Leslie, Cassie, Mike, Steve, and AJ drive down the road drunk. Steve is at the wheel while the rest are in the back of the car. They see a car in front of them. Mikes says, “ Come on man they are going to slow nudge them.” “Come on you can do it Steve.” Steve says, “ Yeah ok man.” Steve slams down on the pedal. The car speeds up at an alarming rate. They slow up and then speed up again only this time Steve looses control of the car and they hit the back of the other car. The other car smashes right through the guard rail and tumbles down the side of the cliff. The driver is crunched between the dashboard and seat the passenger rolls out. The passenger slowly limps up the hill with cuts on his face and legs. Just as he gets to the top of the hill the car explodes into flames, and the passenger hears the pain filled screech of the driver burning, now filled with rage the passenger looks at the car of drunks driving not even slowing to check on the person they have killed. The girls get worried and plead to the guys to stop. Cassie pleads, “ Steve please stop the car we could have killed them.” Steve answers back. “ Who cares we don’t know them, I’m sure they are fine.” A year later on a dark road Mike and Steve speed to the store to get beer. With the radio blaring ‘ N Sync music they drive. They sing loudly until the car swerves and they hear a pop. Mike gets out to see what happened. A kitchen knife is stuck into the tire. Mike mumbles, “ What the, hey Steve come look at this.” “Steve” “ Come on man what are you deaf” Mike goes and looks into the window and sees Steve’s door open, and blood smeared all over on the inside. Mike slowly walks over to the passenger side calling Steve’s name. When Mike sees what’s left of Steve spread all over the ground he wants to throw up. He looks up and down the street with a worried look on his face. He hears a rustle and a shadow figure grabs him into the bushes. The figure looks up and sees a girl standing there. She screams and makes a dash for her car. The shadow starts chasing after the girl. The girl try’s to run but her shoes keep tripping her. She finally makes it to the car and starts it up. The shadow figure is no where in site. Cassie, Manda, and Leslie now room mates sit on the front porch. Manda goes in to turn up the radio. Cassie and Leslie hear a car come screeching down the road. Leslie asks, “ Is that Jolene’s car?” Cassie answers back, “ Yeah I think it is.” The car comes screeching by at full speed, and turns the corner. Cass and Leslie both say, “ Crazy Jolene.” Jolene slows the car up a little to a normal speed. Jolene looks in the mirror to fix her hair. As she looks she sees the figure with the ax in the backseat. The ax crashes through the driver’s side window. Cass on another subject, “ He’s so fine isn’t he?” is interrupted by a crashing sound and a car horn. They run and see Jolene’s car smashed into a tree. As they approach the car they see written in blood “ Don’t you wonder where Steve and Mike are?” Cass looks at Leslie with a worried look on her face. Leslie slowly opens the car door and the body of Jolene falls onto her feet. Leslie and Cass scream their heads off just as Manda comes running down the street. They run to the house to call the cops. The sounds of police cars blare through the quiet neighborhood. When they get there all they see is an empty car. The blood all gone and the body of poor Jolene was also gone. The police searched all over but found nothing. They looked at the broken window, which suggested that the car had been broken into. Cass and Leslie walk back terrified to the house. Cass still worried about the note on the window calls Mike’s house. No one picks up. She looks up in tears at the calendar. The date shows August 8th she screams. Leslie and Manda run in the room. She screams to Leslie, “It’s been a year since the car...., you know what I am talking about.” Leslie and Cass break into tears. Manda confused, “Come on guys fill me in.” They sit and fill her in. It takes a good hour to tell her the story. Manda sits in disbelief, “ So you guys are telling me you hit some people so now they are trying to kill you and anybody else who was in the car?” Cass answers, “ Yes it’s been a year since we rammed the car off the road.” Leslie sits and then screams. Cass and Manda both say, “ What’s wrong.” Leslie in tears screams, “ AJ was in the car too.” She runs out the door and drives off. They get in Cassie’s car to follow her. She pulls into AJ’s driveway. She runs in the house and screams, “ AJ!, AJ!” there was no answer. She runs into his room and looks, he is lying on his bed. Leslie screams, “He’s dead!”