Tainted Love ||Stu Macher||

Chapter 8: Dark Side

There's parts of me I cannot hide
I've tried and tried a million times
Cross my heart and hope to die
Welcome to my dark side

Billy runs his hands through his hair in anger as Lilly and Stu sit on the couch, watching nervously. "That bitch is dead. She's so dead."

"What are you talking about?" Lilly gets up from her seat and walks over to her brother. "Billy." She says, sternly. He doesn't listen as he repeats the same mantra of 'She's Dead'.

"Billy! Don't make me embarrass you." She growls, making Billy stop and look at her.

"You wouldn't dare. Not in front of Stu." Billy says.

Stu sits forward, intrigued. "Dare to do what?"

"Calm down and explain what's wrong," Lilly says as she puts her hands on his shoulders. "Who do you want dead?"

"Maureen Prescott. I wanna see her blood on my hands, I wanna see her suffer." Billy says as he pants angrily.

"What? Why--" Lilly gasps before her hands drop to her sides in anger. "She is the slut that made Mom leave? That two-timing bitch!"

Stu's blood started to boil along with Lilly's, he was just mad at the fact that her father couldn't keep it in his pants and caused her all of this pain that he'd been helping her forget about.

"Now you understand my frustration?" Billy says as he runs his hands through his hair.

"But, Billy... we can't just kill her," Lilly says with a frown. The last thing she wanted was to go to prison.

Billy sighs, "You're right. As much as I want the bitch dead, we can't."

Stu stands up from the couch, "Yes, we can. We just need a plan." He smiles, darkly.

Lilly looks over at him and sees the evil glare in his eyes, which she finds absolutely attractive.

"I got the start of our plan, we just need Lilly to carry it out. She can't be seen with us..." Stu reaches for his father's bottle of whiskey.

Lilly gives him a look, and Stu rolls his eyes. "My dad won't know if some's missing and we're planning a fucking murder. I need this."

Billy runs his hands through his hair, "Stu's right, sis. You can't be seen with us. We need to figure out how to carry out--"

"I got it." Lilly cuts him off, "I can take Sidney out for a 'girl's day' at the mall, you guys gut the bitch and we try to..."

"Frame someone else." Stu jumps in as he takes a sip of his whiskey.

Lilly scoffs, "Who? We don't know the first thing about frame jobs."

"We don't know anything about killing either," Billy snaps.

Lilly sighs in annoyance until something catches her eye, and she picks it up. "It's so clear now."

"What?" The boys ask in unison.

Lilly shows them the magazine that advertises "Friday the 13th".

"The devil you know, right?" Lilly smirks.

Stu smiles wickedly, "You're saying we watch horror movies and take notes?"

"It'll be fun." Lilly smiles back.

"Movie night?" Billy suggests.

Stu and Lilly looked at him with smiles. "Billy: Liquor, Stu: Snacks, and I will get the movies," Lilly commands.

The three teenagers pile Stu's car before driving off to the store.

~{~*~}~

Stu dropped off Billy at the nearby convenience store before dropping off Lilly at the Blockbuster where Randy was working.

"Hey, Lilly." Randy greets her as he looks up from his book. "What brings you here?"

Lilly smiles, "I'm looking for predictable horror movies. The ones where you can see the ending from a mile away."

Randy chuckles, "Well, there's 'Friday the 13th', 'Halloween', and 'A Nightmare on Elm Street'."

"I'll take them all." Lilly holds up a small stack of cash, "There's $65 there. Whatever recommendations you have, I want them. Remember, predictable."

Randy smiles before grabbing a basket, going to the horror aisle, and picking out titles that he thought Lilly might like.

Truth be told he was always torn between Sidney and Lilly. He knew he had no chance with either of them, knowing he wasn't their type.

He looks up at Lilly who is looking through the magazine Randy was reading on his break when she came in. She looked amazing in her dark daisy dukes, black boots, and light blue flannel.

He sighed in disappointment, knowing he could try to have her but the odds were slim to none.

"Randy! You almost done? Kinda on a time crunch there." Lilly calls for him, her eyes not leaving the magazine.

Randy shakes himself of his thoughts as he puts the last movies in the basket before walking over to the counter. He plops down the basket, making Lilly look up.

"So, I got you the basics. Leatherface, Pinhead, and so on." He says as he rings up the movies.

Lilly smiles, "Thanks, Rand. I don't know what I'd do without your expertise."

Randy smiles back, "Aiming for a sleepless night?"

"You could say that." Lilly giggles as she picks up the bag, "Having a movie night over at Stu's. See ya!" She says as she walks out of the store.

~{~*~}~

After shopping for the movie night, Stu picked up the twins and headed back to his house.

Once they arrived, they set up the living room and turned on the TV. Lilly was setting up the tapes while the boys were settled on the blankets behind her.

Billy notices Stu's gaze on Lilly's backside as she squats down and puts the tape into the VCR. He jabs him, "Dude, come on. That's my sister."

Stu laughs, "Sorry, man. I don't know what got into me."

Lilly presses play on the VCR before sitting on the blankets and grabbing the wine coolers that Billy bought her.

"Wine coolers? You really are a girl." Stu laughs as he takes a sip of his beer.

Lilly looks at him and rolls her eyes, "I don't care. These taste better."

"Shh! Aren't we supposed to be taking notes?" Billy says.