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Chapter 5

"Previously on The Forbidden Game,"

-Noura

The stairs were shaking from the explosions. I can hear a familiar battle cry, which belongs to non other than Meredith.

Rose POV

The stairs were shaking, making me lose my balance and fall flat on my face. I got up with a groan. Seriously why does it have to happen in a time like this? I could hear a faint.

"WAIT!" from behind me and I knew it belonged to Mia. I didn't have time to tell her to stay there and not move, because the only thing in my mind is the key. I could hear the snakes zzz… sound, causing my hands to sweat from nervousness.

The gunshots were getting louder each time I climb down stairs. I wanted to curl up in a ball and cry. My body was tired. I was so thirsty. It's like there is a fire burning me in my throat, but I ignored the pain. I have to get to Meredith. It's her nightmare.

I'm the only person that can stop the game, but first I have to know what her nightmare is? I finally saw figures from far. They were an army, but their faces were covered with white masks. I saw Meredith from far. She was hiding behind a wall. That looked it could be knocked down in any moment.

"MERIDITH" I shouted causing all the soldiers with white masks to face me and then they did something that shocked me. They pointed their guns on me and started to shoot. The first instinct I've got is to lay on the stairs as fast as I could.

I heard a painful scream that belonged to non other than Mia. She was on the stairs and was gripping her right shoulder. Oh my god! The bullets are real. I wanted to go and see how deep the bullet was, but the gunshot didn't stop. The only way to help Mia and Meredith is to find out what the nightmare is and beat those soldiers.

"You can't" said Julian making me jump from surprise. I looked at him with a glare. Causing his eyes to shine amusingly.

"You never give up do you?" he tilted his head to the side, while smiling amusingly. I growled at him.

"What do you want? I'm trying to win this nightmare and you're here telling me that I can't, seriously you've got to stop annoying me!" I said annoyed as hell. He looked even more amused.

"Because it's true, look at Meredith" I looked at Meredith and she was surprisingly crying. " She's outnumbered, that was here worst nightmare to be outnumbered, to be helpless" I then looked at him. His face was serious. "And over there you're friend Mia was shot with a poisoned bullet, she doesn't have much time to survive.

"Then stop this nightmare, stop this game Julian please," I begged him. "Let me go" he shook his head and looked at me.

"Sorry Rose, but that would never happen" and he disappeared. I started to breath in hysteria. I could lose both of my best friends. I got up remembering what Julian said.

"Would you really think for once that I would let it attack you?"

That means Julian won't let anything harm me. Then if I stood in front of the bullets they won't hurt me. A part of me was hesitant, because how can I be sure that Julian won't let me get hurt. The bigger part on mine told me that if Julian didn't care about me getting hurt. He would have let the snake attack me or would have let me fall on the ground, but instead he saved me.

I can use that to my advantage. I quickly stood up and closed my eyes waiting for the pain to come, but instead of bullets came drops of water. I ran down stairs the soldier's were shooting at me non stop, but it didn't hurt me. It only caused my clothes to be soaked.

I ran behind the wall and faced a shocked Meredith. She was speechless may I add. I wanted to dance my little happy dance, but stopped myself. I can always tell Meredith how cool it was to run in front of a masked army without dying. I ignored it for later, when we get out of here in peace I will tell her everything. Including the part were Julian saved me and when I was so close to kiss him.

I looked at both of her guns and nodded at her. She gave me one. I held it tight and she started to count.

"1….2…." I cut her off saying.

"WAIT! I don't know how to use a gun" she rolled her eyes and started to get jumpy in each explosion, probably because of the adrenaline she was filled with.

She showed me the steps and I nodded getting excited. I never knew I had this side. Loving the risk, especially the rush of it. Now I'm the one who started to count.

"One….Two.. THREE!" I shouted at the end, both of us got out and started to shoot. I kept shooting them on the forehead, because it would kill them immediately. They were too many, but we never gave up till the last soldier was shot on the forehead and fell on the stairs dead. Meredith and I high five each other, laughing out of breathe.

