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The sound of the loud music drowned out the people as they spoke around the King girl. She felt nothing but pain and grief as she sat at Amber's kitchen island, letting her own thoughts cloud her mind. The feeling of a cold hand touching her exposed arm, causing Aurora to snap out of her trance, looking over to see the Freeman girl standing beside her with a small smile.

"You alright, Ro?" Amber asked, causing the girl to wordlessly nod her head, sending a small fake smile. "If you need a minute you can always go up to my room."

"I'm fine, thanks." Aurora said, politely declining the girls offer. "I'd rather be around people because if I'm alone my mental health will take over."

"Hey." Chad said, gaining everyone's attention in the kitchen as he held up a shot. "To Wes! Beautiful son of a bitch."
"Shots, really?" Amber questioned, snatching the shot glass from the Meeks-Martin boy's hand. "This is supposed to be a memorial."

"Well, this is how I mourn and distract myself from the looming specter of Death." Chad explained.

"Hey, we're low on beer." Mindy said, approaching the trio, looking at Amber.

"There's more in the basement. I'll go get some." Amber said, turning and walking away from Aurora and the Meeks-Martin twins, causing Mindy to watch her before quickly following after.

"Hey." Chad said, whispering to the girl, placing his hand on her lower back as he took a seat in the chair beside her, causing her to glance over at him. "What's going on in that pretty little head of yours?"

"It just bothers me that all these people are supposedly here for Wes but most of them hardly even muttered a word to him or knew him." Aurora said, glancing around the room at all the blurred faces that she passed in the hallways at school. "It seems like anyone will find an excuse to party nowadays."

"Hey, forget about them." Chad said, placing his hand on the girl's knee, causing her to turn her attention back to him. "The only thing that matters is that we knew him. That fun, loving, geeky kid that we met in elementary school, okay."

"He was geeky." Aurora said, causing them both to let out a light chuckle. "But in the best way possible."

"That he was." Chad said, nodding his head, causing a small smile to grow on the girl's face. "There's that smile, I hate to see you cry."

"Chad." Liv called, making her way to the duo. "I've been looking everywhere for you. I tried calling but your phone went straight to voicemail earlier."

"Yeah, I've been dealing with everything." Chad said.

"Rory." Liv said, finally acknowledging the girl, causing the King girl to send her a small wave before the pink haired girl turned her attention back to Chad. "Can we go somewhere else?"

"Yeah, I need to talk to you anyways." Chad said, looking from Liv to Aurora, quickly leaning over to the girl, whispering in her ear. "I'll be back soon."

The girl sent him a small smile along with a nod before he stood up, leading the girl towards the living room.

The King girl let out a sigh, lying her forehead down onto the counter.

After 30 minutes the girl grew uneasy sitting in the kitchen alone and decided to go find someone she knew.

Making her way to the living room only to find Mindy watching Frances leave with her friends after the sound of someone yelling for everyone to get out.

"Hey, Mindy." Aurora called, causing the girl to quickly look over at her as she sent a small smile. "Sorry to interrupt. Do you know where Chad is?"

"Last time I saw him. He chased after Liv out the door." Mindy explained, gesturing toward the front door. "That was what, 10 minutes ago."

"Alright, thanks." Aurora said, turning to walk away but stopped at the Meeks-Martin girl's voice.

"What's going on with you and my brother?" Mindy asked, causing the girl to freeze, closing her eyes before turning around looking at the curly haired girl. "And don't give me that bullshit excuse and say nothing, I can tell when you lie, Rory. Are you the reason they were fighting?"

"They were fighting?" Aurora asked.

"Yeah. Liv got upset about what Chad said, she stormed out and Chad went after her a few minutes later." Mindy explained. "Said he needed to explain it to her before rushing out."

"I guess you could say we're dating or seeing each other." Aurora said, slowly taking a seat beside her.

"Good for him." Mindy said to herself, causing Aurora to give her a confused look. "Look, my brother has had the biggest crush on you since like forever and I'm just glad he actually grew the balls to actually tell you."

"Hi." Richie said, knocking on the wall, causing the duo to quickly look at him, causing him to throw his hands up in defense. "Uh, do you know if there's any beer left? There's none in the kitchen."

"Yes, Richie. There's beer in the basement." Mindy said, waving the remote at the man. "Right behind you. Basement."

"Do either of you want to, uh, come with me?" Richie asked, causing Mindy to let out a light chuckle.

"No. But you were right to ask." Mindy said, turning her attention to the tv screen that was playing 'Stab'.

"Yeah, um, how about you, Aurora?" Richie said, turning his attention to the other girl, causing the girl to feel uneasy.

"I'd rather not die in a creepy basement so I think I'm good here, Richard." Aurora said, shaking her head.

"It's Rich- okay. Alright, I'll be right back." Richie said, noticing the girl's unfazed look before turning and making his way to the basement.

"Well, he's dead." Mindy said.

The duo sat in silence as they watched the movie based on the mass murder that happened a many years prior in the house they were sitting in.

The girl's quickly jumped as the pink haired girl dropped onto the couch beside Aurora.

"The goddamn fucking Uber canceled on me!" Liv said, letting out a groan. "Great. Now I can't have sex, my boyfriend dumped me and I can't get a ride home. Could this night get any shittier?"

