Heartbeat | Tara Carpenter

Evil Rises

Richie and Dewey walked outside of the house to see Sam and Layla talking. Richie walked up to Sam.

"You okay?" Richie put his arm around Sam's shoulder

"I'm alright, Layla and I talked about everything" Sam motioned to Layla

"Hey kiddo, I'm gonna go grab something to eat." Dewey looked at Layla

"Okay. I think I'm gonna go to the hospital to see Tara" Layla turned around to face Dewey

"Sounds good. Be safe"

"I will. I love you" Layla hugged Dewey

"I love you too, kid" Dewey replied

Layla pulled away from the hug and got into her car. She started her car and pulled out of the Meeks-Martin's house driving to the hospital. Layla got to the hospital turned her car off, went inside the building and went to find Tara's hospital room. When Layla got to Tara's room, she opened the door to see a sleeping Tara. Layla sat down in a chair by Tara's bed and played on her phone until Tara woke up.

"Good afternoon, my love" Layla turned her phone off

"Hi" Tara sat up

"How do you feel?" Layla looked at Tara

"A lot better since I slept and now that you're here I feel better. How are you doing with all of this?"

"Well, I just had a fun conversation with everyone at Chad and Mindy's house" Layla rolled her eyes

"What happened?"

"Mindy accused Sam of being the killer, Chad agreed with her and so did Liv, and then I got accused of being the killer. Sometimes it's cool having a dad that was an original ghostface but other times it sucks."

"I'm sorry that happened, and I know I can't relate to what you are going through, but just know I'm always here for you." Tara held Layla's hand

"It's already bad enough everyone at school is accusing me of being the killer and everyone would stick up for me, but they all basically just accused me. I get it coming from random people at school, but I never expected this from my own friends." Layla looked down

"Layla, you are not your father, besides you shouldn't care about what our friends say"

"You're right, but it still hurts" Layla shrugged her shoulders

"Even if you were the killer, you would make a very hot killer, Lay" Tara nudged Layla's shoulder

"This is why you are my favorite person out of our whole friend group" Layla smiled

Layla kissed Tara. Tara pulled away from the kiss and looked into Layla's brown eyes. Tara loved Layla's eyes so much.

"I'm gonna go to the bathroom" Layla told Tara

"Okay, be safe." Tara replied

"I will"

Layla got up from her chair and went to find the nearest bathroom. Layla felt herself trying to have a panic attack so she went to the bathroom and splashed some cold water on her face, there was an image in the mirror and it was the famous Stu Macher.

"Seems like everything comes back to the original, Layla" Stu said

"It does" Layla replied

"I want you to make me proud and tell me that you're the killer"

"I'm not the killer or one of the killers"

"Of course you aren't. I don't know why I suspected that you would say you are"