Don´t Blame Me — Ethan Landry
chapter 9! exams week is killing me :/ anyways, enjoyy
Sophie Riley Macher, daughter of Stu Macher and Tatum Riley, moves from Woodsboro to New York. She moved on with her life after the attack last year; she got into college with her friends and everything seemed to go well. Until a Ghostface masked killer decided to come back to torment them.
Some warnings: Ethan Landry x female reader (friends to lovers with happy ending), this may contain some mentions of blood and murders, so if you're not comfortable, don't read!!
Word Count: 1,9K
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CHAPTER 9: Well, This Is Just Awkard
Sam places herself in front of me and Tara, shielding us.
"I got Stu Macher's mask." I look at Quinn "He was my favourite."
"Number 3," Ethan points "Number 2," he looks at Quinn "What leaves us with number 1. Your dad's mask. This has been our countdown, Sam."
Sam stares but doesn´t say anything, simply walks back, closer to us.
"I'm gonna need you to put this on."
Quickly, Sam throws the mask away.
"Fuck you!" Ethan steps closer and cuts her in the arm with his knife.
"You stay the fuck away from her!" Tara yells.
"So, you did this as a family?" I ask.
"Yeah, of course, bitch. And Sam should've known this better than anyone..." Quinn walks up to me.
"They still don't get it..."
"I don't know what you think that happened but I wasn't the one who commited those crimes in Woodsboro, it wasn't me!" she retorts.
"We know that, of course it wasn't you. Do you think this is based on some conspiration theory?! Who do you think made those theories?" Bailey points to Quinn who raises her knife.
"Do you know how easy it was to turn the hero of Woodsboro into the villain? How easy it was to convince people to believe in the worst of someone instead of the better?"
"Nowadays, it's not enough to kill someone," Ethan starts but I could barely look at him "you need to assassinate the character first. So, when dad finds your bodies horribly mutilated with Sam using her dad's mask, he'll say some poor idiot read on the internet that you are the Ghostface who made justice with your own hands."
"And that's why it's the perfect alibi! All the lies are based on the truth. You're a killer, Sam, just like your dad." Bailey points.
"No, I'm not!"
"Yes, you are you motherfucker! You killed our brother!"
Did Sam killed someone? I stop and think about it.
She stabbed Richie, okay, but she wasn't the one who killed him.
"You said your brother died in a car accident..." Tara murmurs.
"No, no, no, you sweet dumb thing. He died in Woodsboro. In the hands of your bitch sister."
Oh no.
Well, there was a reason why I didn't trust Bailey and it was because of the resemblance to Richie.
"You're... Richie's family."
"We are." Bailey nods.
"Oh, well, this is just awkard."
Bailey stares.
"I know that... uhm..." I didn't have enough strenght to make jokes but I was actually going to say that I loved Richie. What if they really let me go this time? "It doesn't matter, no... It wasn't Sam who killed Richie."
"Sophie." Sam warns me to shut up.
"It was me." confusion spreads all over Bailey's face "For a detective, you're not that good, are you? Sam may have stabbed him, but I was the one who cut his throat."
"Sophie-"
"Shut your whore mouth!" Quinn yells as she pushes us three.
"Was I a perfect father? No. Was I very tolerant with Richie's love for these movies? Maybe. To me, they're just a little dark but... Richie loved them... He even made ones himself..."
He got on the stage while a movie from Richie was on.
"There is a very special bond between a father and his first son," I looked at Ethan and saw his face "and that's why I helped him build all this."
"All this junk was his?"
"Yes. He collected this. We had to kill those ammateurs cinema students before they killed Sam but turns out, we were after the wrong person. I built a tribute for my son and that's why, you two, have to die here, surrounded by the things he loved."
"And after this? You disapear?"
"'Course not! We'll be heading over to the hospital to make sure that Mindy and Gale don't make it because everybody dies, Sam! Everyone involved, suffer and die!"
"He was pathetic." Sam starts, talking about Richie.
"That's not true." Bailey defends him.
"He was. He made his girlfriend do all the killing."
"He was a young-"
"-Pathetic son of a bitch who cried before I slit his throat." I add.
"Shut the fuck up!" Quinn ran to me but Tara hits her with a brick in the face. Kirby comes back and shots Bailey. Ethan looks at me and I ran.
Obviously, I shouldn't have done this because growing distant of the group would get me killed.
Although, I didn't even look back. I open doors, turned halls, thinking I was safe.
I had no idea on where I was but I knew that I had turned to many halls and was completely alone. The only thing I had in my hand, was a fucking rock.
I heard a noise and turned around, a rock in my hand shaking and I look at the door. Waiting for the worse, the door didn't open.
Suddenly, I feel two arms grabbing me. One by my waist and the other one by my mouth and I drop the rock.
"No!" I scream as the panic takes place all over me.
"Blondie, calm down! I-"
When I hear his voice, I kick him in the stomach and he lets me go.
