_{leftoverfear:}    AUDREY JENSEN.

_{❝    hey,    no one’s forcing you to come back.      doesn’t sound like you can find a reason yourself anyway,     ❞      she pointed out.         audrey didn’t want to leave her father forever,      but she could understand why spencer would want to get far away from her own family.        ❝    spenc,     no one’s been SAVED from what’s happened this last year,    ❞       she pointed out.      while other students may not have found themselves targetted personally,     they were all part of it,     forced to live in a town where people were getting murdered every day,     never knowing if they were truly safe or not.       ❝    i don’t think you’re the only one not excelling in ALL your classes.      don’t sweat it.     ❞        it didn’t matter to audrey;     it was something that happened that would inevitably change everyone in the town,     for the good or for the bad   —-   no one was ALONE.        ❝   turned into?   ❞         she scoffed,     head shaking quickly.         ❝   i think that’s just how that bastard always was.   ❞       at least it was since BEFORE he had arrived in lakewood.         ❝   don’t know how he pulled it off all this time.     i really believed he was just THAT boring of a guy,   ❞       she scoffed.       but there had come a point when audrey had begun to actually respect the guy   —–   she just refused to admit it now that she knew what he was really doing.}        

_{brows furrowed at audrey’s implication   ———    ,   while having A POINT  ,   it wasn’t as if it were all that simple.   to JET OFF from murderville after everything while still being under the roof of her tough love giving parents?   would spencer ever come back after they all graduate?   it didn’t seem likely.    ❛     who says i don’t have a reason?     ❜     she found herself responding casually   ,   with a light shrug.   perhaps if there was a tug of the strings    ,   someone keeping her at the cursed town.   or by god   ,   if the murders started happening again.   head gave small nod   ,   knowing that one of the sole survivors of the lakewood killing sprees was right.   while it was over   ——-    ,   the traumatizing experience was a heavy burden carried upon all their shoulders.   looking back up    ,   expression turned to one of   ‘who do you think you’re TALKING TO’   look.     ❛    yeah but did everyone else drop from velma to daphne within a semester?  at least with piper i was still pulling straight b’s   ,   i’ve officially  hit rock bottom.    ❜       it may have sounded  MELLOW DRAMATIC    ,   but by now everyone should be used to her freak outs relating to grades.   and in general.    she was glad to have the subject shift focus    ,   such a topic that was as common to them now as graduation talk.     ❛    i distinctively remember you being so sure it was him at the halloween dance.    ❜    but before PIPER was revealed     ,    they had all wrongly guessed who the killer was.     ❛    he was always kind of off.   he was just good at hiding in plain sight so we were all sidetracked.     ❜}