ROOSTER (SCREAM TWO AU!) [✓]

chapter nine. . . haunted

act one, chapter nine ─ haunted !

( now playing. . . when the
levee breaks ─ led zeppelin ! )

( spring of nineteen ninety-seven ! )

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ALVIN TOSSED AND TURNED ALL NIGHT. HE COULDN'T sleep. And when he did finally go to sleep, he always had a nightmare that woke him up, which meant he was gonna be up for the rest of the night. Either way, it led to lack of sleep. That wasn't very good, especially for his mental health. The male was mentally exhausted and he didn't know what to do about it. When he tried to tend to it, it seemed like nothing helped. But the trauma that he had gained from Woodsboro was keeping him up at night. It was taking over his mind. Something that he thought that it wouldn't do. But, then again, watching your father and your group of friends die off one by one will do that to you. But even then, he didn't think that the pain would last this long. He didn't think that he was going to be haunted by the voices of Billy Loomis and Stu Macher again. Having Stu point that gun to his head really did it. But it all damaged him so badly that he couldn't even think about anything else. He just wanted it to go away. But like his mom said, things like that never fully go away.

It was late. Everyone spent the night at Joseph and Sireen's house. They didn't have to be back on campus until Monday, the group had decided to sleep there. Alvin managed to share a room with Eren, and he offered to take the floor, but Eren would not let him do that, so he had ended up on the bed. What seemed like a peacefully sleep for now wasn't going to last very long. He knew that, but he had to try and get at least three hours of sleep, since that's usually what he got. At this point, he has been sleep deprived.

But he couldn't really get comfortable. Not because the bed wasn't comfortable. It was better than the bed in the dorm room. It was just his uncontrollable tossing and turning. He just couldn't help it. And it was usually a sign that he was in a middle of a nightmare.

If it keeps on rainin', levee's going to break
If it keeps on rainin', the levee's going to
break. . .

It was the night at Stu Macher's house all over again. Of course Sidney had been there. Randy on the floor, Hartley and Eren witnessing the whole thing, and not to mention Eren's urge to kill him. trying to save him and Sidney. While Billy antagonized Sidney, Stu antagonized him. And he hated every single moment of it.

"Your father deserved what he got," the ring of Stu's voice rang in his head, "Like father, like son, right?"

This was right after Alvin had found out about the whole affair with his dad and Stu's mother, which he knew nothing about. And the assumption that he was a cheater and a liar just like his father hurt. Maybe even more than the scar Billy had carved on his left side.