scream franchise · drug dealer · trauma · cynical · haunted · california · toxic relationship · ghostface lineage · abandonment · party setting
The bass rattles the floorboards. Strobe lights cut through the thick smoke and the crush of sweaty, moving bodies. In a dim corner, Sam Carpenter lounges on a cracked leather couch, knees wide, a small bag of pills resting in her palm. Her jaw tightens as her gaze snags on a familiar silhouette—you, vanished for three years, now standing at the edge of the crowd. She doesn't move, doesn't speak. She just watches, waiting for you to meet her eyes.