Ghost

Reveal

Heavy, dark, and gritty electronic music begins to blare out of the gym as Julie and her father slowly open the door. Everything is lit up. The heavy bass pounds on the floor and through their chests as they begin to realize what is happening: dead bodies are sitting at tables with lit red candles, dry blood stained on the chairs. Julie gasps and begins to walk backwards as her father finally steps inside the gym.

"What the fuck!?" he exclaims as he sees the twisted set up in front of him. As he reaches for his radio, the black phantom soars from behind the bleachers and slams his knife into Patrick's head, knocking him down on the floor. Julie hears the thud and turns around, giving out a spine-chilling scream as she watches the killer take slow steps towards her.

"Please don't hurt me." she cries as she steps back in the bloody gym. The walls are splattered with blood, and what is left of Dana's body is hanging from the stage, a crown covering where her head should be. Julie's beautiful dress is sprayed with blood as it flows from Dana's corpse. Behind her, the words PROM? are splattered on the wall.

"You like it?" the killer says. "This is all for you, Julie."

Julie, shaking as she walks backwards, hits the front of the stage. She turns around and witnesses Dana's body hanging over it and gives out a howl. She holds her head and turns back around at the killer, who stands before her, his black cloak and pale Ghost Face mask soaked in fear from her eyes.

"Why are you doing this to me?" she cries.

"They always ask why. Why'd you kill my friend? Why'd you do this? Why'd you do that? Why? Why? WHY!?" he rages. "Yet you girls never understand why we do it. You never see the good side in it all. I was saving you, Julie. Saving you from the fake life you were going to live throughout highschool. I've been watching you since day one, Julie. You make me sick. You let people walk over you, and just forgive them. It's sick. Lena and Angie? They picked on you for such a long time, and Angie even slept with your boyfriend, and all you could do was sit there and let them continue their game? John, for God's sake. He comes up to you and tells you he loves you, and you still believe him!?"

Julie stands there in silence and shock, trembling as she stands in the middle of the dead party. The music continues to bounce through the gym, the lights still shining over the corpses of her so-called friends sitting at their tables.

"Who are you?" she says.

"I'm the one who's going to make it all better." he says. The dreaded killer lifts his pale mask, revealing his face. Unmasked, Julie gives a gasp.

Dean.