𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐝 [𝟏]

chapter fourteen.

AS THE two were running, Deena had her ex-girlfriend's head underwater when suddenly Josh and Marcus run into the Skull Mask killer in one of the aisles, but before they can turn back around and run away, Josh fell.

Marcus looked over at him, he can't leave him behind so he finally mustered up the courage, turning around and running at the killer who he hits with the bat he had been holding. He kept hitting him, the killer would stumble back but come back towards him, when the lights flickered and then the killer was gone.

Josh is breathing heavily as Marcus helps him up. "Josh, Marcus! Come help me! Get the pens! Get the pens!" Deena shouted and Marcus watched as Josh rushed off to get the EpiPens. "Help me! Get the EpiPens!" Deena shouts and Marcus just stayed where he was, fully processing that the only one person he genuinely loved, like ever, was now dead.

"Come, hurry!"

And yet, there was Deena. She has a chance to bring Sam back. Why isn't Marcus helping her? Why is he just standing here in this same spot and not moving an inch? Josh runs past him, towards Deena who had laid Sam onto the floor. Josh drops the EpiPens as Marcus slowly approached them, watching Deena insert all of the EpiPens into Sam.

"I don't think it's working."

"It has to work! It has to. It has to. Sam?" She's gasping with panic before she sat there, waiting. Josh cried suddenly, "everyone's dead." He says and Marcus stops, frozen again. "Simon... Kate..." Josh says and Marcus looks down at the floor. He still couldn't even process it right. "No. No, Sam! I will not let you do this." Deena says, beginning to perform CPR on the girl.

Marcus turns around, walking away and stopping where he covered his face, huffing before pushing all of his hair back, out of his way. Then sam coughed, letting out the water from when Deena had drowned her. He slowly turned around to see Sam sit up and puke out more water before she laid down.

Deena lifts her up, pulling her into her arms and caressing her hair. "It's over." She tells her, comforting her and Marcus stands there, standing with a jealous look on his face. He drops the bat, walking away and Deena looks up. "Marcus! Marcus! Hey!" She says and he stops, turning back towards her.

"Good for you... You have Sam alive and with you. God, I shouldn't have fucking been here in the first place... I lost Simon. I lost Kate. And for what?!" He raised his voice. "For Sam?" His voice sounded vile when he said her name, "what a load of bullshit... I'd rather have Simon and Kate here with us." He said before he began walking away. "Marcus!" Josh says and he looked over his shoulder. "Piss off!"

He walked down the aisle, a million thoughts running through his head as he held his hands over his head, remembering all the times Simon made sure he was first, made sure he was in the safe zone. That's also what he did tonight, he pushed Marcus away, towards Josh just so it would be him and not Marcus. He wanted Marcus alive more. He stopped and saw Simon's body again, he begins sobbing.

He fell to his knees and began hitting the floor with his fists until they hurt and turned a deep dark red. "Fuck!" He screamed, his voice can be heard throughout the whole store and Deena felt even more guilty for everything. He stayed there, sobbing into his hands, even beginning to feel out of breath at some point while crying his eyes out over the loss of Simon Kalivoda. He was pulled up to his feet so suddenly, "young man, are you okay?" It was an EMT and he just nods, looking over to where Simon was.

"I'm... I'm not injured." He clarified, looking at the EMT. "I would beg to differ... come with me." He said when seeing Marcus' knuckles and the boy winced when he moved them, but followed after him as he now glanced over to the other dead body on the bread slicer.

"Sir, whatever relation you had with the victims, I just suggest you don't look..." The man said and Marcus looked away, his bottom lip quivering as he wanted to cry again. He held it in though when he got outside and saw the cop cars, the ambulances. The EMT got a blanket around his shoulders and made him sit in the ambulance while treating him.

"You didn't get any other injuries, right?" The man now asked and he shook his head. "No... Just... just my knuckles." He glanced down and the man nodded his head. "Well, Sheriff Goode contacted your parents and they are on their way, you can sit here and wait until they're here." He says and Marcus just nods.

He sat there, staring at the ground. "Marcus?! Where's my baby?!" He looked up when hearing his mom and got up instantly. He runs towards them, "mom! Dad!" He gasped, running into their arms. "Oh, my God, don't scare me like that ever again... Okay?" Susan said as she kisses the side of her son's head.

"Mom, dad," he pulled back, crying again. "Simon's dead... so is Kate." He sobbed and Adam looks at Susan with a worried look who just stared at her son with empathy before pulling him into a hug. He hugs back tightly, closing his eyes as Adam puts his arms around both his son and his wife.

"Come on, you'll get sick dressed like this..." Adam now says, taking off his jacket and putting it on his son who clutched the jacket tighter, closer to his body as he walked away, going with them towards their car. "Mr. and Mrs. Porter, we'll have to see your son for a st--" "Sheriff Goode, now isn't a good time." Adam turned to Nick, raising his hand.

"My son lost two important people in his life. He doesn't need to make a statement right now, he needs to be in the comforts of his own home... alright? So back off, just for tonight, and you can get his statement whenever he's ready..." He says and Nick just nodded slowly.

"I'm sorry, Marcus... I should've helped more." He says and Marcus looks at him, giving a mean look to the police officer. "You're damn fucking right... maybe Simon and Kate would still be alive." He says before walking away and getting into the back seat of the car.

AUTHORS NOTE
marcus lashed out at deena because it's how i imagine his character to be, using anger as a sort of coping mechanism and also pushing people away too, but he'll apologize, dw. but he was fr in the right being mad at deena because his lover dies for her lover 😐