I thought about Billy all night. In fact, I thought about him all morning too. There was no doubt in my mind that I was interested in him, but I never thought I would be. He and I were from two completely different worlds, but lately it felt like we were always on the same wavelength. After that night, he'd actually said more than a sentence to me. No one at school, other than Randy, ever spoke to me. Now, I could say that none other than Billy Loomis had. Behind that devilish grin and dark greasy hair, there was a person. He wasn't just your typical good-looking popular guy at school; there was a side to him that nobody knew. I felt like I was the only person who was slowly getting a peak at it and it was an amazing feeling.

Arriving at school for another long day, I walked down the hallways of Woodsboro high, looking for Randy. I couldn't find him anywhere, which was very unusual. He usually came running to my locker every morning with an insane story about his late shift at the video store the night before or some interesting fact about a movie we had just watched. Today, there was nothing. There was no Randy running up to me shouting my name. I kind of felt lost without it, maybe he was just held up or late to school, which had happened before.

The sight of a familiar face then startled me. It was Billy. He was leaning against a locker. Only, he wasn't leaning alone. Tatum Riley, Stu of course and also Sidney Prescott surrounded him. I looked at his face and was about to smile, but I noticed that his hands weren't free. They were interlocked with Sidney's. He was leaning against the locker, smiling at her. He rarely ever smiled; it was always just a glare. But he was smiling and Sidney was swaying side to side. Her hair was flowing perfectly as usual and her bright red shirt stood out in the hallway. They were acting like a couple, laughing, holding hands, and leaning on each other. Billy Loomis was dating Sidney Prescott.

I suddenly felt sick in the stomach. I looked away and pretended not to notice. This didn't make any sense. Billy just killed Sidney's mother right? Only days later he was in the hallway holding hands with her daughter? I didn't know what to do or what was going on. I just acted as if I'd seen nothing or what I'd seen wasn't bothering me. But for some bizarre reason, it was. I'd only ever spoken to Billy properly like once, maybe twice in the last few days and I felt like my whole world had been ripped apart. Of all the people in school, Sidney Prescott? It makes sense; they were both from the same high school rank. They were both popular, so it was only inevitable they would start dating. I think the most confusing thing was that Billy had murdered her mother. He never said he had, but it was pretty obvious that it was he and Stu that murdered her. With all these things rushing through my head I decided to give Billy and his group one more glance. This time when I looked at him, he wasn't looking or smiling at Sidney, he was staring at me.

That moment was again broken by Randy, who did eventually come rushing towards me.

"Ash!"

With a stutter, I stopped looking at Billy and replied, "Uh, Hi randy."

"Are you okay?"

"Me? Yes, I'm fine. Why do you ask?" I lied. I was a good liar when I needed to be.

"Just a look on your face. You look startled by something and not to mention you're as red as a beetroot," he laughed.

"Randy, that's not funny, it must just be hot in here or something."

I was constantly lying to Randy these last few days. I never in the entire duration of our friendship had lied to him. We were honest with each other all the time. We always told each other our secrets, our stories, our love for weird things and even our crushes. Well, that was until he started crushing on me and I'd figured it out, even though neither of us had brought it up. But this felt wrong, I couldn't tell him anything, no matter how badly I wanted to tell him about what I saw that night and what's going on with Billy and Stu. I just couldn't tell him and it broke my heart lying to him like this.

"Whatever, Ash. Something's been up with you lately. You're acting weird and not to mention Billy jackass Loomis spoke to you last night. That never happens," he said with a shrug.

I didn't know if he was trying to insult me or not but I think Randy, my best friend, just hinted that I wasn't cool enough to talk to Billy Loomis.

"Why is that? Am I not good enough for Billy to actually say something to me?" I said back in all seriousness.

"Ash no no no, that's not what I –," before he finished, I stopped him.

"Sure, Randy," I said. "I've told you this before. We were just talking about movies, okay?" I headed to class, passing Billy and his clan. When I thought about it, I was angry at Randy, but really this is all my fault. I'm not telling him anything and he knows me too well to know that something is up.

