I woke up to the same surroundings as the night before, only this time, when I sat up, the bodies were gone, and so was Jeremy's blood. The floor was spotless. It would have been impossible to tell that there had been blood on that floor less than twelve hours ago. It was almost sickeningly clean. How many times that this happened before? And how did they clean it up with us down here?

Good news is most of us were already up and we had running water today! We were all getting a drink of water from the sink, but it wasn't fresh water. It was better than dying, though. Heather was acting funny, but it was probably since she'd been down here for two days. She's known Barrett, the boy who was dead when we got here. I'd figured that out when we both got up and were trying to find a way out. As soon as Angie was awake she had to change Jeremy's bandages, so nothing got infected. None of us knew what to do to help, so we decided to look for something to eat, while Ray stayed with Jeremy. Henry successfully found a few granola bars in the back of the closet. I split one with Philip and Madeline, since there weren't too many of them. At least we weren't dead yet.

In one hour the games will begin

Fuck. Not this again. Games? What games?? The tv screen suddenly turned on, showing a timer counting down from 60 minutes. Holy shit, this dude is serious. We gathered in a circle, trying to figure out what was going on, though to no avail. 

The timer was down to 27:12 and we had no idea what to do but wait. The water had gone back to not working, and there wasn't much else helpful in the closet, just some weird pairs of all the same clothes. We all sat down in a circle, Philip across from me and Heather and Ang on my left and right. I took a look around the circle, taking in the order we sat in. Starting to my left was Heather, Madeline, Jeremy, Ray, Nix, Philip, Henry, Lily, Poppy, Jordan, Angie, then me. Hopefully that wasn't going to matter much during the "game."

5 minutes remaining

"Shut the fuck up, you ass!" Poppy snarled.

"POPPY! Quiet! Remember what happened to Jenny?" Philip shut her up, quickly. We all sat around, not really knowing what to say, too scared to move around.

Welcome to game number one

Holy shit it's starting.

"Soooo what's the first game?" Madeline had barely talked, so I was surprised when she asked.

All of you just participate in a game of truth or dare. Now remember this is a game. So have fun, but we follow the rules. Sometimes the rules can keep us alive.

"It's official, he's trying to kill us," Lily wailed. Her brother grabbed her hand giving it a squeeze.

"Ok, who goes first?" Nix asked.

The clock starts at the twelve, so do you.

What?

"What?" We all asked.

"Guy! It's a r-riddle!" Jeremy shouted. Then proceeded to cover his mouth, hating the attention. Ray giggled.

"So there's twelve of us, and there's twelve numbers on a clock, so we start with whoever is sitting where twelve would be and go clockwise!" Of course Angie could figure it out just like that.

"So who's twelve?" Poppy jumped in.

"....you," Nix pointed out. Poppy was at the top of the circle.

Lily asked the question no one had thought of, "who's choosing the truths and dares?"

Don't be dumb. Look around. Find the cards but we don't want any incidents, so step carefully.

We all got up to look for the cards.

"Oh guys! They're on the table!" Great. Ray found them. He walked towards the table.

"Wait!" Heather cut in, "he said step carefully! Watch yourself."

Ray walked towards the table and this time grabbed the cards slowly from the side of the table, making sure to be slow. Another gunshot went off, and we heard a high pitched scream, but missed Ray by about two feet. We all let out a sigh of relief and I looked over to see Jeremy covering his mouth, ears bright red. Haha, ok so Jeremy was the one who screamed. I gave him a wink to which he smiled bashfully at. He has it bad for Ray, I can tell. I don't even know if he's gay or not, but it's pretty obvious.

Ray walked back over to the group and set the cards down in the middle of us. Poppy gulped and grabbed the top card.

A/N: ready for the game to start? Hope everyone is enjoying. Please comment, vote, and follow if you enjoy. Feel free to comment some tips and ideas. Love y'all!!
Eliza Schuyler Hamilton 💙💙