Chapter 13: Killer Party
Or I Applaud at the End
A DHI Book Club Discussion by pibbs
Flashback to 1982, when Vic met Laura. Uh, he just sits next to her in study hall.
Are these supposed to be jokes?“And your name is?” Diana cut him off. “Might as well cut right to it.”
“Vic.”
“How very greaser,” she joked, not expecting that to be his name.
“What were you expecting?” he laughed.
“I don’t know. Chuck, Chaz, Charles, Bruce, Bryce, Brace.”
Psycho and Bryce join them.
Oh. This was the pay off to the set up with the names. Fucking hell.“Holy shit,” said Vic, noticing the coincidence of his name.
“It’s fate.”
“Don’t be weird,” Diana laughed.
Flashback over. Pointless, unfunny, and wasted my time.
Some music? SOME MUSIC?!Present Time. AA10.
The boom box was set up on the cafeteria bar table, playing some music,
Are you getting sick of this book, Brad? Every time music has been mentioned before you had a specific title in mind.
Sigh. They play act like this is a real 10 Year reunion and they're seeing each other for the first time in years. No interesting dialog, so moving on. Except Psycho...
Kurt brings out a steaming pot of beans."Okay, fine," she sighed. "Hi Bryce. I'm a hooker now." She extended her hand for him to shake, which he obliged.
"Hmm, intriguing. Does it come with benefits?
"Free STD test every week," she said, taking a drink.
Brad, you forgot to close quotes there."They are rich in barbeque flavor and also vodka. Lots and lots of vodka.
Laura makes a toast."Lady, you can't cut in line," Kurt wiped his hands off with a towel. "You'll have to wait just like everyone else to get your beans."
"Yeah, well, what if I take you in the kitchen and suck your dick?"
That blunt response immediately caused Kurt to laugh and nearly break character. "I can't believe how much things haven't changed in the past ten years.”
That's better.Lilith slammed her glass onto the bar, and immediately turned up the radio before standing right on top of the bar. "Shout" by Tears for Fears was just starting to play.
Laura and Vic fuck off to go fuck. But instead, they sort of explore the school reliving memories. First study hall and the table where they met in the opening flashback. Then off to the chemistry lab, and to the closet where the chemicals burned the poor ole Nerd."Our queen is about to strip!" shouted Kurt. Lilith thrusted her shoulders forward and moved her hips from side to side, dancing along with the music. She closed her eyes, fully absorbed by the music, and began walking and moving seductively all along the bar, as if she were on a walkway at a strip club. It didn't take long for her to unzip her spandex suit, and slowly pull it all the way down to her ankles, leaving her completely naked and still dancing, albeit slightly drunkenly, to Tears for Fears.
Just had a thought, if this were a slasher story, the slashing should have started long before now. According to my Kindle, we're 75% done. I guess there's time, but damn it's going to be rushed.Diana then noticed something that piqued her curiosity. "That's new though." There was a large crack in the very corner of the wall that made the two parts of the wall look like they weren't even connected. She walked up closer to it to put her hand on it, and pushing. It moved. It was actually a door, leading to a dark staircase.
They go down, but finally take their guns out at the ready.
They reached the very bottom. The basement room was a normal size, with a table in the middle, and curtains draped over all of the walls. The room wasn't as intriguing or as eventful as they thought it would be.
"I think it just is a bomb shelter. Maybe just one left over from the 1950s," said Vic.
They kiss. HARD. Vic lays her across the table and she grabs the curtains behind her. They fall revealing a hidden room. I didn't skip any raunchy sex stuff, guys. There wasn't any. Just what I wrote but with a thousand extra words....There still has to be a reason that no one else is in this school. This whole building is the perfect place to live and hide."
"I think there’s a reason," Vic said, flirtatiously as he quickly spun Diana around until their chests met, and then he lifted her up onto the table. "We were meant to have sex right in our high school.
Vic was still kissing her stomach and hadn't noticed anything. Diana, ignoring Vic's kissing, grabbed the flashlight and shone it toward the other room. Right away she spotted things that made her go from confused, to concerned, to scared.
WHO, could it be?!the flashlight on the secret room revealed photos of her from high school taped to the wall, along with the picture of her that Fletcher Van Patten had taken in his own basement. There was a cot in the room as well, plus Fletcher's ventriloquist dummy, and the mannequin that had a picture of Diana taped to it. Even though Diana hadn't seen some of these items before, it was the picture of her from Fletcher's basement that made her know exactly whose room it was.
This shit is so fucking predictable, everyone saw thi-
…Suddenly an arrow from a crossbow shot from an unknown part of the room. The arrow went directly through the side of Diana's head. Still with the same look of shock on her face, Diana fell to her side, off of the table and onto the ground, dead in an instant.
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Shit.
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*slow applause to Brad
Ok. All right. You got me. Didn't see that coming.
End of chapter.From the other side of the curtain, still on the wall facing Vic, another arrow shot directly through the curtain, hitting Vic directly in the crotch. Vic screamed in pain, falling to his knees, and firing his weapon into the ceiling. Now he was no longer firing to try to hit whatever had shot him, he was firing to scream and cover up the pain, which was strong enough that he soon passed out on the ground.
Damn.