And your eyes were filled with tears
Ethan had spent many days after his sister , and bests friend’s , deaths cooped up in his room.
He’d only leave at odd hours of the day to get food , water or clean himself , he knew the others , well at least chad , were worried for him , but to be honest he couldn’t care.
He missed Quinn deeply , anika too , he didn’t know what to do without the two of them , he just wanted them back.
Over this short period of time , Ethan and Chad had grown closer , Chad being the one to help Ethan. He couldn’t help but feel a warmness in his heart under all the pain.
He had woken up that morning , the sun blinding him as it shone through a crack in his curtains , to the smell of eggs and bacon. He clambered from his warm cocoon , making sure to wrap a jacket round himself as he stepped out of his room and slowly made his way to the kitchen.
There he stood , in all his glory , cooking breakfast for him , Ethan had a small smile on his lips as chad continued to cook their meal. He took a seat at the counter , pulling the chair In closer as he patiently waited.
Chad turned around , not expecting to see Ethan there already , “morning” he smiled , placing a plate before the boy , “glad to see you up for once” he chuckled , Ethan gave him a small toothy grin , one he hadn’t shown in a while.
“Oh yeah , there’s been some uhm Mkre news about ghostface..” Chad mumbled , knowing the topic was a touchy subject for Ethan. You see , ever since Ethan started hiding himself away the group had found out some information from Kirby , one of those things being that there was a shrine for all the existing ghostfaces.
Ethan sat still through the explanation , a shocked look on his face , “so we’re going to said shrine today?” He rubbed his hands together nervously , and Chad grabbed one of them , tracing shapes on his palm , the actions causing a light pink tint to appear on Ethan’s face.
“YOU dont have to come if you don’t want to , I just wanted to explain what’s been going on” Chad have Ethan a small smile , Ethan sat there staring at his lips. Through all this time they’d spent together there had been a point where a slight confession of feelings had happened , and now they had this odd relationship , they weren’t dating , but they weren’t ‘just friends’ either.
Chad had noticed his constant staring and had honestly wanted to get with the boy , but he wasn’t really sure if it would happen , especially under the circumstances they were in , so he just kept it to small touches , and simple glances , he promised himself that when all this was over , he would ask the boy out.
“I want to come ,” he mumbled , shrugging his shoulders slightly. Chad smiled at the shorter boy , and placed a plate of food down before him.
“Okay , well if you get ready after you’ve eaten we can go and meet the others and then we’re all gonna go to the shrine” he gave a small smile to Ethan before sitting down and tucking into his own food.
It didn’t take long for the two of them to finish , getting dressed and prepared to leave quite fast. They two of them were stood at the door when Ethan noticed something, “are you wearing my socks???” He was staring at chad’s feet , which was weird in itself , but even weirder were the item on chads feet , they were thick fluffy socks , something Chad would never wear no matter how cold his feet got , with ducks on them.
“They looked comfy..” he shrugged , pulling on his shoes , Ethan rolled his eyes at his roommate , just grabbing the keys and unlocking the door , “soo , shall we just head over now or would it look weird us being early and all?”
Chad blinked at him a few times , “oh they’ve already gone , turns out that want to meet AT the shrine now” he shrugged , grabbing a coat from the rack and pulling it on. Ethan looked at him confused , “huh? Why?” He tilted his head slightly , Chad of course blushed finding that extremely cute , “uhm I’m not sure , it’s fine thought , means it can just be the two of us for a bit.” Ethan smiled at chad.
The drive didn’t take long , but obviously it took long enough for the group as by the time they’d arrived they were already in the shrine room , chad went off first , however as Ethan was making his way there he got a phone call , causing him to pause before entering.
He picked up the call , “hello this is Ethan Landry speaking?” The other end was silent for quite a while , the only audible noise being a few slow , heavy breaths , it made Ethan feel uncomfortable, it almost made him feel like he was being watched.
“I know who you are Ethan Kirsch.” The raspy voice of ghostface echoed through the alleyway , Ethan instantly paled , any form of safety he felt beforehand leaving him and leaving him as a shell of pure paranoia.
He let out a shaky breath , “how do you know that..” he choked on his words , his hands shaking slightly , the phone almost falling from his grasp , not that he was holding it that tightly.
Ghostface chuckled “I know more about you than you think Ethan , might wanna watch your back.” Before Ethan could utter a single word , question how this person knew him , ask why they were doing this to him , the call cut off , and he was left there tears springing up in his eyes as he shook in pure fear for his life.