A/N: This is a game by Pacthesis. I don't know who Sophie will end up with but you can leave suggestions. In the later chapters I will experiment with doing different character's POVS. Hope you enjoy :)
Hello, my name is Sophie Melephant. I'm sixteen-years-old and a Scorpio. I have brown hair and green eyes, I'm pale, and I guess I'm pretty short. That's really are there is to me. You could say that I watch a lot of movies, but really just enough to know that the amusement park is probably the worst place to get trapped. At least it's not abandoned. Everyone else just sort of vanished and a glass wall appeared around the entire park, obviously the work of an intelligent species, more intelligent than a human that is. That thought wasn't too comforting. I took in a deep breath.
"HEY!" I shouted, bending over some. There was no response. I thought it was usually a group that were stuck in horror movies. Too bad this is real life. I wondered if this, the front entrance, was the only exit. If not the others are probably blocked off too, I did say this was caused by intelligent beings. It was while I was contemplating this that my phone vibrated in my pants pocket. I didn't have any service but that didn't stop Mr. Ominois-Unknown-Number:
Your time here will end when your number reaches zero.
I guess this meant there were other people here after all. I just hoped this wasn't some kind of modern Hunger Games. My phone flashed and the number 12 appeared over my phone wallpaper, still the generic water bubbles. Why 12? Maybe there's 12 people here and it's being literal, our time will end because at 0 we'd all be dead.
"Huh. Your number's much lower than mine" A guy my age with blonde hair, and standing much too close to me, commented. I screamed and jumped backwards, pretty sure that I just had a mini-heart-attack.
"Chill..." The boy said, clearly not off-put by my reaction or that we were stuck in an amusement park. "I'm Thane."
"I'm Sophie" I sighed, aware that horror-movie monsters didn't always appear as monsters. "You're...stuck here too?"
"Yeah"
"Have you been here long?"
"Just a few hours, I think"
"Really? I just got 'here'" And I was pretty sure Thane was the most anti-social guy I've ever met.
"Weird"
"I spent the whole day here with my friends. I was about to leave with them. Now they're gone" Another sigh out of both boredom and loss. "I knew it wasn't a good idea to go on the grand opening day..."
"Same for me. I was working in the arcade. Right as my shift was about to end everybody disappeared." Thane's expression finally changed into something more suitable for this situation. "...It's nice to be actually talking to someone now."
"Yeah..." I nodded, surprised at the change of conversation-dominance.
"I did run into this other guy, but he didn't want anything to do with me. I already went around the whole perimete of the park...it's all blocked by glass. He wouldn't listen to me though." 3 people confirmed, then. "I saw the number on his phone. 22" Hmm. "And yours is 12...I wonder why my number is higher" Maybe because I'll die first? "But the real question is what the numbers represent. Days, hours...or maybe achievements of some sort." People didn't seem very likely anymore. "Guess we'll have to figure it out.'
"Uh huh" I nodded, glad that was done with.
"Are you tired?" Thane asked, examining my face. I was about to deny it when a yawn betrayed me.
"Kind of" I shrugged. No big deal, just didn't sleep at all last night.
"You can rest at the cafe. I'm going to check some things. I'll meet you there later." A slightly suspicious statement, but I was too tired to care.
"Okay"
"See you later" Then off he went, leaving me to find my way to the cafe. After ending up at the carousel for the hundredth time, I consulted with the map I had grabbed on the way in. Turns out the cafe happens to be right next to the carousel. Too exhausted to even mentally kick myself, I wandered over to the cafe and found two other people Thane must have missed. One was a petite blonde girl with a hat and the other was a brunette male in a sweater-vest.
"Oh!" I exclaimed, surprised at the company.
"Hi!" The boy greeted happily, almost too happily. "My name is Bryce. What's yours?" Okay, Bryce isn't exactly an intimidating name. I think he's clean.
"Sophie" I said, happy for my movie knowledge.
"Nice to meet you, Sophie" I almost expected him to shake my hand.
"So...you're...?" I could feel my eyes droop with each word.
"Trapped in this amusement park, like you? Yeah...bummer, right?" Bryce didn't look to bummed though, which put him back on my suspicious-people-list. "But I'm glad you arrived. The more the merrier, I say"
"Then I hope more people don't come" I mumbled then loudly said "So..who's that?" and pointed towards the blonde girl, still sitting at the booth like a statue.
"I have no idea. She's been there ever since I got here. She won't talk to me either. I hope I didn't offend her or something" Bryce looked over at the girl with a smile but he was ignored.
"Um, hello" I said, walking over to her. Here I could see that she wasn't sitting but standing between the table and the seats. "What's your name?" I stared at her, we were about eye-level. There was a moment of silence were no one said anything and Bryce just sort-of smiled at the wall.
"Lena" She whispered, tipping the brim of her pink hat over her eyes.
"Huh?" I asked, not sure what she was saying
"My name." She clarified.
"Oh!" Lena was what she said. "I'm Sophie" Then the silence fell again. "Um, Lena?" After a moment I gave up and walked back to Bryce. "Weird. She stopped talking."
"You did a lot better than me. She actually said something to you!" He grinned "Man, what a day it's been. I will sleep well tonight!"
