Chapter 35

Amara POV

I was thrilled when my mom came to town to watch the twins. They only seem to behave when she is watching them. My mom's always seemed to have that effect on people. Warren's been on his best behavior ever since she arrived this morning.

Tatum checks the living room making sure my mom's a good feet away before whispering low, "Who the hell were you dreaming about last night? You sure it was a dream and you didn't sneak someone in here?"

I feel my face become hot, I grab her arm pulling her closer to me, "What are you talking about?" She squints her eyes at me before shrugging.

"Guess it was a dream, sucks you can't remember, it sounded like fun" she whines as I stare at her confused. I don't remember having a dream, I honestly don't even remember going to bed. The phone rings bringing me out of my thoughts and back to Tatum's rambling.

"Been so long since I had a wet dream, at least it means you're getting over Billy and Stu," she says envious but happy before leaving the room to answer the phone while I tilt my head confused at her.

"Billy and Stu?" I mumble trying to recall the names.

Warren runs into the kitchen and it suddenly clicks. That was weird. I must be really tired as if I would ever forget who they are.

"You okay?"

"Yes sweetheart, just a little tired," I ran my hand through his beautiful soft curls giving him my strongest smile no matter how drained I felt.

Tatum rushes into the room with a look of annoyance on her face, "That was Dewey, Candy's been killed and they've called Roman into questioning, he was the last person to talk to her,"

What the hell? Not sure how I feel about that. I nudge Warren when I notice him smiling at the news. "Does Sidney know?"

"Yeah, she and Randy are on their way," she responds.

"Will you be good for your grandma?"

He nods immediately instead of not answering or thinking for a moment. I pray for the person he ends up with in the future. Using a car I rented I was on my way back to the studio with Tatum when I received a call from the hospital saying my father was awake.

I was hesitant to go into his room. After ten minutes, Tatum gets fed up and opens the door for me, nudging me inside as he's sitting on the bed holding his head deep in thought. "Hey,"

My voice grabs his attention, "You still mad at me?" I could see a lot of pain in his eyes and didn't have it in me to fight with him.

"I can barely remember what I was mad at you about,"

He smiles before suddenly engulfing me in a hug, "I love you, you were my last thought, when I thought I was gonna die," his voice is shaky as he cups the back of my head holding me tighter.

My lips tremble as I fight back tears, not sure why I'm feeling so emotional. I hug him back, holding him tight until he groans holding his side. "Dad, you should rest,"

"No, I need to protect you, Danny is a fucked up person, he was way fucked up before he became the person he is now." I gently pushed him back on the hospital bed.

"I know Dad, we're gonna leave soon, you don't have to worry about us, please for me get some rest," I plead, after a few moments he nods leaning back in pain, I watch him until his eyes close, I hug him then give him a light kiss on his forehead before heading to the studio.

The studio was in a frenzy, I just wanted to find Dewey and get out of there, but who I ended up finding made me happier. "Randy!" I yell, surprised jumping on his back, he groans, losing his footing, almost falling over. Tatum excitedly jumps into Sidney's arms holding her tight.

"Jesus Mara, you scared the hell out of me, this set is creepy enough," he complains, planting his feet.

"Hey Sid," I greet her hopping off of Randy's back.

"Hey, Amara," she smiles before hugging me, "Can't believe the old gangs are back together," Tatum says excitedly doing a little dance.

"Yeah, minus the serial killers," Randy mumbles, Sidney gives him a scolding look, and Tatum starts to shoo him away telling him we need girls' time.

"Fine, I'll just go find your brother," he says after smacking her hand away. He kisses Sidney's cheek whispering in her ear before leaving, Tatum fake gags rolling her eyes. We walked around the studio catching up about our lives now and what we've been missing out on.

I ended up bumping into the girl who plays me in the first two movies, weirdly she had a nasty attitude toward me and I don't even know her, the sooner we're out of LA the better.

"Can't believe they went with that actress to play you," Tatum says with her nose scrunched up in disgust.

"I met the actress that plays me, she weirdly fits the part," Sidney says.

"That's an act, I can tell you right now, she'll become a good actress one day with the way she pretends to be innocent," I tell them, something about her familiar even though we'd never met before.

"Can I tell you guys something?" Sidney confides in us.

"Anything,"

"Lately I've been having visions of my mom, it's been freaking me out, Randy has been there for me to help me cope," she rubs her head for a moment. "I've tried to talk to Roman, but I feel like he resents me,"

"Randy thinks he's the killer," she adds after a few seconds.

"You know he was brought in for questioning, did you tell the police Roman is your brother?" Tatum asks curiously. Sidney shakes her head slowly.

"Damn really Roman? But he's so awkward and dorky," I laugh, then again I don't know much about Roman, I don't think I do.

Tatum shakes her head, "I saw him at the gym once, the guy is rugged, really surprised you didn't climb that," she teases toward me.

"Well if I did, that would make three ghostfaces that I would've slept with, no, thank you," I roll my eyes in disgust while Sidney laughs.

"We'll technically you still kissed three," Sidney turns to me gasping in shock, "You kissed Roman?"

"I was drunk but I'm an angry drunk so he received a black eye after," I defend myself, He took advantage of the situation and paid for it. Tatum shakes her head laughing

"As hilarious that was I was referring to Mickey,"

"I did that to save your lives, and I slit his throat after so," I say casually, Sidney looks at me with an emotion I couldn't understand. My phone rings, and an unknown number pops up annoying me.

