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CASEY BECKER was getting ready to watch a movie with Steven orth. She was waiting for him to arrive. As she walked towards the kitchen to start making popcorn. The phone rang.
She walked over to the phone and picked it up, "hello?" She answered
"Hello."
"Yes?"
"Who is this?"
"Who are you trying to reach?"
"What number is this?"
"Who are you trying to reach?"
"I don't know."
"I think you have the wrong number."
"Do i?"
"It happens. Take it easy." Casey said before hanging up. She places the phone down. It was only a second before it started to ring again. She sighed before picking it up.
"Hello?"
"I'm sorry. I guess I dialed the wrong number."
"So why'd you dial it again?"
"To apologize."
"You're forgiven. Bye now."
"Wait! Wait! Don't hang up!"
"What?"
"I want to talk to you for a second. "
"They got 900 for that. See-ya." Casey hung up, and she went to start making popcorn. As she put the popcorn in the stove, the phone rang again.
"Ahh." She groaned before she picked it up. "Hello?"
"Why don't you want to talk to me?"
"Who is this?"
"You tell me your name, and I'll tell you mine."
"Aa, I don't think so."She said as the popcorn started to pop.
"What's that noise?"
"Popcorn."
"You're making popcorn?"
"Uh-huh."
"I only eat popcorn at the movies."
"Well, I'm getting ready to watch a video."
"Really? What?"
"Oh. It's just some scary movie."
"You like scary movies?"
"Uh-huh."
"What's your favorite scary movie?"
"Uh.. I don't know."
"You have to have a favorite. What comes to mind?"
"Umm... Halloween."
"You know the one guy in a white mask that walks around and stalks babysitters."
"Yeah."
"What's yours?"
"Guess."
"Um..nightmare on Elm Street?"
"Is that the one with the guy that has knifes for fingers?"
"Yeah, Freddy Kruger."
"Freddy, that's right."
"I like that movie. It was scary."
"Well, the first one was, but the rest sucked."
"So, you got a boyfriend?"
"Why? Do you wanna ask me out on a date?"
"Maybe."
"Do you have a boyfriend?"
"Mm..No."
"You never told me your name."
"Why do you wanna know my name?"
"cause I wanna know who I'm looking at."
The smile on Casey face fell. Her heart rate spiked in fear and anxiety. "What did you say?"
"I wanna know who I'm talking to."
"That's not what you said."
"What do you think I said?"
"What?"
"Hello?"
"Look, I've gotta go."
"Wait! I thought we were gonna go out?"
"Uh, I don't think so."
"Don't hang up on me!" Casey didn't listen, and she hung up. The phone rings again and startles her.
She hesitantly picked it up. "Yes?"
"I told you not to hang up on me."
"What do you want?"
"To talk."
"Well, dial someone else, okay?" She said before hanging up again, and the phone rings before she could even put it down.
She picked up, "Listen asshole-"
"No! You listen you little bitch! You hang up on me again, and I'll gut you like a fish!"
"Understand?"
"Is this some kind of joke?"
"More of a game, really."
"Can you handle that?"
"Blondie?" Casey runs around the house, locking the windows and doors.
"Can you see me?"
"Listen, I am two seconds away from the calling the police."
"They never make it in time were in the middle of nowhere."
"What do you want?"
"To see what your insides look like." Casey hangs up, and the doorbell rings, "Ahh!"
"Who's there!?"
"Who's there!?" Casey called out, her heart thumping loudly in her chest.
"I'm calling the police!"
The phones ring again and Casey answers it.
"You should never say Who's there? Don't you watch scary movies? It's a death wish."
"You might as well come out and investigate a strange noise or something."
"Look, you've had your fun now. So, I think you better just leave or else"
"Or else what?"
"Or else my boyfriend will be here any second, and he'll be pissed when he finds out."
"I thought you didn't have a boyfriend,"
"I lied. I do have a boyfriend, and he'll be here any second, and your ass better be gone. "
"Sure."
"I swear it! And he's big and plays football and will beat the shit out of you!"
"I'm getting scared,"
"I'm telling you the truth. I lied before "
"I believe you,"
"So you better leave,"
"His name wouldn't be steve, would it?"
"How do you know his name?"
"Go to the back porch and turn on the light."
Casey, even though she was scared,she moved and she turned on the lights from the back porch and she looked outside and she gasped seeing steve tied to a chair gagged
"Oh god!" She screamed, and she unlocked the door, but the voice stopped her
"I wouldn't do that if I were you,"
"Where are you?"
"Guess"
"Please don't hurt him,"
"That all depends on you,"
"Why are you doing this?"
"I wanna play a game."
"No."
"Then he dies right now,"
"Noo!"
"Which is it?"
"What kind of game?"
"Turn off the light." Casey turns off the light, ignoring the way steve Begs her not too
"Here's how we play. I ask a question, and if you get it right, then steve lives. "
"Please don't do this,"
"Come on,it'll be fun,"
"No...please"
"It's an easy category. Movie trivia "
"Please,"
"I'll give you a warm-up question."
"Don't do this. I can't.."
"Name the killer in Halloween."
"No.."
"Come on, it's your favorite scary movie, you remember?he had a white mask, and he stalked babysitters."
"I don't know,"
"Come on,yes, you do,"
"Please..stop."
"What's his name?"
"I can't think."
"Steve's counting on you"
"Michael.. Michael myers"
"Yes!"
"Now for the real question."
"Noo."
"But you're doing so well,"
"Please go away. Leave us alone!"
"Then answer the question, same category "
"Please..no."
"Name the killer on Friday the 13th."
"Jason!Jason!...jason!"
"I'm sorry, that's the wrong answer."
"No, it's not. It was jason. "
"Afraid not."
"It was jason. I saw that goddam movie twenty times. It was jason. "
"Then you should know Jason's mother, Mrs. Voorhees was the original killer. Jason didn't show up till the sequel "
"You tricked me,"
"Lucky for you, there's a bonus round but poor steve... I'm afraid... he's out,"
Casey ran and turned on the lights back on
Her eyes went wide as she saw steve with his stomach open and blood pooling underneath him and his insides laid by his feet
She screamed loudly and sobbed
"Final question. Are you ready?"
"Just leave me alone,"
"Answer the question, and I will."
"Which door am I at?"
"What?"
"There's two doors to your house. A front door and a back one. If you answer correctly-you live."
"Don't make me...I can't...I won't,"
"Your call"
Casey suddenly screams as the back door glasses shatter as a chair was thrown into them
Casey runs to the front door open and opens it ,only to see a mask figure. She screams and closes the door before running towards the back
She managed to get outside and creep past Steve's dead body .She almost made it to the front when she felt someone looking at her, and she turned her head and made eye contact with the mask figure
She ran, and she heard glass shattering behind her and loud footsteps behind her
She almost made it ,till a glove hand covered her mouth and stabbed her
Mr. Becker and Mrs. Becker arrived home and walked into the house hearing a smoke alarm going off
"Casey!?"they called out, and Mrs. Becker rushed into the kitchen, putting out the burning popcorn and putting in the sink
Mrs .Becker and Mr. Becker went over to the phone to call the police but when Mrs . Becker picked up the phone she only heard weird noises
Mr. Becker had told her to go to the neighbors and call the police from there, and she nodded and went outside only to let out a heart piercing wail
Casey becker was hanging on the tree gutted and dead.
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