❪ chapter two ! ❫
ii.              killer

RUE SAT ON HER BED, ethan beside her. "We could watch a movie?" Ethan suggested, Rue shook her head. "What are we gonna watch?" He asked, picking up the remote from beside him.

"A scary movie," she paused, "to go along with the spooky mood." Ethan began scrolling through the horror movies category, "How about, I Know what you did last summer? Or have you already watched it?"

"I haven't." Rue smiled. "Okay, let's watch."

While Rue was focused on the movie, Ethan was looking at her. He noticed she smiled when she was focusing on something, "You're beautiful." He let out, smiling. Rue turned her head, chuckling a little, "Thank you, no one has really said that to me."

A soft smile appeared on Ethan's face. They began watching the movie again, and whilst doing so Ethan began inching his hand closer to Rue's.

Rue looked down at her hand, hers and Ethan's were together. Something about this moment felt so perfect to Rue.

There was then a knock on the door, "Come in." Chad walked inside the first thing he noticed were Rue and Ethan holding hands. Once Rue realized she let go. "Anyways, you guys need to come out and see this."

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Rue sat on the ground, everyone was focused on the TV.

     "Cute boy." Quinn smiled, "nice."

     "Their names have been released by police. Jason Carvey and Greg—" The new reporter spoke.

     "Holy shit, that's that chode from our film studies class. The one obsessed with our agenda." Mindy told everyone.

     "Yeah, I think I remember him." Rue placed her chin on her hand, focusing more on the TV.

     "Various Ghost face costumes have the character popularized by the stab movie franchise—"

     "Pack a bag, we leave in ten." Sam rushed over to the kitchen. "Sam." Tara rushed over to her.

     "We're getting out of the city." Sam continued.

     "What?" The man from the apartment furrowed his brows.

     "Thank you very much, Suspicious new guy but I think we got it from here. Have a good night, and get home safe. Go, go, go, go." Chad hurried the man out of the apartment.

     Rue stood up, making her way to Chad, "Jesus, my head is already pounding."

     "Hold on. No wait, cause let's talk about this for a second. Cause this— this might not have anything to do with us." Tara tried to tell Sam.

     "Are you serious?"

     "It's a big city. It's Halloween, everybody's wearing masks—" Tara tried explaining.

     "Tara, Tara. This isn't a coincidence. You knew him."

     "Barely."

     "Chad, Mindy, Rue, back me up." Sam looked at them.

     "I mean it is a little bit," Chad spoke.

     "Close to," Mindy added.

     "Home..." Rue finished.

     "See." Sam looked back at Tara slowly. "Quinn your dad's a cop, right? Can you call him and find out what's going on? before you make the unilateral decision to abandon my college education and flee the fucking state."

     "I'm calling him now." Quinn looked at the two.

     "Thank you."

     Beeping began ringing on Sam's phone, she slowly walked over to it.

     "Who is it?" Tara asked, She, hung up the phone. "Why did everyone just freak out when her phone rang?" Ethan asked looking at everyone.

     "Did I not explain this to you." Rue sighed.

     "Sam? My dad wants to talk to you." Quinn handed her phone to Sam.

❪ the phone call ! ❫

     "Mr. Bailey, hi," Sam spoke.

     "Hey Sam, I was actually just about to call you."

     "My sister thinks I'm probably overreacting."

     "Unfortunately, you're not."

     "What do you mean? What's going on?"

     " I'm afraid I need you to come down to the station."

    
     Rue looked at Sam, "Well, what did he say?!"

     "We need to come down to the station."

published ; 03.19.23