Boseman High School Shenanigans: Episode 1

The Basement

A lot happens in that span of seconds, when the lights go off and the figure outside is revealed. Exclamations are made, Zach is up out of his chair, Lily arms herself, Emily bolts, Wendy's under the table, Fred is running for the stairs, Aaron looks mortified...

The figure raises its arms as it smiles, holding the axe and the trowel out to the sides... before pointing them at Lily.

Behind them, in the shadows, two other figures are visible to the girl with the pool cue. Emily saw them too, but now the bathroom door is between her and the excitement...

Outside Belinda's Bedroom

It doesn't take Fred long to tear upstairs, run through the kitchen, then take the stairs that lead to the bedrooms two at a time before he finds himself approaching his stepmother's closed bedroom door...

The Basement

The Pathfinder materials go flying as Lily wrestles and bumps the table over towards the sliding doors, and as virtually everyone else flees the immediate vicinity. So then Lily is there, armed with her pool cue, nearly face to face with some psycho as Emily, Fred, Wendy, Zach and Aaron all retreat to different parts of the basement and house.

In the bathroom, Emily gets through to 911, starting the near-immediate dispatching of help to the Solomon residence. Wendy, terrified, goes on all-fours up the stairs, and Zach and Aaron back into the shadows, holding one another as the figure outside raises the hatchet and waves it around, threatening the glass.

"We should help her!" Connery says to the boy holding tight to his hand. "She's alone out there!" he adds, but his body isn't following through on his words -- he's scared. And maybe, just maybe, it feels good to be so close to his friend.

And that's when Lily, ferocious little Lily, notices a few things.

The axe-murderer... isn't very tall. Or very big at all, really. Mabye they are Lily's size... or even a little smaller. They're also hesitating strangely. Long seconds have now passed since the first moment of terror when everyone freaked... and the figure is just sort of still hanging around outside, waving the axe in a way that makes it seem like they don't really know how to handle the weapon.

Before Lily can really make sense of what she's seeing, one of the two shadowy figures behind the slicker-wearing nutball suddenly bolts to action, running from the trees where they were hiding, sprinting across the backyard quickly. It looks they intend to slam straight into the... the... into one of Freddie's sisters, Lily suddenly sees!

It's a long way to run, though, and the fast-moving figure rushing the Solomon girl slips in the wet and stumbles through the yard, tripping a little on a hose and knocking a lawn chair and small table flying with their momentum. The girl with the hatchet and trowel hears something behind her, and turns to face what she discovers to be a much larger attacker...

Outside Belinda's Bedroom

Upstairs, Fred hears the bath running as he gets to his smokin' hot stepmother's bedroom door, and he half-processes what that might mean as he rushes through the door and into the room.

It's a lavishly decorated bedroom. There's the huge four-poster bed, expensive art on the walls, high-end dressers and vanities, a walk-in closet, and the master bath. The door to the master bathroom is open, and while Freddie can't see into the room from his vantage point near the door, he can hear the water running clearly, he can see and feel the steam in the air, and there's some indication of motion in the bathroom, someone moving and creating enticing shadows.

All the way across the room, past that open door: the bedside table on what used to be his father's side of the bed. Is it still there, the gun?

The Basement

When the door slides open, Lily is struck with just how cold and wet it is outside -- the weather has really turned since suppertime. But that doesn't stop the girl from stepping out into the drizzle and just clocking the hatchet-wielding figure with her pool cue...