Saw 3 Chapter 5
Amelia smiled at Maya and said, "Yes!"
They got out of the van and grabbed a bag out of the back. They took some supplies out of the bag and shoved them in their purses.
As they walked up to the house, Maya asked, "Is the game ready?"
Amelia took out her phone. "I'm texting dad right now. He'll finish it tonight, before we show up with our players."
"How are we going to get them out of here without being seen?" Maya asked.
"Relax. This isn't my first rodeo," Amelia said.
Once inside the house, Amelia and Maya were immediately given a headache from all that was going on. The first room was the living room. There was a small stage with karaoke. The person singing was already drunk and stumbling on the stage. There was someone sleeping on the couch. A baseball player was sledding down the staircase, sliding into the living room.
"Yeah. Great party," Amelia said sarcastically.
Amelia and Maya maneuvered their way through the living room. Coolers with beer, sodas, and other canned alcohol were laying all around the house. Everyone there had a drink in their hand.
"No wonder everyone's already wasted." Maya said.
Eventually they made it to the kitchen where Ava, Sabrina, and Lucas were standing by the fridge. The fridge was near an island countertop. In the corner of the kitchen, two people were playing beer pong on the table.
Ava choked on her drink when she spotted Amelia and Maya in her house.
Amelia and Maya sat in the chairs on the other side of the island.
"Maya. Amelia," Lucas said. "You made it."
"No thanks to you," Amelia said.
Lucas looked puzzled.
"How did you find out about my party?" Ava asked.
"Who could miss the loud house with our classmates swarming inside?" Maya asked.
"Wait, you didn't invite them?" Lucas asked.
"Like you didn't know," Amelia said.
"Why wouldn't you invite us?" Maya asked. "Why did you lie?"
Sabrina chuckled, "Isn't it obvious?"
Amelia shook her head. "You're such a Heather."
"Oh, I love that movie," Ava said.
"You're not one of us," Sabrina said.
"I invited everyone worthy of being in my house," Ava said. "Baseball players. Theater geeks. Class president. Every cool senior. Even some juniors who could get us drinks. But not you two. You don't belong here."
"What the hell Ava?" Lucas said.
"Shut up." Ava said to him. "Go get Nick and Veronica."
Lucas left the kitchen and went down a hallway.
"You're such a bitch," Maya said.
Sabrina and Ava giggled. "Is that supposed to hurt me?" Sabrina asked.
Maya and Amelia go up off the chairs and left the kitchen.
"I'll get Sabrina and Ava," Amelia said. She peeked back into the kitchen. Nick came in from the hallway and put her arm around Sabrina's waist. "And Nick."
"Okay. I'll find Lucas and Veronica." Maya said.
Maya went all throughout the house looking for Veronica or Lucas. She got a lost a couple times. After scoping out the first floor, she went upstairs to the second floor. There was a large space where teenagers were playing video games on a big flat screen mounted to the wall. Maya eventually found Veronica in the laundry room, alone, on her phone.
Maya entered the room. "You know a party's bad when you'd rather be on your phone, away from everyone else." She filed her arms.
"Maya?" She said.
Maya closed the door. "If we hadn't found out about the party, how long would you have strung us along?"
Veronica sighed and put her phone down. "It wasn't my idea. I didn't want to go along with it but Sabrina and Ava-"
"I don't want to hear your excuse." Maya said. "What other plans did you all have?"
Veronica took a deep breath. "Sabrina and Ava talked about framing you two for cheating on a test or something. They also wanted to start a food fight and blame it on you both... We were also planning a trip to the beach during spring break. They were going to invite you both but never show up to pick you up."
"And you didn't have any objections?" Maya asked.
"I've known Sabrina a long time. I-" she said.
Maya has heard enough. She pulled a needle from her purse. She lunged for Veronica and injected the drug into Veronica's neck. Veronica gasped. In seconds, Veronica had passed out.
Back in the kitchen, Amelia waited for the opportunity to pour her powder in their drinks. She poured it into Nick and Ava's drinks but they turned back towards Amelia before she could add the powder to Sabrina's drink.
"I don't know why you're still here," Ava said. She sipped her drink.
"If you're waiting for an apology," Sabrina said, making a gesture, "looks somewhere else."
"Like the dumpster," Ava said.
"Seriously," Nick said, "Nothing good will come of you staying here. Hey, where'd your friend go?"
Amelia tilted her head as smiled.
"Oh hey Katy," Sabrina waved to a girl who just entered the kitchen.
Amelia's eyes widened. The girl Nick was kissing! Sabrina knows her!?
Sabrina went up to Katy and hugged her. "Where have you been hiding?" Sabrina asked.
"All the fun is upstairs," Katy said.
Amelia took her chance to pour the powder into Sabrina's drink while Sabrina was by Katy.
Ava lost her balance and said, "I think I'll sit down."
"I'm tired too," Nick said. He sat in a chair and lied his head down.
"Come on guys the party just started." Sabrina said. She chugged her drink.
Meanwhile, Maya made her way down the stairs where she found Lucas sitting alone. Maya sat next to his on the stairs.
"Maya I did not know they were going to do that. I'm sorry-" Lucas said.
"But you're not gonna do anything about it." Maya said. "You're not gonna make a scene. You won't leave the group. Things like this will keep happening."
Lucas narrowed his eyes and jolted his head back. He's out of it. "I just... I wanted to tell you something. I think you are pretty and cool. You're pretty cool."
The scent of his breath repulsed Maya. She leaned back.
He held a lock of her hair. "You're just so..." he looked at his hand and saw that several strands of her hair had come out. "Oh my god. I pulled out your hair."
Maya snacked her hair back. "Don't worry about it." She turned away and put her fallen hair in her purse. When she looked back at Lucas, he was leaning closer to her, lips puckered. Maya's eyes widened and she quickly got out the other needle. She stabbed it into his neck and injected it into him. His head fell into her lap.
Groggy, Sabrina opened her eyes. Her first sight was a plain ceiling. She turned over to see the rest of the small room. No windows. No doors. No drawings or marks on the walls. No fan. No clock. The only thing in this room was an overhead timer and a small camera in the corner of the room.
Sabrina quickly got up and gasped. "What is this?" She got up off the bed. She realized her socks where gone when stood up on the cold tile floor. Sabrina went over to the walls and banged on them. "Hello!? Get me out of here!"
Sabrina backed away from the walls after a minute. She began panting and pacing the small room. "Why?"
She went over to her bed and threw the pillow off, grunting. That's when she noticed an odd device on the bed where the pillow was. She picked up the device small enough to fit in her hand. There were several buttons on it. Sabrina took a moment before pressing play.
"Hello Sabrina Hales," the voice on the cassette said, "I'd like to play a game."
Sabrina looked at the cassette player, mortified. "No. no no no." She said.
"For years you've used your position of popularity to control others. In this game, you won't have any control. This game is designed specifically for you Sabrina. But you're not alone. In this game you will find familiar faces who you may chose to save or let suffer." The voice on the cassette said. The voice was deep and masculine.
Sabrina covered her mouth. "Nick? Veronica? You better not have hurt them."
"You will have 90 minutes to save them. And yourself." The cassette clicked, ending the tape.