ᴹᵒᵛⁱᵉ ˢᵉᵗᵗⁱⁿᵍˑMiranda leaves for the afternoon and the office immediately starts falling apart. You end up coordinating a fitting, finding a missing sample, calling a designer in Milan and fixing Miranda’s dinner reservation—and by five o’clock, you realize you somehow became the person everyone comes to when Miranda isn’t there.
ᴹᵒᵛⁱᵉ ˢᵉᵗᵗⁱⁿᵍˑA young designer you’ve been helping suddenly gets invited to show at Fashion Week and starts treating everyone around her like they’re beneath her. You watch her dismiss Nigel’s advice and insult one of Miranda’s editors—until Miranda appears behind her and asks, “Do you know who you’re speaking to?”
ᴹᵒᵛⁱᵉ ˢᵉᵗᵗⁱⁿᵍˑAfter months of becoming exactly what Runway expects you to be, you finally get the promotion you’ve been chasing. The money is better, the clothes are better, everyone knows your name—but when you see another terrified new assistant rushing into the office with coffee for Miranda, you recognize the look on her face. It’s the same look you had.
ᴹᵒᵛⁱᵉ ˢᵉᵗᵗⁱⁿᵍˑYou get sent backstage during a major fashion show with instructions to retrieve one specific dress. Models, photographers, editors and designers swarm around you while Miranda watches from the front row—and you realize that finding the dress is the easy part.
ᴹᵒᵛⁱᵉ ˢᵉᵗᵗⁱⁿᵍˑYou finally stop dressing like the nervous girl who walked into Runway on her first day. You walk into the office in a look Nigel helped you put together, head held high, and even Emily gives you a reluctant once-over. Then Miranda arrives, looks at you for half a second and says, “Interesting.”
ᴹᵒᵛⁱᵉ ˢᵉᵗᵗⁱⁿᵍˑYou arrive at Runway wearing the one outfit you thought was finally good enough. Miranda looks you up and down once, says nothing, and walks away—five minutes later, Nigel quietly tells you that she’s decided you’re coming to Paris.
ᴹᵒᵛⁱᵉ ˢᵉᵗᵗⁱⁿᵍˑYou finally get your Runway wardrobe right: designer shoes, perfect coat, expensive handbag, the whole transformation. Walking through Manhattan afterward, you catch your reflection in a shop window and barely recognize yourself—until your phone rings and Miranda’s assistant says, “She needs you upstairs. Now.”
ᴹᵒᵛⁱᵉ ˢᵉᵗᵗⁱⁿᵍˑYou make one tiny mistake with Miranda’s schedule and spend the entire day trying to fix it before she notices. By midnight, you're hiding in the Runway supply room eating takeout, shoes kicked off, laughing with another assistant about how ridiculous your life has become—until the elevator doors open down the hall.
ᴹᵒᵛⁱᵉ ˢᵉᵗᵗⁱⁿᵍˑYou get invited to one of Runway’s most exclusive parties and spend the entire night pretending you aren’t completely starstruck. Then a famous actress recognizes you as Miranda’s assistant and asks you to get her something—suddenly you’re surrounded by people who assume you have the power to make things happen.
ᴹᵒᵛⁱᵉ ˢᵉᵗᵗⁱⁿᵍˑYou arrive in Manhattan for your first week at Runway with a tiny apartment, one suitcase and absolutely no idea what you’ve gotten yourself into. By Friday, you’re drinking champagne at a fashion party surrounded by designers and celebrities—wondering when exactly your ordinary life disappeared.
ᴹᵒᵛⁱᵉ ˢᵉᵗᵗⁱⁿᵍˑYou refuse to let Miranda make you cry during your first week at Runway. Instead, you calmly tell her that you won’t be staying late for something she could have asked you to do three hours ago—and the entire office goes silent because nobody talks to Miranda like that.
ᴹᵒᵛⁱᵉ ˢᵉᵗᵗⁱⁿᵍˑYou spend the morning organizing Miranda’s schedule, only to discover she’s invited a very particular society woman to the office. Miranda expects you to know her name, history, preferences and favorite designer without ever having met her.
ᴹᵒᵛⁱᵉ ˢᵉᵗᵗⁱⁿᵍˑYou barricade yourself inside an abandoned motel room and finally allow yourself to believe you might survive until morning. Then someone begins knocking on the door. Three slow knocks. You don’t answer. A second later, Dollface begins knocking from inside the bathroom.
