𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚒 | 𝚜𝚌𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚖

rip anika

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Harper frowned as she watched Noah's attention to elsewhere. She could faintly hear the laughs and quiet cheers from the group in the kitchen, but her main focus was on the odd thumping she heard from upstairs. It seemed like she wasn't the only one that heard it as Tara's voice filled the silent air,

"Quinn and her gentleman caller are back at it again."

"She's getting it, too? Okay."

"Don't say it like that." Scarlet made a face, swatting Mindy's arm jokingly.

The laughter from the kitchen faded as everyone's phones chimed loudly in unison.

Noah narrowed her eyes as the airdrop request she got. She spared a glance at Scarlet who shrugged her shoulders in confusion, also not understanding what it could have been.

Opening the message, she felt her stomach drop at the picture of Quinn getting attacked.

Her phone fell from her hand as she jumped up, the group in the kitchen doing the same as they went to charge up the stairs in hopes of saving the Bailey girl.

Chad, however, quickly stopped the girls from going when the room Quinn was in grew silent,  "Hey, wait. Tara, wait."

The group of teens stood quietly in front of the room, their guards up as they waited for the next move.

Just as the door slammed open, Mindy spoke,

"Run."

Scarlet let out a shrill scream as Quinn's body came flying out, landing on Anika, the girl shouting out with tears filling her vision.

Chad snatched Scarlet's hand, the Turner girl reaching for who she thought was Noah, too in shock to realize that she actually grabbed Tara instead.

"Guys, come on!"

"Oh, fuck." Mindy muttered, screaming as ghost face sliced her arm.

Despite the current situation, Noah hadn't screamed once. In fact, the Ashwell teen was rather calm, she wasn't scared for herself. If anything, she was more concerned about the hyperventilating Harper to her left and the dead body of Quinn Bailey on her right.

She stood quickly, forcefully dragging Harper with her as the Thomas seemed too stunned to move on her own.

"Let's go!"

"Wait! Anika—" Harper snapped out of her shock, trying to pull herself away from Noah to reach for the girl who was currently fighting with the masked person hovering over her.

Anika's choked gasps set chills down Noah's spine. The noise being ridiculously similar to the last sounds that escaped Wes' lips before he died saving her life. And for the first time since this attack, tears began to fill her eyes.

She blinked harshly at the sound of Anika's screams, looking back to see that he now had her held against the wall while he plunged a knife into her abdomen.

"Hey!"

She watched as Sam took the block that was meant to be holding the kitchen knives and knocked ghosts face over the head with it.