AU to Scream 6!
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Ophelia Murphy had always had an easy life. She'd only ever seen scary things like kidnappings, murders, and disasters on movies and TV shows. She'd never had to experience it firsthand, considering her father did his best to prot...
"If you let me, when it gets heavy, know I'll never let you be alone"
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"It's very kind of you boys to join us," Ken spoke as he began the drive toward the cemetery.
"What, I don't get any thanks?" Alyssa asked from the passenger seat. Usually, she was stuck in the back, but due to not knowing Ozzie or Ethan in the way that Lia did, she took the front seat.
"You come with us every year, Lyss," Lia spoke from the middle back seat.
"So?" Alyssa asked, smiling to show she was joking.
"It's really no trouble at all, sir." Ethan cut in from Lia's right. "Ophelia's our friend and we care about her."
Alyssa and Ozzie both snapped their heads to the boy, who looked at them in confusion. Lia's cheeks began to burn, her pale skin turning pink.
"They're good friends." She spoke up.
Ethan's fingers brushed Lia's thigh, and despite her wearing leggings her skin still managed to burn under his touch. Her skin tingled at the touch, her stomach filling with butterflies.
It was crazy the control Ethan had over her. She was basically melting as she sat here, her skin hot. As she sat between him and Ozzie, she realized just how much damage he could cause to her. He could say or do anything, and she wouldn't care. She'd still be under his control, no matter how crazy the demand was.
It didn't take long for them to arrive at the cemetery, which Ken parked outside of the gates. "I figure we could walk in, as it's nice outside for October."
Nobody argued, and instead, they just piled out of the car. They began the walk on the pathway between gravestones, Lia taking in the beauty of the graveyard.
It was crazy, she'd been through this graveyard so many times. Yet as she stood behind Ozzie and Alyssa and next to Ethan, it felt as if it were the first time all over again. Her stomach turned, her eyes watered, and her knees felt weak and shaky.
If you were to ask her if she was okay, she'd say yes. She'd say she didn't even know her mother, that this was strictly to be there to support her dad. She'd lie and say people die every day, that it's nothing new. That she didn't deserve to mourn, as she didn't know her the way her father did. She didn't know her the way Ethan knew his mother, as his mother's death was more recent. She would think she didn't deserve to be sad and feel the feelings she truly felt all because her mother died when she was so young.
Of course, that wasn't true. But that was how Lia saw it. She saw it as if there are people hurting worse than her, such as her dad, then it was not her place to grieve.
It was most definitely a toxic trait of hers, and she hadn't even realized it.
Ken took a turn, the others following behind. Lia began drumming her fingertips along her thigh, and as soon as the boy next to her took notice of this, he immediately laced their fingers together.
