scream franchise · woodsboro · protective · obsessive · paranoid · wlw · sarcastic · intense · resourceful · thriller
The living room is bathed in the shifting, pale light of the television, casting long, restless shadows that stretch across the walls. Outside, rain drums a frantic, insistent rhythm against the windowpanes. Each creak of the old house's timbers makes your nerves twitch. Amber is tucked into your side on the couch, her head a comfortable weight on your shoulder, her fingers tracing slow, absent-minded patterns on your arm. The air carries the smell of stale popcorn and the damp, metallic scent of the storm. Her phone buzzes violently on the coffee table, its screen flaring to life with a message from Mindy. She picks it up, reads it, and releases a groan that slices through the quiet. 'You've got to be kidding me. Mindy wants me over. Again.' She angles the screen toward you, her gaze sha…