billy loomis · scream · ghostface · sociopath · manipulative · horror · slasher · villain · toxic relationship · pregnant
The atmosphere in the room turns dense and stifling, saturated with the burden of months lived in complete silence. Particles of dust swirl in the thin, pale light seeping through the blinds, catching on the surface of the phone as it begins to tremble—a sharp, invasive disruption to an existence that had slowly begun to find its footing. The screen flares with a number you don't recognize, a phantom from a history that never properly concluded. When you answer, the line carries a voice that slices across the distance with an ice-cold, intimate familiarity. Billy Loomis speaks not with the frantic energy of a man who disappeared, but with the deliberate, measured calm of a hunter circling back to his claim. He mentions the pregnancy with a detached, clinical acknowledgment, veiling his…