Beware of Spam!

Chapter 1
Prologue

It had all started with a rumor.

Actually, that wasn’t entirely true. It had official started because of one person: Catherine Gordon, also known as Cathy or Catti to her friends. Cathy was the resident “popular girl” at her high school, the girl that every guy would love to have and every girl would kill to be. They way she walked down the halls, her red hair bouncing behind her with every step as if to tempt anyone in sight. She was the best thing in this school, and everyone knew it, including herself.

Another thing that was common knowledge was that Cathy was the school’s...uh how can I put this delicately...resident “call-girl”. You see someone; chances are she’s slept with them. That jock in gym trying to work on his biceps every period? Slept with. The student council president? Yep. Even that nerdy and sweaty guy who could calculate pie to a millionth place off the top of his head? Surprisingly, even he got a chance at the booty. It had even been said that she had started to sleep with some of the female students, the non-lesbian ones!

But it wasn’t till the start of her senior year, that things started to get strange. Stranger than usual. Now, Cathy wasn’t one for schoolwork. She would maybe spend about 15 minutes tops on an assignment or paper, then hand in whatever she had. You wanna know what she got on a 1500 word essay paper, despite the fact that she turned in not even a page of writing?

A+. No joke. Not only on that, but on everything she ever worked on! Papers, tests, even on an assignment that looked like it had been made by a 3rd grader! Every single one of them would have a bright red A+ staring back at her when she got it back. Everyone was shocked, to say the least. There were many theories to where these magical A+’s were coming from. Some thought that maybe her father, who was the stereotypical millionaire tycoon with a spoiled princess, had bribed the school, paying them a large sum of money to ensure that his daughter would always get straight A’s. An opposite theory to that was that she had somehow discovered some dirt on the school board, and had threatened to reveal it if they didn’t follow her demands. One more radical theory was that Cathy was a space alien from mars, and that she’d brainwashed the teachers into give her great marks!

Yeah...no one listened to the resident alien nut job. Whatever the reason, Cathy continued to get perfect marks straight through the first semester. When the second semester rolled around though, things suddenly changed. Why is this you ask?

Catti suddenly disappeared. One day she just, POOF, up and vanished into thin air. Her parents were panicked beyond belief. They called in everyone: police, FBI, National Guard, everyone you could possibly think of! Neighbors were questioned, schoolmates, even Catti’s ex-boyfriends (and believe me, that alone was a long list.). All they ever found out was the same story: she had left home one day and hadn’t been seen since. A nationwide search began, lasting for over a month. Her father did everything he could think of, even posting a reward of a half-million dollars for her safe return! But, nothing turned up. No body, no evidence, not even a call from kidnappers. It was like she had just...vanished off the face of the earth.

Then, about halfway through the second semester, several senior girls started to disappear. They just didn’t come to school one day, didn’t answer their phones or even reply to their MSN or Facebook! When one asked either their parents or the authorities, they always got the same BS of “School Transfer”, “Wasn’t feeling well” or “Had moved.” For some, that last one was true. Some families did just suddenly get up and move away, without any explanation or reason.

THAT was when the rumors had started. One such story was that the person who had kidnapped Cathy was still at large and hunting more girls, while another said that it was some kind of government epidemic, while both said that the police were obviously hiding information to avoid a mass panic. Whatever the case, girls continued to disappear at a steady rate. At least half the student body were freaked out of their minds, claiming that they were next. One girl had even went as far as to commit suicide, saying in her final letter that “She couldn’t take it any more” that “They were coming for her” and “They’ll never get me!!”.

But a few still lived like they didn’t have a care in the world. One of these girls was Samantha Cougar, Sammy for short. She was the head of the Cheerleading squad and had been the second prettiest girl in school next to Cathy. With Cathy gone though, she had taking no time in usurping the throne of popularity in her school. At the moment, all she had to worry about was the upcoming cheerleader, not some random thing as girls disappearing. Less competition for her anyway.

As she made her way to the football field for practice, Sammy had no idea what was about to befall her. For soon, very soon, Sammy would fallow in her schoolmates fates.

As the next victim.