Sorry for the delay, but the third chapter is now up!
Disclaimer: Barry, Rin, Steve, and Stephanie all belong to me.
Chapter 3 - The Golden Writing and the 'Bounded' Twins –
Rin struggled in her bindings to see if she could read the curtain, but cursed under her breath when she couldn't see past Barry's head. "What? What does the damn thing say?" Rin's voice had softened enough so it sounded like she was frustrated rather than godly.
"Well…" Barry began, "It reads: Rin is a Bitch. Wow! These curtains sure are smart!" Barry smiled foolishly back at Rin, who was sending him a glare as if he had just insulted her beliefs.
"I'm trying to get the two of us out of here…so PLEASE just cooperate…" Rin stared at Barry until he shrugged once more.
"It says: To find the exit you need: connect the gold designs to get your clues…I think it's saying that to get out, we have to read the designs even more…" Barry looked up around the room. There were golden symbols all over the rug, walls, chairs, and the ceiling seemed to be covered with the same wallpaper as well.
"Does that mean…we're in the middle of a scavenger hunt?" Rin's words must of triggered something, for at that moment the ropes untied and her body fell right off of the couch, tumbling onto the ground. Her hair was sprawled all over her face and her skirt had risen up enough to make her blush and stand up quickly, straightening out her clothing.
"Ding…ding…ding…your answer is CORRECT! Your prize is freedom." Barry joked as he gave a I-think-your-amusing look at Rin. Rin glared at Barry, before she finally walked over to where he was.
"So…now we have to find words on the Rin screamed, ruffling up her hair as became more and more frustrated. Barry looked at Rin, as if he was expecting her to fix everything. "What?" Rin asked, returning the stare with a puzzled look, "You don't expect me to do this-do you?" Rin's amazement at this was only exceeded by her frustration.
"Well, you did see the curtain, didn't you?" Barry pointed out, only to make Rin advert her guilty eyes from his inquiring ones, "So you probably have some talent for this-which means it would be easier for you to figure this out than myself." Rin walked over to the wall and looked at it for a couple more moments.
"I work part-time as an editor at a book company so I tend to need to look deeper and more closely at things…" Rin finally spoke as her eyes scanned the walls, "Plus-words jump out at me…" Rin paused as she seemed to have found something.
"Well, it looks like you're useful after all!" Barry spoke sarcastically, only to receive a grunt of annoyance from Rin.
"Okay…well this wall is either saying that the walls only contain words or that the walls contain more than words…I can't quite tell…" Rin said, pointing out the gold on the wall. "If you connect that small circle to that snake looking line-then it spells out the clue."
Barry walked over and stared at the wall. Sure enough-the girl was right. If the wallpaper was bent the correct way it did say something. "Actually, it says this wall contains more than words." Barry touched his ear the wall and tapped it-a dull noise echoing inside to show that it was indeed hollow.
Rin looked at his hands, to his face, to what he was doing, and back to his hands. "So…what do you have to contribute?" Rin asked.
Barry looked up at her and realized that he had used one of his techniques just now. Well, If I know what she does then she has the right to know about me. Barry looked back at her, "I work as a cook in a restaurant but when I'm not doing that I'm in jail or stealing from grocery stores.." Barry watched her face widen with shock as he turned back to the wall.
Barry took several steps back and bent at his knees before sprinting forward a couple of steps. Then he shot himself into the air, spun around, straightened his leg, and flew into the wall. There was a loud thudding noise and a cracking noise as his foot met the wall. Barry then crashed down onto the ground and looked up at the wall. There was a dent there, but he had not broken all the way through the wall. "DAMN! FUCK YOU, YOU GODAMN WALL!" Barry then punched the wall which busted open under his knuckles.
Rin's face was now one of a girl who had a gun pointed at her head. Barry looked over at her and realized he should probably explain, "I'm stronger when I yell…..What?" Rin shook her head and looked over at the busted wall. Inside, there was a door and two magnifying glasses. Rin ran to the door and jiggled the handle, finding it was lock. She looked carefully at the lock.
"It has a combination lock…" Rin looked over at the magnifying glass and back at the other golden symbols on the other three walls and the chairs. "You have got to be kidding me…you don't think they-?"
"They do…." Barry began. "You grab on and start on the floor…I'll check out the couch."
In yet another part of the house…
The room was pitch black as the cold wind blew through again, the only light was the moonlight coming through the window. Stephanie struggled on the ground where she sat. She felt cold metal against her warm flesh and realized her arms were chained. Stephanie struggled in the chains, the cold edges scraping against her wrist bone.
She jumped when she felt the hand of someone else. Her screamed and her voice rang out through the room and straight out of the window. "SHUT THE HELL UP!" The other body spoke, the voice sounding familiar to her.
"Steve?" Stephanie asked, the struggling stopping from both of them.
"Stephanie! What are we doing here?" Steve asked, he was also struggling in the chains.
"I don't know!" Stephanie spoke, also struggling in the chains. The lights flashed on, the bright light blinding the two of them as they sat in the floor of a room painted white with white carpeting. The window banged open and closed, as blood trickled onto the floor.
The red blood stained the curtains of the window as Stephanie let out an ear piercing scream.
There ya go! The third chapter. The next chapter is called: Locked in a Room With A Bitch
