POSSESSED| deena johnson

three

AFTER arriving at the hospital, me and sam are put into beds next to each other, we'd talked for awhile and id consider us friends. by now its quite late and peter left our room to go and find out when sam and i could leave. after a little while of waiting sam grabs her jello cup and offers to share with me "no thanks sam.." i say with my eyes closed as i drift off into a small powernap.

"what game? what are you talking about?" i hear sam say and i awake, expecting to see peter im greeted with a slight shock of deena. "about your dipshit boyfriend" deena snaps "last night he threatened to kill us 'your all fucking dead'" "that didn't mean anything-" "and now tonight, hes stalking around, messing with us. he broke into the house where kate was babysitting." sams face snaps to a look of confusion before she shakes her head "no. peters been here." "deena peters been here all night?" i say confused. "you need to call him right now and tell him to back off." and as if almost on que peter walks in "good news. they're gonna transfer you two out of this shithole tomorrow." "perfect timing asshole" deena says after whipping her head around to face him. "wheres your stupid mask?"

"he has been with us all night!" "stop covering for him! hes a bad guy, cmon kinsley hes dressing up as the guy who killed your bestfriend!" "deena hes been here all night how could he have?" i question "you're out of control!" sam screams while peter paces "you put me and kinsley in the hospital! and now you're here yelling at me which i—" "okay no, that was an accident. look, we got nosebleeds and i didn't actually mean-" "a nosebleed? stop making excuses! you are total chaos, and you have always been! so dont blame me when you wake up in ten years just like your dad! old and drunk and going nowhere!" "okay first, go to hell. second, yeah. congrats on getting out of shadyside, sam. all you had to do was suck it up, literally, and swallow some sunnyvale-" deena shouts while peter raises and eyebrow and smirks

"you know what? i never want to see you again!" "great have a nice goddamn life!" suddenly a knife slash is heard, quickly followed by a gag making all three of us snap our heads to see peter with a knife poking out of the other side of his chest. leaving me and sam stood speachless, before he falls to the ground and deena covers her mouth and shouts while me and sam freeze before a guy with a skull mask pulls his knife out of peter and lunges at us. deena runs. sam hops over the bed and i quickly grab an iv fluids pole and chuck it to deena as she runs and hits skullmask with it. we all latch onto eachother and run.

i let out a loud scream as i see the killer gaining on us before we run through a door and see kate, simon and josh. "run!" deena shouts and we run past them. i hear a muffled sentance from simon before kate screams and i hear their footsteps getting further away.

we go to run past an open wall but glass smashes and deena pulls me back into her chest as we all pant. we quickly gather ourselves and deena leans to look around the corner before she pulls back and looks at sam to follow her and we quickly move and croutch behind a desk.

we put our hands in something warm so we look down and see fresh blood sam turns and gasps before covering her mouth leaving me and deena confused so we turn our heads and see the lady for the front desk perched against the wall, sat upright with her neck slit, her lifeless eyes looking directly into mine causing me to gag.

the door creaks as it opens and out walks a guy in pink nursing scrubs with the name tag beddy with the b scratched on. he sees us and pauses as sam whimpers and i look at him with fear in my eyes as deena whispers no repetedly. regardless he turns the corner and skull mask walks up to him "hey you cant wear that mask. what are you-" hes cut off by a knife jabbing up into his throat and we all gasp and me and sam let out a little sob.

skull mask lays beddy down with the knife still embedded into his throat as blood spills everywhere and splatters onto my face me and sam scream we all run and jump over the counter and run for the door, me and sam interlock hands as we quickly run but were not fast enough as he grabs me and sam by out hair and pull us back as i swing my leg back to hit him in the groin and deena jumps and wraps her arms around his neck in an attempt to get him off. simon opens an ambulance door and shouts "come on! lets go!" as i get thrown to the ground and skull mask steps on my neck to reduce airflow while sam wriggles herself to the ground and bites his wrist causing him to let go for deena to throw him off as i take a gasp of air, slightly dizzy i hear the muffled voices of simon and josh while deena helps me up.

sam goes to run but realises deena and i are still stood while i try to breathe my vision goes back to normal just to see skull masks mask knocked off and my late best friends pale face with white eyes and a gunshot wound in his forehead "r-ryan" i stutter breathlessly as deena pants before he pulls his mask back down after looking at us dead in the eyes.

deena grabs my arm and pulls me away as tears cloud my vision as sam jumps in the ambulance and deena drags me in after before simon quickly slams the ambulamce doors while kate slams the pedal.