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IT HAD BEEN A DAY SINCE CICI COOPER'S DEATH AND JUSTIN HAD HOLED HIMSELF UP IN HIS APARTMENT NOT WANTING TO FACE THE REALITY OF GHOSTFACE BEING BACK. Luckily, he wasn't alone. Noelle and Toni refused to leave the apartment despite cops were all on watch around the building.

Justin sat back on his sofa, landline phone in his hand and up against his ear. "I'm alive so that's gotta count for something," he mumbled to the person on the other end of the phone.

"I guess it does," Roman replied. "I'm just worried about you since the news says it's all a repeat from two years ago."

"Am I mentally stable? Probably not but what else can I do?"

"Pretend it's all a dream?"

"Be in denial? That's a quick way to die," Justin answered. "Anyway, I don't wanna talk about this. How's the career going?"

"Directed a few music videos, here and there. Hoping I'll get to direct a romance movie one day."

He grinned. "You've been doing good so far. I have hope for you."

"And I have hope for you."

"You're my friend, you're required to."

Roman let out a laugh as there was rapid knocking making Justin sigh. "Someone's knocking at the door, probably the cops again. I'll call you later."

"All right, stay safe," Roman told him.

Justin hung up as the knocking got more rapid and impatient. "I'm coming! Damn," he said as he got up, unlocking the door and yanking it open. "I hope you brought food, asshole-" He stopped mid-sentence as it was Mickey.

Mickey held up a box labeled 'Dunkin'. "Brought you breakfast."

"...Do you have chocolate?" Justin asked.

"Of course, babe, I saved all the chocolate donuts for you," Mickey said, handing him the box as he walked in, sitting on the couch. "And brought you a little something else."

"Ooh, is it some nude Polaroids of you?" Justin teased, sitting next to him.

He grinned. "Maybe, next time when cops aren't frisking people."

Justin smiled as Mickey handed him a rose. "You got frisked?"

Mickey nodded. "Not only did I get frisked, I had to give them my name, rank, sexual preference."

"Which is?"

"You." This made Justin look at him. "Naked."

He laughed. "You couldn't handle this."

"I could and you know it."

He moved his face next to his. "I'd like to see you try."

"Kiss my boyfriend and you die," Noelle said walking into the living room.

"He was coming onto me," Mickey told her as Justin picked out a box of donuts.

"He comes in peace, he brought food," Justin answered.

"And flowers for the pretty people in this apartment," Mickey added, giving a rose to Noelle.

"I appreciate it but Justin is still mine. And you can't buy my love to have him," Noelle replied, going to put the rose in the water.

"He bought my love the minute I saw the donut box," Justin answered, his donut nearly gone.

Mickey grinned at Noelle. "Think that means he loves me more."

"God, you're all so gay," Toni said, walking by.

"It's fun, it gets Ellie mad and Justin flustered," Mickey said.

She hummed, looking at Noelle. "And you were worried about Delta Lambda girls stealing Justin. Your competitions on the couch with him."

"I can see that," Noelle replied with a huff before seeing Toni pull on her shoes. "You leaving me?"

"Have to, if I miss one more Calculus class, my grades gonna drop," she replied.

"Speaking of classes, am I the only good one here who's been going to all of them?" Mickey asked.

"What's the point in even going?" Justin replied. "Killer trying to kill me is a great excuse not to go and it doesn't penalize my grade."

"Fair enough. So since I'm your favorite person here, I have a favor to ask," Mickey said.

Justin sighed. "I knew there was a catch."

"Not a bad one. Just to do an interview for my documentary."

Noelle hummed. "He turned down Primetime Live, 20/20 and Dateline. He's not gonna go for you either-"

"Sure," Justin answered.

Mickey pumped his fist excitedly with a grin as Noelle sighed, "Seriously?"

"I got nothing else to do and I'm not stepping into the outside world for a while."

"Actually, yeah you do," Toni said. "Have to meet up our friends for lunch, told Hallie we'd go."

Justin groaned. "I'm not going."

