Matt’s P.O.V
While we left James to sleep back at the house the rest of us rushed over to Brian’s place where Sarah was apparently keeping him and Erin. I’d sent Zack a text to let him know that we were gonna need his help and that Erin was I trouble, I knew that no matter what he had against her right now wouldn’t change the fact that he cared about her.

“Sarah!” Hannah yelled as she pounded on the front door of Brian’s house, we’d gotten here and the door was locked “Open the fucking door!” She was scared, we could all see that she was scared for Erin and Brian, but she was angry too, angry that everyone’s night had been ruined, that our friends were in danger and angry that she couldn’t do anything.

“I’m sorry, what can I do for you?” Sarah asked, opening the door slightly.

“Let us in,” Hannah demanded through gritted teeth “What the fuck are you doing to them in there?” Before Sarah answered there was screaming and yelling from inside.

“HANNAH!” Erin screamed with terror in her voice.
Sarah moved to shut the door but Hannah put her hand in to block it, Sarah stopped, pulled the door opened, smiled sickly at Hannah and then slammed it full force on her hand causing Hannah to roar out in agony.

“You fucking bitch!” She roared, lifting her leg and kicking the door open.

What we could see in the house when we walked in was that it was empty, Erin and Brian were nowhere to be seen.

“Where the fuck are they?” Jimmy asked, grabbing Sarah by the hair and dragging her through the house, he started to walk up the stairs when she spoke.

“You’re getting colder,” She sang. Jimmy turned around and headed back through the house and towards the door that would lead down to Brian’s basement “Warmer,” Jimmy threw the door open to the basement and threw her down the steps “Bingo,” She groaned once we heard her hit the bottom.

“What happened?” Hannah asked, joining Jimmy, Johnny and I at the top of the stairs, she had come from Brian’s kitchen and found his first aid kit, she had wrapped up her hand tightly

“Nice one,” She smirked seeing Sarah shift onto all fours, with difficulty, of course.

She walked down the stairs without a second thought, kicking Sarah in the stomach on her way past and sending her back down to the floor on her face.

“Erin!” She beamed, running across the room where she and Brian were tied to two of his kitchen chairs, how had I not noticed those were missing? Oh, and they were in their underwear.
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Hannah’s P.O.V
I untied Erin while Jimmy untied Brian, I saw the smirk on his face as he untied his half naked best friend, Erin was smirking at me though, I just gave her a look and a slight chuckle escaped my lips.

“At least I have you all here,” Sarah spoke, we all turned to look at her as she hobbled towards us, one hand holding her now bruising stomach while she wiped blood off of her lip “I can take you all down… together, it’ll be touching, romantic… an accident?”

“What the fuck are you going to do?” Erin tested. Sarah limped over to the corner and picked up a gasoline tank and smiled wickedly.

“Why… I’m going to burn you all alive,”
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Sarah had poured the gasoline all over the basement but instead of keeping us down there she backed us all up the stairs, nobody was going to test her when she was this dangerous. Erin was right, she was fucking psychotic.

“Who wants to go first?” She asked, unscrewing the cap again and walking past all of us “I would want to ruin this pretty little face of yours,” She smiled, rubbing Erin’s cheek “You got everything, didn’t you? Even the family looks,”

“What are you talking about?” Erin asked, calmly, trying to diffuse the situation.

“I don’t look anything like mom or dad but you look exactly like both of them, I know I’m not adopted, but I mean come on, who could resist a little doubt when only one daughter got everything they left behind?,” It was a rhetorical question so Erin didn’t answer.

“Please don’t do this,” I said quietly, for whatever reason, I knew something was going to happen, that being the tough badass I had learned to be wasn’t going to work out so well this time, we needed to give her what she wanted, we needed to beg on our knees, plead with her to grant us mercy and not burn us at the fuckin stake.

“You think begging me is going to make a difference?!” She yelled “Because it isn’t! You’re all sad and pathetic and someone needs to take you down,” She walked over to me, backhanded me as hard as she physically could and sent me to the floor before warning everyone not to help me, she crouched down to my level and grabbed my hair, forcing me to look at her “I have worked your whole life to make you miserable, your failing friendships and dodgy relationships? That wasn’t all for nothing you know, I wanted you to suffer, so I would be doing the humane thing and putting you out of your misery,” I gathered everything I could and spat in her face. She didn’t hit me, yell, nothing… she just wiped her face clean and stood up while I pulled myself to my feet.

