- Third POV -

        That same evening, after The Rhinestone Slasher unexpectedly showed up at the Jenson House with a spiked baseball bat, Cherry runs away with The Rhinestone Slasher saunters after her.

The Rhinestone Slasher tries to hit her with his spiked baseball bat, but he makes a mess in the living room by smashing the coffee table and tearing up the soda by dragging the spiked baseball bat on it and the wall.

Cherry scurries inside her grandmother's bedroom and closes the door.

"Cherry? What is going on, darling child?" Granny Jeana Jenson asked her granddaughter.

"The Rhinestone Slasher is in our house." Cherry told her grandmother.

Jeana sits up straight while laying in her bed. Cherry then, notices it's quiet downstairs.

"It's gotten quiet, Grandma." Cherry said, opening the door and slowly walks in the hallway and gently walks back down the stairs and into the living room.

The Rhinestone Slasher is gone, but he left a mess in the living room.

"Cherry?" Jeana said from the hallway.

"Stay where you are, Grandma." Cherry said, taking out her phone and dials Sheriff Dave's phone number.

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JENSON HOME

Later that day, after I received a phone call from Sheriff Dave Williams saying that The Rhinestone Slasher was at the Jenson House, Agent Piper, Joanna and I are with Cherry and her grandmother, Jeana Jenson.

I'm gently leaning backwards against the staircase with Cherry with my arms folded. And Cherry is sitting on the stairs.

"So, The Rhinestone Slasher just showed up at your house?" I asked Cherry, gently leaning against the wall.

"Yeah, he did." Cherry told me.

"How's your grandma?" I asked her.

Cherry looks at me. "You know, you sounded like Violet when you asked me about my grandmother. But she's fine. I convinced her to go back to sleep."

Joanna walks up to me. "Angie? We found something in the kitchen."

Cherry and I exchange looks at each other and we follow Joanna into the kitchen and suddenly, a horrible smell of a dead deer lays on the floor in a puddle of blood.

"Oh my gosh." I said, gently covering my nose with my hand. And looks at the kitchen wall.

COME FIND ME SWEET ANGIE!
OR I WILL FIND YOU! Written in blood from the dead deer.

"What the hell?" Cherry said. "Seems like The Rhinestone Slasher knows who you are, Angie."

"Yeah, he does." I said.

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JEN'S DINER

Later that late afternoon, I'm sitting in a booth table with a mug of caramel latte.

Angie (VO) The Rhinestone Slasher knows who I am. He killed a John Doe partygoer, and then, he made it personal by going after Cherry. I must be missing something. And then, it hits me like a lightbulb as I just figured it out.

I pick up my phone from the booth table and redials The Rhinestone Slasher's phone number.

"Hello, Angie." The Rhinestone Slasher greeted me on the phone in a deep voice modulator. "Have you figured out who I am?"

"I have." I told him. "Meet me at the Arrington Park alone. And I'll give you your answer."

"Alright then, I'll be waiting." The Rhinestone Slasher told me and hangs up his phone.

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ARRINGTON PARK

That evening, I'm sitting on a bench, waiting for The Rhinestone Slasher to show up. As I wait, I take out my phone and dials Aiden's phone number.

"Hey, Ang. Where are you?" Aiden asked me on the phone, worried. "The guys and I are at the Sotheby's Lounge Center?"

"Aiden? I want you to know that I love you. I don't know what's gonna happen next, but I just wanted you to know that I love you with all of my heart." I told him on the phone.

"Angie? Aiden said, becoming worried. "What are you up to? Where are you?"

"I love you, Aiden." I told him on the phone and hangs up.

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A few minutes had passed and I'm still sitting on the bench. I hear footsteps slowly approaching.

I look towards The Rhinestone Slasher gently holding a pistol in his gloved hand.

"Stop?!" I exclaimed, getting up to my feet and slowly walks up, putting distance between myself and The Rhinestone Slasher. "I know who you are."

"What is your answer?" The Rhinestone Slasher asked in his deep voice modulator tone.

"It's you, isn't it?" I asked. "The only person that I can go by my nickname "Sweet Angie" is two people; the psychopath, Amy Tooney. And you, the sociopath, Quinton Kiermont."

The Rhinestone Slasher puts his pistol in his back pocket and gently pulls off his pullover hoodie and his Rhinestone mask, revealing himself as Quinton Kiermont with a healed burnt wound on his left cheek.

"I knew you were the smart one out of the best friend bunch." Quinton Kiermont said to me with a serious look on his face.

"Why?" I asked.

"I had to get your attention as a Special Agent, so, I did by killing that male John Doe partygoer at The Nightlingriff Speakeasy Nightclub. But that wasn't quite enough, so, I went after your gal pal, Cherry Jenson." Quinton Kiermont told me. "I'm fond of you, Angie. You can say I have a twisted affection for you."

"How did you escape?" I asked.

"The mist, of course." Quinton Kiermont told me. "Your antagonistic story is over with Amy Tooney. But now, your story begins with me."

Quinton and I exchange tense looks at each other.

"I'll see you around, Sweetie Angie." Quinton said with a grin and vanishes into a puff of gray smoke.

I become bewildered.

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SOTHEBY'S GYM CLUB LOUNGE CENTER

That night, the Saunders Gang and I regrouped with each other and are sitting on the sofas.

I told everyone that Quinton Kiermont was The Rhinestone Slasher serial killer who escaped from the Arrington Asylum during the mist.

"So, Quinton Kiermont was The Rhinestone masked Slasher?" Jayce said.

"Yeah." I said. "And that's not all, he told me that my story with Amy Tooney is over, and that my story with him is just the beginning."

"The beginning of what?" Aiden asked.

"I don't know." I told him. "And plus, he vanished into a puff of gray smoke."

"Gosh, this gets even odder than he already is." Jed said.

"Yeah, this is Arrington, nothing is the same anymore." Zach said.

Everyone exchange worried looks at each other, not knowing what to do now that the sociopath, Quinton Kiermont, is back in the picture.

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