A/N: In the last update, Penny dressed up as Ghostface in an attempt to bully Sherman and to scare him, but all she got was a bite on the arm and in trouble. Not to mention Grunion made an appearance but Ghostface got to her and made sure she's now sleeping with the woodland creatures in Central Park from now on. Now another body has been added to Ghostface's kill-list. This is where we left off, enjoy!
At Sherman's house, Hayden was now watching TV with Sherman. It was another 'Goosebumps' episode, the title was 'Calling All Creeps'. Sherman was just watching the episode and eating 'Mike and Ike's' while watching the episode and held out the box to Hayden.
"Want some?" asked Sherman.
"Yeah sure" Hayden said holding out his hand and the other preteen poured the candy into his hand, mostly red ones and a few green ones.
"Oh good. The red ones are my favorite" Hayden said taking one red one and placing it on his tongue and chewed on it.
"You feeling okay?" asked Hayden. Sherman nodded and spoke after taking a breath.
"Yeah, I'm okay. Not too alright with the fact Penny dressed up as the murderer to one of my closest friends and bullied me with it. Other then that, I'm feeling just peachy" Sherman said with his eyes not losing focus on the TV screen.
"Well, an answer like that is better than no answer at all" Hayden said patting Sherman's shoulder.
"Hey, I'm getting tired of this episode, I've seen it a million times, can we watch a movie?" asked Hayden.
"Sure. How about 'The Hills Run Red'?" Sherman asked taking a DVD off one of his shelves close by his bed. But before Sherman could switch the input on the TV, a news broadcast came on.
"We interrupt this program to bring you this important news bulletin. It seems the murderer of Abigail Bates has struck again. The victim has been identified as 36 year old Alexandria Grunion, who was found with a dismembered tree branch right through her forehead, penetrating her skull" the voice on the TV said, showing someone in a body bag being lifted into a coroner's van.
"Isn't that the stupid social worker you saw in the principal's office?" asked Hayden. Sherman nodded as an answer, totally speechless. The redhead's phone rang in his pocket and he took it out of his pocket to answer it.
"Hello?" asked Sherman.
"You enjoying the show, Sherman?" asked Ghostface's voice. Sherman's eyes widened and felt fear strike his heart, it began beating at a fast pace in his chest like he was running a marathon.
"Wait, you did this?" asked Sherman.
"Consider it a favor" said Ghostface.
"Why would I consider you killing somebody that offended my father and I a favor?" Sherman asked.
"She was just as slow and limp as she was bigoted and stupid" Ghostface said, talking deserving smack about the now-dead Grunion.
"Nobody deserves to die no matter how stupid the things they do" said Sherman with such anger in his voice.
"I have to disagree Sherman. But, whatever you say" Ghostface said with a spine-tingling chuckle at the end.
"Who are you?" asked Sherman looking out the window of his room.
"The question you should be asking me isn't 'Who Am I?' but rather 'Who's next?' that's the real question isn't it?" asked Ghostface before hanging up. Sherman then tossed the phone away and it hit the wall, breaking it into bits and pieces of glass, computer chips, and wires. Hayden then ran up to Sherman and hugged him.
"Shh shh shh. It's okay" Hayden said trying to calm his friend.
"I'm so scared, Hayden. Every time I get a phone call that voice is all I hear on the other end. It won't leave me alone, it won't stay out of my life, it won't stay out of my dreams, it won't leave me alone at all" Sherman said on the verge of breaking down.
"Sherman, you will rise out of this. Don't let that guy bring you down" Hayden said trying to reassure Sherman. The redheaded boy then broke apart from his best friend's hug and took deep breath.
"You're right, sorry I was so down on myself just a few seconds ago" Sherman apologized rubbing his arm. Hayden then patted his shoulder and spoke.
"It's okay buddy. Now let's watch that movie" Hayden said. Sherman then turned the DVD player on and the two friends watched 'The Hills Run Red' together and enjoyed every minute of it.
Meanwhile, at the Peterson house, Penny was now alone in her room watching a horror movie on TV. Patty was the only other family member in the house with her since Paul was working late tonight and paying the contractors for doing a good job remodeling the building. Patty then entered her daughter's room to see what she was doing.
"Hey sweetie, how's the movie?" asked Patty. Penny was watching 'Saw III' and she wasn't enjoying it. Not even the gore, the story, the characters, she hated the movie that was playing in front of her.
"Terrible. Why do I have to watch this garbage?" asked Penny with her arms crossed.
"Because your father and I want you to get along with Sherman and we think if you were to have a similar interest, you two could work out your differences through it" Patty said sitting down on the other end of the bed.
"And a crappy movie with terrible acting and fake looking gore is that interest?" asked Penny with an eyebrow raised.