ᴹᵒᵛⁱᵉ ˢᵉᵗᵗⁱⁿᵍˑYou wake up in the Venus hospital after surviving the attack that killed your friends, convinced the worst is finally over. Then the lights go out, your phone loses reception, and when you look through the glass doors of the ward, Scarecrow is standing at the end of the hallway with his axe.
ᴹᵒᵛⁱᵉ ˢᵉᵗᵗⁱⁿᵍˑYou finally make it back to the cabin where the whole nightmare started, thinking the killers won’t return to the scene of their first attack. You lock every door, close every curtain and crawl beneath the bed. Then you hear the front door open. Slow footsteps cross the room, and Scarecrow quietly says, “I know you’re in here.”
ᴹᵒᵛⁱᵉ ˢᵉᵗᵗⁱⁿᵍˑYou run through the woods with a stolen shotgun, hearing Scarecrow’s footsteps gaining behind you. You finally turn, fire, and watch him disappear into the trees—only to hear the familiar heavy footsteps coming from directly in front of you.
ᴹᵒᵛⁱᵉ ˢᵉᵗᵗⁱⁿᵍˑYou steal a sheriff’s patrol car and tear down the empty Oregon highway, convinced you’ve finally outrun them. Then you see Dollface sitting perfectly still in the back seat in your rearview mirror—even though you locked the car before you left.
ᴹᵒᵛⁱᵉ ˢᵉᵗᵗⁱⁿᵍˑYou steal a car belonging to someone who stopped to help you, knowing you’ll have to leave them behind. You get three miles down the road before the engine dies—and when you look into the darkness beyond the headlights, Scarecrow is standing there, waiting for you to get out.
ᴹᵒᵛⁱᵉ ˢᵉᵗᵗⁱⁿᵍˑA local man takes you into his house, gives you dry clothes and tells you that you’re safe. When you wake from a short sleep, the house is silent—and every bedroom door has been left open except yours, where Dollface is sitting on the floor outside.
ᴹᵒᵛⁱᵉ ˢᵉᵗᵗⁱⁿᵍˑYou keep seeing Pin-Up Girl everywhere: at the end of the road, between the trees, reflected in shop windows, standing beneath a streetlamp. Every time you turn around she’s gone—until you realize she’s not following you, she’s actually herding you somewhere.
ᴹᵒᵛⁱᵉ ˢᵉᵗᵗⁱⁿᵍˑYou and another survivor hide beneath a bed while Pin-Up Girl searches the room above you. His hand finds yours in the darkness and you both stay completely still—until his fingers suddenly tighten around yours. You look at him, and he’s already dead.
ᴹᵒᵛⁱᵉ ˢᵉᵗᵗⁱⁿᵍˑYou hide inside the horse barn during a thunderstorm, listening to someone slowly walking between the stalls. You think it’s Scarecrow until you see Pin-Up Girl’s crossbow bolt punch through the wooden wall beside your head.
ᴹᵒᵛⁱᵉ ˢᵉᵗᵗⁱⁿᵍˑYou find a farmhouse where an elderly woman promises to hide you until morning. She bandages your wounds while you hear rain tapping against the windows—then a crossbow bolt suddenly tears through the glass, and the woman falls across your lap.
ᴹᵒᵛⁱᵉ ˢᵉᵗᵗⁱⁿᵍˑYou reach the diner desperate for help, but everyone suddenly stops talking when you walk through the door. The waitress stares at you, then quietly asks, “Is Tamara here?”—before you notice the three masks reflected in the diner window behind her.
ᴹᵒᵛⁱᵉ ˢᵉᵗᵗⁱⁿᵍˑYou wish your ex would come back and never leave you again. He returns exactly as you remember him, loving, affectionate and completely devoted—except every time you try to break up with him, he simply doesn’t understand what you’re saying.
ᴹᵒᵛⁱᵉ ˢᵉᵗᵗⁱⁿᵍˑYou wish your jealous boyfriend would never be able to control you again. He loses the ability to tell you what to do—but the Willow transfers that control to you. Now every command you accidentally give him is something his body physically forces him to obey.
ᴹᵒᵛⁱᵉ ˢᵉᵗᵗⁱⁿᵍˑYou wish that nobody could ever hurt you again. The next morning, everyone who has ever threatened you is found dead—except you. Then you realize the Willow didn’t make you invincible. It simply removed everyone it considered capable of hurting you.
ᴹᵒᵛⁱᵉ ˢᵉᵗᵗⁱⁿᵍˑYou wish your dying grandmother could live forever. She stops aging that very night. Years later, she is still sitting in the same chair, still perfectly alive, while everyone she has ever loved is buried around her—and now she refuses to let you grow old either.
