Murderous love

Chapter 2

Let me look at you two." Maya demanded as she looked at her sisters, seeing if they were hurt.

"We're fine M" Tara reassures but Maya doesn't stop until she was sure they both weren't hurt, then she takes a place on Ethans lap, who cuddles her tenderly into his chest, while she sighs happily.

Mindy stood up looking ever so confident.

"Okay nerds, listen up." Maya poked her head out of Ethans chest. "As terrifying as this all is, I'm actually glad I get a chance to redeem myself for not calling the killers last time."

Maya looked down at her fingers at this, finding them an easy way to distract herself from Amber. Etham grabs her hand and places a kiss on it, making her smile once more, Ethan cheers mental.

"It's fine" Maya couldn't help but giggle at her friend; while she knew this was a Serious conversation, she couldn't help but find Mindy adorable and she and Anika were even more so.

Mindy sighs out what she was thinking, "The way I see it, they're making a sequel to the requel."

A confused look takes over Anika face as she raises her hand, "What's a Requel?" Mindy looks at with a smile. "Your beautiful sweetie, let's hold questions until the end."

Maya coos under her breath; Ethan grins down at her.

"Stab one took place in Woodsboro. Stab two took place in college." Sam points out to the group of slightly frightened teens.

"Do you think the killers are trying to copy the movies? Tara and Maya question in unison creepy the whole lot out.

"That's one possibility. Heros now in college' check. Suspicious new characters brought in to round out the suspect list and or body count; check, check, and check." Mindy points to the three newbies.

"I don't like this," Ethan mumbles causing Maya to cuddle more into his side.

"It can't just be about stab two." Mindy carried on.

"Why can't it, I mean we know that the fuck tart is obsessed with the Stab films, why couldn't it just be a couple of lame assholes, who thought you know that Ghostface guys has some good ideas." Sam looked at Maya as though she saw a ghost while no one saw the slight glare Quinn sent the youngest Carpenter.

"It would make sense if this were just a sequel." Mindy told Maya as well as the others. "But we're not in a sequel. Because nobody just makes sequels anymore." She paused for dramatic effect.

"We're in a franchise!" Mindy spoke louder, "And there are certain rules to a continuing franchise."

"I had a feeling." Sam sighed tiredly.

"Rule one: everything is bigger than last time; bigger budget, bigger cast, bigger body count, longer chases, shoot-outs, beheadings."

"Beheadings?" Chad looks up from his notes with a questioning look.

"Are you taking note?" Maya stares at her best friend with a mocking smile, only getting the finger in return.

"Beheadings," Mindy smiled, happy that her brother was taking her seriously.

"Rule two: whatever happened last time, expect the opposite. Franchised only survive by subverting expectations. If the killers last time were whiney, snowflake, film nerds with letterbox accounts instead of personalities you can bet the opposite will be true here." Quinn and Ethan silently fumed at how the girl described their brother.

"And rule three: No one is safe, Legacy characters, cannon fodder at this point. Usually brought back, only to be killed off in some bid for nostalgia. It's not looking too good for Gale and Kirby." Mindy pulled a 'to bad so sad' face. "Ugh, that's not even the worst part."

"This is the part where she tells us the worst part." Chad didn't stop his note taking as he interrupted.

"The worst part is franchises are just continuing episodic installments designed to boost and IP. Which means main characters are completely expendable now too. Laurie Strode, Nancy Thompson, Ellen Ripley, Sally Hardesty, Jigsaw, Tony Stark, James Bond, I mean even Luke Skywalker all died so their franchises could live on. That means it's not just the friend group, any of us could go at any time, especially Sam, Maya and Tara," Ethan pulled Maya close at this not like the glimpse of evil that shone through Quinn eyes.

"Wait, wait, any of?" Mindy nods. "Yeah"

"Does- am, am I in the friend group? Am I like one of the targets... Am I gonna die a virgin?" Maya turned bright red at the dumbfounded looks her friends sent herself and Ethan and hid her face in Ethans neck.

"That was a weird overshare." Mindy stated with a awkward smile, "But it brings us to our current suspect, Ethan!" Maya imedently tenses. "The shy dorky guy, who no one suspects because he's so shy and dorky."

"Okay wait, why am I on the suspect list? Because I'm randomly Chand's roommate and Maya's boyfriend?" Ethan plays off with an innocent defend.

"One: Never trust the love interest and two: roommate lotteries can be juked. You could have fixed it to get next to us." Mindy sneers a little at the thought of another person Maya loved trying to hurt her.

Ethan and Maya cuddle more closely, Maya praying that Ethan really did love her and wasn't trying to hurt her and the rest of the group; while Ethan wanted to spend as much time with her before he betrays her.

Mindy turns to Quinn, "Quinn. The slutty roommate. A horror movie classic."

"Sex positive. But thank you?" Quinn questions confusedly.

"Um, how did you come to live with Sam, Tara and Maya?"

"I answered their ad online.' Quinn awsers slightly werided out.

"Okay, say no more you're already implicated yourself enough."

"It was anonymous, Mindy." Tara told the horror nerd.

"And you know we vetted her. Plus her dad is a cop - "Maya steps in.

"And that makes it more likely that she's the killer because having a cop dad is a great coverage. Do you not remember how these movies work Maya?!" Ethan tries to hide a scared look and how fast Mindy seemed to be putting everything together.

"And finally," Mindy calms herself down, "Anika." They blew kisses, "Never trust the love interest." Anika's face fell.

"Okay! So, we have our rules and we have our suspects." Sam spoke up from the space of silents but was quickly interrupted.

"Wait, wait, what about you guys?" Ethan asked making Maya pull herself away from him in shock; he knew how hard even talking about what happened last year was now he was accusing them of being ghost face.

"I think was can take out all five of us who went through it last year," Mindy told him.

"Agreed!" Chad points his pencil at Mindy.

"Um, not agreed. What if the trauma you all went through caused one or more of you to snap." Quinn tries to pin the blame.

"Yeah, or the thing you got from killing made you thirsty for more. I mean, to be honest some of the theories online about Sam are ---" Ethan saw the look on his girlfriend's face and knew he fucked up.

"Don't you fucking dare." Tara and Maya glared; Tara brought her sister closer and away from Ethan.

"Okay, she's right though. I mean let's face facts if we're all suspects you're all suspects." Anika told the five.