Afterglow

"BRIDGER"

"And where were you?" Mindy looks at me suspiciously.

"My aunt—she wanted me to check in with her. Especially with everything..going on." I explain hoping it was believable.

"Right." Mindy scoffs. The group falls silent. Everyone focused on poole.

"So what is she like, the sister?" Liv asks.

"Sam? Sam is so cool." Chad replies.

"You only say that because she let you wear Pokemon Onesies to bed for a year." Mindy tells.

"That's true! That's a true statement." We all laugh.

"No, trust me, Sam is not cool. Her dad left her mom, right? Walks tight out when Tara's eight. Sam's thirteen." Amber pours a drink, then goes on. "Sam started acting out, getting in trouble with the cops. And then, on Sam's eighteenth birthday, she leaves. Ghosts them all." We all look at each other confused. "Maybe Sam's changed I just don't want to see Tara get hurt again."

"So what, you're protecting Tara from her own sister now?" Wes scoffs.

"Im her best-friend, Wes. Someone has to." Amber looks at him.

"Okay, so no guys are good enough for her and now her family's off-limits, too?" Wes rolls his eyes.

"Mm, motive." Mindy raises her eyebrows. "If I can't have her, no one can."

"What?"

"We all know you have a crush on Tara." Mindy says. A sudden creep of jealously begins to feel my body. Then goes away.

"Okay come on, Mindy." Wes replies.

"But we're all suspects." We look at each other. "Except maybe Liv."

"Thank you."

"You're way to boring to be a psycho." Livs smile quickly drops. Vince walks up to us and begins talking to us. Chad quickly presses him, while we all stand there.

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"Hey, kid." I look back up at the mirror seeing my Dad.

"Fuck." I sigh my head hanging low again.

"So, ghost-face is back?" He tilts his head. I leave the bathroom going into my room, searching for my pills. "Uh uh. You can't run from this." He follows me.

"You're just my imagination." I scoff. He becomes angry.

"There is a fucking murder on the loose! And you wanna..sit? You should be out there killing!" He shouts.

"Im not a killer like you, okay?" I argue. He shakes his head laughing.

"But, you are. You and I both know it." I hear my phone buzz. Turning around to pick it up, and see Mindy texted me. I look back where my dad was seeing nobody there.

"Hey, Y/n, you alright?" Sidney walks in my room. She looks down seeing the pills in my hand. "Whats wrong? Having nightmares again?" She comes over to me.

"No—just..just a few, but I'll be fine. I gotta go." I tell her.

"Where?"

"The group wants to meet up."

"Be safe." She kisses my cheek.

"Bye, Roman." I smile at the toddler in her hands. He smiles back and I walk out.

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"Randy was our uncle." Mindy walks into her living room. "RIP." She kisses the shrine of him. "You said to bring everybody." Mindy shrugs. We all wave when Sam walks in.

"Dewdrop." I smile walking up.

"Y/n." Everybody looks at us confused, we both hug.

"And how do you two know each other?" Amber asks.

"I feel like you guys keep forgetting my Dad was a murderous killer." I go sit back down next to Amber.

"Right, yes." Mindy replies.

"Ooh, suspects." Mindy's Mom walks in. "My brother would be so proud." She places a bunch of snacks on the coffee table.

"Hey, Martha." Dewey introduces himself.

After we all get settled in Sam takes everyone's attention.

"I asked Mindy to call everybody here, because..there's something I have to tell you." Sam goes on.

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After ten minutes Sam explained to us about how Billy Loomis is her father.

"So let me get this straight, you're saying you're the daughter of Billy Loomis, and, what, that one of us is the killer?" Chad looks around.

"Not to mention we have director Roman Bridger over here." Wes points to me. Amber sends him the middle finger.

"The killer told me he knew my secret. He attacked Tara to lure me back here."

"But then why, immediately go and murder some douche-nozzle that was stalking Liv?" Chad shoots back.

"And why does it have to be one of us? What about Deputy Dewey here? Maybe he's the killer. No offense." Wes adds.

"None taken, but what's my motive?"

"You got stabbed a billion times, got dumped by your famous wife and crawled into a bottle."

"Guys, Deweys safe. He's protected me countless times." I tell them.

"The douche-nozzle is connected." Amber speaks up. "I googled him. His mom is Leslie Macher. Stu Macher's sister."

"Who's Stu Macher?" Liv sits up.

"Oh my gosh." I groan.

"He's Billy Loomis's accomplice. Real loony tune." Dewey explains.

"Okay, okay. So the first three attacks are all on people related to the original killers."

"Oh, my gosh. He's making a requel!" Mindy shouts.

"A what?" Sam looks confused.

"Or like a legacyquel. Fans are torn on the terminlogy."

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