Unannounced//Thomas SandersSides

4

A scoffs "We'll discuss who that is right after you tell us what you saw Thomas!" He demands. A waves his hands "Stop avoiding the subject at hand." The anxious mess was stopped by Patton's calm gentle hand on his shoulder, he tensed then relaxed sitting down on the end of the stairs next to Thomas. Roman wonders near the TV of the corner of the room. Patton shuffles in front of the blinds, they all look utterly exhausted.

Moments of awkward silence pass, Roman notices Thomas' curious/frightened glances at the bleeding hole in his forehead, A's ringed bruise around his neck, and Patton's pale green skin and it began to annoy him. I suppose we tell him what is wrong with us"
Patton shouts "ROMAN!"
"What? For once Princey is right" A snickers earning a "Thank you" from Roman but then a quick offended noise.

Thomas gets up and walks towards the center of his living room eyeing the three corpses.
"I am very curious, maybe I'd feel better and perhaps tell you more about my dream and who the fourth person is if you'd tell me your stories." He shrugs smugly knowing he'd get under at least one of their skins and convince him. "Gee, maybe I'll even call off Joan and not call the police or an exorcist or whatever!" The others sigh and nod at one another individually, Roman steps forward.

He smiles brightly and gestures towards the entire room grandly "Well I suppose I shall go first! After all beauty before age." He announces and clear his throat dramatically, he reaches his hand out towards Thomas' ceiling fan light and dims the room. Thomas looks at him wide eyed
"What the-" "shhhhhhhhhhhhhh" Roman holds up a finger to his lips. "My story mustn't get interrupted as it is a tale of love, tragedy, and dramatics" A scoffs "Everything you do is dramatic" "SHUSH" he cries. A hush falls over the room.

"My Apologies Thomas, I do not wish for you to see me this way" Roman says embarrassingly. His face grows red, "Any who, on with the story", and with a wave of his hands Thomas' living room alters into a giant theater from the 19920's. Golden walls surrounding them decorated with beautiful red swirls, bright lights hung above the dome shaped ceiling giving small spotlights towards the huge stage in front of them. Thomas and Roman stood off to the side by the staircase leading into the stage.

Thomas jumps at the sudden location change, his attitude quickly turned to one of curiosity as he grazed his fingers over the wall feeling the designs.
"Where are we?" He asked and looked over at Roman who had his arms crossed as he intensely watched the stage, almost timing the actions of the actors and crew on the right and left of the stage.
"Why, we're at the most popular theater in my home town. I used to perform here" he says proudly flashing a beautiful grin, Thomas' mouth gasped open.

"You mean, you're an actor? I assumed you were an actual prince" Roman took slight offense to the Prince comment but brushed it off, because Thomas was in awe of Roman right now and who was he to ruin this opportunity?

Roman smiles smugly "One of the best in my time mi amigo, here we are in San Miguel de Allende."
"You're Hispanic?" "My father was from Spain." He says to explain why he was on the rather pale side, Thomas nodded. "Was this your first performance?" He asked curiously? He looks around at the people wondering why no one has spotted them yet, Roman chuckles "They can't see us, it is merely a flashback". He gulps remembering Thomas' question.

"Was not my first, but unfortunately.... my last" He points to a man on stage in a white Prince uniform, covered in golden sparkly swirls and a bright red sash, it was Roman, but less dead. "That was me" his voice was slightly shaky and dull at the same time, he gestures to the crowd but to one person particularly. It was a man in a dark black cloak, he had his face covered by a white masquerade mask.
Thomas looks up at Roman "Who is that?" But Roman only stays quite and gestures for Thomas to watch the strange man.

Moments after Roman begins to sing his ending song, Thomas knows the song, it was in Spanish but he's heard his friend Valerie sing it plenty. He was aware of the dramatic high note that was about to come leaving the audience frozen in there seats, except for one. Masked man stands up and takes out a shiny object from his cloak aiming it at Roman as he belts his heart out, before security or anyone could scream a loud bang shocks the theater. Roman falls to the floor dead.

His co star screams in fear as she runs off the stage, people in the theater tackle and shove one another as they try to escape before they become the next victims, some fell to the floor crying as their beloved actor was assonated. Security is up on their feet in an instance and searches for the killer, Thomas spots him in the crowd and watches as he takes off towards the theaters exit.

Roman's body laid lifeless on the stage as blood poured out as well as chunks of his insides stained the floor, a clean shot in the center of his forehead, his eyes widened in shock. Thomas starts breathing heavily again as he felt nauseous, gripping his skull to calm himself down and tried to find a way out of the theater.
"Roman take me out! Please!"

Roman nods snapping his fingers and they arrive back in Thomas' living room where the other ghost stand in their exact spots. Patton looks up immediately hearing Thomas' distressed noises and rushes towards him.
"Ro, What did you do to my son!?" He smooths out Thomas' hair telling him to breathe in and out.

"I showed him my death, I personally thought he could handle it with how much horror movies he watches"
'Why the hell are they watching my every move!?' Thomas thinks. A gives Roman a look of anger
"Movies are different than real life Roman! To actually see that could be scarring". Roman nods regretting his choice, Thomas pats his shoulder

"A warning would be good next time, but I'm sorry you went out that way.."

Patton frowns then quickly puts on a giant cheesy smile showing off his dimples. "Well for now he should rest, order a pizza, watch some cartoons, mayb-"

CRASH!

Roman has a tragic death.
This will definitely go under some editing, but I wanted to bring out a chapter today before I didn't have time. If anything needs to be fixed please tell me, constructive criticism is appreciated.

DISCLAIMER: I don't label myself as an author, I'm not here to offend actual good writers.