Scream For Me

Chapter 10

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The police station as loud and bustling with activity and her head throbbed. She wished that they had given her some stronger pain medication before they had taken her from the hospital.

She had gotten off with a surprisingly clean bill of health, a few stitches and no concussion, and some heavy bruising across her leg. She hoped his arm would take a lot longer to heal than hers did.

Alyssa sighed and leaned back in the uncomfortable chair.
Her parents were talking to the chief and she was growing bored.
The coffee in her hands had long since gone cold and she placed it on the desk before scanning the room.

If she had thought it was loud before than she believed the place had now exploded.

A new body.
That was all she caught out of the conversation. So he had gone and killed someone else in her place.
Her stomach flipped.

"The fucker left a new message, 'Let's Play Together Again Soon', now he's mocking us!"
She shuddered and wrapped her arms around herself.
That wasn't a message to the police. That was a message for her.
What if she couldn't get away next time?

She wanted so badly to tell her parents to tell the police.
But they couldn't protect everyone, they couldn't protect her.
He would cut through anyone who stood in his way if she told them he would be visiting her again.

If she were going to be honest she would say she was terrified but a small, microscopic part of her brain was also slightly curious.
Curiosity.
It was a dangerous thing though if it killed a cat it could surely kill the idiot girl she was making herself into if she faced Ghostface alone.

Her cell phone rang and she looked at the caller ID.
It was an unlisted number and with a shaking hand she answered.

"Hello?"

"Hello Alyssa, did you get my message yet?"

"Yes."

Anger light her insides and burned away the horror she was feeling.

"You know texting people works just as well as writing in blood!" She growled softly into the phone.

He laughed, a rich deep laugh that wasn't entirely evil as his laughter before had suggested.

"Yes, but this was just so much more fun! Now remember, keep out little secret or I might start regretting the decision to let you live. See you soon Alyssa." There was a dead tone and she hung up.

Placing her phone in her back pocket. That settled it.
She was not going to let anyone else die because of her, she would do whatever it took, as long as it kept the people she loved safe.
That was all that mattered.

The chief and her parents approached her a moment later and her mom said that she was taking off work to stay with her and her father said that even though he had tried to get off his boss wouldn't let him.

"Also we're going to have two officers who will watch the house and make sure that nothing like this happens again, alright sweetie.
I'm so sorry that we weren't there for you." her mom began to cry and her father looked misty.

She was suddenly pulled into a warm but crushing hug. "We could have lost you!" her mom sobbed.

"No." there was an incomprehensive silence. "No. you can't stop working because of me. And I'm not going to be followed around by the police." She sucked in a deep breath, she was going to have to break their hearts to keep them safe.

"They can't protect me. They can't protect anyone, that's why he's still running around out there. I'm not going to let this stop my life. if he wanted to kill me he could have while I was unconscious.
I'm not going to tolerate being cooped up like a criminal just for not dying."

Her voice was like a double edged sword and she felt her own heart bleed as her parent's broke.

"Now take me home so I can go to sleep. I will not stay here anymore, I've given my statement and there is not further need of my assistance here."

"Are you sure that you want to do this young lady?" The chief said with a deep frown.

"Yes. This is my final decision and if you go against my wishes," she addressed her parents, "than I will never forgive you." she took a deep breath as she turned away from them.
"I will spend every second of my life hating you." she walked towards the doors, trying to block out the sound of her mother crying and the shocked silence that always followed her words when she spoke so passionately.

He had won this round and she could practically hear his silent laughter following after her.

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