© HORRORTAPES !

TRIGGER WARNINGS ::
murder, death, mentions of suicide,
bodily harm / injury  &&  blood
(and shitty writing)

PAGE TWO
❝ hannibal the cannibal ❞

september 27th, 1996.
8 : 15 am.

the school hallways are bustling with students as they maneuver through groups and individuals to get to their respective classes.

Mary-Jane and Randy are the one of the few to leave their classes late, Randy split ways from MJ to head to his other class while she met up with Sidney and Tatum at the lockers.

"you'll never guess what Sid did last night!" Tatum was unable to contain her excitement and almost proud glimmer in her eyes. Mary Jane looked at Sidney, a smile forming on her face, "what did she do?"
"she punched that bitch Gale Weathers!" Tatum exclaimed, Mary-Jane's mouth fell open, a surprised laugh was all she could muster.

"right?! she's Sid the super-bitch!
one clean hit and BAM ! bitch went down!" Tatum emphasized, Mary-Jane laughed a little harder.
"no fucking way! oh, i would've paid top dollar to see that, does she have a shiner?" Mary-Jane asked,
Tatum nodded proudly while Sidney tried to hide her face in embarrassment.

"she does! she tried to cover it with makeup but you can still see where it's like gray and purple ugliness. She had it coming to her! who was Sid to deny her of that sweet, sweet, karma?" Tatum giggled,
"Okay, okay, enough" Sidney pleaded,
"Oh, absolutely not. I'm proud of you, Sidney! That bitch has been exploiting your mom's passing since it happened! She deserved it!" Mary-Jane praised Sidney.

the girls grew quiet as Tatum spotted Stu and Billy approaching, though it was easier to spot Stu as he was the tallest *motherfucker* person in this school.

"shit, what is he doing here?" Tatum hissed under her breath, alerting Sidney and Mary-Jane of who was approaching.
"huh? Billy? what are you talking about?" Mary-Jane asked, oblivious to the fact that Sidney's had accused her boyfriend of stalking her.

"god, do you not watch the news?!" Tatum sighs, Mary-Jane shrugged "no, i choose to not scare myself, thank you." she confirms,
Tatum rolls her eyes.
"you and that goon are just alike. anyway... someone tried to kill Sidney last night." Tatum tells her making Mary-Jane's eyes widen, "Kill?!" she whisper yells, Tatum nods and makes a zipping motion over her mouth, Mary-Jane's expression flattens as she scoots over behind Sidney to get to her locker as Stu and Billy approach them.

"hey... can we talk?" Billy asks Sidney, she just stays silent, her eyes looking anywhere but at Billy.
"you know, You know if I were accused of carving up two people, I'd take the opportunity to skip school." Tatum remarks, earning a dirty look from Billy.
"hey, go easy, Tatum. he didn't do it." Stu defends Billy,
"talk to me, Sid." Billy pleads,
then as Sidney begins to speak,
loud screaming can be heard down the hallway growing closer to the group.

as Sidney looks up, two people donning the costume her attacker wore came hurdling down the hallway, screaming like maniacs.

Sidney jumps and sucks in a deep breath, clenching her eye shut, "why are they doing this?" She chokes out,
her fist tightly gripped onto her backpack strap.
"Are you kidding? this is like Christmas." Stu snorted,
earning a punch in the side from Billy.
"oww" Stu whined, Billy sighed through his nose,
"you open your mouth and stupidity pours out." Billy hissed, Stu frowned "sorry."

Sidney runs off down the hall as tears started to well up in her eyes, Billy sighs and chases after her, screaming her name.

"Stay away from her Billy!" Tatum yells, slamming her locker door shut, spooking Mary-Jane, the two jumped in surprise as the bell rang afterward.

"i'll see you later." Tatum tells her, grumpily storming off to class, Mary-Jane following quickly behind.

Sidney enters the bathroom, looking at herself in the mirror as she cries, until she hears other girls talking in the stalls.

"she was never attacked. i think she made it all up." one girl states, "why would she lie about it?" the other asks.

"for attention. the girl has serious issues." the first one doubles down, the main bathroom door swings open again, revealing Pandora.

She sees Sidney there crying, her heart aches for her.
"are you-" she's quickly cut off by Sidney who shushes her to listen.

the first stall flushes, Sidney pulls Pandora into a stall with her, she stands on the toilet seat, keeping her head down to not be spotted.

"what if she did it? what if Sidney killed Casey and Steve?" the first girl asks,
Pandora looks at Sidney in shock, her mouth slightly agape.

the second girl seemed to grow annoyed by her assumptions, "and why would she do that?"
"Maybe she was hot for Steve and killed them both in a jealous rage." the first girl laughs.

the other toilet flushed and the other girl exited the stall, walking up to the mirror, Pandora looked between the crack of the stall.

