the way he is with me (scream 1996)

xv. Party pooper

I walked into school, seeing Madeline and Marilyn glaring at their lockers. "He's about to swallow her," Marilyn whispered, "what's happen....ing." I said as I saw Tristan making out with a blonde, she was pinned to their lockers. My gaze hardened with anger, I wasn't jealous or anything, it's just that Tristan said he was in love with me a week ago, now he is making out with a blonde.

I tapped Tristan on his shoulder getting his attention, "Hey." He said plainly. "Move, you're in the middle of my friends lockers." I told him calmly, trying to hide the venom in my voice. Tristan and the girl moved down a few lockers, Marilyn opened her locker. The blonde pulled out a mirror and lipstick, redoing it as she insulted Marilyn. "You know Mari, you should get bangs."

"Thanks." She said unamused.

"You should, you have a big forehead." The blonde insulted, I suddenly felt my blood starting to boil as she insulted Marilyn. "At least it's bigger than your quark-sized brain." I stuck up for Marilyn, the blonde froze and slowly turned to me. "No one talks to me like that." She stuck up her two fingers. "Obviously someone should," I said plainly before walking away to class.

• • •

     "Grandma, how do you think that this looks?" I asked grandma as I showed her the outfit I had on. She looks at my long sleeve baggy beige shirt that fell off of both of my shoulders and the black skirt I had on. "You look wonderful dear," she smiled supportively. Suddenly the phone rang, "I'll get it," I told grandma since she was making cookies. I picked up the phone and heard Madeline's voice. "Hey, I'm coming to pick you up right now." She said, music in the background. I giggled and nodded, "see ya?" I asked, and then hung up. I stepped back into the kitchen and saw grandma putting the pink cookies into ziplock bag.

"They look good," I said before she handed them to me. "Give these to your friends dear." Grandma said right before the phone ring. I grabbed it, "hey, Madeline is Marilyn gonna be with you-" I said before a voice cut me off. "Oh Taylor, I'm not Madeline." A raspy voice said.

At first I thought I was hearing things, I haven't heard this voice in so long, and I didn't think that it would ever hear it again. I thought I would burst into tears when I heard Billy's voice again, but it actually made me calm, when you see or hear something you haven't in a while, it's a little easier to breath. But it was scary.

Not because I was nervous since I haven't spoken to Billy in so long, but because why would he be using this voice?

"I- Billy?" My voice cracked. A chuckle left his lips before hanging up, I put my phone down before hearing a honk outside. "I-I'll see you later grandma." I said, waving goodbye. I stepped outside with the zip lock bag in my hands.

I stepped into Madeline's car, she noticed the expression on my face before she spoke. "Are you okay?" She asked me. I turned my head slowly. "I'm okay." I gave her a reassuring smile. I wanted to tell her what was wrong, but what was I gonna say? Oh, my boyfriend - or maybe even ex - who I haven't seen in a month, just called me, oh, and it hurt even more because he was a hot serial killer I met when I was in a nuthouse.

Madeline pulled up to a big house, I was bummed the entire party, all I did was watch my friends dance with their dates and binge eat chip and dip. I suddenly saw Tristan and his girlfriend arguing. "I'm not!" She argued. "Then tell me why you were locked in a bathroom with Cole." Tristan defended, I continued to slowly eat my chip in dip while watching the two argue like little kids. "You know what, I want to break up with you."

     "Can we please talk about this outside?" He tried to reach for her hand but she pulled it away. "YOU can." She said before walking away, Tristan suddenly noticed me staring, he walked away. I sat up quickly from my chair, and followed him into a room with a piano, he was sitting on it.

    "Hey." I spoke softly. He looked up at me. "I don't want to talk about what just happened." He said sadly, a part of me felt bad for him so I tried to come up with a topic. "How'd you do on the math test?" I asked him, he looked at me with confusion painted on his face. "What?"

      "You wanted to talk about something else." I replied, i sat beside him.

      He looked at me for a minute, staring down at my lips. "Taylor," he whispered my name. "Yes?" I asked him before he leaned in and kissed me slowly.

      I looked at him, and then kissed him back, I pulled away once I saw a shadow figure outside, I saw a tall figure with a mask and a knife, it slowly tilted its head.

    Tristan looked at me with concern as I sucked in air as tears formed in my eyes. "Hey, what's wrong?" He asked.

     "I-I'm sorry, im sorry, but I have to go Tristan." I told him on the brim of tears, I ran into the bathroom and locked the door, I covered my mouth so my sobs weren't audible, a tear ran down my face, taking mascara down it with it.

      I ended up climbing out of the window, I didn't want to face anyone with smudged mascara all over my face, I walked home with messy hair and ruined makeup. I got to the doorway and suddenly stepped on a coating of fur, I slowly looked down and removed my foot hesitantly, there I saw Casper, I covered my heart as my heart started to ache.

     A blood curling scream almost left my throat before something dripped onto my forehead, I looked up, and on top of the porch was a deer, a deers head. The crimson soaked into my skin, it was all coming together, the deer, the cat, the call, it was all just a way of saying you're next. Billy Loomis was going to haunt me forever, he wasn't gonna stop. I suddenly fell to my knees and began to sob, the last thing I remember was a hand touching my throat from behind.