty and he's right in front of me.

Where is Abigail?!

Adrenaline is pouring through all my veins and somehow I find the courage to actually speak.

"Who are you? What do you want?"

The guy says nothing, he just stares at me. I try to look into his eyes, see if I recognize him but his mask shaded his eyes so that I couldn't see them.

I need to see who it is. I think to myself.

I quickly come up with a plan, I feel around behind my back until I feel a bottle of deodorant. I fling it over to the side, as soon as the guy looks over at it I reach for his mask. I grab onto it but before I can pull it down the guy smacks my hand down and slams me against the mirror next to the bookshelf.

My head jerks back and smashes into the mirror. I hear the glass shatter. My head is aching where it had connected with the glass. I touch the spot and wince at the pain, and look at my hand to see blood nearly covering it.

"Leave me alone!" I scream as loud as I can and muster up all of the strength I have and shove him.

The guy stumbles back a few steps in surprise.

I use this chance to make a run for the door knowing he'll be close behind. I open the door and run out, "ABIGAIL" I scream as loud as I can.

In only seconds Abigail is out the door and standing directly in front of me looking at me with her eyes wide and her eyebrows creased in concern.

"Beth what is it?" She asks, looking around worried.

I look behind me at my room to see the door still shut.

"He's in there" I whisper, utterly terrified.

Her eyes widen impossibly bigger as she looks from me to the door and back at me.

"Who is?" She asks

"The guy from the library" I tell her, tears streaming down my face.

Abi's face drains of any color. "Are-are you sure?" She asks.

"Of course I'm sure!" I wail.

"Okay okay, shit. Uhm what do we do?" she asks, her voice sounding as though she was trying to be calm but she was actually completely horrified.

I just stare at her, words aren't even processing in my mind. I don't know what to do.

"Well come on, lets go call the cops" Abi whispers as she walks toward the kitchen where there's a home phone.

She picks up the phone and dials the number, putting it to her ear, after a moment her face scrunched up in confusion.

"It says that your call has been disconnected" Abigail says, her voice shaking with fear.

"Umm" I search around the house.

"Can't you call on your phone?" I ask

"It's in your room" we both look at each other horror showing clearly on both of our faces.

But we know what we have to do "maybe if we get it really fast and then race back out here we can call the police before he grabs us?" I ask. It's a lame plan but it's the only things we can do.

Abigail nods. Before we walk over to the room, Abigail searches the kitchen until they land on our knives, she picks up the biggest one, me grabbing the next biggest in size before we slowly creep over to the room, Abigail puts a finger to her lips shushing me even though I haven't made a sound.

She slowly opens the door, but after a minute of looking around she slings the door open all of the way.

"Beth you need to come see this"

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