. She goes and shakes him. He sleepily wakes up. Leslie with tears of happiness gives AJ a big bear hug. Cass says, “ Not to ruin this Kodak moment, but the murderer could be hear any minute.” They all pile into AJ’s car and drive down the street. Manda with an alarmed tone says, “Guys that car has been following us since we left.” They all look at the forest green car approaching the rear end of AJ’s truck. Cassie with an alarmed tone screams, “ Step on the gas AJ!” The car speeds a head, when it swerves off the road into the woods. They wait in complete silence for a few moments. Then AJ says, “ I really have to go pee.” Cass, Leslie, and Manda just look in disbelief. He states, “ I don’t see the car so I should be safe, and beside I am buff and can take care of myself.” He opens the car door and slams it shut and goes into the woods. The girls sit in the car looking around for the forest green car. When out of no where a shadow jumps on the hood of the car. The girls scream as loud as their lungs will let them. The shadow climbs onto the roof of the car. The persons feet bang and thrash up above them then it stops. They just here a tiny sound of scraping feet. Then Leslie hears AJ manage to say, “ Leslie don’t start the car!” No one else heard him so Manda in fear jumps up and slams her foot on the gas. With that the car fly’s forward and AJ’s body goes in the tree. When Manda takes her foot off the gas the car goes flying back into the tree. AJ’s body comes flying down onto the windshield and right onto Leslie’s lap. Leslie screams, “NO! Not AJ!” Then with a look of hate in her eye she looks over to Manda and says, “ You did this to him it was you who stepped on the gas and drove him up into the tree.” That’s when Cass pushes them out of the car and they make a run for it. They run until they make it to the police station. The officer sitting behind the desk doesn’t believe the story. “ I know the AJ McLean he parties all night he is probably at a party not dead.” They walk home and Leslie goes right to sleep. Manda asks, “Wont the killer come after you since you were in the car?” Cass screams to Leslie there is no answer. They run upstairs and Leslie is sitting on her bed looking at a picture of AJ. She says, “ Tomorrow was our one year anniversary.” Cass goes over and sits on the bed with Leslie. The phone rings it is Cassie’s friend Nick. He asks, “ I called you guys but you weren’t home, so I called AJ’s house and he’s not home either.” Cass tells Nick about the car and about AJ. Nick says, “ You guys cant stay home alone I’ll be over in a second ok.” They hang up and Cass sits and thinks about how sweet he is. Manda sees the way Cass looks and says, “ I think someone has a crush.” Cass playfully pushes Manda away. The door knocks loudly and they open it. Nick walks in and plops down on the couch. They lock the door and say they are going to sleep. Nick says, “I’ll sleep down here.” Cass and Nick look at each other and smile. Manda just looks and laughs at the way the flirt. They wake up the next morning and have a great ideal. They tell Nick maybe we should go to the library and look up the crash. They all get into Leslie’s car. They get out and walk in the library Cass and Nick stay near the back. They find some newspapers from last year. In the paper they read what’s left of the Jackie Littrell’s car was found last night. Her son Brian was also in the car. The car they were driving was rammed off the road and burned with both in the car. They all sit in shock and think about what happened. Cass looks the name Littrell up in the phone book. They go to Harold Littrell’s house. Harold Littrell answers the door. Manda steps forward and asks, “ Are you Harold Littrell father of Brian Littrell?” He answers, “ Yes why my son was killed last year.” Leslie says, “ We are doing a report on the accident and would like to ask you a few questions.” He lets them in. They walk in and see all the pictures of Brian. Harold sees them looking at them. He says with a smile, “Brian would be 24 this year. He was going to be a singer or play basketball.” Leslie says, “ I’m sorry about your sons death.” Then Cassie adds, “ Man was he cute or what?” Then she looks and sees everyone looking at her. She just looks down at the ground. Harold sits down on the couch and asks, “ Now what do you want to know?” Nick asks, “ Was there anyone else in the car?” Harold answers, “ No it was my son and wife and that’s all.” They gang looked wondering if he was lying. They sat until they said maybe we should pick a new project. We are sorry to waste your time. Harold gets up and says, “ I hope the people who did this to my son pay.” Nick thinks about that and wonders why he said that. On the way home Cass just starts to cry. They all ask what’s wrong she says, “ Do you see what we did to that mans life?” They sit in silence all the way home. They all decide to go out to dinner. Manda says, “ You guys I really don’t feel like going you guys go and I’ll stay.” Nick says, “ Don’t you think you will