tag you're it // heathers au

four // friends

2005

"I got a good one. Most traumatic memory?" Lincoln asked the group as they were playing a game where they just asked questions randomly. It was something they often did when they were bored. "My parent's divorce is mine." He added, spinning around in his desk chair.

"Breaking my arm." Finn answered.

"My first period." Bianca laughed.

"I can't say mine unless you all swear never to tell anyone." Chloe said and everyone promised to keep her most traumatic memory a secret. "It's how my friend Bella died."

"How did she die?" Lincoln, forever nosy, asked.

"Jesse killed her. He's hurt anyone who's ever tried to be my friend since. But Bella was the first. He hit her in the temple with a croquet mallet. My second most traumatic memory is witnessing him killing my cat Pumpkin the same way, with the same mallet." Chloe confided in her two friends and boyfriend. "I only felt safe becoming friends with you guys because he's in California attending college."

"Jesus Christ, I thought my siblings were assholes." Lincoln said. Along with being in everyone's business, Lincoln was also pretty insensitive at times. He always intended well and often tries to lighten the mood if things get too bleak.

"Linc, you're such an ass." Bianca snorted. Lincoln and Bianca had an odd relationship. They'd been dating for a while but still often teased one another ruthlessly as they had since they were kids.

"You know you love me." Lincoln teased in response, planting a kiss on her lips before she could keep picking on him.

"Can't you two ever be serious?" Finn asked, noticing Chloe shrink into herself more after they started their endless banter. Finn always jumped to Chloe's defense, despite only knowing her for a short while. He loved Chloe.

"It's fine, I've moved on from the years of therapy." Chloe shrugged. "If you could commit any crime, what would it be?"

"Killing your brother." Finn mumbled.

"Really?" Chloe asked innocently.

"Yeah, I think all of us would." He replied.

"You don't mean that." Chloe said, laughing before Bianca asked her question. That was the last they talked about killing Jesse. They all put it out of their mind.