"Around two years ago, we started out hot and heavy..." -Billy Loomis to Sidney Prescott. This is...
At the Start
Chapter One
Stu Macher had cornered Sidney Prescott and her best friend, Tatum Riley, just as they exited their last class for the day.
"Hey!" He greeted, "there's a party at my house tonight. Nothing to hard core and not that many people. Just you two, Casey, Joey, and one more." He soothed Sidney as her eyes widened. "Think your mom and dad would be okay with that?"
"I don't see why they wouldn't." Sidney answered, "when is it?"
"It starts at eight." He grinned. "You won't regret it, Sid! It's going to a scream."
"A scream? We're going to be watching horror movies all night?"
"What other movie is there?" Stu asked. Sidney rolled her eyes. Together, Tatum, Sidney, and Stu began to walk out of the school building.
"I don't know. Romantic comedy, romance, comedy..." Sidney trailed as Casey ran up and looped her arm into Stu's stronger one. Sidney glared at her as Casey glared at Tatum. While Casey was Sidney's friend, she knew that if she had to chose, it would be Tatum was better for Stu and had been there through much more for Sidney.
"Yeah, but those don't get cute girls to cling to you!" Stu cooed as Casey started pulling him away.
"Hey, who's the one other person?" Sidney asked. Stu smiled.
"The new kid, of course." Stu answered. Sidney turned to her friend in confusion.
"Oh! You arrived late, so you wouldn't know!" Tatum exclaimed. "His name is Billy Loomis! He's in our first period English class. Why were you late anyway?"
"Car trouble." Sidney mumbled. Tatum laughed and looped her arm inside of hers. She pulled her toward her car.
"Hey, aren't your parents on a business trip?" Tatum asked as she climbed into her car. Sidney blinked and scratched her head.
"Oh, yeah...they are..." Tatum burst out laughing as she cranked her car. "I'll come by your house and six and we can help each other get ready."
"Why would we..." Tatum glanced at her meaningfully. Sidney laughed and shook her head. Tatum was going Stu-nabbing tonight. Sidney shook her head and walked toward her car. "Six..." She whispered.
The drive home was silent. Sidney's head was filled with the thoughts of her day. The whispers that made the halls come alive that she had balantly ignored repeated through her head.
"How could I have missed those?" She exclaimed as she pulled into the driveway of her house. She pulled the key from her pocket and unlocked her door with ease. She kicked it closed. "I'm home..." She muttered to herself and dropped her bag on the kitchen table. "Homework time.." She whispered. Sidney dug her assignments out and then stood from her chair. She flicked the radio on and danced over to the refrigator and pulled out a Dr. Pepper. She sat back down at the table and started on her mathematics homework.
Billy Loomis leaned against the living room wall of Stu Macher's house watching as Casey teased his 'friend' with the way she was dancing to the music blarring through the speakers. He snorted lightly as she winked at Joey, who leaned not far from him.
'Slut...' He thought maliciously. Billy spared a glance at the tall football player. He seemed to be sizing Billy up. Billy tilted his head and shrugged.
"It wasn't me she was winking at, dude," Billy reassured. His words seemed to just what Joey wanted to hear.
"You're alright, Loomis," Joey grinned before he returned his eyes to the swaying and dipping blonde that was all over Stu. Billy tilted his head and examined the girl.
'There's nothing wrong with her, I don't guess. But...she's not my type.' He couldn't shake the face of the girl that Stu had introduced him too. Sidney Prescott. She was beautiful. She was breathtaking. And she would be his. No matter if she had a boyfriend or not. 'After all,' he smirked, 'he could easily be taken care of...' There was a reason he had to leave his old school. Violence was apparently not condoned, even in self defense. It was only a matter of time before the students in his school learned just how dangerous Billy Loomis could be when threatened or provoked and how dangerous he could be when challenged once his mind was set.
Sidney was finished with her math and halfway through her physical science assignment when Tatum barged into her house like she owned it. She let out an exasperated sigh at seeing Sidney pouring over her textbook.
"Come, girl," she marched over and just as Sidney marked her place and closed it. Tatum pulled her from her chair, "I bet you've been at that ever since you got home!"
