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Chapter 4: Hold it against me
"Thanks for the invite Adam" I said as I was given an invitation by Adam.
"No problem Clare. Remember, tonight at 8" "Got it" I said. He then walked off to his homeroom.
Adam and Drew were throwing him a party for getting his cast off. The party was going to be at an abandoned warehouse. Everyone was going to be there: Jenna, Alli(Although I haven't seen here in a couple days. I wonder if she's sick?), Eli, Connor, Dave, Wesley, Becky, Drew, Adam, and myself. The coolest part about it is that it happens to be Halloween today; it's a costume party. My costume is so amazing.
"Hey Clare. What are you wearing tonight for the party?" Jenna asked me. "Can't tell you" I said. "Well, I'm going dressed as a gypsy." Jenna replied.
I shuddered. Just two days ago Eli and I had our encounter with that creepy gypsy. The last thing she had said to me, came floating back in my mind. The truth's in the cards. That lady is a nutcase.
"You okay, Clarebear?" "Yeah, I just had a bad encounter with a gypsy the other day." I replied back. I had told her what had happened with the gypsy, my dreams, and the riddles.
"Wow Clare, that sounds complicated. I'm sure what happened with the dream is not going to come true. And for the cards and riddles, that's just a coincedence." Jenna said.
"I don't know. The first riddle I got said you better watch Adam's back. The second I read it, Drew told me someone pushed Adam down the bleachers, and as a result, he broke his leg."
"I promise Clare, nothing bad will happen to you, me, or any of our friends." Jenna stated.
"Okay" I said. Jenna leaned in and gave me the biggest bear hug of the century.
Classes were so slow today, I gues from anticipation. History was a drag: All we talked about was the backstory behind the city of Quebec. Algebra II: A review of slope, which I learned in grade 8. The only exciting parts of school were as always, lunch, and my creative writing class. My writing class just lets me express myself, and no one judges me for it
7:30 That Night
"Done" Jenna said as she finished curling the last section of my hair. She then took the wide-toothed comb and ran it through my auburn curls. The result was hair wavy beyond compare. It was amazing. She is such a good hairstylist.
"Thanks Jenna. I love it"
Jenna had walked home with me to my house once school was over. We talked, ate snacks, and got ready for the party. We had just finished getting ready when the doorbell rang.
"That must be Eli and Adam." I said.
With that, we descended out my room and open the front door of my 2-story home.
"Hey there, my sexy vampire" I said to Eli. "I must say, Edwards, you're the must stunning vampiress I've ever laid my eyes on."
Yes, I know. I'm a vampiress. Eli and i wanted to match, so we decided to become a vampire couple. And no, we aren't Edward and Bella vampires; that is soooo overrated! We are your old-fashioned, stereotypical vampires.I had on a black spider web dress, Eli had on a count Dracula cloak. We both had fangs and blood dripping from them. I had blood red lipstick on, you know, to add dimension to the costume.
"Nice gypsy costume" Adam said to Jenna. " Thanks Adam. You're a cool batman. Too bad I'm not dressed as cat woman."
Oh yeah, by the way, I forgot to tell you something. Jenna and Adam are going out. Eli and I saw how lonely our best friends were and decided to set them up on a blind date. They got along well. They been going out for about 3 weeks now. I keep telling Eli we should double date. I guess this party can count as one.
"You girls ready to go?" Adam asked us.
"Yes!" Jenna and I screamed in excitement.
The four of us bombarbed ourselves into Eli's new car, a Ford Taurus. We pulled off from my house, and pretty soon, we arrived at the abandoned warehouse.
For an abandoned warehouse, the inside looked good. Drew and Adam cleaned up well
The inside of the warehouse was huge. They had painted the walls black, had decals of spooky halloween figures on the walls, glowing, orange pumpkin lanterns dimly lit the ceiling. Not too bright, not too dark. Just enough light to fit to the theme. There were corners of the rooms that had fake spider webs in them. The refreshment table had blood red punch, bat cookies, halloween mints, a cake in the shape of a witch, candy corn, and a tin of apples, which we would bob for later.
"Drew, this party is nice" Jenna said. "Thanks. Adam and I put a lot of work into setting up for this." Drew said.
And you could tell. It was fascinating. I had just walked into a Halloween wonderland.
It was so many people; more than I had expected. But then again, Drew is crazy popular.
I saw Bianca, who was dressed as Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz, complete with the shiny red shoes, a basket, and a fake Toto inside of it. I waved at her from across the room, and mouthed a hey. She waved back eagerly. She then went to talking to Adam and Jenna, her newfound friend.
Speaking of friends, I wonder where Alli was?
"Eli, have you seen Alli?" I asked. "No, she's probably trying to figure out what shoes she's gonna wear." He replied back with snarkiness. "Eli, this isn't a joke. I'm worried. I haven't seen her in past couple days." "Don't worry Clare, she'll show up soon; she'd never miss a party." "Yeah, I guess you're right." He gave me a reassuring nod.
"Who wants to play 7 minutes in heaven?" Dave asked. Almost everyone there said yes.
Everyone wrote there names on a sheet of paper and either put it in a box labeled BOYS or GIRLS. Eli and I wrote our names down. It's just a harmless game, right?
Dave closed his eyes and read the names of the sheet of paper. "Bianca and Wesley" "No way" Bianca said. "Come on B, it's just a game" "Fine then, Bianca said. Wesley looked way to eager. He had no clue that he wasn't getting anything from Bianca. They walked into the closet and shut the door.
