A/N: I've been going through a very bad case of writer's block over the past few weeks, during that time I spent it watching old horror movies. One of them being 'The Ring', and it was so good that I got the idea for this story.
Sherman is now 22 years old and how lives in Portland Oregon with his adopted eight year old son, Daniel. When someone close to him dies, he comes across a cursed videotape that kills anyone who watches it within seven days. So, enjoy!
Inside a two story house in a rich neighborhood in Oregon, two girls named Amber and Jill were in Amber's room watching TV together lying down on Amber's bed facing the TV screen.
"God, I hate TV, especially Disney Channel. I mean... all they play now is teen sitcoms with stars that aren't even in their teen years, but they're in their twenties or thirties" Amber said as she kept on staring blandly at the screen.
"Uh-huh" Jill said simply.
"Whatever happened to the good stuff? MTV used to play rock concerts and music videos and all that, now they show reality shows about pregnant teens that we don't really care about, neither could we give a crap" Amber kept on making point after point.
"Uh-huh" Jill replied again.
"And what about Nick? The only thing good playing is that 'Ninja Turtles' cartoon reboot. All the old shows we used to love just vanished into thin air and nobody even remembers them. Even Spongebob just went totally annoying and nobody finds him tolerable" Amber said. Jill then rolled her eyes and handed Amber the remote.
"Fine, you can pick what we watch, I don't care" Jill said in a somber tone of voice. Amber then shut the TV off.
"Do you have any idea how many electro-rays of stupidity are going through our heads right now?" asked Amber. Jill then got a smile on her face and she sat up.
"I've got a better one. Have you ever heard about this videotape that kills you when you watch it?" Jill asked. Amber sat up on the bed and spoke with a confused look.
"What kind of tape?" Amber asked.
"A tape, a regular tape. People rent it, I don't really know..." Jill said and then continued as soon as Amber was fully sitting up.
"...You start to play it, and it's like something out of a nightmare. Then suddenly, this woman comes onto the screen. She turns around and starts staring at you through the screen with this dull expressionless face..." Jill explained. Amber was getting scared now and began shivering.
"...And as soon as it's over, your phone rings. Someone knows you've watched it, and what they tell you is... you will die in seven days" Jill finished with a smile. Amber began stuttering.
"W-who told you about that?" she asked.
"Somebody from work" Jill replied.
"Who told you?" Amber asked again raising her voice in a defensive tone.
"What is your problem?" Jill asked with an irritated tone and a matching irritated face.
"I-I've watched it" Amber whispered in complete terror. Jill's face then went from irritated to humored.
"It's just a stupid story, Amber" Jill said rolling her eyes.
"No, I watched it with Mason last weekend" Amber said. Jill then got a confused look.
"I thought you were babysitting your nephew and niece" Jill pointed out. Turns out that was a lie, and Amber was doing something else with her longtime boyfriend since college, Mason.
"I wanted to tell you..." Amber began, but Jill cut her off.
"You were really with Mason all weekend?" she interrupted.
"Him and his friends were at this camping site up in the mountains. They were trying to record a football game, I guess the reception up there was so bad that..." Jill cut Amber off again.
"What are you talking about?" Amber got mad and shouted.
"LISTEN TO ME! We played the tape, the game wasn't on it, it was... it was... it was..." Amber kept on repeating the last few words of her sentence.
"What? What was it?" Jill asked.
"It was something else. We all thought it was some kind of sick joke, but after it was over the phone rang..." Amber continued. Now Jill was getting a look of concern.
"How long ago was that?" Jill asked.
"...That was a week ago, a week ago tonight" she whispered. Jill shook her head and looked down at her lap.
"You're just trying to scare me" Jill said. Amber began clutching her throat and making gagging noises and fell down onto Jill's lap.
"Amber? AMBER!?" Jill cried out. Amber then smiled and laughed and pointed at Jill's face.
"Oh you sneaky little freak!" Jill said as she pushed off Amber from her lap and onto the floor. Amber was still laughing.
"You so totally fell for it" Amber said laughing.
"So, what else did you guys do up there?" Jill asked with a devious smile.
"Like what?" Amber asked playing innocent. Jill's eyes widened and jaw lowered.
"Oh my God you TOTALLY had Sex with Mason!" the two of them then engaged in a huge pillow fight and there were feathers in the air due to the pillows hitting against each other's bodies. The phone then rang and the ringing interrupted their pillow fight. The two of them turned to the door and walked down the stairs.
"What are you waiting for? Answer it" Jill said. Amber's face just turned very pale and she stared upon the phone with a look of complete fear.
"You are such a wimp" Jill said walking up to the phone, picking it up, and pressing the 'Answer' button.
"Johnson residence" said Jill. She then turned to Amber and handed the phone over to her.
"Hello?" Amber asked. She went back to being relieved.
"Hi mom" Amber said. After a short while, Amber hung the phone up and Jill was looking through the fridge. While her friend was looking for something to eat, Amber walked back upstairs to her room only to see the door closed and water leaking underneath the door. Amber became scared again.
"Hello? Is anyone there? Hello?" Amber called out. She slowly reached out for the doorknob and turned the knob slowly. Once she pushed the door open gently, she looked down at the trail of water to see it went all the way up to the TV set that turned on by itself and it showed an image of a stone well in the middle of the woods.
"AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Amber screamed.
Meanwhile, downstairs, Jill ran upstairs after hearing her friend's scream that was so loud it almost made her go deaf. She shut the fridge and ran upstairs to Amber's room.
"Amber?" Jill asked. She walked over to see Amber lying down on the floor with her face on the floor. She kicked Amber's body over to see a disfigured look of pure terror on her face.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
A/N: There you have it! Amber was the first one to fall victim to the evil cursed videotape of death. In the next update, we'll get to see Sherman as a 22 year old now with a son he loves so much. More to come in the next update. Please review, thanks!