"Ah, yeah..." She grabbed her drink from the counter as Tatum pulled her upstairs. When she reached the landing at the top, Sidney followed her friend sipping from her can. Tatum knew her way aruond her house just as well as she did, seeing as niether girls stayed home all that much. They were always over at one another's house or somewhere together, like tonight. She grinned as Tatum shuffled threw her closet, trying to find something for Sidney to wear. "You know I'm fine in what I'm wearing," Sidney spoke, "besides, you're not gonig to find anything really eye catching in there..."
"Fine! Go in what you're wearing!" Tatum huffed after her thorough search of Sidney's closet and drawers. "I simply don't understand how you can own nothing remotely sexy."
"I don't need that kind of things," Sidney answered before taking a long swig of her Dr. Pepper.
"Right, because your hidden confidence is so going to sway Billy Loomis..." Tatum grumbled. Her brown eyes widened as she seemed to realize just what she had let slip.
"Is he what this is all about?" Sidney asked. Her tone sounded just as incredulous as she felt. "Billy Loomis? What on earth makes you think he would be interested in me?"
"I don't," Tatum said as she shed her shirt, "could you imagine those silly little bitches' expression when you nab him right from underneath their fake manicured nails?" Sidney's eyebrows rose from over her can. She lowered it and swallowed before speaking:
"You're feeling hostile today..." Tatum grumbled as she slipped the shirt she had picked from her own closet over her head.
"Yeah, well, I'm tired of them bullying you is all. I mean you'd think that they'd have something better to do with their time-"
"They do now. It's called Billy-Loomis-ogling." Sidney interrupted as Tatum glared. She pulled her hair out from underneath her shirt then departed Sidney's room.
"Are you coming?" She hollered. Sidney rolled her eyes and followed her Stu-obbessed friend.
"So, you think you have a chance at taking Stu from Casey?" Sidney asked, attempting to distract Tatum's attention from Sidney and Billy's nonexistent relationship.
"Oh yeah, she can't hold him for very long. I see the looks he gives me." Sidney smiled behind her near empty can.
'So predictable...'
"Alright, this thing is about to start!" Stu said with a happy clap of his hands. Billy had left his position from the wall in favor of a drink from the kitchen. "Case, you pick out a movie or two, but they have to horror!"
"What is it with you and horror movies...geez, you're just about as bad as Randy..." She grumbled.
"Ack! Don't compare to him!" Stu demanded. "I don't chase Sidney around like a lost puppy or wag my tail everytime she pays attention to me!" Casey laughed as she pulled out three horror movies.
"Alright, alright, I'm sorry. Stop dissing on Randy. I suppose other than his horror movie obbession, he's an alright guy."
"He's borderline stalkerish..." Stu mumbled, catching Billy's attention.
"He stalks Sid?" Joey asked. Stu glanced up at the taller boy.
"Oh, no! He doesn't." Stu corrected.
"Only because she'd beat him half to death for trying..." Casey mumbled. "Remember that time with Toby Commers?" Stu laughed and nodded.
"Poor bastard..."
"What did Toby do?" Billy asked as he sat next to Stu.
"Oh, I keep forgetting you're new to the town. Toby Commers had it really bad for Sidney. He tried to kiss her one day in the parking lot of the school. She rared back," Casey's fist slapped her other hand, "and bam! Sidney broke his jaw." Stu laughed. Billy whistled.
"Impressive." He mumbled.
"Yeah, it was. His expression was priceless though!" Stu exclaimed.
"Along with the rest of the male population." Casey supplied, "I think that's why she hasn't been able to get a boyfriend." Casey stopped for a minute. "Then again, she's not really trying." Just as Casey was about to say something else, the door bell rang. "Speak of the devil and she shall come!" She stated. Billy laughed lightly as Stu got the door.
"Ah, everyone's here already?" Tatum asked as Stu opened the door. Billy could see her blonde head poking over Stu's shoulder.
"Yeah, I said eight because I knew you would take forever to get ready!" He teased Tatum. Tatum rolled her eyes and shouldered into the house, dragging Sidney behind her. "Hey, Sid." He greeted.
"Hey, Stu," Sidney nearly stopped short and drug Tatum out of there when she saw the looks Casey and she were sporting. She caught Billy Loomis raising an eyebrow at the girls' glares.
"Hey, Joey!" Tatum exclaimed as she fell into the chair. Joey smiled.
"Hey, Tatum." Sidney nearly gagged at the way Joey's eyes raked Tatum's form. She wiggled her hand free from her friend's iron grip and sat down next to Billy Loomis. She caught Tatum's look.
