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「 1994 」

"Annabell has made some fast improvements however, I have some concerns about her mental health," The doctor informed Fiona and Jared who frowned. "What do you mean?" Fiona asked as she held Jared's hand. "Between being trapped to a bed and surrounded only by doctors and nurses, I'm worried her mental health has gone down and it may affect her social life should she continued to be trapped to a hospital bed," The doctor explained to them. "Okay, we can work to fix that. She doesn't have any friends here but we have family who could visit," Jared told the doctor who nodded his head with a small smile, "That would be best for Annabell's mental state."

Jared and Fiona organised for their family to visit which seemed to help Annabell more, a smile dancing on her lips as she hung out with her cousins and got spoilt by her aunts and uncles but Jared knew there was more they could do to help her. "If you can walk by yourself and the doctor clears you... we'll move back to Woodsboro," Jared promised Annabell who had perked up completely, she worked a little harder to improve herself rather than the lazy slow approach she had been doing before. When the doctors finally cleared her to leave the hospital, Annabell had been practically shaking in excitement to move back to the town that held some of her dearest memories.

"Also, this came for you, Annie," Fiona told her daughter as she packed her things, taking the envelope from her mother before sitting on her bed to read the letter. "Not again..." Annie muttered with a frown, the same love poem written in red ink on the paper promising they would be together one day. "The same as the last?" Fiona asked as Jared looked up from taking apart the drawers. "No name?" Jared asked her with a raised brow, jaw clenched tight in anger. "No name, just a promise we'll be together some day," Annie answered him before slipping it into a folder with the others, evidence of whoever it was. "Let's hope moving away stops it," Fiona voices while Annabell focuses her mind on seeing Billy and Stu again.

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「 February 1995 」

The familiar sign for Woodsboro, California sent Annabell's heart pumping, she hadn't expected to return to the town three years after leaving. She had been diagnosed with a tumour but after intense treatment and a risky operation, Annie Dalton pushed through and survived it all. However, it the midst of that, she had been begging her parents to return to the town where her best friends were. Fiona and Jared still owned the plantation where their home sat, it was still furnished and the move wouldn't be too much so when they accepted their daughter's pleas, Annie had never been more grateful for her parents than in that very moment.

But it made sense, they had almost lost their daughter to something they couldn't protect her from so giving in to her wishes was easy for them and their jobs made moving simple. Jared would give the world to his daughter the moment she asked for it and Fiona would respect any choice her daughter made. Annie wasn't certain how Billy Loomis and Stu Macher would respond to her return, she was terrified that they would have moved on from her or even forgot about her thinking she would never return, but how wrong she was, because every day both boys would sit on the steps of her home waiting for her family car to pull into the driveway.

And on the one day that her family's 1992 Cadillac Fleetwood pulled into that driveway, the two boys had been hanging out with their other friends. Annie climbed out of the car, adjusting her red and black plaid skirt that was matched with a slighty cropped band shirt and a demin jacket. "Home sweet home," Fiona spoke with a smile, she turned her head to her daughter who smiled back. "Let's get everything settled inside. I had a cleaner come through to tidy the place up," Jared told them. The three Daltons grabbed their respective bags and heading into their home.

Annie immediately rushed up to her old bedroom and opened the door excitedly, her eyes became misty at the sight of it. Nothing had changed except for one thing, the balcony door wasn't fully closed. She made her way over, almost tripping over a jacket on the floor causing her to furrow her brows in slight confusion. She lifted the jacket and looked it over, tilting her head as she smoothed it out noticing it was a men's jacket. She placed it on the back of her desk chair before opening the balcony that faced the back woods, noticing the vines beside the balcony had grown enough to make a ladder to her room.

She smiled slightly at the thought that maybe Billy or Stu still remembered her and had snuck their way into her room as a way to be close to her again. And to anyone else it may seem creepy or uncomfortable but to Annie, she found it sweet and promising that perhaps they could pick up right where they had left off prior to her leaving Woodsboro. With a shake of her head, she walked back into her room leaving the balcony door unlocked for them before unpacking her clothes into the walk-in wardrobe and her drawers, her fashion had changed since she was fifteen; now almost seventeen, she had gone from camo pants and baggy sweaters to plaid skirts and cropped shirts.

