Board Games Are Evil

Chapter 1

Boardgame

Aria glanced over her shoulder. They were still behind her, on the other side of the street, but still. They matched their pace to hers- when she slowed, they slowed. When she quickened her pace, they did as well. It was quite frightening to Aria. The neighborhood she was walking wasn't the best. The police had arrested most of the rebels, gangsters and everything else from the area, but some stores remained with bars over the windows and doors. It gave Aria the chills.

In the corner of her eyes she spotted the two men. One had enormous side burns that went almost to his lips and was quite muscular. His skin was a light tan color; he wore loose jeans and no shirt with a bandana around his neck. The other was a buff man like the other and had some sort of pony tail at the top of his head. He had a long pointy beard by the looks of it and he had the same skin as the other. He wore denim jeans and a red shirt.

Aria was out being stalked by the two men because of her boyfriend. Well, notbecauseof her boyfriend, but because she was buying a present for her boyfriend-Rob. It was his birthday, and in the complete chaos of Aria's week, she didn't have any time to get him anything. So, she had decided to host a small gathering of their small group of friends over to celebrate his birthday before his actual party the day after. Arias eyes scanned the streets for something to buy Rob. She was drawn to 'Gamer Games' across the street, where Bandana and Denim were. 'Joy….' Aria thought to herself. She thought out a plan to herself and sped her walk the slightest notion to get across the road on the crosswalk, much ahead of the two men. Aria was enlightened by the fact she was so close to 'Gamer Games'. She slowed her pace to hear the footsteps of the men behind her, she sighed. Aria was almost to the video game store, and paid no heed that the men were behind her, since once she was in the store she could call the police.

Though, to her dismay, 'Gamer Games' was out of business. She caught a glance of herself in the still shiny glass window. She was a slender girl, her hair was said to be the color of honey in the sun. She was a pale color, her hues a forest green.

She sighed; along the side of 'Gamer Games' was a beautiful mural. There was an oak door with exotic flowers and plants and bright colors around it. Aria ran her hand down the mural and the door knob changed, like a three dimensional figure. She blinked in surprise; she was positive that this wasn't a door when she first looked. The honey colored haired girl hear footsteps close by; she quickly twisted the doorknob and entered the room.

What Aria had entered was quite peculiar. There was a sign that read in messy writing 'More Games'. Aria tilted her head, she had seen signs like that at run down book stores, of course they didn't say 'More Games' but 'More Books'. It was a dim lighted room, with one window at the side helping to keep the room out of complete darkness. Aria shivered; there was a bad feeling about the store. She raised a brow, the light was shining in towards the shop, while she was walking to the shop, and she could have sworn the sun had been facing the other way. The store had the strangest things- triangle chess boards, square bouncy balls; you name it. There were shelves and such like other stores but, it was just weird…

On the counter was a large run down boom box playing scream music, the music was playing loudly and it was hurting her ears, though she really didn't want to interfere with anything. Aria hurriedly and quietly scurried around the store for something five people could play. Maybe a video game…a board game wouldn't be that bad either.

"Is everything alright?" a raspy voice said from behind her. Aria jumped and swiftly turned around to find a pale teenage boy with tousled black hair. His hair fell in between his eyes and framed his face. He worse skinny jeans and a plaid grey shirt. Something about his face scared Aria quite a bit. There was a large scar covering his left eye and a small part around it as well. The burn engulfed his ear and it stopped. Despite that burn of his, he was quite the handsome man.

For just a moment, Rob was completely forgotten.

Aria was snapped out of her thoughts as the screamo was turned off. He turned back to Aria, "Is everything alright?" Aria nodded lightly, still in quite a daze. Something about his face was very familiar….she just couldn't place it.

"Is there something in particular you're looking for?" he asked, gazing into Arias' green hues. Aria found herself that she couldn't speak. She coughed into her fist and faced the teenager again, "Sorry," she paused, "A multi-player game. Board game."

The teenager simply turned his back to her and walked to the back of the room and there was some rustling. Soon after he came back with thin rectangle board box. It was white with black edges with the word 'Avatar' in the middle. That word wracked her brain. A cartoon maybe? Perhaps, though she would never really know at the moment. She shook the box lightly. She bit her lip, something about the box didn't seem right and something about the boy dressed in plaid didn't seem right either.

"Adventure." The teen said behind the counter. What on earth did he mean? Aria turned to him as he continued to speak, "Mystery, betrayal, love." There was something mesmerizing about his voice. It was raspy, but it was also like water running over smooth rocks.

"Secrets revealed, desires unveiled." He finished.

"What are you talking about?" Aria raised a brow. "The game of course, what else?" he scoffed with a smirk. At a loss for words she placed the board game on the counter.

Aria saw a smirk play on his lips, but it disappeared as fast as it came. Aria bites her lip, maybe it was a bad idea trying to get the game. Aria pulled out her wallet, deciding she had no choice but to buy the game, as she was running out of time and there was nothing else to buy.

"Twenty." The teen said. Aria placed the bill on the counter and grabbed the box. "Thank you." She muttered and hurried out of the shop.

Once out of the shop, Aria heaved out a sigh of relief. She held the box close to her chest and began walking glad the men that were following her were gone. As she hugged the box closer to her and rushed home she couldn't help but think that buying the game was a bad choice.

TBC~