"Who is it?"

"Hey puppet, just wanted to see how you're feeling," a familiar smooth voice says making a chill go down my spine.

"I know what you did last night," he teases making my heart drop, "I was so disappointed in you especially since your body belongs to me now,"

"No, it doesn't!"

"But it does, no matter what you did will not go unpunished, which is why I already sent another puppet of mine to do a job for me,"

"What did you do?" I breathe out shakily.

"No, what did you do? Do you even remember? Or are your memories still being consumed? I should thank you, save me the trouble of tracking down Christina myself, you should hurry home, hope the little ones don't get in the way," he says darkly before hanging up.

I scream slamming my phone down, "Fuck!, Tatum call the police have them sent to our condo now!," I ran to the car before they could ask any questions.

"Please not my mom,"

Third POV

Christina watched the twins as they watched a movie eating bowls of ice cream, she was so thankful to be able to see them since it had been a while.

"Can we please watch something scary?" Warren asks, annoyed.

"No," Christina and Sam answer at the same time. He rolls his eyes but continues to watch the TV, the phone rings loudly grabbing her attention, Warren goes to answer it but Christina tells him she has it.

"Hello?"

"Hello?" a voice oddly similar to hers repeated back.

"Who's this?" she tries again.

"Who's this?" the similar voice repeats right back.

"I'm hanging up,"

"Oh I wouldn't do that," her voice is gone and a much darker creepier one appears. "I've been tracking you down for a while now, you have something I need,"

"And what's that?" she asks, keeping her eyes on the twins as she grabs a knife from the holder.

"Your blood, Surrender yourself and maybe I won't hurt the little ones," he tells her, Christina pants trying to keep herself calm.

"On second thought," his voice cuts out, as Ghostface appears crashing through the closet and causing everyone to scream, he runs for Christina, his knife sharp and high ready for blood, he swings but misses, she grabs a pan launching it at him.

"He groans holding his head but only for a moment, Chrisina runs for the kids pushing them toward the bathroom as the killer runs after them. They manage to get inside, closing the door but scream as the killer throws his body against it.

Christina turns to the twins pushing them into the bathtub, "Hold on to your sister, and no matter what happens or what you hear, you don't come out, you stay together," they nod, breathing heavily as they hold each other.

The door cracks as the killer throws his body against it again and again, Christina holds the knife up away from the kids giving them each a kiss on the forehead. The door is broken open just as Christina closes the shower curtain shielding the kids with her body.

Ghostface grabs her by her hair, roughly dragging her out of the bathroom, Warren holds Sam tighter as she sobs quietly worried for her grandmother. Christina manages to slice at his arm to get loose but he just grabs her again before roughly throwing her into the living room.

She groans hitting her shoulder roughly on the ground, she breathes heavily scooting back away from him as he stalks her, toying with her like prey, he stabs her thigh making her scream out, he keeps the knife in her leg before pulling out a syringe.

He grabs her arm but when she tries to pull away he roughly grabs the knife in warning making her cry out no longer fighting him. He squeezes her arm finding a vein before drawing her blood, once done he roughly yanks the knife out.

Christina instantly holds her hands over the wound crying out at the pain, he stares at her for a moment as she pleads for her life, but he ignores her lifting his hard to strike down. She closes her eyes waiting for death.

Instead, she hears a scuffle, she opens her eyes to see Cotton fighting off the killer, he has the upper hand until the killer grabs a lamp smashing it over his head.

"No!" Christina screams out jumping on the killer's back and pulling him off of Cotton, he roughly shakes her off turning his attention completely onto her, Cotton comes to her rescue as the killer knew he would, and he turns stabbing Cotton deeply through the stomach.

Christina screams as Cotton chokes on his blood, falling back as the killer stabs him again and again. Cotton's eyes find hers as he gives her a small smile. The killer stops stabbing him once he hears sirens, and he disappears from the scene.

"No, please no," Christina whimpers, holding his head in her lap, he wipes her tears as she sobs holding him.

"You... you were my first.. First love," he weakly tells her, fighting to keep his eyes open.

"And you were mine," she bites her lip trying to stop the tears.

"Mom!" Amara screams running into the apartment, relief goes through her when she sees her mom but her heart drops when she sees who she's holding.

"Dad?!" she runs to his side kneeling next to him, she puts her hands over his wound trying to stop the flowing blood. "We can save him,"

"No you can't," he weakly reaches out his hand, and she grabs it immediately holding it to her face. "I'm so glad I got to see you.. One last time," she kisses his hand holding it tighter, he smiles at them until life drains from his eyes, but he is glad in his final moments he was able to save them and see them one last time.

The police show up at the scene just as Amara flees out the backdoor with the twins by her side, she can't stay and have them find out about who their father is, so Christina stays by Cotton's side until they take him away from her.

The twins were quiet the entire ride, no matter what I said, they did not want to talk. As soon as we reached the ending point of leaving LA, my necklace started to burn and glow a deep red, I quickly swerved trying to catch my breath that was trying to escape me.

I stopped on the side of the road, back within city limits, I could finally breathe again.

"Mom?" Sam checks in on me, putting her hand on my shoulder. I nod whispering that I'm fine, I try to take the necklace off but it won't budge. I head back into the city, to book a hotel, there's no way I can go back to that condo.