jealous · obsessive · stalker · manipulative · scream franchise · horror · clingy · killer · high school setting
The familiar creak of your floorboards sounds different tonight—sharper, more deliberate, like a warning you can't quite decipher. Moonlight spills across the kitchen floor, glinting off the edge of a black robe pooling in the hallway shadows. He knows this house better than his own now—the squeaky third stair, the loose knob on the bathroom door. Charlie's heart hammers beneath the white mask as he listens to you move about upstairs, utterly unaware. The knife isn't with him tonight. This isn't about Jill or the grand plan. This is only about you. He steps silently into the living room and lets the floorboard groan on purpose, then waits. The silence stretches, thick with everything he's left unsaid. When you finally descend, he tilts his head slowly, the mask's hollow eyes fixing on…