I then remembered Mia. I ran quickly upstairs and found her on the stairs looking slightly pail. A sob formed in my throat, but I held it. I need to be strong. She was moaning in pain and begging me to let it stop.

Meredith quickly took off her leather belt and wrapped it around the wound. Mia was screaming loud in pain. I didn't know what to do? Meredith looked graved. She held me by the shoulders and said.

"We can't save her Rose, she's going to die, I'm so sorry" I was shocked to say anything. I'm going to lose Mia. It's my entire fault. I felt a warm hand on mine; I looked up and saw Julian.

I shook his hand off and stood in front of him. I felt so angry it's a surprise I didn't explode yet.

"Why? Why Mia? She didn't do anything to you" I started to hit him on his chest. A loud sob ripped out of my chest, making me fall on the stairs and hug myself to stop the pain. My body shakes when a sob rips out of my chest.

I felt him sitting next to me. He was reaching to touch my hair, but I quickly hit his hand away. His hand fell on his side.

"I told you to give in or all your friends would die Rose, why do you have to be so stubborn, your stubbornness caused Mia's death" I jumped up and shouted at him.

"SHE'S NOT DEAD!" he stood up towering on me.

"Not yet" and he walked towards her. Meredith stood in front of Mia. Like a soldier protecting his Queen or more like a predator protecting their territory. Meredith looked fearless and deadly, but when Julian stood in front of her. All her strength and confidant looked small.

I could see her shaking from anger and it shocked me. Mia and Meredith never liked each other; they actually loathed each other and now looking at her protecting Mia like that. I knew that when this game is over they would be best friends.

Mia gripped Meredith's jeans and whispered painfully.

"Don't Meredith, he's going to kill you and it would be all for nothing, cause I'm already going to die" and her hand gripping Meredith's jeans fell.

"NOO!" growled Meredith, traitors tears started to fall from her eyes. Meredith the girl who never cries and shed a tear, when her mother died is crying now. I felt something growing in me. Something I never felt before. I felt helpless for the first time in my life. I'm completely helpless. Both of my best friends could die right now, because of my selfishness.

I wanted to curl to in a ball and close my eyes making everything disappear, but it wouldn't change the fact that Mia is going to die.

"I can let all your friends go home safely with a snap of my fingers, but you have to be with me forever" I looked up and saw him looking at me with hope in his eyes. Why does he want me? What do I have that Mia or Meredith doesn't.

"You have loyalty and kindness I never felt before, your eyes gives hope in this world that kindness exists in, your loyal to your friends even when they did something behind your back" and smiled evilly. What did they do behind my back?

"Do you want to know?" I swallowed hard and looked at Meredith. She looked nervous. I looked down at Mia and she was in so much pain to think of what he's talking about.

"What is it Meredith?" I asked afraid of what she'll say. She hung her head low and said.

"I'm so sorry Rose, I wanted to tell you, but I was afraid you would….." and she stopped.

"You were afraid that I would break down, why do you guys always keep protecting me, I'm not that weak" I said getting pissed and felling hurt.

"I know, but you're too precious to us" she looked at me in the eyes. Julian was laughing right now.

"Tell her" said Julian "Tell her what you and your friends were hiding from her" and he was standing right next to me.

Meredith was crying right now. She looked at me with red eyes.

"I'm so sorry, for not telling you" and she started to sob.

"Tell me what? What is it Meredith you're freaking me out" I wanted to step forward, but Julian held me by the wrist.

"Last summer when you went to California, Dimitri, Mia, Mason, Eddie, Jill, Lissa, Christian and I went to Tasha's party" I got confused. I'm kind of hurt that they went to her party, but it's not that bad. I was about to speak when Julian said.

"That's not the good part, wait! Till she tell you what really happened" I swallowed hard.

"We were all having fun. When Tasha gave Dimitri a drink, he was acting strange, laughing and saying silly jokes, he was completely drunk, Tasha said that she has to take Dimitri to her room to rest, we all thought that she would come back later, but hours passed by and Tasha didn't come back, we all went up stairs and opened Tasha's door and…" she stopped.

