Sick Boys

Penelope¹ attends the Skull and Serpent Society Halloween party dressed as a vampire, searching for a student named Nathan¹⁰ who threatened her. Felix² corners her in his room wearing a glowing Purge LED mask. She escapes through a window, but all three boys pursue her into Priory Forest wearing masks: Felix² in his eerie mask, Dylan³ as an Anubis wolf, Alistair⁴ in a skull mask.

They catch her and pin her to the muddy ground. Felix² makes a new offer: in exchange for their help finding who tormented Eve,⁵ Penelope¹ will become their personal whore, her body theirs to use freely. She agrees. They tie her to a tree. Dylan³ burns her with his lighter. All three masturbate onto her body and leave her bound. Hours later, two students find and free her.

Felix,² Dylan,³ and Alistair⁴ photocopy pages from Eve's diary and plaster them across the entire campus, including pictures of Nathan,¹⁰ Eve,⁵ and Penelope¹ herself with the word whore written beneath her face. Penelope,¹ humiliated, slaps Dylan³ when she finds him posting them. He kisses her and she bites his lip.

Felix² later explains the posters are strategic bait: a burner phone number is printed on them, and Nathan¹⁰ takes it. The boys capture him, chain him to a chair in the basement, and beat him bloody. Penelope¹ watches as Felix² smashes Nathan¹⁰'s leg with a hammer and cleanly slices off his index finger. Nathan¹⁰ confesses through screams that someone else ordered him to threaten Penelope,¹ but terror seals his lips about who.

The boys take Penelope¹ and her friends to Club RIVERA, owned by Felix's father.¹⁴ Penelope¹ watches Dylan³ dance provocatively with another girl, and jealousy uncoils in her chest against her will. She storms to the bathroom, where Felix's sister Lana⁸ finds her.

Lana,⁸ chewing gum with a red ribbon in her black hair, casually mentions that the boys were in a foursome relationship with Eve⁵ for months before her death. Penelope¹'s lipstick drops to the floor. The boys had told her Eve⁵ was merely a friend.

Now she learns her sister⁵ was their lover, part of a kinky polyamorous arrangement she never knew about. Penelope¹ bolts from the club into the pouring rain and runs to the cemetery where Eve⁵ is buried, her understanding of both her sister⁵ and the boys shattered.

In the pouring rain at Eve⁵'s grave, Penelope¹ pulls her knife and points it at Felix.² She screams that they killed Eve,⁵ that they bullied her sister⁵ into suicide. Felix² does not flinch. Instead, he shows her the palm of his hand: a circular line tattoo. Dylan³ and Alistair⁴ position their fists beside his, each bearing a quarter of a full circle.

The missing fourth piece, Felix² explains, was on Eve⁵'s hand. The matching tattoos were their bond, physical proof they were a unit. Dylan³ adds, voice breaking, that they loved Eve⁵ to the point of obsession. Penelope¹'s knife drops from her trembling hand. She collapses into Felix²'s arms, sobbing. For the first time, he says he is sorry. The rain soaks all four of them at the graveside.

Penelope¹ and the boys return from the cemetery to find the Alpha Psi sorority house engulfed in flames, with Eve⁵'s old room at the epicenter. A firework shell bearing Penelope¹'s name is found among the debris, framing her as the arsonist. Tilda, the sorority leader, expels Penelope¹ on the spot.

Realizing someone is destroying evidence, Penelope¹ sneaks back into the burned room that night and encounters Kai,¹¹ now scarred and partially blind from the hot springs fight, along with Nathan.¹⁰ Kai¹¹ holds a singed page torn from Eve's diary. Penelope¹ stabs Kai¹¹ in the belly, holds Nathan¹⁰ at knifepoint, and snatches the page. Nathan¹⁰ warns her to burn it and run before it destroys her, then lets her escape.

Days after Penelope¹ tells the boys to leave her alone, a body is discovered in a school hallway. Peter Young, a student named in Eve's diary as someone who tormented her, has been killed with a thousand precise slices, his eyes gouged out, his tongue cut off. Penelope¹ stares at the corpse and realizes with chilling certainty that Felix² did this.

Every wound matches the specific punishments she described to him in the shower when he asked what she wanted done to Eve⁵'s bullies. She had whispered the words: cut out their tongues, slice off their fingers, rip out their eyes, kill them. Felix² has delivered her fantasy made flesh. She feels both horror and a dark exhilaration. He left the body where she would find it.

Penelope¹ cracks the code: the number 303 from Eve's diary refers to the dean's office. She breaks in and finds stationery matching the threatening note slid under her door, written in the dean⁷'s distinctive handwriting. When Dean Caruso⁷ walks in, she confronts him. He admits he gave Eve⁵ an ultimatum: leave the university quietly or face complete destruction along with her family.

