i scream, you scream... (chad meeks-martin x masc reader)

2: Everyone Has A Past

Strolling through the neon lit streets of New York, I couldn't help but be fixated on Chad and how his eyes glimmered beautifully underneath the moonlight. It was this fixation that made me realise my now definate attraction towards him. I already was obsessed with this man and we had barely just met.

I mean how could I not be.

My train of thought was interrupted however, by the two sisters breaking out into an argument leaving the rest of us to awkwardly stand around in the street watching.

It was abruptly ended though when a person passing by chucked their drink at Sam while recording.

Rude much?

This caused Sam to instantly swing for the culprit but Chad managed to hold her back while the girl and her friends carried on walking as if nothing happened.

I was kind of disappointed when Chad restrained Sam from hitting that girl. I would have loved to have to seen that fight.

But oh well.

What confused me about this whole situation though was that the girl threw the drink at Sam and called her a murderer and telling the rest of us to stay away from her.

Sam wasn't a murderer right?

Not wanting to stick around to find out I followed the rest of the group as they continued back to my apartment?

Turns out I even lived in the same building as Tara and Sam. This night was just full of crazy coincidences.

I was invited over to their apartment and obviously accepted as this was my chance to finally make some real friends here.

But as we all sat around waiting for someone to break the awkward silence, a news broadcast explained how there had been murders on our campus!

Sam instantly started planning to move away already telling her sister that they're getting out of the city.

Before I could find out more about what happened, me and a guy Sam had entered with where ushered out by Chad.

He couldn't possibly have thought I was a murderer could he?

Not wanting to make things worse for myself, I reluctantly went back to my apartment to get some rest.

Tonight had been a crazy night. I hadn't done that much socialising in forever. It was time to get some long awaited rest.

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I woke up next day however to a text from Chad putting a smile on my face.

Chad 🤠:
heyyy we r meeting up outside the main building come join us 🙏

I was relived reading this I couldn't believe that Chad actually wanted to hang out with me again after what went down yesterday with me awkwardly invading their friend group.

As I got to the meeting spot, I realised I was the last one to arrive. All of the others from the night before were there waiting for my their eyes following every step I took.

Trying to act normal to not weird them out as much as I already had I took a seat next to Chad as he was the one I was closest to in the group.

I couldn't mess this up.

As I sat down, Mindy stood in the middle as the rest of us were circled around her. Clearly about to say something important as she told us "nerds" to "listen up."

After this the group fell silent as Mindy began her long speech. "I'm actually glad I get to redeem myself for not calling the killers last time." Last time? Killers?

My face dropped in confusion after hearing this. Had there been more murders in Woodsboro? It was a possibility. I tried to stay away from the news since they always find a way to drag my family into everything they talk about so I could have easily missed it.

Before I could think about it too much, Mindy continued on about how we are in some kind of movie franchise and this is "a sequel to the requel"

She then called out mine and a few others sudden involvement in the group suspicious which is a fair assumption if you were being hunted down by a serial killer as soon as new people start to join your friendship group.

She didn't leave much room in her speech for me to defend myself as she went on to explain the "rules" of our "franchise"

Rule one was that everything was bigger than last time bigger budget, bigger cast, bigger body count. That last part put an unsettling feeling in my stomach. As soon as my life was finally going well for once there was a large possibility that I would be murdered. Great!

Rule number two was to expect the opposite of what happened last time. Which made me even more uncomfortable.

She then went on to explain how she thought each of us could easily be the killers.

By the time she had got to me I don't think I had sweat that much before in my life and I wasn't even guilty of anything.

"And finally y/n, y/n, y/n. You didn't think I'd do my research after your sudden appearance at the party last night did you?" She said with her head tilted staring into my soul.

I froze. No words were able to escape my mouth. My whole life I had been trying to get away from what happened. But it had caught back up with me.

Everyone turned to look at me with curious looks on their faces.

"What's it like to be the brother of a ghostface?"

"I'm not like her!" I quickly blurt out before it gets any worse "I am nothing like my sister." Scrambling to say anything to get them off my back.

"Who's your sister?" Chad asked me with a worried look on his face. If I ever had a chance with him it was definitely gone now there was no way these people would trust me again.

"Jill...freaking...Roberts" Mindy answered for me.

I heard a few gasps as I closed my eyes hoping to wake up from this nightmare.

"Hey cmon Mindy that doesn't automatically make him a killer too" Chad defended me putting his arm around my shoulder.

A small smile grew on my face as not all hope was lost.

"Yeah maybe it could be one of you guys" Tara and Sam's roommate Quinn added on. "What if the trauma you all went through caused one or more of you to snap?"

To my surprise, nobody actually seemed that mad at me. I guess they were all used to accusing each other of being serial killers which was a little worrying but hey at least it wasn't me getting the blame pointed at anymore.

"If we're all suspects you're all suspects" Anika finished meaning that this conversation was pretty useless as it wasn't at all helpful.

At least I was more involved with the group now I guess. It wasn't the exact way I intended but it was a way nonetheless.