"Liv, where's Chad?" Aurora questioned, causing Liv to turn and look at her confused.

"What? I don't know Rory." Liv said. "Probably off accusing everyone of being the killer! Or hooking up with that girl he's been fucking seeing! That's probably why he wouldn't have sex with me because he's having sex with her!"

"He actually went looking for you." Mindy explained, leaning forward to look at the pink haired girl.

"I didn't see him, okay?" Liv said, finally speaking normally and not screaming. "Why are you guys looking at me like that?"

"Just revising our suspect list." Mindy said slowly before the duo leaned back on the couch, keeping their eyes on the girl.

Liv quickly stood up from the couch, causing the duo to look away but quickly looked back as she walked up onto the duo.

"Are you two afraid of me?" Liv questioned, causing the duo to chuckle. "You think I did something to Chad? Huh? With you being stabbed? You think I'm gonna... cut you up?"

"A little bit now... yeah." Mindy said, leaning away from the girl.

"It isn't funny, Liv." Aurora said, scooting closer to Mindy.

"I thought you said I was too boring to be the killer." Liv questioned. "Maybe that's the twist. What do you think, huh? You guys are the experts. You know what eventually happens to the experts?"

"What?" Mindy asked above a whisper, causing Liv to lift her thumb to her neck, motioning it across her neck like a knife before quickly walking around the couch, leaning in between the two girls. "Enjoy your stupid movie."

"Fucking psychotic." Aurora said, watching the pink haired girl disappear down the hallway before facing the tv, crossing her arms as she leaned back into the couch.

"So-" Mindy said.

"No comment." Aurora said, not looking away from the tv, causing Mindy to look over at the girl with a smirk before looking back at the TV.

The King girl rested her head on the girl's knee as they watched the movie together.

"Come on, man, turn around!" Mindy exclaimed at the TV, clearly having one to many beers as she held a half empty can in her hand. "Turn around, Dude!"

"I told you. He's around the corner, Jamie. Look behind you." The man playing Randy spoke from the tv.

"No, Randy, look behind you." Mindy said. "Come on, man, turn around! Dude, what are you doing? You can do it! These are your rules! Own that shit."

Aurora let out a chuckle, looking up at the Meeks-Martin girl, causing her smile to quickly fade away as she noticed Ghostface standing behind the girl, holding his knife above his head.

"Mindy watch out!" Aurora exclaimed, causing the girl to quickly look behind her.

"Oh, shit!" Mindy exclaimed, quickly jumping up with the King girl as the masked killer stabbed his knife into the curly haired girl's shoulder, causing her to let out a scream.

Quickly falling to the ground as she held her bleeding wound, the masked man quickly turned their attention to the KIng girl and before she had the chance to move Ghostface came rushing at her. Before the killer had the chance to attack the girl Sam threw a lamp at Ghostface, causing them to look back at the girl before quickly running away.

"Mindy." Aurora said, quickly dropping to her knees, pressing her hand against the girl's bleeding arm as Sam kneeled beside her. "Mindy stay with me."

"That's a lot of blood, Rory." Mindy said, looking from her arm to the girl.

"No, come on Mindy, stay with me." Sam said, causing the girl's head to limp over.

"Mindy, no, Mindy." Aurora cried out, shaking the girl's face, letting some tears roll down her face, their heads quickly turning at the sound of a scream coming from behind them.

"What did you two do to her?" Amber exclaimed, quickly rushing into the living room with Tara right behind her on her crutches.

"Nothing. No, we didn't do anything." Sam quickly said, Amber rushing over to Meeks-Martin twin, pushing the King girl back, causing Sam to help her stand up.

"The killer, he--" Aurora tried to get out but couldn't find her words.

"Mindy!" Tara exclaimed. "Is she okay?"

The sound of a bottle breaking gained everyone's attention, noticing Richie standing in the doorway with a broken beer bottle at his feet. "What the fuck?"

"Richie, where the fuck were you?" Sam exclaimed.

"I just went into the basement to get beer." Richie said, gesturing toward the kitchen.

"You went to the basement alone?" Amber questioned in disbelief with her hand on Tara's back.

"I asked them to come with me!" Richie exclaimed, pointing toward Mindy and then at Aurora. "They both said no!"

The door slammed closed as Liv came rushing into the room, crying with her hands covered in blood.

"Jesus Christ!" Liv cried out.

"I was with Tara, but the rest of you were wandering around. One of you is the fucking killer!" Amber exclaimed.

"Fuck you, Amber. Fuck you!" Liv said.

"Why is there blood on your hands?" Sam questioned, looking at the hands of the pink haired girl.

"What?" Liv cried out, looking down at her hand, noticing the red substance on her hands before looking back up at the group. "I found Chad. I found Chad he's--"

"Chad." Aurora said, stepping forward but was quickly pulled back by the older Carpenter sister. "No, you're fucking lying."

"You're the killer." Richie said, looking down at the girl's hands.

"No, I'm not." Liv said, quickly shaking her head.

"Liv, stop." Amber said as the girl continued muttering under her breath to herself. "Liv, just stop!"

"Fuck you, Amber." Liv said. "I'm not the fucking killer!"

"I know." Amber said, pulling out a gun, shooting the pink haired girl in the head causing her body to fall, before the Freeman girl turned pointing her gun at Sam and Aurora with a smirk. "Welcome to Act Three."

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