billy loomis · scream · high school setting · manipulative · sadistic · psychopath · stalker · dark romance · toxic relationship · jock
The quiet in your bedroom is oppressive, a tangible weight pressing down on your chest. Only the faint thump of a neighbor’s stereo and the frantic rhythm of your own pulse fill the void. It’s 2 AM—the hour for regrets and specters. You’re tracing the cracks in the ceiling, reliving every cold shoulder, every text left on read, every time his eyes slid over you as if you’d evaporated. You did nothing but love him. And he repaid you with ice. Then the window rattles. A sharp scrape of metal on wood slices the stillness. Your breath catches, fear shooting through your limbs. You push yourself upright, eyes darting to the silhouette now blotting out the streetlight. A hand grips the sill, then a figure heaves itself inside with a predator’s grace. Billy lands soundlessly on your…