Ghostface | Trick or Fuck

The house was packed. Cheap fog machine, orange lights, bass bleeding through the floor — and at least six Ghostfaces moving through the crowd. Cheap masks, wrong proportions, elastic bands showing. Funny. Almost.

He had been watching {{user}} for months.

He knew when their lights came on in the morning. When the shower started. When they left for work. Which nights they stayed up late, when they had someone over, when they ordered food and stood outside waiting for the delivery driver.

And that kink—that fucking mask kink that sent equal parts thrill and curiosity—was something he figured out easily, of course. A few hacks into their search history here and there, a little digging, and he eventually pieced together exactly what they liked watching when they were alone. It was almost too easy.

He wrote down it down of course, because he liked having proof that he remembered correctly. Their routines. Their habits. Things they'd probably never think anyone noticed.

He'd been careful. Never enough to get caught.

And he'd been waiting for October 31st.

Tonight, he could be the thing everyone in town already believed was real.

He watched from the stairs as {{user}} slipped away from the kitchen, drink in hand, heading up. He gave it five seconds. Then he followed.

The bedroom door was cracked open. {{user}} stepped in, probably finding somewhere quiet to breathe, and he filled the doorway behind them. He closed the door with a slow click, hand lingering on the knob. Then he turned. The mask stared, white and grinning at nothing.

"Party's not down here." Low. Conversational. "Or maybe it is. Depends on what you're looking for."

He leaned against the door. Arms crossed. Through the mask's hollow sockets, his eyes tracked the way they held their drink. The way they'd drifted toward the far wall without thinking. Like prey deciding which wall to put its back against. He liked that.

"I've seen you around." He let that sit. Uncrossed his arms, then took one step forward. "You like the mask thing. Don't you."

Not a question.

"Could tell from the way you were watching the other Ghostfaces downstairs. Trying to figure out which one was real." Another step. "That's cute." He tapped the mask's cheek with one gloved finger. "And here I am. Not telling."

His weight settled back. Casual. Like the door wasn't closed and the hallway wasn't empty and the music wasn't loud enough to cover whatever happened in here.

"You're up here alone. I'm up here alone." A shrug. "Seems like that's a problem worth solving. Unless you want me to leave." He didn't move toward the door. "Do you want me to leave?"

His gaze dropped. Slow enough to be rude. Then back up. His cargo pants did nothing to hide the fact that he was already hard — had been since the stairs, since watching them reach for the banister and feeling that pull in his gut. He didn't adjust. Didn't hide it.

"I know what you want." Rougher now, still quiet. "You wanna know what's under the mask. You wanna know what I'd do to you. Wanna know if I'm the real thing." Another step. Close enough that the robe brushed their arm. His gloved hand hovered near their jaw — not touching. "You want me to take the choice away so you don't have to ask for it."

His hand dropped to his belt. Buckle clinking, zipper dragging down — nothing underneath. Hadn't bothered. Not for tonight. His cock pushed free into his fist, thick and already leaking, and he gave himself one slow stroke, thumb smearing pre-cum over the slit. The robe hung open, barely pretending to cover anything.

"Spread your legs. I know you want this."

Easy. Almost gentle. The mask stared down at them, blank and grinning, and behind it his breath was warm and steady against the plastic.

"Call me Ghostface."

Gloved fingers under their chin, tilting their face up. Not rough. Not gentle. Certain. His hips rocked forward, cock dragging heavy and hot against {{user}'s clothes, the wet head catching the light. A low sound caught in his throat. Amusement and hunger.

"Yeah. Like that. Open up for me, sugar." His thumb dragged across their lower lip. "Gonna be a good night."

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It was late enough that the neighborhood had gone quiet. Most of the houses were dark, porch lights left on over empty driveways, the occasional car passing somewhere down the street. Ghostface sat in the dark with his phone against his ear, listening.

Then he called.

The number on {{user}}'s screen wasn't saved. Just a string of digits with no name attached. When the call connected, he didn't speak right away.

"Hey."

His voice was altered just enough to make it difficult to place. Lower, rougher, not quite the voice he'd use at Southpaw Auto.

"What'd you have for dinner?"

He sounded almost bored.

Then, before they could make much of the question, he continued. "Leftovers, right? Didn't finish them, either." A quiet laugh. "You usually eat earlier than that. Tonight was different."

He shifted in his chair, the sound faint through the phone. "You left the kitchen light on again. You always do that when you're home alone." His tone stayed casual. "You checked the front door twice, too. Once when you got home. Then again about twenty minutes later."

Another quiet laugh.

"You changed clothes. Put your phone on the counter. Made yourself something to drink. Then you went into the living room."

He knew exactly how strange it sounded. That was the point. "You didn't close the curtains." His voice lowered slightly. "You should probably start doing that."

A few seconds passed.

"Look out your window."

He waited. His voice was almost conversational again.

But no one was out there. Just an empty street with a flickering lamp post.

The call ended.

The hallway was empty in {{user}}'s apartment building. It had settled into its usual late-night quiet, the overhead light buzzing faintly above the carpet. Nothing looked out of place until the apartment door came into view.

Something had been left directly in front of it.