Penelope¹ later obtains Eve⁵'s phone from her grieving mother and finds an email Eve⁵ sent to the dean⁷ with a photograph of a positive pregnancy test. Eve⁵ was pregnant with one of the boys' child. She had told the dean,⁷ seeking help, and he threatened to ruin her entire family if she did not abort the baby and disappear. That night, she jumped off The Edge.

Armed with the truth about Dean Caruso,⁷ Penelope¹ contacts Jeremy, a friend whose father owns a gas business, and buys barrels of oil. She breaks into the school basement at night and pours the oil over old records and furniture. She texts her father¹² the name of the man responsible for Eve⁵'s death, then strikes a match and throws it onto the fuel.

The main building erupts in a towering blaze. Penelope¹ watches the fire consume the dean⁷'s domain, her mother's words echoing in her memory: how her parents had once burned down the home of someone who wronged them. This is the Ricci family legacy of fire and vengeance. Penelope¹ runs into the night as sirens wail toward the campus, a fierce smile spreading across her face.

Dean Caruso⁷ reveals to the boys that Penelope¹ is actually a Ricci, a family notorious for destroying crime syndicates. He orders them to punish her. Felix² chases Penelope¹ on his motorcycle, catches her on the mountain road, and with Dylan³ and Alistair⁴'s help, straps her to a wooden cross in his bedroom. He slices off her clothes with a knife, leaving her naked.

Dylan³ drips hot candle wax onto her breasts and pussy. Felix² presses a vibrating rose toy against her clit, brings her to the edge, then pulls it away, denying her orgasm again and again. Alistair⁴ shoves a pencil inside her as they demand she confess why she burned the school. Through the tape gagging her mouth, Penelope¹ laughs and refuses to break.

When Dylan³ asks what Penelope¹ meant about his father,⁷ she screams through the tape that Eve⁵ was pregnant. Dylan³ rips the tape off. Penelope¹ plays the email and shows the pregnancy test photograph, then the thread where Dean Caruso⁷ threatened to destroy Eve⁵ and her family if she did not abort and disappear. Dylan³'s legs give out; he sinks to the floor, clutching a table for support.

Alistair⁴ drops the pencil, his face draining of color. Felix,² who has been the most aggressive and violent, goes completely still. One of them was going to be a father, and none of them ever knew. Dean Caruso⁷ chose to silence Eve⁵ rather than let her carry his grandchild. The boys untie Penelope¹ and sink to their knees before her, begging forgiveness.

Felix² arms himself with knives and guns, vowing to kill Dean Caruso.⁷ Before they can leave, smoke bombs crash through the windows. Penelope's father,¹² a gray-haired Mafia man with tattoos snaking up his arms, bursts in with armed men demanding his daughter. Simultaneously, Dean Caruso⁷'s hired rogues attack from a side entrance, aiming to eliminate everyone and cover his crimes.

A three-way firefight erupts in the Skull and Serpent Society. Penelope¹ desperately tries to reach her father¹² while Felix² cuts down attackers with his knives. Amid the chaos, Dean Caruso⁷'s men smash Dylan³ in the back of the head with a gun and drag his limp body out to a waiting car. Alistair⁴ sprints after them, leaping onto the car's hood as it speeds away.

Alistair⁴ shoots the driver, takes the wheel, and crashes the car near The Edge. Dylan³ puts his father⁷ in a headlock, demanding answers. Dean Caruso⁷ jumps from the moving car but grabs Dylan³'s ankle, pulling him toward the cliff's edge. Alistair⁴ and Dylan³ struggle to hold on. Penelope,¹ Felix,² and Penelope's father¹² arrive.

Dean Caruso⁷ points a gun at Penelope;¹ Felix² and Alistair⁴ step in front of her as shields. Then the dean⁷ aims at his own son.³ Penelope¹ tells Dylan³ to earn her forgiveness by surviving. As the dean⁷ dangles, Nessie the snake slithers from Dylan³'s pocket, crawls down his leg, and strikes Dean Caruso⁷ in the face, sinking her fangs into his eye. Screaming, Caruso⁷ loses his grip and plunges into the ravine below.

In the charred dean's office, Felix's father,¹⁴ now acting dean, summons everyone: the four of them plus Kai¹¹ and Nathan,¹⁰ brought in by Chief King.¹³ Under pressure, Kai¹¹ and Nathan¹⁰ confess that Dean Caruso⁷ forced them to threaten Penelope¹ and burn Eve⁵'s room. Mr. Rivera¹⁴ assigns the boys, Penelope,¹ Kai,¹¹ and Nathan¹⁰ to community service rebuilding the school.

He declares the feud between the Phantoms and the Skull and Serpent Society permanently over. As the meeting ends, Penelope's father¹² tries to take her home, but she refuses. She tells him she belongs with Felix,² Dylan,³ and Alistair.⁴ Felix² tells his father¹⁴ that she stays or he goes. Both fathers, after a long tense silence, relent.