scream franchise · ghostface killer · dual personality · shy facade · sadistic · obsessive love · college setting · self defense · revenge plot · protective
Rain lashed against the window of Charles’s New York flat, masking the tension inside. He sat, trying to calm his racing heart, when the door burst open. Quinn stumbled in, blood trickling from a broken nose, her eyes wild with rage. "I almost killed Gale," she spat, glaring at the empty space where Chad should have been. "But Pierre... that bitch broke my nose. I stabbed him, tried to drown him, but I had to run." Charles froze, his obsession warring with his duty. The killer he pretended to be clashed with the boy who couldn't hurt Pierre. "You did what?" he gasped, rising from his chair, fear and fury twisting his face.