"Only seat left." She mumbled.
"Eh," Stu shrugged as he entered the room, "it ain't like Billy's gonna bite..." Stu trailed off and eyed his new found friend, "hard at least."
"Oh yeah, that's real comforting," Sidney drawled. She looked at Billy for the first time since sitting down. "Keep your teeth to yourself, buster." He smirked and saluted her.
'Or at least until I give you premission...' Shock shot through her. 'No! Bad Sidney. Don't think of strangers like that! No matter how dangerously attractive they are...Stop it!'
"Yes, ma'am," he vowed. Sidney laughed and shook her head. She turned her attention back to Stu, unaware of Billy's eyes on her.
"What movies did you guys pick out?" She asked. Stu held them up and Sidney paled. "I hate that movie!" She whined. "It always makes me climb over couches!" Tatum laughed.
"Oh that is a priceless thing to see. Put it in!" Tatum exclaimed.
"Thanks..." Sidney drawled scarcastically. Billy snorted from beside her.
"It's alright, Sid," Stu chuckled, "you're surrounded by people. What's the worst that could happen?"
"Someone losing an arm..." Sidney mumbled. "Or a leg...or both." Tatum laughed.
"Watch out, Billy, she's got claws," Tatum giggled. "She might just stab you with them during the movie."
"I think I can handle it," Billy drawled, looking at Sidney. His dark brown eyes seemed almost black as they looked at her. Sidney suppressed her shock reflex.
'Ah...I think my brain just shorted...' She thought as Billy turned toward Stu. "Put the movie in, Stu."
"Don't blame me if you start bleeding..." Sidney grumbled as the opening credits graced the screen.
"Just a question though Sid, why don't you like the movie?" Stu asked.
"Don't like animated dolls," Sidney admitted. "It reminds me to much of that old puppet horror movie series, The Puppet Master. I think after watching those movies, I burned all the dolls I had from childhood." Tatum laughed heavily at that while Stu fell into bass right beside her. She could feel Billy's silent chuckles shaking the couch. She spared a small glance in his direction. Her face reddened as she realized that he was staring directly at her. Billy smiled gently. Sidney looked away from him quickly, only to see Tatum and Casey smirking at her.
"Joey, get the lights, please." Tatum asked as the credits began to fade. Sidney suppressed a small whimper as the lights shut off and only the television light was visible. She was fine during Charlie's dying moments and the casting of the spell that would transfer his soul into the doll. She was fine when the little boy brought the tray to his mother on his birthday. She was fine until Chucky really started moving, laughing, and killing people. It also didn't help that she could feel Billy so close to her. Her body seemed to hum like an electric wire. Her face darkened as a slight moan could be heard slipping from Casey's lips.
"Get a room!" Joey barked, causing Sidney to jump. Billy chuckled from beside her. His breathe fanned over her ear. She fought off a slight shiver at the feel.
'Did he move closer?' Sidney wondered. She spared another glance in his direction. Through the darkness, she could see him smiling as the after currents of laugther lingered on his face. 'It does make him look even more...' Sidney was startled from her thoughts when a shrill scream erupted from the television.
"Sorry, we'll stop!" Casey promised. That's when she felt a steady pressure on her wrist. Billy's hand was rubbing circles in her left wrist. She blushed harder as she realized that her nails were currently digging into his thigh. Sidney jerked her hand off of his thigh quickly.
"Sorry!" She blushed. Again, a muffled moan came from Casey and Stu's direction. Slowly, she reached for the remote and then quickly sent it flying.
"ACK!" Casey yelped. Although she knew that Tatum and Joey were laughing, the only laugh that she registered was Billy Loomis' deep baratone.
Throughout the rest of the movie, Sidney was acutely aware of Billy's presence. His light laugh whenever she would squeal or his hiss when she would dig her nails into his arm or thigh- usually it was his thigh that her nails found purchase. Her attention was drawn to him during Chucky's fourth kill when his hand brushed hers. He threaded his fingers in between hers.
"Squeeze my hand if it gets too bad. Give my poor thigh a break..." He whispered against the flesh of her ear. A small moan threatened to emerge from her throat. Sidney suppressed the urge to squeeze his hand at the foriegn feelings the feel of his lips envoked. She struggled out a nod.
The ending credits rolled across the screen as Joey stood up to cut the lights on. Sidney immediately let go of his hand. Out of the corner of her eyes, she noticed him opening and closing it. The lights flicked on and everyone, including Joey, groaned at the bright invansion.