"Your 7 minutes begins... NOW!" Dave yelled.
Everyone sat in the chairs, eyes glued to the door to see if one of them were trying to escape from the challenge.
About 5 minutes had passed, then all we heard was a piercing scream. Everyone shot up from their seats. Dave ran over to the door and flung it open.
There on the ground, were a dead Wesley and Bianca. Wesley had a knife in his heart, while Bianca had an axe in her head.
"No!" Dave and Drew screamed. They each ran over to their friend, Dave to Wesley, and Drew to Bianca.
"Bee, listen to me, Bee. Wake up! We are gonna get you and Wes to the hospital so the doctor can make you feel better. Okay?" Drew said.
Tears started forming in his eyes, and gushed down his face. Dave was the same way. No matter what they said, they weren't coming back. "I'm gonna go get help" KC said. He ran to the front door of the warehouse, but it was locked. All the doors were.
"Guys, all the doors are locked! Whoever did this to Wesley and Bianca are in here, controlling everything!" KC screamed, frantically. Drew noticed a note on the ground beside Bianca's lifeless body. He picked it up and read it aloud: "You all are trapped in here with me. You better pay close attention to what I say. Your life depends on it. Go to the Entertainment room. A suprise is there waiting for you. Remember, your life is now in the palms of my hands. Let the games begin!"
Everyone looked around terrified. I began to speak up. "Guys, we have to do what he says." "No we don't. There has to be another way out of this horrorland." KC said. "There isn't" I said. I continued to tell them about what has happened to me over the past week.
"Whoa. Clare you're like physic or something?" Adam asked.
"Close enough"I said. "Now some of us need to stay here and keep guard. Eli, Adam, Drew, Jenna, KC, and Dave, come with me." Everyone followed my instructions. The seven of us walked slowly to the entertainment room, our breath becoming more rigid with every step we took.
"Here we are" Eli said. Everybody took a huge breath. Eli opened the door, and everyone instantly started screaming. There on the ground lay a cold, lifeless Alli.
"Alli!" I screamed. Jenna and I ran over to her, sobbing. My best friend, Alliyah Bhandari, was dead.
"I'm so sorry girls" Adam said sincerely. The other guys nodded. Adam walked up to us, and stroked our hair.
"Look, a note" Dave said. He picked up the note and read it aloud
"Looks like you guys found the suprise. Now, to advance to the next level, you have to pick up the knife in the corner of the room, and cut out her h-h-heart. Once you are done, one of the seven of you have to eat it. And by the way, she's been dead for days. Good luck. And remember, your lives are now in the palms of my hands."
"T-t-t-this c-can't b-be h-happening!" I said.
I could never eat my friend's heart, let alone cut it out. It was so sick. The bastard who is making us do this is disgusting.
"Who is going to do it?" Drew asked.
"I will" KC said. "Alli was a good person, and a great friend to me. But she would understand the circumstances that we're in" The tall boy said.
KC walked over to the corner of the room, picked up the knife(which had dried blood on it) and walked back over to Alli. His breath became unsteady, tears forming in his eyes. He took off her blood-stained shirt and bra, and began to cut into her barren flesh. He could barely manage to do this. While KC was doing this, I looked over to Dave. He was shaking in fear. They had just had an argument a week before. Now he would never get to tell her that he is sorry.
"Done" KC said. In his hand was my best friend's heart. No one else could bare the thought of eating it. He sliced it up into bits, and laid them in the palm of his hand. Holding his nose, he swallowed the bits of heart, one by one. Once he was finished, his face turned a sour green.
"Oh my god" KC said, before throwing up. He had spit up chunks of her heart and the food he had ate before this fiasco. Everyone shuddered in pure agony at the sight of this.
Jenna had a bottle of coke(The soda, not the drug, you silly geese) in her purse, and reluctantly gave it to him. He guzzled the acidic beverage down.
"What have I done?" KC questioned.
"We all understand man. You did that to save us all. You're a true he-" "AAAAAAHHHH!" Adam's sentence was interrupted by a myriad of screams. The seven of us ran to the front room in the warehouse. Once we arrived to our destination, we saw the bodies of everyone I told to stay behind and keep guard. They were all killed by some poisonous gas.
"Oh no!" I said. "Someone, get me outta here!" Eli ran over to me, hugging me in the cradle position. He started kissing my temples and rubbing small circles on my back. Even though he is comforting me, my heart was beating eratically and I was perpetually rocking back and forth.
"Adam, please tell me everything's going to be alright! Please!" Jenna yelled. Adam didn't respond. "Adam, help me!" Jenna screamed, this time 1000 times more worry in her voice. But Adam didn't respond. He was too busy staring at Dave's lifeless body on the floor, an arrow stuck in the middle of his head.
"Dave!" Drew yelled. He ran over to his buddy, and started shaking, wanting to hug him, hoping it would revive him, and it would be like anything never happened. But it did again. It happened to everybody that I loved, and there's nothing I could do about it.
"Dave man. You have to come back, you have to-" Drew was cut off by a knife going straight into his lung, him collapsing to the floor.
Everyone looked up, and we couldn't believe our eyes.
It was the killer, a mere 10 ft apart from us.
"No one invited me to the party!"
What do ya think?I told you this would be the start of the climax. I loved writing this chapter. Sorry if it's too gruesome for you, but you guys knew this was going to be a horror story. Please, review. I want to get 20 reviews by Friday! If you do, I will write each indiviual person an Eclare one-shot that's pure fluff! Thanks for reading. Have a fun Labor Day!