Ezra PoV

I heard people screaming my name, asking if I was ok. My legs gave way and I blacked out, terrified at what I just witnessed.

Finally I felt myself coming around, I was in the same place as before- the main school hall in the high school, but this time it was flooded with police, questioning the family's of the four girls (who were here to give a speech for the assembly) and high schoolers that witnessed it. A few teachers were surrounding me asking if I was ok and I nodded and quickly got back up onto my feet looking around the room for my former students. I finally spotted them at the side talking sadly about what they just witnessed.

"Toby, Caleb, I need to speak with you privately." I said urgently gesturing them to come with me.

"Uhh... sure..." they both replied, unsure of what they were needed for.

Once we were safe and no-one could hear us I started talking.

"Please, I've stood watching for too long and need to ask you... can I join your police group to help find Aria and the girls?!"

"Hang on, why do you care about the girls?" Caleb asked him, arms crossed.

I took a deep breath then replied.

"I love Aria, and always will, if she's alive out there somewhere I will help find her."

"Hang on, back up..." Toby replied.

"Me and her met before school started that year, it was an instant click, you know? We tried to break it off a few times, because it was so wrong, but we just found our way back to each other every time." I answered looking to the floor, I bet Toby and Caleb thought I was mad, fainting and sobbing and pleading, but I didn't care, the only thing important was Aria.

2 years later

"Hey Ezra, what's this." Caleb called to me from across the room. Aria has been gone 7 years and for the last 2 years me, Caleb and Toby have been working extremely hard to try and find the girls. We are based in Caleb's apartmaent and have met up practically everyday, although the time we spend searching is gradually getting less and less everyday. We know deep down A has probably already killed them or something, but Toby and Caleb wouldn't believe it, but if I'm honest I quietly wish Aria was dead after everything on the video we watched. I'd want anyone dead and free in the afterlife after what we all witnessed on the video. After it's initial viewing, some insensitive student posted the whole video online, and it was used in every newspaper around the world.

Slowly I got up from the sofa and walked over to Caleb's desk. It was littered with empty, coffee stained cups and sheets upon sheets of papers with no relevant meaning. On the computer screen was footage of a van driving into Smither's Park and then stopping. 3 masked figures dressed in a black hoodie got out and sneaked round the back of the van. As they opened it all three of us gasped in shock as they started balling out an unconscious Aria, tugging her into the park and towards some sort of drain. The date on the video was 7 years ago, was she still there?

Aria PoV

"Joey, what's 29 take away 3?"

"26?"

I nodded at the little boy, I had started trying to teach the 6 year olds maths and English, and was pleasantly surprised at how bright the two were. True to Ezra both children better at English than maths, and are amazingly good readers too (from sentences I wrote for them to read).

In our spare time, of which we had a lot of, the two would write each other small books to read to their siblings.

There was only 5 of us still, but I was pregnant again, a fact at which I was almost dreading. Every child I had, lessened by diet. I hadn't seen Spencer since A sent her back to her room on the day after Toby Caleb Montgomery was born.

"Please follow the lighted pathway, Aria, Emma and Alison Montgomery."

I looked at the four children, too weak to disobey the speaker, but too close to my family to obey. I decided I would go, but I told the two boys to keep hidden in the closet if anyone they didn't know entered the room.

I kissed them both on the head, my youngest and my eldest children, took Emma's hand and picked up Alison

(Hanna-Spencer) Montgomery, before cautiously heading out of the door. As we shut the door waving goodbye to the two kids still in the room I realised this was Emma's and Alison's first time out of the room. As we walked slightly further down the corridor I suddenly felt a sort of pain in my neck and felt dizzy. I collapsed and saw out of the corner of my eye Ali and Em collapsing too before I blacked out.

The next day Toby PoV

I couldn't believe I might finally see Spencer again!

After we discovered the CCTV footage of Aria we immediately called the police. Now we were outside the 'drain' the men took her down in the video, after the police found out it had not been in use for over 10 years.

Me and Officer Tanner had our guns pointed at the drain. Slowly Tanner reached down and unlocked the metal lock (the company had given us the old spare key as the main one had gone missing) pulling open the flap. It revealed a ladder that we hesitantly climbed down, until we reached a strange corridor, with 4 doors leading off it. We walked towards a door with a sign at the top saying '104'.

"Stand back!" I yelled at the door, "It's the police!"

Angrily I knocked the door down sending it toppiling over into the room. A woman was sat in the corner terrified, her eyes were bloodshot and her face quite pale, although she looked of a surprisingly healthy weight. I recognised the woman faintly as Hannah Marin, although she had changed a lot in the past 7 years.

"T...Toby..." She exclaimed, "no... you can't be real... this must be another one of my visions or voices."

"No Hannah Marin, this is real, your being rescued," Tanner turned to one of the officers behind her, "call an ambulance and look after Hannah. Toby, you come with me to the next room."

Me and Tanner left Hannah's room and entered room 103. We found a much skinnier Emily than Hannah who was lying on the bed asleep. Tanner sent a different officer to wake and tend to Emily as we advanced to the next room.

As we knocked down the door to the room and looked around I saw her. Spencer. Immediately I sprinted over to her and hugged her frightfully tiny frame. Weakly she looked up at me in a state of surprise.

"Toby?" She whimpered. All I could do was nod.

"Spence, how bad have they treated you? Are you hurt?" I asked, terrified of the answer.

"Not as bad as Aria... you should have seen her." Spencer replied.

"We did... A leaked a video of the two of you talking. It was terrible, about 2 years ago."

"That was the last, and only time I've seen her too." Spencer cried horrified and scared for her friend.

Tanner then called me from the last door. I told Spencer we'd be back, after we rescued Aria before heading toward room 101.

Routinely we pushed the door down and looked around for Aria. She wasn't there.

Me and Tanner looked at each other and then cautiously advanced into the abandoned room. Suddenly there was a clatter from the cupboard and a hiss of high pitch voices.

"Joey, shouldn't we go out? It's been ages!"

"Mommy said not to go out to anyone we don't know, and we only know Mommy, Alison, Emma and Auntie Spencer. We have to wait till Mommy comes back, Toby."

I was shocked when I heard the little boy say my name.

"It's the police, we're here to rescue you. We can get Spencer if you want her, all you have to do is tell us where your Mommy is." Tanner called out to the children.

Minutes later Spencer was in front of the wardrobe, calling out to the boys.

Spencer PoV

"Joey, Toby, it's Auntie Spencer, please come out, we need to find Aria."

Slowly the door opened, and a young skinny boy, about six years old came out, followed by another frail boy, who looked much younger. The older boy was trying to stay brave, whilst the younger one was staying silent.

"Where did you go?" The boy said with his arms folded.

"I got locked away back in my room, I promise I would have come back if I could have." I replied, bending down to reach his eye level.

"Mommy didn't cry for a few days after you left, she likes you." He still had his arms crossed.

"Please Joey, we need to know where your sisters and Mommy is." I asked him kindly.

"They left yesterday, the speaker told them to go. Mommy always does what the speaker says, because once the masked man cut Ali."