“You’re pathetic, Sarah,” Matt said, finally, he found the balls to speak.

“And you’re not?” She spat back “You couldn’t just approach the girl of your dreams like a normal asshole, you had to stalk her and then ‘crash into her’ to even get her to notice you,”

“I noticed him way-“

“You were obsessed with the guy you thought he might be, the rock star and the excitement of it all!” She yelled, cutting me off.

Nobody said anything, we didn’t even look at each other until it was with terror when Sarah started filling the room, the living room, with gasoline and talking to herself. For working for the government she was pretty unhinged.

“Sarah-“ Johnny spoke but she cut him off with a loud scream which made us all flinch and cover our ears.

“I… am taking you all down… on my own and if that makes me crazy… then… so be it,” She threw the container across the room, I don’t think any of us believed that she was going to do anything so we stayed rooted to the spot, if we showed fear she would have what she wanted, so I take back my earlier statement, we need to fight against her, we stood out ground as though we were telling each other to do so inside our heads. Until she pulled a zippo lighter from her pocket. Of course, it had to be a zippo lighter.

“Get out,” Matt said between clenched teeth, reaching out and squeezing my hand briefly before letting go “Now,”

“Too late for that Mattie,” Sarah cooed “You’re all going to be…” She tapped her finger on her chin and looked at the ceiling before back at us and smiling “Sunday roast,” She flipped open the lighter and threw it to the ground. Completely engulfing the room in flames.
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Matt’s P.O.V
The house has been in flames for almost ten minutes and I had been separated from Hannah, none of us were stupid and I’m sure the girls knew how to get out of a fire, or at least how to protect themselves in one. They teach you all of that at school, don’t they?

Where the fuck was Zack? He was probably so pissed off from this morning’s events that he locked himself in his house, got hammered and passed out while his friends burned alive in Brian’s house. If anyone was hurt tonight because of this fucking fire, I was going to beat his ass for it.

“Matt?” Brian called out before a coughing fit racked his body.

“Over here!” I called back. I’d made my way from the living room into the kitchen and then into the pantry.

“Let me in!” He yelled, pounding on the pantry door, I opened the door a crack and he collapsed inside, holding his stomach and coughing violently “We… we need to get… the girls,”

“I know,” I agreed “Where did they go?” I asked, pressing my hand to the door handle to check the fire hadn’t spread into the kitchen.

“I think I heard them climbing the stairs,” He said, taking a few deep breaths, coughing again and then he opened his mouth to speak, but he closed it again when he heard sirens outside.
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The fire was out, the house was almost completely down and Sarah, Erin and Hannah were nowhere to be seen.

“Sir, are you sure she was inside the house?” One of the fire men asked, walking back out of the remains of Brian’s house.

“Yes!” I yelled “For the last fucking time, there was no way anybody got out of that on their own,” It was true, the guys and I didn’t get out until they got there.

I was doing my best to ignore the nosy neighbours and the reporters standing in the street with us, and it was working, I tuned them out and thought only of Hannah, the most important thing in my life, I’d broken my promise to her mother about keeping her safe, what if I’d lost her? What if she was gone forever? As the tears started to roll down my face and I started to shake with silent sobs I heard her.

“Please!” It was quiet, but it was her “WE’RE OVER HERE!” That was louder, there she is, my girl, my strong girl.

“Do you hear that?” I asked the fire men “THAT’S HER!” I yelled, grabbing Brian and running in the direction of his back yard where the screaming was coming from.

When we rounded the remains of the house and found Hannah and Erin, they were in the back yard, in the pool to be exact. Shaking with terror and holding each other, their faces, hair and clothes covered in black soot from the smoke, but they were there, alive and from what we could see… healthy.

Notes

BUUUUURN!!
Where is Sarah? Did she make it out alive? Or dead?
Stay tuned for more from E!!

- LMV x