deception: ethan landry

𝓂𝑜𝓊𝓇𝓃𝒾𝓃𝑔

as sirens filled my ears, me, mindy and sam sat on the steps of the apartment complex. i couldn't stop thinking about quinn and anika. i can't believe they were gone. two of my close friends, taken from me. taken from us.

the ambulance pulled in front of us as the paramedics rushed out and started helping us with our wounds. "does this hurt?" one paramedic asked me as he applied pressure on my wound. "no," i spoke, softly. nothing hurt me anymore, not a stab wound, not a gash on my face, nothing. i was simply numb. he took a cloth and started wiping away the dry blood and tears from my face.

 i stared passed him as i saw ethan. he was walking towards us with a worried look on his face. as our eyes met, chad approached him and grabbed onto his flannel and jacket, pushing him against a car. "where were you? huh?" he questions. "what? when?" he asks chad, yelling over the commotion. "you disappear and two people die, and my sister almost died. so where. were. you?" he questioned again, slamming him back into the car again. "i had econ, ask amelia, she knows. i was in a study hall with over 100 people, ask any one of them," ethan says to chad, who lets go. 

i push passed the paramedic who tells me im going to need stitches but i don't care. "chad, back off! he was at econ, i know!" i yelled wedging myself between ethan and an angry chad. 

chad walked back to his spot beside mindy as ethan took in his surroundings, noticing a covered body. "who?" he asks me. "anika, and quinn's upstairs," i said, choking out the last of my sentence before a few tears fell down my face. "mel, i am so sorry, i can't even imagine what you're feeling right now, i am so so sorry," he says pulling me into a hug as he let me sob into his shirt. 

"mindy...i am so so-" he was cut off as mindy told him to stay back as she told him that he was at the top of her list. "you're really going to trust him amelia? i mean after what happened to your parents?" mindy pressured. "fuck off mindy, it's my life. if i die, so be it, at least i'll be away from all this fucked up shit," i yelled to her, hugging ethan once more as we turned away from the scene. 

"your face," he pointed out as he reached up to wipe blood that continued to fall from it. "yeah, ghostface got me," i said smiling a bit, happy to have ethan here to comfort me. now that quinn was gone, he was my support system. no one else really wanted to hear what i ever had to say, so i think thats why i relied on quinn so much. she made me feel less crazy, and let me ramble on about my fascination with killing ghostface. "how do you feel?" he asks me, i couldn't muster up the words so i just shook my head, looking down at my feet. 

he grabbed my hands, and put a hand on my chin to make me look up at him. "i'm here, ok? i would never hurt you. i promise." he said as he leaned in for a kiss. i kissed him back, hoping mindy and chad were watching to know that i was on ethans side and that they needed to be on his side as well. 

after a little while, a paramedic pulled me aside to give me stitches. ethan stood awkwardly as mindy death stared him. "it wasn't him, ok mindy. i know you have trust issues after what happened in woodsboro, but it wasn't him," i spoke, as a needle pierced through my cheek. i dug my nails into the palm of my hand trying not to cringe at the string and needle sewing my cheek back together. "how do you know meils?" she asked me, willing to hear my side of the story. "we can't turn against our friends. and we can't turn each other against one another. it isn't going to work in our favour." i said to her. "if he isn't the killer, where was he? and how did he come right away when it ended? explain that to me, and if you're convincing enough then i'll drop it," she said, throwing her conspiracies into the air. "i texted him to come," i lied, trying to defend him. i didn't know how or why he was on my street conveniently right after the attacks ended but i trusted him so it didn't matter. "okay, fine," mindy said, throwing her hands in the air. "but, i still don't trust him," she said, turning to chad and ending our conversation.