"I'm going to get something to drink. You guys want anything?" She asked. They nodded. "Does it matter what?" Once again, they shook their heads. "Alright, it's a whatever then."
"Jesus, Billy, what'd you do?" Stu exclaimed once Sidney enetered the kitchen.
"I didn't do anything," Billy defended, but the small smirk on his face gave him away. Tatum found a small smile sneaking onto her face.
'She is so going to be grilled!' Tatum thought as she picked up the other movie.
Sidney sighed as she pulled Stu's glasses from the cabinet and filled them with ice. She turned and pulled a jug out of the fridge. Tea greeted the ice with sharp pops and cracks.
'I am so not looking forward to going back in there. I've just met him for Pete's sake and I'm ready to jump his bones!' She thought exasperatedly. She lifted two of them up only to squeal as the object of her thoughts stood in front of her. He raised his eyebrows at her.
"Movie residue," she explained. Billy's laughter followed her as she set the glasses on Stu's coffee table. Billy came in the next three glasses. Sidney fought down her blush as their eyes met.
"You guys came back just in time!" Stu exclaimed, "the next movie just now started." Sidney groaned audibly. Billy laughed beside her. She glared at him playfully as the both of them sank down at the same time. Needless to say, Sidney spend the next two movies squeezing Billy Loomis' hand.
"I believe you about the leg thing!" Billy laughed as the last credit for the last movie rolled on by. Tatum, Casey, Joey, and Stu had all fallen asleep during the middle of the third movie.
"Yeah...sorry..." Sidney apologized as she rubbed the back of her neck. "Wanna help me put these up and then wake them up?"
"Yeah, sure," Billy replied as he watched her pick up two of the glasses. He picked up the other three again and followed her into Stu's kitchen.
"So how are you liking it here?" Sidney asked as she placed her glasses in the sink.
"I'm liking it pretty well," he answered. Sidney's cheeks heated slightly at the hidden meaning behind his words.
"Well, that's good," she answered and nearly popped herself.
'Don't encourage him!' She scolded in her mind. Billy smiled at her. 'But goodness...what that smile can do! Ack! No! Bad Sidney!'
"Let's wake them up, shall we?" She asked. Billy laughed.
"Let me do it!" His arm brushed hers. A slight shiver raced down her back. Billy picked up the remote that she had chunked at Casey and Stu. He smirked at her when he was coming back up. "Don't think I didn't see that." He drawled. "Very nice aim."
"Thanks," Sidney grinned. He chuckled and threw it down loudly onto the coffee table. Casey jerked awake. She elbowed Stu in the process and because of that, Stu awoke with a cursed groan. Joey threw Tatum off of the loveseat and onto the floor at the noise. Sidney snickered at that and glanced over at Billy. "You're right! It's a lot more fun when you do it." Billy smirked.
"Told you so.." Tatum glanced at the clock and a look of panic washed over her face.
"Oh my God! It's 12:30! I had to be home like two hours ago!" Sidney stepped in front of her freaking friend.
"Relax," she soothed, "I called your parents and said that you were spending the night with me." Tatum sighed in relief and sank against the back of the couch.
"You're a life saver, Sid."
"No, I'm just better prepared," she retorted.
"Don't you have a curfew too, Sid?" Stu asked. Sidney shook her head.
"Mom and Dad are gone again," Sidney answered easily. Stu snorted while Billy's eyebrows rose. Tatum sagged against Sidney. "Come on, you dead weight, we gotta get you home before you pass out." She shouldered Tatum. "Thanks for the invite, Stu. Don't be stranger!"
"I won't be!" Stu called back. The front door closed behind them. Casey and Joey stood at the same time with a wide stretch.
"We should get going too, Stu," Joey said. "My parents expect me home around one."
"My parents expected me home about three hours ago." Casey mumbled. Stu laughed and pecked her on the lips.
"Bye, you guys," he said. "You gonna go too, dude?" Stu asked Billy.
"Not unless you wanna watch another movie," his words brought a splitting grin to Stu's face.
"You bet I do!" He cheered. Billy laughed. "But why don't you wanna go home?"
"To an empty house?" Billy said incredulous, "I don't think so." He had expected Stu to question him like all the other people in his past had, but he was shocked when Stu just shrugged and sat back down.
