Ghost

Confront

Julie drops her phone on the ground, trembling and shrieking at the Snap she received from the killer. Mr. Borne hears the phone fall, turns around, and dashes to Julie and holds her as she sobs, covering her mouth.

"What is it?" he says in a panicked state.

"He sent me that on Snapchat okay?" she says picking up the phone from the ground. She grabs it and quickly screenshots it before it disappears, showing her father the gruesome image. He shakes his head and grabs Julie's shoulder and starts to walk faster to the office.

"Come on, we have to hurry." he says. They sprint down the hallway, passing up lockers and old posters promoting the new Cinema Club.

The killer is teasing her in a horrific way. He's playing with her; playing with her sanity. John is her weakness. He might have hurt her in a tremendous way, but he still showed how much he cared. Asking her to prom was his ideal apology, but he never even got the chance to ask her. Then again, the people she was going to go with are now dead.

Mr. Borne and Julie budge into Principal Howard's office, who is gazing out of his window at the football game. He jumps at the sound and turns around. Giving a sigh of relief, he sits down in his chair.

"Please, sit." he says.

Mr. Borne and Julie approach his desk and sit down in the chairs in front of his desk.

"Howard, listen to me. This killer is coming after all of us." he says with his hands on the desk.

"He's sure as hell not coming for me. I already told Fred to watch me."

"That's not the point, Howard. He's going after my daughter. He's going after her friends, and he won't stop."

"Oh please, how do you know?"

"Howard. The nurses back at the hospital showed me security footage of this guy sneaking in to her hospital bed and killing her friend. He held her, damn it!"

Julie looks at her father with widened eyes, surprised at what she's learned. He held her back at the hospital?

"Then why didn't he kill her then!"

"You're a piece of shit, Howard. Don't you dare say that!" Mr. Borne exclaims.

"Well you know what Patrick, that's very ironic of you to say since you bullied me when we were in high school together!"

"Damn it, Howard. That's the past! Leave it!"

"Where the fuck is Leslie?" he yells. "Get the fuck out of my office."

"Listen Howard. All I'm asking is for you to close school for a while until we catch this fucker."

"No, Patrick. That's outside-of-school business."

Mr. Borne rolls his eyes and leans back in his chair. Meanwhile, Julie leans forward and puts her hands on Principal Howard's desk.

"Mr. Howard, listen to my Dad, please. My friends are dead." she says tearing up. Howard looks at her with regret pouring out of his gaze.

"You know wha-"

Everything goes black.

"What the hell?" Howard says.

"The power went out." Mr. Borne says. As he gets up from his chair, his phone begins to ring. Mr. Borne feels inside his pocket and grabs his phone. Meanwhile, Julie turns on her flashlight, lighting up the office.

"It's Tom." he says. He answers the call. "Tom?"

"Borne. Listen to me, I added some contrast and brightened the pixels in the video and I saw the Clear Creak logo on the side of a wall! He's at the school!" Tom yells through the phone. Mr. Borne widens his eyes and hangs up.

"Julie, where is there a chair and a big school logo on the side of a wall?" he says.

"Uh, the-"

"The storage rooms behind the concession stands." Howard says.

"Oh my god."

"What, Dad?"

"He has John there."

Principal Howard takes off his suit coat and pulls out a baseball bat from under his desk. Julie and Mr. Borne look at him, approving of his choice.

"Let's go." he says. The trio walk out his office in the dark, Julie still shining her light in front of them. Howard opens the office door carefully, making sure no one is there. The halls are completely dark, limiting their vision.

As they progress through the dark school, the floors begin to tint to a brown-ish hue. Julie notices this and realizes the floors are covered in blood. Patrick and Howard notice this aswell, slowing their steps. Their hearts begin to race as they get closer and closer to the source of the blood. As they approach it, the blood forms into an arrow, pointing in the opposite direction of where they are supposed to go to save John. They look at each other, each with a confused glance.

"Okay, this is my stop." says Howard. "You guys should follow the arrow, I'll go get John."

"I'm the one with the gun, Howard." says Mr. Borne.

"Patrick, I'm pretty sure a serial killer wouldn't be behind a concession stand with a game going on. Plus, this weirdo has fucking bloody arrows pointing somewhere else. You have the gun, so I'm good. I'll be right back." he says.

Mr. Borne shakes his head and follows the arrows with Julie, who is constantly trembling.

Principal Howard dashes down the other hallway, clenching his baseball bat tightly. Everything is still dark. Howard pulls out his phone and taps the screen, turning on his flashlight. He walks with the phone in one hand and the bat in the other.

Suddenly, his phone begins to ring. A Skype call. Odd, he only uses Skype to call his mother. The username displayed is howarddies. He accepts the call, raising his eyebrow in confusion. The camera displays a bright light shining in front of it, and that's when Howard throws his phone. The killer ascends from the darkness and jabs Howard in the back with a deep thrust. The killer holds his mouth as he repeatedly stabs Howard in the back, widening the punctures with each one until he stops squirming. Howard drops to the floor, twitching as the blood gushes from his back. He lie dead in the middle of the hall. The phantom dashes down the corridor, the bloody weapon still in his hand.