𝐇𝐄𝐋𝐋𝐎, 𝐆𝐎𝐎𝐃𝐁𝐘𝐄 ᵉᵗʰᵃⁿ ˡᵃⁿᵈʳʸ

chapter 15

CHAPTER FIFTEEN.

ARIA AND ETHAN walked behind the group holding each other's hand, as they followed Kirby to the old abandoned theater. "What is this place?" Kirby asked Gale.

"I think it's a theater." Aria stated, to which the famous Gale Weathers replied "She's right. This was an old theater those two chuckle fucks Jason and Greg bought out."

Gale swiped her key card opening the door as Aria asked, "Why?"

The doors open and reveal a shrine of the ghostface attacks. It was something straight out of a STAB movie.

"What the fuck..?" Tara mumbled, as Sam walked towards the ghostface mannequins. "What is this?" Sam asks, staring at her fathers cloak.

"It's a shrine.." Kirby answered for Gale.

"Wow, so you are getting better at your job?" Gale jokes, to which Kirby tilted her head and rolled her eyes. Aria made her way over to the cloak labeled "AMBER FREEMAN." and began to run her fingers along the cloth. Tara approached her from behind, and put her hand on Aria's shoulder causing her to jump.

"It's just me," Tara says, as Aria takes a sigh of relief. "Sorry." She said, "You spooked me."

"It's fine, but are you okay?" Tara says, looking at Aria and then peering her eyes over to Ambers cloak.

Aria nodded, then spotted her boyfriend. He was staring at her, but when she spotted him he immediately turned away which was odd for him.

Little did Aria know he turned away because he was scared of caring for her. When he saw her staring at Amber's cloak he slowly realized all the pain he'd caused her, and all the pain he's going to cause her. He suddenly wanted to take it all back. All of it.

He knew it wasn't the right thing to do, but he began to distance himself from her. This caused Aria to express a confused look on her face, before Ethan exclaimed "Why am I here? My alibi checks out, plus I was with Sam when Ari was attacked."

Aria looks away at Chad and Mindy, who reply "So I can keep an eye on you, roomie." Coldly. Aria chuckles, as Ethans gaze at her goes unnoticed. She struggles to walk without limping, causing her boyfriend to sprint over to her. "You okay?" He mumbled to her, and appreciated her sweet expression.

"Yeah, thank you. Are you okay though?" She asked, her eyes sullenly looking up at him. He looked down at her, secretly praying this would all stop.

"Yeah. Promise." Aria smiled at his reply, as she mouthed "I love you." Which was returned with a smile from her boyfriend.

The friends all walked near each other, huddled together talking when Aria's eyes peered over to Sam. She saw her friend lingering over her fathers cloak. She slowly approached her, softly patting her shoulder. "Sam?" She spewed, catching the older girl's attention.

"Hm?" She turned quickly. Arias' head tilted at the understanding that her friend wasn't okay. She touched Sam's arm and provided an upside down smile for her. Sam was thankful she didn't have to keep pretending everything was okay.

Aria turned around and was about to walk over to her friends, when she noticed her boyfriend staring at her with a profound look on his face. They both stare at each other, wondering what the other was thinking.