ᴹᵒᵛⁱᵉ ˢᵉᵗᵗⁱⁿᵍˑYou wish to become so famous that nobody could ever forget you. It works. Everyone knows your face. Everyone remembers your name. But then you discover the horrifying part: you can no longer die, because the world cannot forget someone who is dead.
ᴹᵒᵛⁱᵉ ˢᵉᵗᵗⁱⁿᵍˑYou wish the Willow would tell you who your soulmate is. A photograph appears beside your bed showing you with the man you’re destined to marry. You recognize him immediately, because he’s your father.
ᴹᵒᵛⁱᵉ ˢᵉᵗᵗⁱⁿᵍˑYou wish your parents would finally stop fighting and become the happy family they used to be. They do. They laugh, cook together, kiss, and act like nothing ever happened—except neither of them remembers that you are their daughter.
ᴹᵒᵛⁱᵉ ˢᵉᵗᵗⁱⁿᵍˑYou wish the girl dating the guy you love would leave him forever. She does. She disappears without a trace, and he becomes so obsessed with finding her that he stops seeing you at all.
ᴹᵒᵛⁱᵉ ˢᵉᵗᵗⁱⁿᵍˑYou wish the man who cheated on you would never be able to hurt another woman the way he hurt you. He suddenly becomes incapable of lying, cheating or even looking at another woman. Unfortunately, the Willow interprets another woman literally—and now every woman he comes near dies.
ᴹᵒᵛⁱᵉ ˢᵉᵗᵗⁱⁿᵍˑYou wish your abusive mother would never be able to hurt you again. She can’t—because the Willow makes it so that whenever she tries to touch you, her own body takes the injury instead.
ᴹᵒᵛⁱᵉ ˢᵉᵗᵗⁱⁿᵍˑYou wish your married lover would choose you over his wife. He comes to your house that night with a suitcase, kisses you, and says he’s finally yours. Then you notice the blood on his shirt.
ᴹᵒᵛⁱᵉ ˢᵉᵗᵗⁱⁿᵍˑYou wish your crush would fall desperately in love with you. He does, but the Willow takes “desperately” literally: he starts rearranging his entire life around you, then begins eliminating anyone he thinks might take you away.
ᴹᵒᵛⁱᵉ ˢᵉᵗᵗⁱⁿᵍˑYou’re in the backseat laughing while Fuller uses the CB to flirt with a trucker under a fake name. You take over and make the voice even more convincing. A trucker answers, “Cute voice, sweetheart. What mile marker are you at?” Nobody in the car is laughing anymore.
ᴹᵒᵛⁱᵉ ˢᵉᵗᵗⁱⁿᵍˑYou convince Lewis to take the next exit just to race another car down an empty stretch of interstate. Fuller calls it stupid. You call it fun. Then the other car disappears around a bend—and a few seconds later, its driver comes flying past you in a panic, screaming over the CB that someone is chasing him.
ᴹᵒᵛⁱᵉ ˢᵉᵗᵗⁱⁿᵍˑAfter hours of driving, everyone is exhausted and nobody is talking. You watch the endless highway through the window while Lewis keeps checking the rearview mirror. Then a truck slowly pulls alongside you. Rusty doesn’t ram you. He simply drives beside you, smiling through his windshield.
ᴹᵒᵛⁱᵉ ˢᵉᵗᵗⁱⁿᵍˑYou stop at a deserted roadside diner after midnight. While Lewis fills the tank, you notice a truck parked across the highway—engine running, headlights off. Nobody is inside. When you return to the car, the CB crackles: “You can keep driving. I ain’t in a hurry.”
ᴹᵒᵛⁱᵉ ˢᵉᵗᵗⁱⁿᵍˑYou finally manage to lose Rusty and pull into an abandoned motel. The three of you barricade the door and try to laugh about the whole thing. Then the CB inside the motel room crackles. Rusty tells you exactly what room you’re in.
ᴹᵒᵛⁱᵉ ˢᵉᵗᵗⁱⁿᵍˑYou and Fuller start joking with a group of teenagers over the CB, pretending you’re famous criminals being chased across the country. They think it’s hilarious and ask where you’re headed. You give them your real location without thinking. Hours later, their CB goes silent mid-conversation.
ᴹᵒᵛⁱᵉ ˢᵉᵗᵗⁱⁿᵍˑYou finally reach a huge neon-lit truck stop packed with drivers, tourists and highway noise. For the first time, you feel safe. You wander through the crowd with Fuller—until you spot the same red truck reflected in the windows of three different buildings. Rusty found you again.
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