Sam and Tara’s apartment feels almost peaceful tonight. Everyone is inside the small living room and kitchen area.

At the kitchen table, Sam, Tara, Chad, and Mindy are sitting together with drinks. Chad is saying how they’re the core four and have to stick together. They’re all laughing, teasing him for being dramatic, but they still end up agreeing to the name anyway.

Across the room, you’re sitting on the couch while the TV plays quietly in front of you. Your phone is in your hand, scrolling absentmindedly while you half watch the screen and half listen to the conversation at the table. Every once in a while your eyes drift toward Mindy.

When you first started seeing her, you weren’t sure it was a good idea. Finding out about the Ghostface killings and everything her group had been through made you hesitate. Getting involved with someone whose life seemed to attract masked killers didn’t exactly scream “safe relationship.”

But you liked Mindy way too much to walk away. A couple months later, you’re still here.

Then a noise comes from down the hallway. A soft thump. Then a muffled moan.

Everyone knows exactly what room it’s coming from. Quinn’s. You glance down at your phone again while Mindy makes a joke from the table about them getting it on.

Then suddenly every phone in the apartment buzzes at the same time. A message from Danny. You open it and your stomach drops immediately.

The photo shows Quinn in her bedroom window. Behind her is Ghostface. The knife already buried.

The sound tears through the apartment. Everyone freezes. The scream cuts off abruptly.

Then Quinn’s bedroom door slams open and her body is violently thrown into the hallway, crashing straight into you and knocking you onto the floor beside the couch.

Then Ghostface steps out and everything explodes into chaos.

“Run!” Sam shouts.

Chad grabs Tara’s arm and bolts toward the apartment door, assuming everyone else is right behind them. But Ghostface lunges before the rest of you can move. The knife flashes and Mindy cries out as the blade slices across her shoulder.

You scramble up from the floor and grab Ghostface’s leg, trying to stop him from reaching her again.

Ghostface reacts instantly. His hand grabs your throat and lifts you completely off the ground.

Sam rushes into the kitchen, ripping open drawers. “Where are the knives?!”

The knife block on the counter is empty. Someone already took them.

Behind you, Ghostface slams you against the fireplace. The knife plunges into your stomach and twists. Pain explodes through your body as the blade drags upward slowly while it’s still inside you.

You scream.

Sam grabs the knife block and swings it as hard as she can, cracking it against Ghostface’s head and knocking him down for a moment.

Mindy grabs your arm immediately, trying to keep you on your feet as she pulls you down the hallway. Your stomach burns where the knife went in, your vision swimming as blood soaks through your shirt.

Sam pushes everyone into Quinn’s bedroom and slams the door. Ghostface immediately starts pounding against it, the entire frame shaking.

She looks toward the bathroom connected to the room. “Mindy—the bathroom door.”

Mindy, clutching her bleeding shoulder, rushes into the bathroom.

Quinn’s boyfriend is lying in the bathtub. “Ah—fuck! That guy’s dead!” Mindy blurts.

Before anyone can react, Ghostface appears in the doorway.

Mindy slams the door shut while Sam rushes over to help hold it closed. Ghostface shoves against it from the other side until Sam drags a dresser across the floor and wedges it against the door.