Arianna starts slightly panicking. "No. Keep your eyes open, Lana."

Tara slowly walks over to them with tears in her eyes and crouches down next to Arianna while looking at Alana. "S-she's gone, Ari"

Arianna looks at Tara with teary eyes. "No! She's not. Do not say that."

Tara looks at her sister sadly, "Ari.. come one. Yes she is." She stands up and tries her best to get Arianna away from Alana but to no avail.

"No. I'm not leaving her. "

Tara, still trying to pull her away, sighs sadly, "Ari babe. Come on. There's nothing we can do for her."

Arianna looks back at Tara, "Even if she is gone, who's gonna be there to comfort her brother? I'm not leaving.

Tara sighs and lets Arianna go. "You can still be there for him but we have to go. The paramedics are outside. Come on. " She tries to grab Arianna again but stops suddenly seeing Liam walk into room looking around. "Shit." She moves back slightly.

Arianna doesn't seem to notice. She wipes her eyes and looks up at Tara. "If the paramedics are here then go outside and get yourself checked out. I'll be outside once they come in here, alright?"

Tara hesitates but nods. "Yeah." She quickly glances at Liam before walking out.

Liam is looking at his sister, "Ari.. what happened?" He slowly starts making his way over to Arianna while still staring at Alana.

Arianna leans against the wall and places Alana's head into her lap before placing a hand over her own stab wound. "There is a slight possibility that she may or may not be- uh dead. She was stabbed three- no four times. Once in the chest, once in the thigh, and I think her arm. Oh and her hand," She lifts up her hand to show up and he grimaces, "And she was also shot."

Liam shakes his head, trying to think. "Wha- I- she's what? Dead? N-no she's not, you're lying. She's fine."

"I said there's a possibility. I don't believe she is. Just too much blood loss. She'll be okay." She lowers her voice so Liam doesn't hear, "Hopefully."

Liam doesn't seem hear the last part. "Too much blood loss? I-I can't go on without her. I-I have no one other than her." He walks over and sits down next to Alana moving the hair out of her face that stuck to it from sweat and blood. "I'm so sorry." Tears fall down his face but he doesn't care. "Lana I'm so sorry." He kisses her forehead.

Arianna throws her head and groans. "I'm so sorry..."

Liam looks up at Sam with tears in his eyes. "This is your fucking fault." He quickly stands up and makes his way over to her. "You were supposed to protect and look after her. Now she's dead and it's all your fault."

Sam looks at him shocked and feels tears well up in her eyes. "I-I sorry. I thought she could handle herself. I thought she's be o-"

Liam looks back at Alana then back at Sam pointing at Alana's body, immediately cuts her off, "Does she looks o-fucking-kay to you, Sam? Because from the fucking looks of it, she's not. She's dead. Fuc-" His voice breaks but he continues, "Fucking dead after I trusted you to look after her."

Sam's voice breaks, "I'm sorry. I'm so sorry."

Arianna slowly stands up and walks over to place herself next to Sam. "This isn't my sister's fault. It's mine. I could've gotten her out of here if I didn't give in to her stubbornness."

Liam looks at her confused, "What're you talking about?

She stayed quiet for a moment then responded, "After she was shot by Amber, I tried really, really hard to get her out of this house, but she refused to move. If I tried to move her myself, it would hurt her. She just laid there and told me I needed to get out of here and just leave her, but I told her I wasn't leaving until she did. I didn't wanna hurt her more than she already was, so I just let her lay there while I sat next to her. It's my fault, not Sam's."

"I-" Liam looks at Sam "I'm sorry" He looks back at Alana before making his way over and sitting down. He places her head in his lap gently. "God, you're such an idiot, y'know that?" He laughs through his tears before looking at Arianna. "What am I gonna do without her? I-"

Arianna walks over to the stairs next to them and sits down. "It's definitely going to take some time, but you're gonna be okay."

Liam puts a strand of hair behind Alana's ear and whispers, "I love you. Forever and always." He kisses her forehead once again before hearing paramedics rush in. "Shit. Ari, help me move her. Please." He looks at Arianna in desperation. 

Arianna groans but stands up walking over and bending down to help Liam move his sister off of him.

Liam stands up looking at Arianna. "Thank you by the way." He moves Alana over to the paramedics.

Arianna nods not saying anything and slowly makes her way outside.

Liam quickly follows after her, matching her pace. "I mean it. You tried to help her but she's too damn stubborn."

Arianna turns to face him with a reassuring smile. "I know you do."

Liam smiles before suddenly pulling her into a hug. "You are- were her best friend y'know."

Arianna hugs him back but keeps one hand on her wound. "Yea I know"

Liam suddenly realizes the condition she's in and immediately apologizes, "Sorry." He pulls away from her only to see EMTs and paramedics tending to her wound. He looks at an officer passing by. "Hey, sorry to interrupt you but is she gonna be okay?" 

The officer stop walking and looks at Liam with confusion on his face. "Which one?"

Liam looks at Alana and points at her looking back at the officer. "She's my sister."

The officer also looks at Alana before looking back at Liam and responding, "She's lost a lot of blood but she should be okay."

Liam sighs in relief and looks at Arianna with a small smile. "You hear that? She's gonna be okay." 

Arianna smiles and nods. "Thank the lords."

Liam looks back at the officer, "Thank you."

The officer nods and smiles, "Any time." He walks away.

Liam turns to Arianna and hugs her gently. "You should go get checked up."

She smiles and hugs him back before pulling away. "Yeah you're right. I promised Tara I'd be out there when the paramedics came in here anyways." She turns around and starts making her way outside.

