script :0

 Location: Holiday Park

Demi

(walking, muttering) “It’s so quiet today…”

Demi

(phone buzzes, answers) “Hello?”

Unknown Caller

“I’d step to your right if I were you.”

Demi

(confused) “What? Who is this?”

Demi

(looking behind her) “There’s… no one here…”

Demi

(startled as someone bumps her left shoulder) “Whoa! What just happened?”

Location: Galleria Mall

Demi

“…someone bumped my left shoulder. I looked around—nobody was there.”

Ezra

(skeptical) “Demi… maybe it was an accident. You’re overthinking it.”

Demi

(glancing at phone) “Ugh… another message.”

Ezra

“You don’t think someone’s following you?”

Demi

(clutching her bag) “I… I don’t know…”

Demi

(answers phone, low) “hello?”

Unknown Caller 

“Count to three. One.”

(a shopper stiffens)

Unknown Caller

“Two.”

(shopper grabs clothes)

Unknown Caller 

“Three.”

(shopper bolts. Hangers crash.)

Store Employee “Hey! Stop!”

Demi

(quiet) “…you planned that.”

Location: Chick-fil-A

Demi

(sitting, fidgeting) “I can’t believe this… first the park, then the mall… now here.”

Ezra

“Relax. It’s just a restaurant.”

Demi

(glancing around) “Yeah… but something’s not right.”

(phone buzzes repeatedly. Demi jumps, hands trembling)

Demi

“…oh my… oh my gosh.”

Ezra

“What? What did he say?”

Demi

(whispering) “They told me to check on my mom…”

Demi

(reading another message) “It’s my dad… I need to come to the hospital. Now. My mom’s in trouble.”

Ezra

(standing) “We’re leaving. Now.”

(Demi freezes as phone buzzes again)

Demi

(whispering, pale) “It says… ‘You’re next.’”