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at all. Stanley always had a thing for Ann and would do anything to make Ann happy; it wasn’t until recently that Ann started catching on since Stanley was such a shy guy. Later, it was time to turn in for the night. It was a long day and they were all pretty much over it. Sara and Ann went into their tent and got comfortable. Sara looked at Ann and said, “That guy was really weird; what if he was the one that took my bag?” Ann replied with, “Sara, you’re being ridiculous now; how in the world would he see our site, creep into our tent and take just your bag without either of us knowing?” Sara annoyedly said, “I don’t know, but he was super creepy” Ann rolled her eyes, turned around and went to sleep. Sara eventually went to sleep as well. During the night, Ann heard some ruffling around and she shot up to look at Sara. Once her tired eyes locked on Sara, she saw Sara struggling with her mouth taped trying to call for help. Scared, Anne tried to reach for the tape, but suddenly she felt a hot searing pain to the back of her head and, before she knew it, she was out. After some time, Ann woke up and realized Sara was gone. Weakly, she sat up and touched the back of her head, which was now oozing blood. Suddenly she remembered Sara and her mouth taped shut. Ann got to her feet and once the dizziness subsided, she started screaming for Sara while running to Stanley’s tent to start waking up the others. Stanley was already halfway out of bed when she got to his tent since he heard her screaming. He grabbed her and put his hand on the blood coming out of her head asking her if she was OK and what happened. Ann told him she was fine and that someone came in and took Sara and knocked her out. She told him they are running out of time and they need to find her now! At this point all of their friends were out of their tents looking around to see if they could find anything to show the direction she went in. Stanley kept trying to convince Ann to sit down and take a minute, but she refused. In the meantime, Julian shouted, “I SEE SOMETHING!” They all raced over to Julian to see what he saw. As they got over to Julian, they

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