be safer with us?” Manda just looks at him. Nick says, “Fine I just lock the doors ok?” Manda smiles and shuts the door. At dinner they all forget the worries and have a great time. Manda goes up stairs to take a shower. As she is in the shower the water burns her. She thinks how strange there is no one else in the house. That’s when panic hits her like an icy cool breeze. She gets out of the shower and slips. She comes to and realizes she is lying in a pool of blood. She looks up and screams at AJ’s body hanging above her. She sees a note pinned on him that says, “ Don’t hang around to long Manda.” She screams then her scream is muffled by a hand. The last thing she knows is seeing the ground fly from underneath her. They all pull into the driveway singing and laughing. They notice all the lights in the house were off. Nick asks, “ Would Manda shut all the light off?” Cass answers back, “Well if she is sleeping then she would.” Nick just shrugs and they walk in. In the middle of the night Nick wakes up and thinks its so nice why don’t I sleep in the hammock? He goes and lies down. Some thing wet drips on his face. Nick says, “ Oh man why does it have to rain.” That’s when something heavy falls on him. He looks s and its Manda’s body. Nicks just screams and stares in horror. Cass comes running out first. Nick is trapped under the body of Manda. Cass screams and pushes the body off of Nick. They both just sit in shock. That’s when Nick manages to say the words I knew Brian. Cass sits and then says, “ Why didn’t you tell me?” “Well because I didn’t think it was him.” We use to go to school with each other.” “The only thing he use to say was how Y’all doing.” Cass and Nick just sit there. Then Nick says, “ Maybe the killer is still around.” That’s when he says, “ Leslie is in the house all alone.” Cass screams and pushes Nick. She runs into the house and up to Leslie’s room. She rolls over and smiles saying, “ What’s up guys?” They told her about Manda. “She had nothing to do with this though,” Leslie states. That’s when they hear footsteps downstairs. Nick tells the girls to say there. Cass smiles and says, “ He is so brave.” They hear muffled screams and then Nick calls, “ Cass, Leslie come here.” They run downstairs to see three year old Delvon standing there holding his New York Yankees hat in his hands. Nick asks, “ Do you know this little kid.” Cass runs and picks Del up in her arms. She says, “ This is my little buddy.” Del says, “ I’m sorry to scare you.” “ I heard screaming and so I came to check on my girls.” They all laugh and smile at how cute he is. Nick sees Cass looking at Del and becomes jealouse. He says, “ Doesn’t he have a family.” Cass just gives Nick a dirty look and says, “He was given up because his mom was a drug addict.” Delvon looks at his little Jordan sneakers as if he is embarrassed. Nick smiles and says, “ Don’t worry little guy I know Cass will adopt you when she finds the right guy.” Cass looks and gives Nick a huge smile. Del looks up and asks, “ Really will you adopt me?” Cass looks at him and says, “ Yeah I would love to call you my son.” With that Del jumps down and raises the roof. That’s when Nick and Cass realize that they don’t hear or see Leslie anywhere. They call out here name but she doesn’t talk back. Nick looks at Cass and says, “Stay here and watch Del I’ll go find her.” With that Nick walks off into the pitch black dark. Cass sits there with Del’s tiny hand in hers. Nick comes back and in and trips. He says, “I found her… well part of her.” Cass just sits there. Nick turns to sit down and Del says, “ Ha ha you have paper on your back.” Cass gets up and reads what’s on Nick’s back. How y’all doing I got your friends but I haven’t got you, well not yet anyway. Cass just breaks down and cries. Nick says wait there's more. See ya Kaos love BTL. Brian always called me Kaos he said and those are his initials. They all think all night but cant come up with anything. Half through the night they hear something upstairs Nick slowly walks up the creaky stairs. When he reaches the top he is pushed back down them landing on the ground with a hard thump. They wake up and the warm sun hits their face. Nick thinks it s all a dream. Then really hits him that his friends are dead. The day is becomes rainy and they cant leave the house. They hear something upstairs and they go to have a look. Nick walks into a room that has no lights on. 5 years later Nick and Cass are married and Del is their son. Nick and Del brush their teeth in the bathroom. Cass sits on the bed and smiles at the sound of them laughing in the bathroom. That’s when the laughing stops and she calls out, “Nick?” She gets up to go check the bathroom and walks by a dark room. A hand grabs her and muffles her scream. That’s when in her ear she hears a slow southern accent, “ How y’all doing?”