Ethan Landry x Plussize!Reader
Reader is pictured to be plus size but body isn't mentioned.
Ethan Landry played you. That's how it felt after the ghostface attacks. You were totally innocent in all this. You weren't a part of the core 4, you didn't kill Richie, and you didn't even know that the friends you had made happen to be the survivors. You had heard about the kills but never saw faces long enough to recognize. Until it was too late, you liked your friendship with them, and it was over. That's what you thought at least. Now that you sit on the curve as police surround the area everything feels weird.
Meeting Ethan was nice. He was cute, nerdy, and awkward. Honestly everything you wanted in a guy so when y'all started to become close you got excited. You shared classes and even when you didn't you'd find yourself with him minutes after. He'd joke with you, always keeping an eye, and stayed close. Everyone could see that you two had something going. He made you feel so nice and wanted. You always thought you were a pretty girl but admittedly guys from your old area never really went for you. So having his attention even just as friends felt good.
Ethan was awkward, yes... but you always knew confidence hid behind it. He'd hold your hand, fix your hair, and even pull you in closer when he got the chance. Never failed to remind you how talented, smart, and even pretty he found you. Even if he stuttered by the end, that stutter was probably fake now that you think about it. You knew the fake Ethan Landry, not the real Ethan Kirsh. You'd catch glimpses of him though. Like mentioned before, the secret confidence, the possessive pulling you closer, and the glares you'd sometimes catch him giving.
Everyone is rushing all around you while you sit there. Staring at nothing, holding that stupid locket he gave you for your birthday. Days ago everything was okay, October had started, and everyone was excited to go to a party. He pulls you aside "I have something to give you" he gave you that stupid smile. "Me?" You remember how quick your heart started to go. "Yeah...I know it's early but I can't wait" he held the box in his hand. "Happy Birthday" the excitement you felt then now feels hurtful. "Ethan! It's still a couple days away" the velvet box waits for you at home.
Probably waiting to home the locket once again. "I know but...you never know. With how clumsy I can be" clumsy, you could laugh thinking back about it. He always knew how this was going to go, he just didn't know who'd actually survive it. "It's bad luck to say Happy Birthday early" but Ethan just shakes his head at your words. "Open it" he knew you'd always wanted a locket. He had put a picture of you two in it, one Tara had taken. Both of you pressed to each other, exited after winning a stupid prize at the fair. Cheek to cheek to each other with the dumb bear. The same stuffed bear that waits for you at home. "I'll always be with you Y/N"
Tears come to your eyes as you think back to that promise. He will always haunt the narrative. In the past when he made you feel loved. Moments ago when he got crushed by the TV. Now that you sit there alone and thinking. Later when you get home and in the future when you look at the scars. He will always be there.
When he revealed himself the first person he looked at was you. He didn't apologize, no. "You'll understand after" that's what he told you. It was twisted, it gave you hope he always planned for you to survive. Except you didn't give in to turning on the carpenter sisters so easily. You backed up towards Sam in fear of him and wanted her to protect you. Ethan didn't take that well, it was supposed to be the other way. You were supposed to go to him. "Oh, you sweet dumb thing" then all the chaos broke. Quinn managed to get one slice at you. He lost it "Don't touch her! We had a deal! Dad approved!"
He didn't want anyone to hurt you but he wasn't afraid to have to manhandle and scare you. He got you in a corner "you don't understand! This needs to happen! Richie-" in fear you cut him off. "Richie sealed his fate when he attacked with that Amber girl! Are you going to let him write yours too?" That got him for a second "Dad said you could join us, you just need to behave" everything went still for a second. His hand was on your cheek, blood now on it, and he was looking into your eyes. Then everything is shattered again when he hears Quinn scream.
It felt wrong when you felt almost jealous of what he was saying to Tara. You had to hold back a scream when everything was done. You had to hold back from running up to his body and holding him close. You felt like a broken board game. Well played with, loved, left alone, and broken by the end.
You look away from the taunting picture in the locket. From your spot on the curve watching as the core 4 comes together. At the end they all had each other still, yet you had no one. They didn't come up to you, it's not like Chad and Mindy could but they didn't even ask about you. Then Sam and Tara turn back, walking towards you. You stand up, hoping to talk about everything. You need that comfort, maybe some kind of closure! but they keep walking past you. Sam only dropped the last ghostface mask behind her. What felt like another taunt.
Finally you fully break. No soft tears and panic. A full yell and sob that no one seemed to care for. The realization that your life will never be the same. Even weeks after the incident no one that survived checked on you not even the media mentioned your name. Just soft mentions of a 5th survivor but never actually saying your name. You'd be thankful for it if you hadn't gone through so much. Everyone pitied Chad because his so-called best friend betrayed him but what about you? Ethan was basically your boyfriend! He had played you! Hurt you! And you still loved him!
In his own twisted way he loved you too. You never take that locket off, you always sleep with that stuffed bear, and you even managed to get your hands on some of his stuff. Even dead Ethan haunts you. Even dead Ethan plays with you. Even dead you knew he loves you. You now hated the core 4 but not because of Ethan. Because they had forgotten you... If you knew it would end like this...you would've kissed him the moment he took his ghostface mask off. At least you knew he actually cared.