'Oh, yeah. Stu and I are going to be good friends...'
Much to Sidney's dismay, Tatum had fully shaken herself awake in the car and was now in grilling mode. Sidney ignored her questions and opened her front door again.
"Tatum!" She finally exploded. "Wait until we're fully in the house with a hot pizza and a drink and I'll tell you everything." Tatum squealed happily and raced upstairs. Sidney shook her head and locked her front door. "I swear..." She mumbled.
The girls had raced, in Tatum's case, through their nightly rituals. Then retired to the living room to wait on the pizza to finish cooking. Each girl held a can of Dr. Pepper in their hand.
"Alright, spill!" Tatum demanded. "What happened to make you so flustered?"
"Well, you know how I warned him at the beginning of the movie about the whole clawing thing?" Tatum nodded. "I ended up doing just that to his thigh. He kept laughing and I could feel his breath tickling my ear. I hardly know him and yet, it's like he set my body on fire. During the middle of the movie is when I realized I was digging my nails into him and that he was rubbing circles into my wrist." Tatum's eyes lit up slightly and she leaned closer. "Near Chucky's fourth kill, Billy threaded his fingers into mine and whispered against my ear for me to give his thigh a break and to squeeze his hand when it got too bad." Tatum squealed loudly at that. Sidney flinched and rubbed her ear. "Geez...what was that all about?"
"It means that he's attracted to you as much as you are him!" Tatum squealed in time with the timer on the stove. Sidney laughed and shook her head as she stood. As she pulled the pizza out of the oven, she listened to Tatum speaking. "I saw some of what he was doing during the movie. You know, when I was attempting to not look at the disgusting display Casey and Stu were giving." Sidney smiled at the jealous tone in her friend's voice. "I saw the both of you leaning toward one another. You weren't even talking then. You were just leaning toward one another like those little annoying magnets!" Sidney laughed as she dug for the pizza cutter. "It was so cute!"
"I hardly know him, Tat," Sidney mumbled. "You're making it sound like he and I have known one another our whole lives."
"Well, maybe you have and just not known it." Sidney glanced over at her best friend incredulously.
"What on earth gives you that idea?" She asked.
"You know, soulmates?" Sidney could not contain her laughter any longer. She fell into it with ease and a towel smacked her on the face from her counter.
"Hey!" Sidney grunted from around it. "Don't be mad at me for laughing when you start spouting that soulmate crap!"
"Fine, I'll prove it to you!" Tatum exclaimed as she slipped down from the barstool and grabbed a piece of cheese pizza from the pan.
"And just how will you do that?" Sidney asked with a raise of her eyebrows as she pulled her own pieces onto a plate.
"You said that even though you hardly knew him that he made your body feel as though it was on fire, right?"
"Yeah, it was like he knew exactly what to do to make me..."
"Make you?" Tatum asked, smirking.
"Want him, make me want him," Sidney finished with a blush. Tatum squealed.
"See! How else would he know how to do that?" Tatum asked as they walked toward her living room with their food and another two Dr. Peppers.
"I don't know. Maybe he has experience?" Sidney returned as they sat down.
"Sarcasm meters on high!" Tatum drawled. Sidney smiled. "Alright, do you like him?"
"I don't know him," Tatum huffed at Sidney's answered and rolled her eyes.
"Alright, you admit that you are attracted to him and he certainly acts like he is to you. So the question is do you want to do anything about it?" Tatum leaned foward as Sidney took a bite of her pizza. Just to irritate her friend, she chewed and swallowed the bite slowly. Tatum huffed again.
"It doesn't seem like I'll have to do anything about it," Sidney answered, "if he keeps going like he is, I'm sure he'll have me incoherent and a babbling mess." Tatum laughed heartedly at her friend's answer.
"Oh! I so want to see that!" She exclaimed. Sidney rolled her eyes.
"But, yeah, Tat, if he doesn't do anything about it, I will at least confront him." Those words seemed to make Tatum's night.
'Because if he is set on giving me those little touches and whispers, I'm going to melt to the floor!' Sidney exclaimed mentally. Her skin still tingled from his touches and light whispers.
As Billy Loomis returned home from his fifth movie around 4 a.m. that morning, he smiled to himself.
'Woodsburrow is going to be good for me...' Then Sidney Prescott's face flashed into his mind again and the feel of her hands on him, no matter how unintentional. 'Her touch sent feelings through me I didn't even know existed..'