Two young women find themselves being stocked inside their house by an unknown intruder
INT. DORM ROOM - NIGHT
NIKI LEWIS, 20, beautiful, petite. She exits the bathroom, her hair still wet, her body covered in towel. The steam from the shower still fresh is also released into the room upon her exit.
She makes her way toward the Closet.
She crosses by her roommate JESSE KLOVE, pretty 20, she wears baggy pajamas and glasses.
NIKI
You know you can use the TV?
Jessie
I actually prefer watching shows on my laptop.
NIKI
Weird. What you watching?
JESSIE
Mindhunter.
NIKI
That serial killer show?
JESSIE
Sorta.
NIKI
That’s even weirder.
Niki pulls an outfit from her closet and walks it back into the bathroom with her.
INT. DORM ROOM - BATHROOM - CONTINUOUS
The counter is filled with Make Up and other beauty products.
Niki hangs her outfit on a towel rack then proceeds to do her make up in front of the GIANT MIRROR.
NIKI
You know there’s still time to get ready if you wanna head out to this party with me and Jason?
JESSIE
Naw I’m good, still have a lot of work to do.
Niki stops applying her make up and sticks her head out the room.
NIKI
Girl since when is binging your psycho show work?
JESSIE
Since the subject matter has to do with my class curriculum.
Niki rolls her eyes then is back in the mirror applying her make up.
NIKI
I don’t know what the fascination is with you and dead people.
JESSIE
Not the dead people that fascinates me, its the mind of the people who kill them that fascinates me.
Jessie’s phone VIBRATES. She checks it. She’s received a DM from someone calling themselves HOLDEN87.
Jessie and Holden87 begin a back and forth chat in regards to Mindhunter, she’s finally brought out of it by...
NIKI
Did you hear what I said?
JESSIE
What? No.
NIKI
I said can you check my phone to see if my brother text me back.
JESSIE
Oh sorry. Hold on.
Jessie gets up from her bed and makes her way over toward Niki’s bed. She grabs the phone and sits down.
JESSIE
What’s you password?
NIKI
Don’t have one. Just press and swipe up.
JESSIE
You should get a password, I recently watched an episode of a show where this Killer was able to clone his victims phone in order to stalk her.
NIKI
Not worried. No stalker is crazy enough to stalk me after seeing your brother. Besides he’s the one I’d be afraid of if he thought I was hiding something behind a passcode.
Jessie swipes up.
JESSIE
Nope. No message from Jason.
The phone vibrates and something catches her eye.
It’s a DM from...HOLDEN87
JESSIE
Wait. You know Holden87?
NIKI
Not really. He’s more of a ghost follower who likes to heart ALL OF MY PICTURES and watch my stories. He never comments, the fact that he’s finally built up the courage to send me a DM I guess shows that he has at least one working testicle. What did he DM me?
JESSIE
I don’t know. You want me to read his DM?
NIKI
Yeah, you can be my filter and if its to creepy you have my permission to just delete and block him and we never have to talk about what it is he said.
Jessie reads the message. She looks a bit spooked.
JESSIE
He asked if you also like to watch True Crime shows. He says the fact that you’re blond gives you a higher rate of becoming a victim of a sexually motivated crime.
NIKI
What the hell Jessie. That for sure falls into to the delete and block and never have to talk about what he said category.
She finishes with her make up and begins to slip on her underwear underneath her towel. She then removes the towel and puts on her bra.
JESSIE
He said that last bit of information you can share with... your roommate
(she taken back)
to help me with my midterm.
Niki emerges from the bathroom, her hair and make up look amazing. She’s still in her underwear.
NIKI
Roommate? How’s he know I about you?
JESSIE
Well I’ve been DMing with him for the last few days but I don’t know how he knows that we’re roommates?
Niki makes her way over toward Jessie.
Let me see.
She takes the phone. Immediately she opens up his profile.
NIKI
Have you been to his profile?
JESSIE
No.
NIKI
No? A guy you’ve been chatting with for a few days? You weren’t curious to see what he looked like?
JESSIE
No not really. What’s he look like?
NIKI
Couldn’t tell you. He has 10 identical photos, all wearing a dark hoodie and his face covered in shadow. Wait!
She scrolls back up to the top of the profile.
NIKI (cont)
He has a link.
JESSIE
Well don’t click it, it could be some sort of spywear or worse his members only private profile.
NIKI
Was that a joke?
JESSIE
Sorry.
NIKI
I’m clicking it.
Niki clicks it. Immediately she places her hand over her mouth as she stares at the phone. She drops it.
JESSIE
What?
She goes toward her closet. She still looks spooked.
JESSIE
Niki what is it?
She pulls out a box. Inside of it there’s a GUN.
Now Jessie looks spooked.
JESSIE
Niki why do you have a gun?
Niki ignores her. She makes her way toward the room door. She carefully opens it. Very cautiously she looks out. Its dark.
She looks back toward Jessie.
NIKI
No matter what you hear do not open this door. Got it?
Niki twists the lock on the door then exits and closes it behind her.
JESSIE
Niki?!
Jessie looks toward the phone. Slowly she picks it up. She looks at the screen.
A live video feed plays.
Jessie stares.
The footage looks HANDHELD. It tracks around the room. We can’t see the camera man, just everything his camera allows us to see. Jessie recognizes it as her place.
Written by Darion Taylor
(For educational use only)
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