"No, not just this film. Any kind of horror movie, Sherman's known to have a thing for horror" Patty said. The phone rang and Patty answered it.
"Hello?" Patty asked.
"Hey Mrs. Peterson, can I talk to Penny?" asked Jill from the other end of the line.
"Sure" Patty said handing Penny the house phone since Penny wasn't allowed to have a cell phone for one whole week because of the incident at school.
"It's Jill" Patty said and Penny held the phone up to her ear.
"Hey" Penny said greeting her friend.
"Hi, Penny. How's being punished for ya?" asked Jill morbidly as she looked out from her window to see Penny lying down on her bed through that window. Penny and Jill have been next door neighbors since childhood up to now.
"Terrible. My mom's making watch 'Saw III' to have something to talk about with Sherman so we can 'Mend our problems' tomorrow at school. Not to mention I can't have my phone back for a week" Penny said.
"My dad grounded me for a month since I took his costume without his permission. That was his most prized possession he got from a live behind the scenes tour of 'Stab 3' when he went to Hollywood for his and mom's honeymoon" said Jill, complaining how terrible her grounding was.
"At least you don't have to sit through this crap I'm watching right now" Penny said.
"I actually like the 'Saw' movies. It's the last four in the series after the third one that were terrible" Jill said. Patty then noticed Penny's phone ringing in her jacket pocket and took it out and looked at the screen to reveal 'Unknown Caller' on the caller ID. Patty answered the phone, sliding her thumb on the answer key.
"Peterson residence" said Patty kindly.
"I wanna talk to Penny" said the voice belonging to Ghostface. Patty got a confused look.
"Um, why?" asked Patty.
"None of your business. Just hand her the phone" said Ghostface.
"I'm sorry but she's had her phone privilege's revoked for the rest of the week" Patty said.
"I don't care. Let me talk to her" Ghostface said, a little bit angry at Patty's resistance to hand her daughter the phone. Penny saw that her mom was holding her phone and looked up to her.
"Who is it?" asked Penny. Patty looked down to face her daughter.
"Some guy who wants to talk to you. But he kinda sounds off and rude" responded the older blonde woman. Penny then spoke to Jill on the house phone.
"There's some rude guy on the phone who wants to talk to me. I don't even know who's calling" Penny said.
"Tell your mom to just hang up on them" Jill said before exchanging goodbyes with Penny and both girls hung up. Jill then closed the window with white curtains and then turned the light off.
"Do you know anything about my daughter? I don't even think you know her" Patty said in a challenging tone.
"I know she bullied Sherman Peabody today dressing up as someone from a horror movie and now you're making her watch 'Saw III' so she can try and make friends with him" Ghostface said, Patty now felt a sense of fear and spoke.
"How do you know all that? And how do you know which 'Saw' movie she's watching?" asked Patty.
"It's because I'm standing in the closet" Ghostface said looking to Penny's pink double door closet.
"No, there's no way you can really be in there" Patty said walking closer to the closet, Penny was confused since she couldn't hear the conversation between Ghostface and her mother.
"Find out for yourself. Open it up, I dare you" said Ghostface. Patty then slowly placed her hands on the doorknobs and opened it, revealing nobody or nothing in there. Patty then had an angry look on her face and put her daughter's phone back against her ear.
"Liar. Now don't you dare call this number again" Patty warned.
"I never said I was in Penny's closet" Ghostface said. Patty's expression changed to fear and her eyes widened as well in complete and utter shock, for she knew what Ghostface was gonna do. A loud bang was heard from Jill's bedroom next door and a loud girly scream.
"Jill!" Penny shouted opening her window and saw the shadow of Ghostface attacking her and a crimson blood stain staining the no-longer pristine white curtains.
"Oh my God!" Patty said dropping the phone on the floor and the device bounced twice on the fuzzy purple carpet. They then heard a male voice that undoubtedly belonged to Jill's older brother, Brandon.
"What's going on in he... oh my God!" Brandon screamed before shouting out in pain and then a loud thud that signaled his body hitting the floor.
"Not Brandon too!" Penny said with tears now flowing down her eyes. The bloodstained curtains opened up to reveal Ghostface with a bloodied knife in his hand, he waved to both mother and daughter tilting his head like the lunatic he was.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!" they both screamed while Ghostface put a finger up to the mouth of his mask (which means 'Shush' which was something Freddy Krueger did with one of the blades on his glove in one of his movies) and then went back inside the room and then the lights shut off.
A/N: There you go. Sherman just learned about Grunion's death and not to mention Jill and her brother are now dead too, no thanks to Ghostface. But now that more Ghostface attacks have been made, what's gonna happen? More to come in the next update. Please review, thanks!