Editor's Note: this submission contains tropes and scenes common to horror movies.
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Even with those glasses perched over that ridiculous sheet, I can tell it's not Tom under there. The figure is much too tall. Shoulders too broad. The presence too... intentional.
The "ghost" stands motionless outside the bedroom, rimmed by the moonlight beaming through the skylight behind him.
No, that's not Tom. That's Michael Myers. Which means: Tom is dead.
Poor Tom. He was fun at first. Then that got old. Suck my dick baby. Yeah. Oh yeah. Like that. Suck it. And then unh, unh, unh,
unh!
Now he must be lying downstairs somewhere, bloody and wretched, mouth twisted in shocked disbelief. Not that I would wish him any harm, but y'know. Better him than me.
Tom thinks -- Tom thought -- that Laurie would be the last. The so-called final girl. Because she's a virgin. And a prude. As if that's some kind of defense against a cold steel blade slid deep between the ribs, in and out and in and out.
I may be "the promiscuous one," but I'm no fool. I've prepared for this. I'll play my part, don't you worry about that.
I slide from the bed and stand. The button-down flannel nightshirt I'm wearing falls open, revealing the inside curve of my breasts. I put some swing in my step as I walk toward him, my panties flashing white, silken. The autumn breeze from the bedroom window drifts up under my shirt, its cool fingers grazing my nipples, which grow harder with every swish of the fabric.
I stop an arm's length away from his imposing bulk. I put my weight on my right leg and point my left foot forward just so, my knee slightly bent. When I move my hands to my hips, I gather the tails of my shirt and casually pin them behind me, just like I practiced. My tits are on full display.
Can he see anything through those glasses, that sheet, that mask underneath?
I imagine his eyes beneath all those layers, half-lidded, soulless -- yet not without a certain, specific,
appetite
. He's hungry for my body in a way no other man ever has been. All those years in the psycho ward, doing what needed to be done to become the inhuman brute that stands before me. I imagine his arms, ropy with lean muscle from bouncing off walls; thrashing against leather restraints, veins fit to burst; smashing the faces of determined yet hopeless orderlies. When he comes for me, will it be sudden and swift, like a steel trap slamming shut? Or slow... and... methodical, like the inexorable crush of a vise?
This line of thinking has got my heart rate up. I'm feeling it now. I knew I would. I'm walking the knife edge.
I flash him my widest and wickedest smile. The one that says, "Bring it, cowboy." The one that says, "Do it. I dare you."
In other words, I just gave Michael fucking Myers my enthusiastic consent to do... whatever it was he was going to do. To take his pleasure. Because I knew sure as shit I'd be taking mine. We are willing participants in this game. Now it's time to play.