Worship - Ethan Landry x male oc [2]

16 (Scream 6)

"I can't believe they let me go." Romeo muttered, walking into Tara and Sam's apartment.

"You should be grateful rather than complain." Mindy said, sitting on the couch.

"Mindy..." Chad said, shaking his head.

"I wanted to die, Mindy! They should've just let me die when my heart stopped beating!" Romeo exclaimed, turning to look at Mindy.

"You want to escape a punishment?" Mindy asked.

"You didn't even get the killers correct, you shouldn't even be talking." Romeo sneered, glaring at Mindy who stood up in attention. "Anyone could've guessed it's me because of how I acted, except you I guess..." He said, walking towards the window. "And don't roll your eyes at me." He said, looking out the window.

"What the fuck...?" Mindy said, caught in the action of rolling her eyes.

"Hey, so, we're going to a party tomorrow." Anika said after a minute of uncomfortable silence fills the room.

"I'm not going." Romeo said, looking out the window at the street.

"Why not? It could been fun." Anika said.

"I'm only here for a day, and then I'm leaving." Romeo said, hearing a door unlocked behind him and a woman walks out with a man behind her. She must be Quinn Bailey. He turned back to the window, staring longingly at the sky.

"Who's that?" Quinn asked, looking at Romeo approvingly.

"Romeo Bai--"

"Altieri." Romeo cuts Sam off, not looking away from the sky.

"What?" Quinn asked, a glint seen in her eyes before it disappears.

"Romeo Altieri. My name." Romeo said, sighing softly.

"She looks familiar." Richie pointed out, looking at Quinn.

"Who is it?" Amber asked, leaning against the window.

"I don't know, she just looks familiar. He looks familiar too." Richie said, pointing at Ethan who is watching Romeo with careful eyes.

"Just one party." Anika's voice was suddenly right next to him, making him jumps. "Sorry."

"It's alright, I just want expecting you, that's all." Romeo said, looking at the wall beside him curiously.

"Rome, you look like you want to make out with that wall." Tara joked, smiling softly.

"God, I wish." Richie said, having leaned against the wall that Romeo is looking at. "Do you want to make out, Rome? It's been awhile."

"No." Romeo said, looking away from the wall.

"What? Who were you talking to?" Chad asked as Sam looks at Romeo thoughtfully.

"The wall." Romeo simply said, turning his head away from the window to Anika. "Just one."

Anika let out a small happy sound, smiling so brightly that it could defeat the freaking sun. "Great! You want a mask?" She didn't wait for Romeo to respond before leaving and coming back with a Jason Voorhees mask.

Romeo took the mask and held it in his hands, looking down at the mask in his hands.

"You should wear the mask and start a killing rampage, Rome." Richie said, leaning in close to Romeo that the boy shivers.

"Kill Mindy first for saying all that stuff to you." Amber said, glaring at the said girl.

"They won't even be expecting you to do this, caught them off guard!" Richie exclaimed, letting out a loud laugh making Romeo flinch.

"Romeo?" Sam's voice get his attention away from Amber and Richie. "Are you okay?" She asked when Romeo turned to look at her and saw her standing next to him. When did she get here? And how long was she standing next to him for. "If there's something, or someone, you needed to talk to. You can talk to me, and everyone else." She said when Romeo didn't respond to her.

"If I talk to Mindy she's gonna go detective on me." Romeo said, voice quiet, holding the mask with his left hand, which is hanging by his side. "She's already suspicious of me enough, I don't need her telling me I'm a killer again." He said, looking out the window.

"You didn't have a choice." Sam said, looking out the window. "Even if you didn't accept the offer, they'll still do it."

"I didn't want to escape the punishment." Romeo said after a minute of silence, looking up at Sam who looked back at him. "I don't know why they let me go in the first place."

"Detective Bailey was the one who told them to let you go, drop the case." Sam said, frowning when Romeo looked away with a worried expression. "What's wrong?"

"I'm hallucinating Amber and Richie..." Romeo said, noticing that Sam tensed slightly from beside him. "And Richie said that Ethan and Quinn looks familiar to him."

"What are you two whispering about over there?" Mindy asked, looking at Romeo and Sam by the window. "Last time you kept secret you were revealed to be the killer." She added when Romeo and Sam turned to look at her, the latter looking at her with an unamused expression on her face.

"Have you seen what they've done to me?" Romeo asked, walking towards them and sitting beside Chad who wrapped his arm around him.

"They didn't tell us everything." Tara said as Sam joined her on the couch. "Only the male ejaculation and... the torture."

"They didn't tell us what kind of torture though." Mindy said, looking at Romeo who is rubbing his hand against the scar on his arm.

"The scar they placed on me is on my body." Romeo said, pointing to his body which is hidden by the shirt, jacket and pants.

"Can you show us?" Quinn asked.

"Oh my God..." Chad muttered, placing his hand on his face. Seriously, does this woman have no shame?

"It's okay." Romeo muttered, placing his hand on Chad's knee and stood up. First he took off his jacket and then his shirt, showing the multiple scars on his body.

Romeo's body bore the enduring marks of knife scars, each one telling a tale of how Amber and Richie tortured him. The burns etched across his skin formed a testament to resilience, resembling a roadmap of his journey through adversity.

"Oh my God..." Ethan muttered, eyes widening with shocked. Even Quinn looked shocked at what was on Romeo's body.

Anika clears her throat after Romeo started putting on his shirt and jacket. "So, it's getting late, and I'm hungry."

"Yeah, we should order some food and eats." Chad said, standing up. "What do you want to eat?" He asked, looking at Romeo.

"I'll eat the same thing you ate." Romeo said, bringing his knees to his chest and wrapping his arms around it.