Page 10 of The Trick

It’s much longer than the average screen name but fuck it’s perfect.

I’ve spent the last few months talking toBoogeymanon Instant Messenger almost daily. We “met” in one of the horror chat rooms I frequent– “Horror Whores”, the same one that Ethan was poking fun at me for before I killed him.Ha, jokes on him.

Since me and Boogeyman were the only ones who actually knew our ass from our elbow when it comes to all things macabre and gore, we decided to exchange screen names and take our chat outside of the forum.

Conversation now loaded; I scroll back through my missed messages.

Boogeyman_Of_Haddonfield_31: Hello my favorite final girl

Boogeyman_Of_Haddonfield_31: What are you doing?

Boogeyman_Of_Haddonfield_31: Oh come on my fellow phobophile…you aren’t ignoring me, are you?

My tongue swipes over my lips before I trap my bottom lip beneath my teeth as I think of what to type back.

FinalGirlsRock_666: Hey my favorite boogeyman =)

FinalGirlsRock_666: Miss me?

As soon as my message is sent, the small text bubble in the bottom corner of our conversation box appears saying Boogeyman is typing.

Boogeyman_Of_Haddonfield_31: You know it ;-D

Boogeyman_Of_Haddonfield_31: What are you doing?

Oh, you know, just trying to figure out how to literally get away with murder, nothing too crazy.

I’m about to respond when something dawns on me. Boogeyman and I have discussed meeting up a few times before but, for some reason or another, we haven’t. I bet if I play my cards right, it would be easy to get him to want tomeet up tonight…at the woods by the old mill.

It shouldn’t be difficult; he loves abandoned places like I do. Given the way our conversations usually morph from horror focused to flirty, he’ll assume I’m asking him there to fuck, since it’s become a random hot spot for people to go and fool around. It’ll be perfect. I’ll tell him to meet me by that pitchfork tree and while he’s waiting for me, I’ll have already called the cops telling them he stole my knife and I’m afraid of what he might do next. They will find him with Ethan’s blood on the knife and if I’m lucky, he would’ve already found it so his fingerprints will be on it. Then I will be free from this nightmare.

FinalGirlRocks_666: About to take a shower ;-D

Boogeyman_Of_Haddonfield_31: Ooooh, mind if I join?

FinalGirlRocks_666: I wish you would ;)

FinalGirlRocks_666: I have a better idea…

Boogeyman_Of_Haddonfield_31: Better than seeing you naked????

FinalGirlRocks_666: MUCH BETTER

Boogeyman_Of_Haddonfield_31: I’m waiting, final girl…

Damn, this may be easier than I anticipated.

FinalGirlRocks_666: How about we finally meet up tonight?

Boogeyman_Of_Haddonfield_31: Um does Ghostface like asking what’s your favorite scary movie???

Boogeyman_Of_Haddonfield_31: Does Michael Myers ever change out of his jumpsuit?

Boogeyman_Of_Haddonfield_31: Fuck yea! Where do you want to meet?

FinalGirlsRock_666: You know the woods by the old mill?

Boogeyman_Of_Haddonfield_31: The abandoned one near the cemetery?

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