Liam sees Sam walk up next to him and and looks over at her. "I'm sorry I yelled at you."

Sam doesn't look at him but replies, "It's fine. Nothing to worry about."

Liam looks at the ground and doesn't speak to her for a moment. "She's gonna be okay though. At least that's what an officer told me."

Sam nods before responding, "That's good. Great even. But right now I need to get to my own two sisters.

Liam nods in understanding, "Yeah I understand." He sadly smiles and sits on the porch steps.

Sam makes her way over to Arianna and Tara. "Hey you two."

Tara slightly smiles at her. "Hey. How's she doing?"

"She's going to be okay"

Tara looks at her other sister. "See. You still have your best friend." She then places a hand on her shoulder.

Arianna smiles and nods. "Yeah. I do." 

Tara looks around and sees Liam sitting on the steps by himself. "How's he doing?" She looks back at Arianna before nodding her head in his direction.

Arianna also looks over at Liam. "He- he's okay. I think."

"He still has her. He'll be okay as long as that's still true."

"Yeah but everyone deserves more than one person."

"He has you." Tara looks back at Arianna before nudging her slightly with her elbow.

Arianna shakes her head before saying, "He only talks to me because I'm his sister's best friend."

Tara didn't believe that for second. "I mean he did randomly hug you and I've only seen him hug Lana and past girlfriends. So clearly that's reserved for special people."

Arianna shrugs and says, "I don't know."

"Come one Ari, he clearly likes you."

Tara rolls her eyes and looks at Sam. "Tell her that he like her."

Sam laughs. "She believes what she wants to believe."

Tara huffs, "Whatever."

-Two days later-

Alana grunts softly and feels her eyes flutter open but she immediately shuts them due to the bright lights above her. "Holy shit. Where am I?" She sits up a little too fast and groans from the pain.

Arianna, who was sitting next to her scrolling on Instagram, gasps softly and looks from her phone. "Lana?"

Alana, who was extremely freaked out and confused from not knowing what happened and how she ended in a hospital bed, looks over at her best friend with a look of sheer panic on her face. "What? What's wrong?"

Arianna ignores her panic and starts smiling, "You're awake."

Alana slowly nods her head, still really confused. "Yea..? W-why are you smiling like that? What happened?"

Now it was Arianna's turn to be confused. "Do you not remember the events from two days ago?"

Alana shakes her head. "Not all of it. I remember the party in We-" She takes a deep breathe before continuing, "I remember the party Amber threw at her house. Why?"

"Do you remember how there was new Ghostfaces in town?"

Alana nods. "They got Dew-" She feels tears form in her eyes. "And Judy and We-" She takes a quick deep breathe. "Yeah I do."

"You remember everything now?"

"Not after you, Sam, Tara, and Richie came over for whatever reason and Richie made everyone. Why? Ari, what happened?"

Arianna hesitates before explaining what Alana didn't remember, "Ok. Umm to start Amber and Richie were the killers. Amber shot you then stabbed once and Richie stabbed you twice, I'm pretty sure. We were both able to stop them by um- k-killing them. It was really, really bad."

Alana looks at her in pure terror. "W-we killed them?" She points at herself before continuing, "I killed someone? Oh my god. I-I'm turning into Roman. I'm-"

Arianna cuts her rant off, "Alana, we are nothing like out fathers. We did it for the better, they didn't."

"But I-I ended a human life. I- normal people don't do something like that. What if I enjoyed it and wanna do it again like he did? My mom's gonna kill me. What's she gonna think? What-" She stops herself by breathing heavily.

"Lana, look at me. Deep breathes. In and out."

Alana looks at Arianna with watery eyes and whispers, "Where's my mom? Is she even here?"

Arianna looks down and shakes her head.

Alana laughs humorlessly, "Of course she isn't. Why would she be? Liam is her golden child. She's always there for him and just forgets about me." She looks away and sniffles.

Arianna mumbles, "I'm sorry, Lana."

"It's whatever. It's not like it's gonna change anyway."

"Umm- well I'm glad you're awake! I really missed my best friend."

Alana nods wiping her tears and puts on her iconic fake smile looking back at Arianna. "I missed you too, Ari."

Arianna sadly smiles and pulls Alana into a gentle hug.

Alana hugs her back tightly and immediately starts crying. "I hate this." She hears the door open and sees her brother. "Hey loser." She smiles and pulls away from Arianna.

Liam, who was still coping with his sister dying then being brought back to life, looks up seeing Alana wide and smiling with red, puffy eyes. "You're awake."

Alana nods, "Yes. Now come here. I missed you." She holds her arms out for a hugs.

Liam smiles walking over and hugs his sister for the first time in three days.

She hugs him back. "Stupid question but how ya doing?" She nuzzles her head into his neck.

"Could be better."

Alana whispers, "Can't we all?"

-alysa speaks-

I almost cried writing the middle of this because of Liam's reaction to Alana's death.

MEN CAN CRY. We need to normalize that. A man crying DOES NOT IN ANY WAY make him weak and I hate seeing people say that. This isn't neither relevant nor important so I will stop there before it becomes a rant. 

Like I said at the end of the last chapter, I will try to update this every week if I can.

The next chapter is when Alana and Ethan meet each other.

And this chapter is the last of Alana and Liam's close and nice relationship as Liam is going her smother her like Sam did Tara. However, I do not know if I want their relationship to be mended at the end like Sam and Tara's did. I kinda wanna make it worse. But let me know what you where you want to see Liam and Alana's sibling bond and relationship go.

Alana is a very flirty person and she does openly flirt with Ethan even though they just met.

Also, we will see some of her trauma and how Woodsboro effected her mental health, and now the others help her with that.