"Why would Sidney want to be with Steve? She has her own bubble-butt boyfriend Billy." the second girl questions.
"Maybe she's a slut just like her mom." the first girl suggests, Pandora looked back at Sidney, whose face started to weaken.

Pandora kept a memory of both of their faces, burnt into her mind like a red-hot brand.

Pandora was too busy seething in her anger to listen to the rest of the conversation until Sidney shakes her shoulder.

"And it fucked her up royally. Think about it. It makes perfect sense. Her mom's death leaves her distraught and
hostile at a cruel and inhumane world, she's disillusioned, where's God, etcetera. Completely suicidal. And one day she snaps.
She wants to kill herself but realizes teen suicide is out this year. And homicide is a much healthier therapeutic expression."

as the two girls left, Pandora slammed open the stall door,
her jaw clenched as she chewed on her fingernails.
"they're bitches, Sidney." Pandora swears, dropping her hand down by her side.
Sidney shakes her head, "what if im psychotic, dora?"
Pandora looks at her confused.

"what if i've been commiting the murders all along?" Sidney questions, Pandora bursts out into laughter, nearly doubling over.

"you? murder?" Pandora asks as she continues to laugh,
she looks up at Sidney, who seemed serious, her laughter stopped.
"you're joking. Sidney, you're nowhere near capable of murder." she reminds her, stepping closer.

"wh-what if they're right? maybe i do have 'serious issues'?" Sidney continued, Pandora grabbed her arms, gently squeezing them.

"Sidney, Sid, listen to me!" Pandora raises her voice, Sidney shakes slightly as she begins to cry.
"you're no psycho. trust me." she attempts to reassure her,
then they hear a soft pattering in the stalls, they both look to each other wide-eyed.

"we didn't check to see if anybody else was here, did we?" Pandora asks in a hushed tone, holding her finger up to her lips as she drops to her knees to look under the stall doors.

a pair of black boots settle on the floor, Pandora immediately stands back up and grabs Sidney's arm,
"go." she whispers.

the stall door flings open with a thunderous crash,
revealing the same ghost-faced attacker Sidney has come in close contact with last night.

The girls scream in horror, Pandora shoves Sidney to the door as the attacker lunges at them, wildly slinging a dagger around.

"fuck!" Sidney yelps, nearly missing the attackers blade,
exiting the bathroom, Pandora follows quickly behind, the pair scream as the scramble from the bathroom, making their way out of the school.

as they make it to the courtyard, they're both panting and crying. "Pandora... your hand!" Sidney points out,
Pandora looks down, a large slash across the length of her palm was pouring blood, a stream that spurted with every heartbeat.

Pandora clenched her hand tightly with her unharmed one, Sidney was distraught, but Pandora shrugged it off
"my mom's a nurse, i think she'll take care of this no questions asked.." Pandora mumbled, keeping her hand pressed onto the wound.

"no! we have to report this!" Sidney pleaded, placing the edges of her palms on either temple.
"i'll go to the hospital, okay? just in the meantime, go
get Tatum to contact Dewey and meet me there, huh?" Pandora suggested, her face growing pale from the loss of blood.

Sidney nodded and made a mad dash back inside of the school, Pandora took off in the direction of the hospital.

later that same day

after school

Sidney wouldn't stop babbling about the fact that she and pandora were attacked, the others were trying to soothe and reassure her.

Dewey and Sheriff Burke were parked outside to excuse school today and assist the students in getting home safely.

Dewey had radioed into the hospital, looking for Pandora or a patient with any similar hand injury.

there was no one in the hospital database with the matching injury.

Sidney questioned this but remembered how Pandora mentioned her mom was a nurse, so she shrugged it off.

"And to celebrate this impromptu fall break, I propose we have a party. Tonight, my house." Stu proposes, walking with the girls down the hallway.

"are you serious?" Sidney asks, her face almost changing to one of disgust. "My parents are out of town. It'll be like my hurricane bash last year. Nothing extreme. Just a few of us, hangin'." he continues.
Tatum warms up to the idea, "This could be good. What do you think, Sid?"
Sidney shrugs her shoulders, gently shaking her head.
"i don't know..."
"come on. pathos has its perks." Stu encouraged,
Tatum agrees and Sidney seems to consider it.
"yeah ... okay."

to be continued  !

thank you all for reading this far  !

i know this one was shorter than the last
but i promise the next will be longer  !!

~ elliott