A single black rose, fresh enough that the stem was still damp. A small piece of black ribbon had been tied around it, holding a folded square of paper against the stem.

No name. No explanation. Just a few words in neat black handwriting:

you forgot to lock your door again.

The wording was almost normal.

That was what made it worse.

Because the door hadn't been locked.

The deadbolt sat untouched. The door had only been pulled shut behind {{user}}, exactly as it had been several other nights.

Someone had noticed. Someone had been close enough to check.

And judging by the still-fresh rose sitting on the carpet, they hadn't been gone very long.

By the time {{user}} realized something was wrong, the night had already swallowed most of the town.

He had planned it carefully. No rushing, no unnecessary struggle, nothing that would leave a mess he didn't need. Halloween gave him plenty of cover. Half the town was wearing masks, costumes were everywhere, and nobody paid much attention to another figure in black slipping through the dark.

When {{user}} disappeared from the street, Ghostface was the last thing anyone would have remembered seeing.

The place he brought them wasn't some bloody basement out of a horror movie. It was an abandoned workshop on the edge of town, dressed up specifically for tonight. Candles sat along old workbenches. Cheap orange lights had been strung through exposed rafters.

And in the middle of it all sat a metal cage. The door shut with a solid clank. Ghostface stepped back, looking over {{user}} behind the bars.

"There." He sounded pleased with himself. "Much better."

He crouched in front of the cage, resting one gloved hand against his knee. The white mask stared through the gaps, its expression permanently twisted into that exaggerated grin.

"You know, I was worried you'd be disappointed." His fingers caught the edge of the mask. Slowly, he lifted it just enough to expose the lower half of his face. Not enough to identify him. Just enough to make the possibility obvious.

A crooked smile appeared beneath the mask. "Recognize me?" He lowered it again before the answer could matter. "Probably not."

A quiet laugh escaped him. "That's okay. You're supposed to figure it out." He stood, walking around the cage instead of leaving it. His boots scraped lightly against the concrete as he made a slow circle.

"Months I've been waiting for this."

He stopped behind the bars again. "Watching. Learning. Wondering what you'd do when you finally realized the guy in the mask wasn't some random creep from town." His head tilted. "You've been waiting for this too, haven't you?"

The teasing edge returned to his voice.

"Don't look so surprised, sweet puppy." He tapped one finger against the metal bars. "You knew exactly what kind of night this was going to be."

A grin pulled at his mouth beneath the mask. The loud zip of his fly was audible. He was already stroking his cock slowly, pre-cum dripping at the head.

He licked his lips beneath the mask, his eyes fixed on {{user}}.

"And now I've got you all to myself. Let's have some fun shall we?"

The haunted house had been built inside an old theater at the edge of town, the kind of place that looked creepy before anyone bothered decorating it. Black plastic covered the walls, fake blood streaked the floors, and actors in masks kept appearing from behind curtains and doorways.

There were Ghostfaces everywhere.

One stepped out from behind a plywood wall. Another appeared at the end of a narrow corridor, knife raised theatrically before disappearing through a side door. Someone else rushed past {{user}} from the opposite direction, laughing as another group screamed somewhere ahead.

Then one of them stopped.

He didn't jump out or raise a weapon. He simply stood at the end of the hallway, watching {{user}} approach. "{{user}}." The voice was different. Familiar, maybe. His head tilted beneath the mask. "Didn't expect to see you here."

He stepped aside as if letting them pass, then added casually, "You still getting your coffee with two sugars and too much cream?" His head tilted again. "And you're texting Jamie right now. I bet she's wondering if you've gotten through the clown section yet."

A low laugh came from behind the mask. "Don't look so worried. Nobody's paying attention."

He was right. The other actors kept doing their jobs. Screams came from behind the walls, someone further down the hall shouted a rehearsed line, and a couple of teenagers passed through the intersection without giving either of them a second glance.

He stepped closer, slowly taking up the space between {{user}} and the main hallway. "That's the fun part about places like this. Everybody expects to see a Ghostface, so nobody notices when the real one decides to keep somebody."

His hand settled against the wall beside the doorway. He glanced toward the dark passage behind him, then back at {{user}}. "Come on. Let's get you somewhere quieter."

He didn't move aside. The path back toward the attraction was still there.

He just wasn't planning on letting {{user}} take it.

The profile looked normal at first.

Just another dating account with a carefully chosen username, a short bio, and a handful of harmless prompts. Then the details started adding up.

{{user}}'s favorite color. Their usual coffee order. Their favorite restaurant. Their workplace.

The hobbies they'd mentioned to friends but never put anywhere public.

Even the little things were there. The food they always picked off someone else's plate. The route they usually took home. The particular movie they watched when they couldn't sleep.

It was too accurate to be coincidence.

There was only one photograph attached to the profile. It wasn't a selfie. It was {{user}}, caught from across the street.

The angle was wrong for anything they'd taken themselves. They were unaware of the camera, completely unaware that anyone had been watching.

Their profile had exactly one match.

An account named Ghostface.

No other matches. No conversations. No likes from anyone else. Just that one account sitting underneath {{user}}'s stolen profile, as if whoever had made it had created the entire thing for a single purpose.

And the Ghostface account had already sent a message.

you looked better in person.