I quickly grab The Rock again, yes that's its name, and I look at him, desarmed.
"Blondie-"
"Don't you dare!" I swallow dry still holding The Rock, knowing that I wasn't going to leave this place alive "Where's your knife?"
"I don't have it! Please, trust me!"
"After everything... After everything you just fucking said?! I have to trust you? That was my problem!"
"No, I-"
"How could you do this? Ethan, I..." tears roll down my cheeks and I can't continue. "I trusted you, I-"
"None of the things I said were true!" he lowered his hand and took a step closer to me. I step back. "Nothing I said while I was on my dad's side was true, I... The intention was to approach you guys but I never thought I'd-"
"Bullshit!" I interruped him.
"It's true! That's why while you were running away from Ghostface, there was always one that never attacked you! That was me."
Shit.
I lowered The Rock, but not completely.
"That's why I didn't attacked you when Anika... I didn't kill you." he falters.
"Ah, that was very nice of you, thank you. Although you did slammed me against the wall... Multiple times."
"You were-" he stops and sighs "I don't want to hurt you. Everything I said back then, was a lie. My dad and Quinn think that we should get revenge for Richie's death, they made me come along, I never wanted to!"
I stay silenced, not knowing whether to believe him or not.
"I can prove it..." he takes his phone out of the pocket but I thought it was a weapon so I raised The Rock again. "Calm down, it's just my phone!" he shows "Do you remember the playlist you said we should do to each other? I did mine."
He handed me his phone. Even suspicious I grabbed it and touched the screen.
Our deal was to make our favorite songs.
All of the music from the playlist with my name on, was romantic.
Wonderful tonight. Can't take my eyes off of you. Still loving you. Total eclipse of heart. Just the way you are. Take my breath away. How deep is your love. Baby I love your way. I want to know what love is. Take my breath away.
And so many more. Older songs like I can't help falling in love with you were also there.
"Ethan-" still not sure, I was going to beg him to stop lying but what came out of his mouth after kinda moved me.
"Goddamnit, Sophie, I love you. I have since I have ever layed my eyes on you, okay? I-I don't know what else you want me to say to prove it but it's true. I love you and I always will. You're everything to me and I... I love you, okay?"
"Ethan, you lied to me."
"I had to! If I didn't, they'd kill me. You have to believe me, please..." the vision of his melancholic expression betrayed me and flew all the way over to my heart.
I take a deep breath and wipe my tears.
"I'm still pissed."
"I'll make it up for you, with whatever you want. Anything."
"Are you... going to take me to the moon?" I asked because I knew that he hated heights and being on a spaceship would totally freak him out.
"Blondie, I'll bring you the moon."
Taken back with his response, I change the subject.
"Okay, well, before that, get me out of here alive. And Sam and Tara." he nods frantically.
"I'll get you out if here but you need to do exactly what I tell you. My dad and Quinn are not going to be happy once they see us."
He comes closer and he tells me his plan.
[...]
"Sam!" Tara screams, catching Sam's attention while climbing up the ladder.
Ethan takes me to where they all were and I run down the stage, almost tripping over my own feet and jumping over Bailey.
"Sophie, run!" Sam yells climbing the ladder and I'm quick to do the same.
When I was on the ladder, Richie's victim from his stupid ass movie screams and I almost have a heart attack, what leads to my lost of grip onto the ladder. But I get over it, grab the ladder again and I keep going.
"Be careful, now!" Sam warns as soon as we reach the top. A lot of trash and chairs were blocking our way so we had to go over the border.
Sam gets through, Tara gets through and obviously, once its my turn, I never get through.
As I'm on the verge of falling down I hear a gun go off and I feel an excruciating pain on my left arm and I lose the grip on my left hand. I almost fall but Sam and Tara grab me as fast as they can, struggling to help me back up.
Bailey laughs as if he's victorious.
"Get her, Ethan!"
"No, no, no, I can't! I can't hold on!" I try to hold on to both but I keep falling. My hands were slippery due to my blood.
Ethan's plan was going to fail and I was going to die.
"Let her go, Sam!" Ethan encourages, jumping to try to get me.
A little improvise?
"No, no!" Tara loses her grip over my arm and Sam is the only one holding me now as Tara is still trying to get me again.
By the corner of my eye, I see a red haired person approaching.
Quinn.
"You gotta let her go, Sam..." she smiles as she presses her knife against the cold bar and scratches it, making noise.
"Sam, Sam, you gotta let me go."
"What?! No, Sophie-"
"Sam, please, trust me!" I keep saying "Let me go."
I swear by all the mighty gods that if Ethan kills me I will be back to haunt him for the rest of his life.
I take a deep breath and nod.
Sam decides to let me go, trusting me and she hands me the knife on her waist.
I wasn't going to take it; clumsy as I am, I would stick that knife on him on the fall.
So, I let her go before she even has the chance to put the knife in my hands.
To be continued...
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