AU to Scream 6!
++
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...
Oops! This image does not follow our content guidelines. To continue publishing, please remove it or upload a different image.
"Oh my god, what happened?" The sound of Ethan's voice was heard.
Lia didn't look away, and she didn't run to him the way she had last time. She was sitting in the back of an ambulance, currently being treated for the gaping wound on her forehead from the ladder. Thankfully, that was the extent besides light bruising on her scalp from when Ghostface threw her to the side, but that didn't mean it wasn't throbbing.
She didn't feel dizzy anymore, and she wasn't throwing up anymore. She didn't have a concussion, and the medics said that she was probably throwing up due to her anxiety being at an all-time high.
Chad didn't let Ethan and Ozzie get anything further than the yellow tape. He grabbed onto Ethan, shoving him against the wall. "Where the hell were you guys?" He asked, looking between him and Ozzie. "My sister almost died!"
"We were at Econ," Ethan looked into Chad's eyes. "Ozzie and I were together, at Econ!" He said again, as he realized Chad hadn't believed him.
Chad pursed his lips, before letting the boy go. "You better be telling the truth."
Ethan didn't say anything and instead made his way over to Lia. His face fell as he saw the wound on her forehead, and the way she didn't bother moving when she saw him.
"Who?" Ozzie asked, motioning to the body laying in the alleyway.
"Quinn and Anika," Chad answered.
Ethan's eyes shot up, confusion on his features. "Quinn and Anika?" He repeated, to which Cleo nodded. He tried to take another step forward, but Mindy stopped him.
"Chad might believe you but I don't. You're at the top of my suspect list." She then looked at Ozzie, "Both of you."
"We had Econ," Ethan spoke for the third time, his eyes then finding his girlfriend's. She avoided eye contact with him, her fingertips dancing along her thighs. "Sweetheart-"
"Ethan," She spoke as she looked up. The look on her face alone was enough to break his heart, and it took everything in him to not fall apart right then and there.
He was really with Ozzie, far away from the apartment. There was no way in a million years he'd ever do whatever happened that night, and seeing his own girlfriend not believing him was enough to break him.
"Where were you?" She asked again.
"Li, we were at Econ. He's not lying to you." Ozzie reached out to his best friend, who just pulled her hand away.
"Ghostface called me Ophelia. You two are the only two that knew that." She spat, looking between the two. "You two, who were gone the entire night, knew about Lia not being my real name."
"Lia, it wasn't us." Ozzie shook his head, "I swear on my mom we were at Econ."
"There were hundreds of other students there, you can ask any of them," Ethan added. He crouched down, pushing some of her messy hair out of her face. "I would never do anything to hurt you, sweetheart."