"Yes, you are. We all are. You need some vitamin D. You can't stay inside all day."

"Watch me," he said, getting up to head to his room.

"You want him to go? Watch this," Mickey told the women before turning towards Justin. "Come on, I'll buy you lunch if you do. Anything you want."

Justin stopped, walking and turning to him. "Anything?"

"...I might regret saying that later but yeah, anything you want, I'll buy."

Justin slightly smiled. "I'll get dressed." He walked back to his room.

Mickey grinned. "And that's how you do it." He looked at Noelle. "See? I do your job better than you, I should marry Justin instead."

"Shut up, Mickey," Noelle said simultaneously with Toni who left the apartment.

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Justin sat in the lunch room with Mickey, Noelle, Toni, Hallie, and Derek.

"I can't believe Randy dropped out of coming here," Noelle huffed as she messed with her Pepsi can.

"He didn't, he went to go check in with Dewey," Justin laughed.

"Still! I miss him already."

"Speaking of, I've been thinking about this whole murder thing," Mickey stated. "Have they checked out Randy?"

"What?" Justin and Derek asked.

"I know he's an innocent victim the first time around, but he's a little off. You know what I'm saying?"

"Shut it down, Mick," Noelle told him. "He's my friend and he's harmless."

"That's what they said about Dahmer." She gave him a look. "I'm just saying!"

"Leave Randy out of it," Justin told him before seeing Sidney walk over. "Hey."

Sidney smiled, sitting next to her brother. "Hi."

"Where are your Secret Service guys?" Mickey asked her.

"Uh, over there," Sidney said, nodding to a table where two men in suits and ties were sitting.

Justin hummed. "Makes me feel better that I'm not the only one with those guys too," he said, glancing at the men who were sitting on the opposite side of the room.

Toni nodded, looking at Sidney. "Which one is Kevin Costner?"

Sidney nodded to them. "The one on the right is Officer Richards. He is a Capricorn. Divorced. Father of two. And the one on the left is Officer Andrews. He is a Gemini. He's single, but I think he's gay."

Justin chuckled. "Wow, that's a lot for just barely knowing them for a day."

She shrugged. "You get bored and curious eventually."

Mickey looked at Derek. "Derek? Penny for your thoughts."

"This morning, I woke up with this feeling..." Derek said. "I didn't know how to deal with. And so..." he started to softly sing.

"What the fuck?" Toni and Noelle said.

"What is he doing?" Hallie asked.

"Uh, Tom Cruise, Top Gun, 1986," Mickey said with a smile.

"Oh, God," Justin mumbled as Derek sang louder, leaning across the table close to Sidney before getting on top of a table, singing louder while a lot of people clapped, Mickey included who stood up to do so. "Make it stop."

"I'm getting secondhand embarrassment," Toni said as Derek sang, jumping from table to table. She looked at Justin. "You like Derek yet or not?"

"Hell no," he said, moving to Mickey's spot as Derek jumped off the table, ending the song in front of Sidney. "Thank God it's over." No one was ever gonna be liked by Justin, too overprotective of his sister.

"And they're still clapping," Noelle mumbled as their classmates were.

Derek placed his necklace with his Greek letters for his frat around Sidney causing Mickey to say, "Isn't that a big frat faux pas?"

"Oh, yeah. That is a big no-no," Hallie said. "See, you're not supposed to give your Greek letters to your girl...no shape, way, or form. The brothers are gonna kick his ass, but it's tradition."

"It'd be deserved for his shitty singing," Noelle replied.

"...Anyone wanna go see Stab?" Toni asked.

"Are you kidding me?" Justin mumbled.

"What? Don't wanna see yourself on the screen?"

"And someone died during Stab..." He scoffed. "River Phoenix barely looks like me anyway."

"It's just the blonde hair and sparkly eyes you guys have in common," Noelle laughed. "I'd only go see the movie cuz Robin Tunney's playing me."

"Also looks nothing like you."

"But she's cute."

He only hummed.

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