The end of the day was coming close. I was in my final class and that happened to be a class I shared with both Billy and Sidney. The teacher had said we were going to get into pairs for an upcoming assignment. It's time like these I wish I had Randy in all of my classes. Then Mr Monte announced that he was choosing the pairs. I was a little relieved but then more worried about who I'd be paired with. Billy was sitting with Sidney and Tatum at the back of the room. He didn't look at me once. If only Sidney knew that Billy was the one who butchered her mother, she might look at him twice.

"Ashley, you're with Sidney." My heart stopped and I suddenly lost my train of thought. Fuck was the only word that came to mind.

When Mr Monte was done dealing out the class with their pairs, he told us to move over and talk to them. How was I meant to talk to Sidney Prescott? I caught a glimpse of her, Tatum and Billy through the corner of my eye. Tatum and Sidney seemed to be in their own little world but Billy was just looking around the room, observing people. I knew he was doing that because I liked to do that. I was always on the outside looking in. I never spoke, I just watched and Billy was doing the same. It was kind of ironic. Sidney left Tatum and started moving towards me.

"Ashley, right?" she smiled.

"Yeah," I smiled back. I think that's the first thing she's ever said to me.

"I guess we're working together," she said gleefully. She was a generally happy person. Her mother died just days ago and she was smiling? How does she do it? How does she hide it? Heck, how was she even at school right now? I couldn't do it. I could tell she was broken up into a million pieces on the inside, that smile was hiding everything. As I said earlier, I read people well. I felt bad for her really; she had to cope with all this. Maybe that's why she's dating Billy, it's an escape from her screwed up, depressing life. But does she really know what he is? I don't think so.

"We are. What did you want to do our assignment on?" I asked. The assignment was for our film class and we had to choose any movie we wished and deconstruct it scene by scene, using symbolism, visual compositions, use of sounds, dialogue and basically anything that reveals the themes of the movie.

"I'm not too sure. I'm a huge comedy fan, so I have plenty of those we could watch and decide on."

Comedy? Really? I felt like saying. We have this incredible assignment, which no doubt I will enjoy and she wants to do a comedy? What a waste. I immediately thought horror movies would be perfect. I mean come on, The Exorcist would be incredible to deconstruct. People seem to forget the story behind that film. It's not just there to frighten you, it has a point. The Exorcist has a religious concept and develops a story on morality and the restoring of faith. It can go so deep. The director of the movie even once quoted 'it's not trying to scare you, it's trying to move you.' Many films with sublingual messages choose to hide behind horror. Wouldn't this be more interesting to discuss rather than a stupid comedy? Maybe that was just me, but I thought I'd bring it up.

"How about a horror film? They are always interesting to write about," I shrugged.

"Horror movies? I'm sorry but I don't watch them. Honestly, I find them stupid. I mean they're all the same. Some stupid killer who's stalking some big breasted girl who can't act who's always running up the stairs when she should be going out the front door. I find them quite insulting," she said.

Horror? Insulting? Who is this woman and why is she walking on the planet? I wouldn't be surprised if Billy was dating her just to kill her, because right now, I can't stand being in the same room as her.

I looked at Sidney blankly for at least a good 5 minutes. I had no words. What was I meant to say to that? She obviously had never watched a real horror movie before or if she did, she was too blinded by the fake scares to actually enjoy it. Seconds later, Billy interrupted. For a second I was relieved that he broke the silence between Sidney and I, and then I realized it was Billy and I felt nauseous.

He moved straight towards Sidney, acting as if he'd never spoken two words to me. "So what are you doing for your assignment?" he asked.

"Well, I wanted to do a comedy film, but Ashley suggested a stupid horror film," she said.

"A horror film?" Billy looked at me and smiled a little. It was very small but I noticed it. "Horror movies are boring," he added.

Lies. All lies. Just last night he was renting a horror movie to watch and barely days ago he was quizzing me on them! This move of his kind of made me realize that there might just be more to the relationship Billy and Sidney were developing.