Scream x Riverdale

Chapter 1: In A Lonely Place

     It is 5 pm. Mr. Svenson, the school janitor of Riverdale High, had to stay back a few hours because he wanted to finish his cleaning. He was procrastinating all day. School ended at 3 pm. By 3:30, all students and staff were gone for the weekend. Svenson was all alone in the school. He pulled out the mop and the bucket from the supply closet. He felt something a bit, odd about the supply closet. It was dark in there, so he just let it go and didn't investigate. He closed the door and rolled the mop bucket to the start of mopping the hallway. Then, he dunked the mop head into the water that is in the bucket.
     "Honestly, I hate this damn job. Cleaning up for a school? How pathetic." he said out loud. It echoed throughout the school hallways.
     Then, he pulled the mop out of the bucket and starting mopping the hallway floor. He was doing it quickly and badly. There was a sudden ring from his back pocket. It was his phone. He pulled his phone out from his pocket. He received a text message. The text message ID said "Unknown."
     "Yes. Very pathetic of a job. I can put you out of your misery if you want" Svenson read out loud. He looked around.
     "H-Hello? Is anyone there?" His voice made it so obvious that he was scared. He got no answer.
     "Look, whoever you are, you're not scaring me. Enough of this little prank and go home." Just as he finished that sentence, his phone received another text message. He was startled and let out a little scream because it hit him with surprise.
     "This isn't a fucking prank!" He read out loud again.
     "Who the fuck is this? Stop messing around, kid. I can report you for harassment to the principal and you can get suspended. Try me, I dare you." There was no reply to that statement either. He walked back to the mop bucket. Suddenly, his phone rang. Caller ID: Unknown. Svenson answered it, carefully and slowly.
     "Hello?" he said, his voice trembling. An ugly, raspy voice was on the other line.
     "So you think you can just fucking taddle-tail to the principal about me? Think again! You will pay for what you did as a child to MY family! Better run." The other line hangs up. Svenson looks down his phone in terror. Just then the supply closet door swings open and out comes a tall figure dressed in a ghost face costume you get from a Party City store or something. He also had a hand behind his back. Svenson screamed.
"Who are you?!" he screamed. "What do you want?!" The killer showed what he was hiding behind his back. A big butcher knife. When he pulled it out there was a loud PHRING sound. The killer started charging towards Svenson. Svenson starts running.
"HELP!!! ANYONE??!" As he's running, Svenson trips over the bucket full of dirty water and then slips on the water. The killer lingers over him, staring him down. The killer gets his knife and stabs Svenson in his stomach. Svenson screams in agony. Then, he pulls out a little device and holds it to his mouth. The same raspy voice comes on. "I've been wanting to do this for years." And the killer stabs him once more in Svenson's heart. Blood is leaking everywhere. The killer then starts dragging the body away.

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     It's now Monday morning. Archie is getting ready for school and runs downstairs about to leave.
     "Hold up, Archie. Before you leave, throw the trash out." said his dad, Fred.
     "Dad, I'm already late to school, can't it just wait?"
     "Oh my god, Archie. Why are you so fucking lazy? Just take the damn trash out! What's so fucking hard to understand? I swear to god, man. Why is everything a problem to you?"
      "Dad okay calm down! I'm gonna do it now, jesus! God, you got a serious problem." Archie throws on his backpack and gets the bag of trash.
     "I'm going to school now. Bye." Archie walks to the front of his house to the trash cans and throws the trash in, angrily. He starts walking away from home, off to school.
     "God he's so fucking annoying." He says to himself. "Why did I agree to stay with him? He makes my life miserable at times!! God I fucking hate him!" Just then, Archie's phone starts ringing. He pulls it out of his front pocket. Caller ID: Unknown.
      "Hello?" he answers. An ugly, raspy voice answers.
      "God, Archie why are you so mad?"
      "What? Who is this?"
      "You know, ranting, about anything, even your own dad, is a good way to relieve stress. So go on! Rant on some more and tell off your dad, to yourself or course." Archie looks around.
      "Wh— Are you watching me? Who the hell is this?"
      "You'll see me soon." The line goes dead as the voice on the other line hangs up. Archie looks around again, creeped out.

