PROLOGUE

"Please get me out of here", Cody cried out. He was locked all alone in a dark and freezing abandoned house.

"How long are you going to keep him inside", Lizzy asked as she rubbed her arms up and down in an effort to warm herself. "He'd freeze to death".

"Look Lizzy, stop being such a spoilsport", Justin said. " We worked real hard getting him here"

"Yeah", Mark agreed in an unpleasant tone. "You make me feel sick".

"You should", Lizzy shot back. "You don't have to be so mean".

"Please", Cody screamed at the top of his lungs and banged the door effortlessly before sliding down the door, sobbing.

"He's only six", she said softly hoping to ease the situation.

"STOP IT", Justin shouted out of rage. "You go home now or ... You could stay with Cody whole night inside".

"Yeaa", Mark agreed. "That sounds more fun to me".

"You freaks", Lizzy cried as she shoved of Mark's hand from her shoulder and ran away to her home. She went straight to her room and bolted the door hardly as she passed it. She dived on her bed without changing and dozed off to sleep.

It was almost three in the morning when she was awakened by a call. She initially mistook it for an alarm she'd usually set to wake early in the morning.

"Who is that", she thought as she realized that it wasn't her alarm buzzing but the phone ringing downstairs. She quickly hurried down the stairs taking two at a time as she didn't want to wake her parents.

"Who could it be", she thought hardly. The first thing that flashed in her mind is Justin and Mark.

"Hello", she said over the phone as she pressed the receiver hard to her ear. But there was no reply as the phone sounded dead.

"Hello", she said again this time loudly. She glazed at the stairs to check for her parents.

She finally gave up and replaced the receiver as she heard nothing.

"Weird", she said mildly and fell on the couch unsure of what to do.

TRRRRIIIIING, the phone rang again.

"Hello", Lizzy answered in an irate tone. "Who's this ?"

"Help me HELP ME PLEASE ", The cries came from the phone and the voice sounded familiar to Lizzy.

"Cody, is that you.." , she asked finally as she ignored all the questions racing in her mind "Where are you ?".

"Please help me getoutaa here", Cody begged furiously over the phone and then it went dead again.

Lizzy dropped the phone in horror as she saw Cody standing in front of the fireplace with his arms stretched in front of him. She was not able to see his face as he faced the fire, warming himself.

"How could you be so mean, Lizzy", Cody said. "You left me there all by myself".

"Liste..Listennn", she stammered. "It was not my fault".

"You helped them", he said suddenly raising his pitch. "Now Cody is gonna have fun with you in return".

"But they didn't listen to me", She argued. "They said they'd keep you there for a minute or so".

Cody didn't say anything. Lizzy sensed something strange and slowly inched towards him.

She stopped and gave a quick glance at the clock hung across the den. It showed little over three.

"Don't tell me they had you till now", Lizzy said staring at the Cody dark outline.

"Im afraid you're wrong", Cody said and spun around instantaneously to face Lizzy.

"OOOOH", Lizzy cried in horror as she saw Cody's face. It was badly bruited, covered with many slashes and blood smicken

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