Part 3: Let the games begin

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I squint my eyes, adjusting them to the bright light, where am I this time?.. I use the strength from my arms to get up
In front of me, there's a person with messy black hair is that.. Jojo?
"YOU IDIOT WHAT DID YOU DO TO ME?"
I lift him, His blue eyes awake then I realize..... that's not Jojo.
"H-huh"
My eyes widen and immediately feel my cheeks getting hotter from embarrassment
"I-I-I I'm so sorry I thought-"
His angry expression slowly relaxes
"It's fine just stop yelling at me please, otherwise this would be a weird first impression. How rude of me I'm Charlie what about you?"
He stretches his hand out to shake my hand.  I hesitate. but then shake his hand why do I feel so nervous just then I heard another voice
"There are more people over here!"
Wh-what more people?
A girl with strawberry red hair bashes into the room and smiles
" Hey, I'm Annie come with me there are more people" She mutters something under her breath she was too quiet for me to hear a word then she starts to walk Charlie starts to follow her but then stops and turns around towards me
"You coming?"
Butterflies swirl inside me again
"Yeah."
I follow him into a room the chill almost made me shake more people slowly come and crowd into the room looks like a very average house apart from the walls being torn apart 
Suddenly a voice starts playing in a robotic tone
" Please make a circle and introduce yourselves"
Why should I listen to a robot the voice once again starts talking
" Oh, just wanted to mention those metal bracelets zap so follow instructions and you'll be fine if not burn.."
This alerts people and we start joining in a circle
" shall I start? "
Their small voice barely escaping their lungs terrified
" sure"
A more confident voice says
" well I'm Dashawn  "
Everyone else starts introducing themselves
We eventually go off and do our own thing some people decide to befriend one another when others, like me, prefer to be alone I remember about the booklet and open it
I slowly skim through it.

11:59𝒑𝒎 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒏𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒍𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒅𝒊𝒔𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒏𝒆𝒄𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒊𝒔 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒏 11 𝑶𝒇 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒍𝒖𝒄𝒌𝒚 𝒑𝒆𝒐𝒑𝒍𝒆 𝒈𝒆𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒅𝒐 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒍𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒔. 𝑾𝒉𝒊𝒍𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒖𝒏𝒇𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒕𝒖𝒏𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒑𝒆𝒐𝒑𝒍𝒆 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒈𝒐 𝒕𝒐 𝒔𝒍𝒆𝒆𝒑 𝒐𝒓 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓.
𝑹𝒖𝒍𝒆𝒔
-𝒅𝒐𝒏𝒕 𝒕𝒓𝒚 𝒕𝒐 𝒆𝒔𝒄𝒂𝒑𝒆
-𝒊𝒇 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒂 𝒓𝒐𝒍𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒎𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒖𝒔𝒆 𝒊𝒕 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒏𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒖𝒏𝒍𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒍𝒐𝒘𝒏 ( 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒌𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒐𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒗𝒐𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒄𝒍𝒐𝒘𝒏 𝒅𝒖𝒅𝒆 )
-  𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒎𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒗𝒐𝒕𝒆 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒐𝒏
- 𝒅𝒐𝒏𝒕 𝒅𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒐𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒂𝒎𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒔 𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒏𝒅𝒐𝒘 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒌𝒊𝒕𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒅𝒐𝒐𝒓
- 𝒚𝒐𝒖'𝒍𝒍 𝒇𝒊𝒈𝒖𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝒐𝒖𝒕
𝒇𝒂𝒊𝒍 𝒕𝒐 𝒇𝒐𝒍𝒍𝒐𝒘 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒔𝒆 𝒓𝒐𝒍𝒆𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒃𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒕 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒛𝒂𝒑 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒅𝒊𝒆
𝒈𝒐𝒐𝒅 𝒍𝒖𝒄𝒌 :')

I stay there frozen until I feel what seems like an earthquake
"Hey Austin you awake?"
I blink and finally make eye contact
"oh hey, your awake we need an extra player down for a game of cards?" 
Theres..no danger I guess
" Who are you again, I uh.. forgot your name "
I'm not good at remembering names
"oh how rude of me I'm Thomas, Thomas grange"
"Nice I'm Austin as you know and I'll be glad to join you in a round"
The first impression was ok he is nice I suppose but. I feel like he has a secret something odd, something mysterious he straightens his red plaid jacket and leaves grasping my arm along the way  I can walk... I think
Some guy has already dealt the cards
" Nice dealing mason"
A girl with a green plaid top says Mason winks and starts running his fingers through his mid-length dreadlocks blending from a black to a yellow
"Any time mars"
the girl gives a light laugh Thomas glares at him and his brown eyes don't look away until they make eye contact. Then he looks back down and starts grabbing his several cards. Someone randomly yells.

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