Stella POV
Ooh! The Lost Invitations sounds like something I'd read about back at Saxby Hall. We line up against the wall and the voice goes silent for a second. "Stella, do not react. You are the saboteur. You are the only one who can hear my voice. To sabotage this game, you must find the golden invitations in the sacks. I will tell you where an invitation is and you must go to the post booth and tear it up. There are other tactics to ruining the game. You can prevent your teammates from entering the booth and you can fill the booth with junk. Do not panic. If things start to fall apart, I will guide you through your whisper clip." So I am the first saboteur. I'm not a very good liar, so I'm prepared to fail at sabotaging. The voice goes through the rules to everybody else and the game starts. Smash, Stanley, Greg and Tom are all taking up all the room next to the sacks, leaving Prim and I scrambling for the last spot. I bag it and the voice tells me an invitation is hidden in the pink sack. I sift through until I grab a pink envelope with a gold heart shaped note inside it. That is what I've been told to look for. I take it to the booth. Smash is in there and she has found an invitation. The voice warns me that 2 of the six invitations have been posted and that I'll need to act soon. Smash comes out of the booth and I tiptoe in. I wait until everybody is occupied and I tear the invitation. I come out of the booth to find that Prim is staring at me. Oh no. She must have seen me do the dirty deed. But it's my word against hers so I have nothing to lose. There is an invitation in the orange sack, so I find the pastel pink envelope and rip another invitation. Tom might have seen me that time. I'm a terrible saboteur. 60 seconds remaining. The blue sack contains two invitations and Tom has one. I sift frantically through the heap before I find the familiar pink envelope. I rush to the booth and Smash is in the queue with yet another heart shaped note. "Just face it, pink stink. Everybody knows that you're the saboteur so why do you even bother?" she says meanly. "How do I know I'm not listening to the saboteur?" I say back. That shuts her up. She posts the fifth invitation and I rip another. The voice is desperately screaming at me to stall. I go to the booth and stand there until Smash pounds on the door. "Hurry up!" she shouts. I know that she has the final invitation. There are 10 seconds left. I stop Smash from putting the last invitation in the box. "Your time is up. You have failed MISERABLY!", the voice squeals at us with delight in her robotic tone for once.
"You must now vote for who you think the saboteur was and why." "Stella" "I think it was Smash because she always seemed to know where the invitations were." "Smash" "I think it was Stella because I saw her ripping the invitations and she took ages in the booth." "Prim" "I think it was Stella because I could hear ripping while I was waiting for the booth and she was in there." "Tom" "I think it was Stella because I saw her lock Smash out of the booth." "Greg" "I think it was Smash because she seemed suspicious all the time." "Stanley" "I think it was Smash because she looked thrilled whenever we failed." Smash scowls at Stanley, Greg and me. "The vote is a tie between Stella and Smash." the voice says. "Whoever draws the short straw will be trapped." A hexagonal podium rises up and we each draw a straw. I take the longest one poking out of the box and Smash takes the smallest one. My heart almost stops working. My straw is much shorter than Smash's. "I can now reveal that the saboteur was in fact... Stella. Stella, although you sabotaged the challenge, the draw straws have spoken. You're trapped!" I burst into floods of tears and collapse on the floor, kicking and screeching. I know it won't do any good, but I am just so upset that I was trapped first. No more books, no more Wagner and no more royal lifestyle... I hate Smash so much.