Billie stared at the missing person flyer that seemed to stare back at her. Her best friend Monica had been missing for the past two weeks. She first noticed a week ago when Monica hadn't shown up at school all week, when she asked Monica's parents where she was they said she hadn't been home in a week.

So Billie had taken it upon herself to make missing persons flyers for Monica and hang them up around Santa Carla. She had been hanging up and handing out flyers all day. She was mentally and physically exhausted.

She glanced around and realized it was starting to get dark and that she should head home before it got too dark and her mother worried.

She turned to leave but collided with someone's chest, causing her to drop all of her flyers. She bent down to retrieve them while muttering an apology to the person standing above her, but stopped when she caught sight of the person. It was David, and his gang of bikers.

She grimanced, Maybe if she ignored them they would all just go away? she desperately hoped so, David and his friends were just a bunch of bullies that always hung out on the boardwalk. She had met them briefly before when she moved to Santa Carla about two years ago, after that brief meeting she hoped that she would never have to associate with them again.

She couldn't help but notice how none of them had made a move to help her pick up her flyers, they all just stood there with smug grins on their faces.

Billie straightened up, while adjusting the stack of flyers in her arms before moving past them, but was quickly stopped when David intercepted her, blocking her way. She glared at him and took a step back, she was in no mood for their little games.

"Hey Billie," he started, a smirk playing on his lips

"Move," she said coldly

David grinned and reached over and snatched a flyer from her, and looked it over, the slightest hint of recognition crossed his face.

"Monica Rodriguez," he mocked, "haven't seen her," he said smugly before balling up the flyer and tossing it aside. Anger rose up in Billie as she watched him toss the flyer aside. She marched up to him and punched him square in the nose.

"Fuck you!" she hissed as he staggered backwards, clutching his now bleeding nose. Billie suddenly realized the mistake she had made as David looked up at her, blood dripping down his chin, anger clearly written all over his face.

"Run!" her mind screamed at her as David started advancing on her. She quickly dropped her stack of flyers and dashed passed him, disappearing into a crowd of people. Billie ran swiftly through the crowd of tourists, her chest ached from running but kept going. She didn't dare look back to see if they were chasing her. She knew they probably were.

Billie immediately spotted a payphone, she jogged over to it and put in a few quarters and quickly dialed a number, she waited impatiently as it rang.

"Hello?" a voice said from the other end

Billie was relieved to hear her older brother's voice, "It's Billie, Listen, I need you to come pick me up right now, I'm at the boardwalk."

Daniel must have heard the urgency in his sister's voice, "Why? what did you do?"

Billie sighed dramatically into the phone, "I'll tell you later, please just hurry!"

"Ok, just calm down i'll be there in about ten minutes."

Hey guys! sorry it's been a while since I last updated. I just made a few changes to this chapter and I'm going to make more changes to the other chapters.