The final 48 hours

Prolougue ~ not over

Six months after the events of those fateful 48 hours they are all at Corey and rowans gushing over their new baby, Rowan having given birth to a beautiful baby boy named Rivers a few weeks before, a little before she was due but everyone was fine and they were home safe and healthy, Dove & Ryan and Peyton & Sabrina had all tied the knot, Dove was now off the anti-depressants and doing well, Sarah was also newly pregnant about a month before and they were expecting a little baby girl, everything was going well and all was as close to forgotten as something like that could be, until when they were just about to sit down to watch a movie all of their phones went off with a new text from a blocked ID, the looked at the text before looking up at each other
The text read:
"So you thought you got rid of me did you? Well I've got news for you, I'm not as dead as you thought I was, I'm back bitches and I'm coming for ya, you won't be ready for me, and this time I won't lose ~ A"

And now

"What the fuck!" Peyton M cries out in anger and disbelief
"This must just be some seriously fucked up joke" Ryan suggested, equally angry
"But no one ever knew, we never told, this can't be a joke" Sarah pointed out as Rowan ran out the room
"Where's she going?" Chloe asks confused
"Rivers!" Corey mumble yells as he runs out after her, A wouldn't.....would he?
Corey reached the nursery to find Rowan with Rivers safely in hand and let's out a huge sigh of relief
"Hey there little buddy, are interrupting your sleep? Sorry about that sweetheart, can we have a little nap downstairs? Okay" he gently guides a shaky Rowan back down to the living room, the others, who had come to make sure everything was alright or comfort them had it not been, followed them, at which point they received another text
"How little do you think of me? Taking poor defenceless Rivers? I would never, I would however leave a little clue with him, didn't you realise you left someone behind when you escaped Bradley's stupid excuse for a place to keep you girls, did you never hear the screams? I mean after this whole year where no ones come to find her she's given up screaming a little, her boyfriend wasn't as well behaved as the rest of you guys, he called the police so no more messages from me she just got abandoned to me where she has spent the last year of her life, Bradley's idioticness got him killed, I unfortunately am not quite as stupid, oh yes little ones, Bradley was not A, he was just another pawn in my little game as are all of you but pawn or not and stupid or not I did become rather fond of Bradley and you ended that fondness so now you darling little friend has 48 hours to be found just as you did but this time I'm in charge of the outcome not Bradley, he played with people but I play with bodies so she will be killed at the stroke of midnight two days from today, your clock starts at midnight tonight, no cheating, I'll know, as George Orwell said in the famous 1984 someone's always watching ~ the real A"
"What does it mean 'the real A', so it's not Bradley? He really is dead?" Sabrina asks
"I guess so, or maybe he just wants us to think that" Peyton C answers/states
"He's not that smart" Sarah replies
They all contemplate Sarah's words for a second and then find themselves asking in unison
"But then who is?"