Chapter 4

*Farah's P.O.V*

"Lulu, Yasmeen! Latakloon kil ilakl."
" Okay..." they both shouted from the kitchen. The doorbell had wrung and I don't trust those two with food. They can scarf food down their throats as if they've never seen it before.
" Hi Farah." A tall girl in sweats said to me.
"Hey Sarah. Come on in. We were waiting for you to arrive so we could decide what to do for the night, did you bring the DVD's?"
"Yep. The one's you asked for and some extra in case anyone wants to watch something else."
Shocked by how thoughtful and considerate that was, unlike Yasmeen and Lulu, I replied "aww that's sweet! I must say, I haven't known you for long but so far you seem awesome."
She blushed as she came into the house and followed me to the kitchen.
"Guess who's here?" I asked Yasmeen and Lulu, interrupting them from their argument of who grabbed the last crisps packet first. They stared at me with dumbfounded looks on their faces.
"The pizza?" Yasmeen asking.
"We didn't even order pizza Yasmeen!" I replied with friendly annoyance in my voice.
"Ice cream?" Lulu asked.
"Lulu, I said a person!"
"Okay okay! Ikleeny ba3ad..."
"With the way you eat, I'm afraid you'll do that first hunny." 
She glared at me as she went back to eating. I gave them a look before I said,
"Sara's here yal 7ameer. You invited her Yasmeen, remember?"
"Oh yeah, her." Yasmeen replied as if she didn't care. 
"Just kidding!" She then jumped up and sprinted to Sara and attacked her with a hug.
"Tone down the love a bit Yasmeen." Lulu shouted at her with mouthful of crisps in her mouth.
"Haha, it's okay," Sara replied as she was released from Yasmeen's grip.
"So what we gon' do first ladies?" Yasmeen asked.
"Well, Sara's brought some movies for us to watch, so we'll start with that. They're mostly horror films, because I asked her to bring some."
"Laaaa!" Yasmeen said with a sad look on her face, "Mabeeee." she begged us.
"Sorry" Sara apologised.
"Don't apologise, we'll make her watch them, like we always do." I replied with a cheeky tone.
"So what movies did you bring?" Yasmeen asked.
"Paranormal Activity 4, House at the End of the Street, Scream 2, The Place Beyond the Pines, The Notebook,  10 Things I Hate About You and 21 Jump Street. I was going to buy Scary Movie 3  to bring bs I heard it's inappropriate so I decided against it."
"Wow…" we all replied at once, in shock.
"You're handy!" Lulu said jokingly.
"So which one are we going to watch first?"
"Well, I'm up for watching The Notebook any day, and I know Farah agrees with me," Lulu said.
"What about Paranormal Activity 4? I heard it's really scary," I suggested.
"I lik-"
"You brought The Place Beyond the Pines?! I WANT TO WATCH IT!" Lulu interrupted.
"Don't mind her, she's got a massive crush on Ryan Gosling," Yasmeen explained.
"Haha, I can't blame her. I absolutely adore him." Sara replied with a dreamy look on her face.
"Isn't he gorgeous?!" Lulu asked. She looked like an over excited child who ate sweets and had just spotted a playground. 
"YES! I've watched every movie he's acted in!"
"Same! Except I couldn't watch The Place Beyond the Pines yet because I was out of the country when it was in the cinema here."
"Well I've watched it. It's boring but he makes it worth while."
"Great, then it's settled. We'll watch The Place Beyond the Pines then The Notebook."
"Heeey!" Yasmeen and I both shouted in protest.
"You don't get to choose the films we watch," I continued. 
She rolled her eyes but not in a rude way before she said, "Fine… But can we watch The Place Beyond The Pines first? I really want to watch it," she pouted at us. 
"Ugh, fine. But Yasmeen and I get to pick the next movie." I glared at her.
"Thank you!" She said as she sprung from her seat to hug me.
"Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!" She said as she hugged me tightly.
"Ulla shda3wa, it's just a movie Lulu," I stated.
She let go of me and looked at me.
"That movie, is just a movie. But Ryan Gosling is…" she was distracted by her own trail of thoughts. I rolled her eyes at her strange yet not so unfamiliar behaviour.
"Do you agree Sara?" I asked her.
"Got to. Have you not seen the guy?" she replied with a smirk.
I agree to some extent, the guy is attractive but Lulu's just crazy about him.
"So what do you want to watch, Farah?" Yasmeen asked me.
"I really want to watch 21 Jump Street but I'm in the mood for horror. What's a sleepover without horror films?" I replied with a smirk.
"But I don't want to watch a horror movieeee," she whined.
"Aww, come on Yasmeen. They're awesome! The best part is the adrenaline that runs through your veins when you're waiting in anticipation to see what happens next!"
"But sometimes they're too scary…" she pouted.
"We'll watch just one! I promise. Not 4 like last time…" 
"Which resulted with me not sleeping for 2 weeks." She gave me a look.
"Yeah… Sorry about that…" I replied with a guilty smile.
She didn't reply. 

After many arguments we finally decided that we would watch The Place Beyond the Pines then Scream 2. 



                                                                                                 

"God this movie's boring…" Yasmeen said as she yawned.

"Shhh!" Lulu hushed her.

I found the movie boring too but Lulu insisted on watching it and her and Sara seem to be enjoying it. I guess I have nothing to do than to wait for it to end. 