—
     Just as Archie expected, he's a little late to school. But he does meet up with his friends, Betty & Jughead, and his girlfriend, Veronica.
     "Hey there Archiekins." Veronica says. She then hugs him. "How was your weekend?"
     "Oh you know, it was with my dad so not good, as usual."
     "I don't even know how you can tolerate him!" says Betty. "If I were you, I'd move out."
     "Yes, Betts. Because he's totally of legal age to live on his own now." says Jughead. He chuckles. "We're sophomores, remember?"
     "I meant, like for him to live with his mom or something."
     "Hey, do you ever know why she left you and your dad?" Veronica asked.
     "No, but ever since, he's been making my life a living hell. Like really, it's my fault that your wife moved out? And now you're letting all of your anger out on me? Whatever."
     "I'm sorry, Arch." says Jughead.
     "Yeah me too." says Betty.
     "If you want you can come over to my house after school so you don't have to face your dad right after." says Veronica.
      "Thank you, Ronnie." He smiles. Suddenly, there's a loud scream from down the hall. They all turn the way the scream was heard.
      "What's going on?" asks Betty.
      "I don't know, let's go see." says Archie. They all run down the hall. They make their way through a group of kids surrounding the supply closet.
      "Someone call the police!" somebody yelled.
      "I can't look! I feel like I'm going to throw up!" another kid yelled. Archie then sees it. The school janitor, dead. Literally gutted from his neck to his groin. To make things worse, he was hanging upside down in the supply closet. Archie turned away.
     "Oh my god! Someone call the cops!" yelled Betty.
     "I'll do it!" said Jughead. Veronica turned to Archie and hugged him, tears in her eyes. He takes her away from the scene and the big group of kids.

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     The police were no where near lenient. They were yelling at everyone like it was their fault the school janitor is dead. One policeman just walked away from talking with Cheryl. Archie walks up to her.
"Cheryl? What was that cop talking to you about? And are you okay? You seem kind of..." Cheryl's cuts off Archie.
"Terrified? Scared? Traumatized? Well yeah, I am!" Her voice was very loud. Veronica walks their way.
"What's going on over here? Why are you yelling, Cheryl?" she asks.
"I was just trying to explain to Archie here, that I was the one that found Mr. Svenson's body!"
"What? Oh my god! That must've been traumatizing!" says Veronica.
"It was!"
"I am so sorry, Cheryl. I had no idea." says Archie.
"Here, let's go over here." says Veronica. The three of them walk over to where Betty and Jughead are.
"Guys. Cheryl just told us some deep shit." says Veronica.
"What do you mean?" Betty & Jughead asked
"Cheryl? You explain it." says Veronica.
"Well... I was walking to class because the bell rang. There was a foul stench in my nose and I had no idea where it was coming from. I felt the source of the smell was coming from the supply closet. I walked over to it carefully and saw that it was coming from the closet. Covering my nose, I opened it, quickly. And then I saw Mr. Svenson's corpse hanging there. That's when I screamed my head off." Betty and Jughead looked at each other in sorrow.

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Later on, after about an hour of investigating, the police have announced to students & the school board to resign school for today and at least the rest of the week.
"Damn. A whole week off of school?" says Archie.
"I know right! This is going to be great!" Jughead says. He's so full of enthusiasm and excitement. Archie looks at him, confused.
"Jug, there's a murderer on the loose! How can this possibly make you happy?" asks Betty.
"Yeah. And with us home alone all day, who knows what will happen to us." Archie says. It brings a sudden quietness in the group.
"Well.." says Veronica, breaking the silence. "Let's go home then. I cannot stand another second being in here." Everyone nods and makes their way to the exit of the building.