I was shaking right now. Julian was holding me by the waist. If he weren't holding me I would have fell on the stairs.

"We found Tasha and Dimitri kissing" and I started to sob hard. Meredith took a step closer to comfort me, but I screamed at her to back off. Julian held me the whole time, while I sobbed in misery. They all knew and didn't tell me. How could they? Don't I mean anything to them?

"I'm so sorry Rose," whispered Mia and I saw a tear fall from her eyes.

"Dimitri was so drunk that he thought she was you and when he noticed it wasn't he actually slapped Tasha on the face" and then she didn't move. I ran towards her and started to shake her.

"Mia, wake up MIA! Please wake up please" and I put a hand on my mouth. She died, no she can't die. I looked up at Julian and he was smiling.

"I could make her live again, after all it's my game, my rules, but you know what I want Rose" I was shaking my head.

"Then let's make another deal" he took out a ring that had a snake shaped on it. He stood in front of me and said.

"I could let Mia live, if you agree to wear this ring" the ring was gorgeous. It's eyes were the same color as Julian's. The snake was wrapped in an invisible finger. It was gold.

"Is that all, or are you hiding something from me?" I asked. He smiled and said.

"Well I was about to have you for myself, but because of you asking me, I need to change it" I titled my head to the side and asked curiously.

"Change it to what exactly?" I asked.

"Each time I cheat in helping you in any way, this ring will wrap around you more, you have three chances, now it will be two seeing that I will help you get Mia back, in the third help the snake will rape it self around you tightly and you'll be mine" his eyes were twinkling from excitement. I had a feeling in my gut that he's not telling me everything.

"The clock is ticking Rose it's already 10 pm you have two hours till midnight" a clock start to strike. I looked around searching for the clock, but there wasn't any. I looked at Julian and said.

"Then I agree" just by saying that the ring started to move like a real snake. It started to crawl towards me. It reached my bare leg and crawled up. It was crawling slowly. Its eyes were shining just like Julian's. I couldn't take my eyes off its eyes. It's so hypnotizing.

It reached my red dress and crawled over it. It shook his head from right to left, like it's commanding me to do something. Then I heard it whispered in a singing voice.

"Give yourself to my master, give up to the beauty non has, give up to one of the strongest of them and give up to you're true mate reina"

The last word I didn't recognize. I heard Meredith gasp and knelt in front of a now alive Mia. I felt a sting on my ring finger. I looked at my finger and saw the snake wrapping its self around my finger. It's eyes changed to gold and it stopped moving. I looked up at Julian and saw his eyes were gold. Just like the ring. Then his eyes turned to the torques blue.

I ran towards Mia and hugged her. She kept repeating how sorry she was about Dimitri. I just hugged her not wanting to talk about it. This is just a distraction to get my friends killed. I will talk about that later. I looked at Julian and he was smiling.

"Now let's see if Adrian could survive his nightmare" and suddenly the stairs started to shake and a bowling ball started to fall from the top of the stairs. Meredith and Mia held my hands and started to run down stairs. Suddenly the stairs turned to a bowling floor.

Both of my heels broke and I fell face first. Meredith and Mia tried to get me up, but fell instead. We were sliding face down. It was kind of fun without the part that we could be crushed by the bowling ball. Meredith started to shout.

"WOHOO!" we reached the end of the use to be stairs and found ten pins lined up in front of us. We all screamed. Our screams echoed the place. I closed my eyes when we came closer. I quickly closed my eyes ready for the pain, but when we hit the bowling pins. It felt squishy. It's like we hit a jelly. Then we went through it and got out from the other corner.

We then saw jelly cars speeding around us. I then saw a train. It kept chochoing every 30 seconds. The railway was all around the living room. Then I saw a figure wrapped on the railway. That figure looked like Adrian. The train was chochoing towards a screaming Adrian. We stopped sliding and all of us stood up. I then heard the familiar zzzz.. Sound of the snake. I looked towards the voice and saw the snake crawling towards the golden key.

I looked back at Adrian and then the keys. Which one should I go to first?

Which path would she chose Adrian her first love or the keys that would set her free?

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