Later that night, Annie and her parents had settled in the living room eating pizza for dinner while watching Pulp Fiction followed by The Crow. Annie had gone to bed with a grin on her face and excitement to finish her Sophomore year at Woodsboro High. But she was more excited about seeing Billy or Stu before the weekend was over. Annie had moments where she would overthink, her mind trying to convince her that her boys had moved on to bigger and better things but she continued to fight that voice in her head trusting that they wouldn't push her away; so she hoped.

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It was a Saturday morning, Billy and Stu were hanging out together without their girlfriends for a moment of peace. "How are things going with Sidney?" Stu asked Billy with a teasing grin knowing that his best friend wasn't too keen with his girlfriend. "Shut up, Stu..." Billy told him sternly before noticing a certain car. "Doesn't that car belong to Jared Dalton?" Billy asked Stu, the taller of the two turned his head to the car and froze on the spot. The Cadillac was parked out the front of Blockbuster, the familiar number plate and scratches from when little Annie had attempted driving on her own stuck out to the two boys who shared a look.

Billy and Stu immediately turned to Billy's dads truck, climbing in before driving off to the house that held the girl they missed dearly. They pulled into the driveway, stopping the car before shutting it off and the two got out. They shared a glance before rushing up to the door, Stu knocking on it in a goofy pattern before it opened to reveal Fiona Dalton. "Oh my... William? Stuart? Is that you dears?" Fiona asked fondly, her smiling in adoration for the two boys she viewed as her own. "Mrs Dalton, it's great to have you back in town," Stu said before a familiar voice called out.

"Mom! Where did you put my boots?" Annie called from her room, two pairs of rushed steps came towards her from the door and before she could turn to see who it was, she was tackled to the floor. "Umpf-- what?" Annie breathed out from the impact, she turned her head and locked gazes with familiar dark eyes that lit up with warmth. "Billy?" Annie muttered before turning her head to see blue eyes looking into her own as she muttered, "Stuey?" The boys grinned at her, Annie wrapped her arms around her boys and closed her eyes, tears falling from her face in happiness.

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Annie was laying in the middle of her bed, Billy lying to her left with Stu on her right; the three of them were content within each others presence until the silence was broken. "What ended up happening?" Stu asked Annie, he was playing with the rings on her fingers. "Well, I went under treatment for around eight months which managed to shrink the tumour in my brain before they operated to remove it," Annie explained before moving her head and revealing the scar of her operation, "And then I spent almost five months learning how to talk, walk and do other things. The moment they cleared me, I begged my parents to bring me back."

Billy and Stu looked at Annie as she stared at the ceiling and continued, "I was so afraid that you boys would have possibly moved on thinking I wasn't going to return. I mean, I didn't want you guys to put your life on pause 'cause of me, I'd be upset if you did but I knew returning home the moment I was better was my plan no matter what." Billy wrapped his arm around Annie's waist pulling her into his chest before running his fingers through her hair, "We could never forget you, Annie, never. And we knew you'd return, it's something we never lost faith in." Stu moved closer to the two, wrapping his arm around both of them, "We're a trio and the distance never changed that."

Annie closed her eyes and snuggled into Billy's chest with Stu cuddled into her back, she let out a sigh of content as the boys smiled happy to have her in their arms. For the moment, Casey Becker and Sidney Prescott didn't exist, only Annabell Dalton who owned Billy and Stu's hearts from when the three of them were only thirteen years old. Fiona had wandered in to tell the three that dinner was ready ─ having assumed the boys would stay for dinner ─ but stopped seeing the three asleep in each others arms with small smiles dancing on their faces, she pulled the blanket over them and kissed each of their heads leaving them to sleep.

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Rosie's Note

Honestly, how damn adorable are they?!
I'm gonna be using my friendship with my two best friends to write theirs so some things may be ooc for Stuart and Billy but its part of their connection with Annie.

Also, I'm writing Billy and Stu semi how I want and will be expanding the timeline of the movie for some originality to my book. If you don't like my book, you can just leave.

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See you in the next chapter!