"Allen! Allen open the door! How many times do I have to tell you not to lock the door?" Kelsey said angrily. Soon the door in front of her opened and there stood her son, shaggy brown hair and looking very annoyed. Kelsey went into his room and sighed at the mess before her eyes. She began cleaning up things as her son stayed in a corner of the room and tuned his guitar instead of helping.

"Darling, you need to be more tidy!" Kelsey said, exasperated. Allen just frowned but didn't say anything. Allen Windlester wasn't mute, but he never talked at all. His voice had something wrong with it that made him embarrassed about it and so he never talked much. When Kelsey finished cleaning up her son's bedroom (she was really fast), she went out again and and motioned for Allen to come. Allen angrily put down his guitar and followed her outside.

But before they even stepped onto he stairs that led downstairs, they heard someone talking from downstairs in a loud voice, "Do you know what I'm hiding behind my back?" The voice said, which the two recognized as Ashton's voice. "It's a surprise you know. Guess what it is!" Ashton continued. Allen and Kelsey, curious about the surprise, peered out of the door and looked down the stairs to see what Ashton was going to show her father.

Marcus just groaned, but Ashton acted like she didn't hear her father and kept on taking, "That's your guess?" She asked, and Kelsey spied a glint of metal behind her back, which Allen failed to notice. Ashton kept talking, "Well, I'm sorry but it's wrong. It's actually a... knife!" At this, Kelsey thought she had heard wrong, until her daughter spoke again, "No, you didn't hear me wrong, it's to kill you, you know."

Kelsey gasped, and so did her son, but their gasps went unnoticed by Marcus and Ashton. Then Ashton suddenly lunged at Marcus and stabbed him a lot of times, which neither Allen nor Kelsey could count. Both were terribly shocked, Ashton had never gotten along very well with Marcus, but none had expected Ashton to kill him so savagely. Kelsey gave a scream and covered her eyes, but Allen covered her mouth and dragged her away from the stairs back to his bedroom.

He locked the door to keep Ashton out and shook his mother, to stop her from screaming and come back to her senses. After some time, his mother stopped screaming and began sobbing. Then they all heard a knock on the door, and Ashton saying, "Well oh my, mother! I'm afraid your constant screaming has brought me to find out where you're hiding. Im coming to get you!" Then an axe chopped through the door and Ashton could be seen grinning from the hole in the door.

Aghast, Kelsey stopped crying and covered her mouth. She put an arm around her son and shouted, "What are you doing?!" To Ashton, who grinned and said casually, "Having fun," then the axe chopped through the door again, creating a bigger hole, enough to put a 5 year old through. Allen immediately took his mother out of the window by jumping to the roof of a shed below. Just then, Ashton put her hand inside the hole in the door and felt for the key, which Allen had luckily taken with him. Together, Allen and Kelsey escaped the mad Ashton, who shouted angrily at them from afar.