CAN'T STOP NOW •|• Simon Kalivoda • Fear Street 1994

6. I PROMISED

i promised
PUBLISHED JUNE 24 2024

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐓𝐄𝐄𝐍𝐒 𝐇𝐀𝐃 entered the grocery store which Simon had been employee of the month for 5 months. Gin sat on top of the counter looking at different types of candies, and holding her sisters hand taking in that it might be the last time she ever saw her again.

"A few months ago, my brother Timothy had an unfortunate experience in which he ingested to much of a certain substance. He was dead for two minutes. But..." He stopped himself and drum rolled on the table "we got him back!" Simon ended and pointed to Sam.

"Kate. It's time for your close up" Deena said Kate knowing exactly what she was talking about. The raven haired girl poured a bunch of pills onto the counter.

"You need to take these in order. Pill one takes the edge off. You're gonna feel like you're being fucked by a unicorn. Pile two is gonna bring your core temp way down. You may feel slightly sick. You need to take a five-minute interval in between pile two and pile three. That's really important. Ok?
Pile three brings you down and out, so you gotta take five or it's all gonna go to shit!"

"How many of these do we have" Kate asked Simon, "Tons. Like thousands" He answered grabbing the EpiPens from Kate's hand. "Wait, EpiPens?" Deena questioned, "Epinephrine, also known as adrenaline. This is what brings her back. This is Jesus!" He said shaking the pens in his hands.

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"Sam's blood marks the spot"

Gin wrote an x onto her little sister's chest, "Be safe, ok. Listen to Kate and do whatever she tells you too" Gin spoke pulling her sister close to her chest. "Gin, if I die. Tell mom I wasn't a virgin" Sav spoke making Gin have a questioning look upon her face "Your not a virgin?"

"No, I am. I just don't want everyone to think I was.
Are you virgin" Sage question trying to get the topic off her, causing Gin to look away. "Holy Shit. Your not" Sage shocked herself, "That's not the point. Just stay safe Sae" Gin ended and walked over to Simon.

"Be safe" He said before she could even get there "I will" she spoke and then buried her face into his face. "Don't let Ruby Lane get you please" she muffled "I won't" he pulled out of the hug and looked down on her.

They both leaned into each other and kissed goodbye "Goodbye" "Bye" they ended walking into their separate ways.

"We got back door patrol" He pointed to Josh and wrapped his arm around his shoulder starting to walk off. "Hey" Kate stopped them, she headed over to them and kiss Josh. "We'll run interference up here" Kate walked off pointing towards Sae, causing the girl to walk over Kate.

"And, I'll be on look out" Gin started walking with a thumbs up.

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Kate and Sage walked around the store, Kate was shopping "Why do you need nail polish" Sage questioned, "Don't question it Sae" Kate responded looking over to the girl. "Do you have a lighter" Sage asked, "Yeah why" Kate interrupted by the girl dropping an item in the cart.

"It's hairspray, if you spray it onto the flame of a lighter it will make the fire ten times bigger. It's a defense mechanism" Sage explained, "Got it" Kate slightly smiled. Her smile instantly disappeared at the sound of metal clattering, causing both the girls to look into the direction.

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Gin wondered into the candy section, looking at all the different types. Her eyes landed on KitKats she grabbed one, at a time.
She slowly shoved three into her back pocket of her jeans.

"Holy Shit, is that a Cookie's and Creme one" she asked herself before shoving it into her over pocket. Her excitement stop with the sound of something dragging on the ground heading her way.

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"Kate, Skull Mask" Sage whispered to Kate
"Ok, Stay by me and do what I say ok" Kate told her, getting a nod in response. Screams left Deena's mouth as Skull Mask came up behind them, Kate quickly got out the lighter and spraying him on the face with fire.

"Go! Go! Go!" Sage yelled at the couple, making them get out of the way. While Skull Mask was blinded, Kate and Sage quickly ran over to the bakery area, "Sae listen to me, if you see Skull Mask. Run. Go find someone, ok?" Kate said holding non Sae's hand.

"No. I'm not leaving you to get yourself killed by the same freak that killed Heather. I'm not doing that Kate" Sage refused Kate's order. "Sage , trust me on this one okay" Kate said letting go of her hand, looking over through the glass seeing the killer running towards them. "Run"
Kate spoke.

Sage heisted. Not wanting to leave Kate to die, but was then pushed by Kate. So she ran, tears dripping from her eyes, Sage knew Kate was gonna die. But she continued running like Kate said and she ran towards to the food section and bumped into a figure. "Sae. Are you ok? Where's Kate?" Josh said bringing her attention up towards his face.

"Josh, Behind you" Sage warned him gripping onto his hand and running.

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"Hello" Gin said still hearing something dragging on the ground, then turning around to see a 8 year old in mask, dragging a bat on the floor. "Their's a baby one too. You're kidding me" Gin muttered to herself before running in a direction, only to see Simon exiting the back room.

So she ran around all the aisles so Baby Barker wouldn't kill Him.

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Soon both Gin , Simon, Josh, and Sae were running right to Kate's dead body. Gin got there before the three and scream at the sight of her friends dead corpse, wondering about what happened to her sister.

The other's came through panting and gasping, luckily Gin saw 'The Camp Nightwing' Murder running right behind Simon, and grabbed onto his wrist pulling him away from the hit of the axe that once has killed hundreds.

But while Gin saved Simon, Sage and Josh saw her. They saw why Gin screamed, guilt built up in Sage. Tears fell from her eyes having the feeling it was her fault. It was her fault since she listened and she ran.

Her train of thought crashed from the view of the axe smashing into the ground. The four all looked towards the killer and ran into two different directions, both leading the same way. Gin and Simon went around all the aisles, while Josh and Sae ran into an aisle closest to Sam and Deena hoping to get there in time.

But they were wrong, The Skull Mask Killer came over to them, so fast they couldn't run. Josh fell to the ground about to be stabbed by Ryan. Sae being able to try and drag him away from Ryan checking behind her to make sure a killer come up behind them.

Gin and Simon almost got towards them before being cornered by all the killers besides The Skull Mask Killer. None of them trying to stab the two yet, the all just slowly got closer to the middle where the two were.

Deena looked over in both directions seeing that her and Sam could be the only ones remaining. So she pushed Sam further into the water, drowning her more. That's when it happened.

Deena felt the life of Sam rip out of her arms, she looked over to everyone. All of the killers disappeared from thin air, "Quickly! Help" causing the four to run over to Sam. Sage dragging Josh over to the EpiPens, throwing them onto the floor next to her.

They all sat there patiently while Sam woke up.