                                                                                                 

I was lost in my thoughts, the movie was too boring, when I heard a loud gunshot. I jumped in my seat and was about to start panicking only then I realised it came from the television.

"NOOOOOOOOOO!!!" 

Now that wasn't from the movie. 

"HOW COULD THEY KILL RYAN GOSLING?! HOW?!" Lulu started ranting. 

"Lulu wait, we don't know if he's dead yet." Yasmeen replied.

"He is." Sara informed us.

"WHAT THE HELL? WHY WOULD THEY DO THAT?" 

"Lulu, can we please watch a different movie now?" I asked.

"Ugh, fine." Lulu grumbled.

We ejected the DVD and placed the one for Scream 2 instead. As the opening scene started we all heard a whimper coming from the end of the sofa, where Yasmeen was sitting at. 

                                                                                                 

"Now I'm not going to sleep for the next week thanks to you Farah. "

"Hehe, you're welcome," I blushed. 

"Oh yeah!" Lulu started, "we forgot to tell Sara about our sleepover tradition!"

"Oh my god, how could we have forgotten about that?" I replied. 

"Well, it started off when we had our first sleepover…" I stopped only to realise that Sara had already fallen asleep.

"Looks like she's going to be a victim on her first night," Yasmeen said deviantly. 

"7aram she doesn't know about it though." I replied.

"But it's a tradition, you can't spoil traditions now can you?"

"I suppose she's right," Lulu stepped in.

"Miskeena, she doesn't know." I replied

"3adi! It won't be that bad, but only because she doesn't know."

                                                                                                 

*Yasmeen's P.O.V*

Lulu, Farah, Sarah and I decided to go out walking. Farah's house got slightly boring. I don't know why we agreed to it but we did. We went into this alley. It wasn't dark or creepy like how most stories or movies make it out to be; but instead there were huge lampposts, with bright, blinding like, exactly like the ones you find in football stadiums, lighting up the alley. We stopped walking and we stood there in a group, gossiping. The alley was endless, I couldn't see the end of it, only the beginning where we had entered from. Farah was talking about a celebrity scandal when I saw a dark figure walk across the the street perpendicular to the alley. It was a bit strange but I pushed any thoughts of it out of my head and engaged in the group's conversation again.

"… said I liked your…"

I was soon distracted by that same figure, but this time it was at the beginning of the alley, blocking the entry standing with it's arms slightly spread out and legs apart. It was wearing a long black robe but I couldn't make out any of it's other features because the brightness. It was like looking at the sky on a bright sunny day, it's not possible to spot any of the stars in the sky. 

"Guys…" I tried nudging Farah who was standing next to me, still talking about that scandal. She seemed unaware that I had spoken and had nudged her. They all were.

The figure had began to approach us. Slowly, yet I could still not see what it looked like.

"Farahhh!!" I tried shaking her.

"…why would she actually do that? Ya3ni fahmna you…"

"FARAH!!" I said louder this time. 

The figure was halfway across the alley and to our destination now. 

"GUYS! SHFEEKUM?!" I tried shaking them all this time and even shoving them. No response. It was as if I wasn't even there with them. 

Only being meters away from us, I saw that the figure was wearing a mask. I started screaming and jumping in front of Farah, Lulu and Sara, doing anything o get their attention. 

Dressed exactly like Ghostface in Scream 2 and a knife in hand, the figure was right behind Lulu. Raising his arm, preparing to stab Lulu, I pushed her. But my arm had gone through, as if I was ghost. How can that even be possible? 

'Ghostface' had already stabbed Lulu several times in the back, blood pouring out of her, leaving her body as if it was a marathon. Her knees had given away, she collapsed to the ground but she still had an excited expression locked on her face, unchanged from the moment the conversation had began. 

Next he had moved on to Sara, who was on my right hand side. This time he had aimed for her head. The knife had gone through her skull, I don't know how that's possible but it had. She too was still engaged with what Farah was saying. They all were unaware of myself and the Ghostface impersonator. 'Ghostface' had once again stabbed her, but this time, he stabbed her face. The knife went straight through her cheek, right bellow her eye. Now her body had collapsed too, also with the same expression on Lulu's face. 

Farah was next. She was still yapping away about whatever she was so interested in. 'Ghostface' slit her throat. That was all it took to have her body give away. Her body lay on the floor, with her neck nearly in two and blood rushing out of her body. Her mouth was still moving, but no sound came out now. 

'Ghostface' turned and gave me his back, but he faced the three (what you think would be lifeless, but is not) bodies. He suddenly raised his hands, as if he was conducting an orchestra, but it seemed like he was trying to summon Lulu, Farah and Sara's spirits. Suddenly their souls rose from their bodies. All fixated with same expression that Lulu had on her face when she collapsed, emotionless, smiling wide and eyes staring ahead at nothing. They had not flinched or changed their expression in any way. Their souls just rose from their bodies until they were facing ahead, staring right through me. 

'Ghostface' now turned to face me. He slowly approached me. Stood right in front of me, I held my breathe. He held up his knife and dragged it along my cheek softly so that it didn't cut me.

I woke up, breathing heavily and drenched in sweat. When I'd controlled my breathing I realised that inches away from my face was 'Ghostface'. I looked around the room, four more of 'Ghostface' stood around, Farah, Lulu, Sara and I.