"How can you be so...at ease in a situation like this?" I half-snapped, I was supposed to be resting but instead I get to hang out with Mr. Future-Therapist and Miss. Shy-Blonde-Girl.
"Actually, I was freaking out earlier, but now I'm not alone anymore. So I can relax" His emerald eyes practically twinkled. He was...pretty sweet. I would probably like him more once I got some shut-eye. "We'll get through this together, right?"
"Y-yeah" I said and actually smiled. The child-like side to Bryce spoke maternal side all women had.
"Leave me alone!" A voice yelled and we all turned our heads, even Leda. So I guess the grand total is 5, unless someone else is still out there.
"Just listen to me!" Another voice cried. Number 6? Thane ran in after a stranger, putting the total back at 5.
"I don't need your help!" The new boy was wearing a green hoodie and had light brown hair.
"Oh, Sophie" Thane sighed, noticing me.
"What's going on?" I asked, taking charge and feeling like a mother breaking up a fight.
"I'm chasing a nincompoop" Thane announced, shaking his head. I had to stifle a laugh.
"Who's a nincompoop?!" Green-Hoodie yelled, obviously not seeing the humor in the other boy's words...or rather word.
"Huh? Who's the sweater vest?" Thane asked, ignoring Green-Hoodie.
"That's Bryce" I told him
"Yo" The brunette greeted, apparently getting merrier.
"Who's this guy?" I pointed to Green-Hoodie, who had look of a wronged child, complete with the crossed-arms.
"I don't know" Thane sighed, making me wonder who's sighed the most since we got stuck here, me or him.
"Who are you people?!" Green-Hoodie looked around, still yelling at the top of his lungs.
"Name listing, go!" Bryce announced, going into therapist-mode.
"Thane!"
"Sophie!"
"...Lena"
"Spencer!"
"Bob!" Wait...what?
"That's not your name!" I really wished I had a pillow to throw at him. No one else seemed that amused either...just Bryce, laughing away. Thane, who clearly didn't sign up for this, took out his phone and got down to business and the rest of us followed suit.
"So, everyone here got that creepy text..." He said it as if he already knew this to be true "And all of our phones display a weird number instead of the time now."
"Thane's number is 29, Sophie's is 12, Spencer's is 22, Lena's 20, and mine is 17" Bryce interrupted, finally not smiling.
"Why is my number the highest...?" Thane asked
"I wonder why mine's the lowest..." I added, wondering if Mr. Future-Therapist had an interpretation he'd like to share.
"God, why am I so tired?" Spencer yawned "It's not even that late..." He stretched, almost hitting him in the head with his phone.
"I actually feel pretty tired too..." I added while ducking.
"C'mon, I worked the whole day and I still have energy." Thane chastised.
"Crap. Hold on a second" Spencer hurried and plugged his phone in to charge.
"Hmm, I feel just fine." Bryce still wasn't smiling, but his eyes did look refreshed.
"I just noticed something..." Spencer called from the corner, "Our numbers...they add up to 100..."
"You're right" Thane confirmed "but does that mean anything?"
"Of course it does! It has to!" Spencer snapped.
"You can't assume something just like that" Mr. Future-Professor pointed out, to the displeasure of Mr. Angst.
"I don't care what you think!" Spencer folded his arms again and I almost expected him to stick out his tongue too.
"Hey, hey. Let's go find a place where we can all rest for the night. We can think more about this tomorrow." Bryce was back to smiling and went back to his role of therapist.
"Sleep? Now? Are you kidding? There's still daylight out." Spencer wasn't yelling anymore but he still wasn't happy.
"Didn't you say you were tired?" Bryce asked, his smiling fading once more.
"I...did...OH!" Spencer exclaimed, making everyone jump.
"For real?! Really!?" Thane yelled
"That's too freaky!" Spencer peered at his phone the way I do when I play Akinator, surprised but mostly curious.
"What are you doing?" I asked.
"Sophie, let me see your phone." Spencer held out his hand, calming down. I handed it over and he replaced his with mine at the charger.
"Well?" He asked
"I feel kind of weird." It felt like I just drank a Monster but the energy was coming more slowly.
"Do you...feel like tired?" Spencer asked hesitantly. I examined my body for a moment before a felt it.
"Oh my god!" I shouted and laughed.
"So the battery life of our phones correlate with our own energy..." Thane clarified for Bryce and Lena.
"That really is freaky..." ...And would make a great movie.
"I don't know what's going on, but we all need to be careful with our phones" Thane informed us as if it wasn't obvious.
"No shit, Sherlock" And here's Spencer, saying what we were all thinking.
"Good thing I brought my phone charger" I put in, hoping to distract Thane from retorting.
"I'm out of luck" Bryce laughed, rubbing the back of his neck.
"They sell them at the cinema" Thane informed him.
"R-really?" Bryce asked like his mother just told him Christmas wasn't really cancelled.
"I tried stealing some popcorn from there, but the doors kept me locked in until I put change on the counter." Thane took off his glasses and wiped them on his shirt.
"The hell is with this place?" Spencer asked like he just found a frog in his shoe. "Let's focus on finding a way out of here. We don't have to worry about out numbers as long as they don't drop to zero."
"Yeah..." I agreed, anxious to get my phone back and reassure myself that my number hadn't changed.