Emily glides the door open and walks out leaving Luis standing there confused as ever. She walked slowly as her bangs floated up and down hitting her left eye. She was smiling, yet in her eye was a hint of fear and sadness.
She took her cell phone out of her pocket and pressed a speed dial. After three seconds of silence, she spoke. "The game has officially started." There was a reply on the other end, Emily simply stared ahead, smiled weakly, and shut the phone.
She was wearing a black jacket covering a black and white stripped shirt. Wearing tight jeans and "hooker" boots that clicked every time she took a step. She also wore a headband the color of blood, the pattern plaid-like.
She walked up to door, and stood there. "Oh god," she sighed.
Waking up…cold floor, cold air, nothing but a bare room. She lifted her head as she looked around. In front of her laid a tape player. She looked at it questionably, and slowly reached for it. Picking it up she reached for play.
A fuzzy introduction played, "Hello Sophia, I want to play a game. You have spent the past making a friend of yours feel guilty on the inside. Making her feel vulnerable and ugly. Well now here you are today to understand that words are not everything. Today you are going to eat your own words.:" a short pause. "You are in a closed room, except for the glass window in front of you. You have exactly one hour to try and escape…"
Sophia scoffed, "This'll be a piece of cake. What the hell…" she looked around the floor, "where's the key?"
"…now here's the catch, every second and minute the clock will be counting down. The walls around you will be closing in, and you have one hour to escape before you are squished to death. As for the key, notice there is no key in front of you, but instead there is a scalpel. You see, the key is no where to be found visibly…but it is here. On your left wrist there is a scar. A scar where the key is placed. A scar you'll have to cut through again to get the key." A long pause. "The key is inside your flesh, how far will you cut just to live to see another day? Live or die, make your choice."
Sophia slowly glared down to her left wrist. Sure enough there was a scar there, she let out a yelp. She then took her focus off her wrist and to the scalpel. She slowly reached out for it, with her hands trembling.
Suddenly on the other side of the glass wall a door opened and Emily walked in, she approached the glass wall and shook her head.
"Emily…" Sophia panted, "Help me! Help me!" she screamed.
"I'm afraid I cannot do that Sophia. There are rules…" she slowly paced back and forth. "They say be careful what you wish for." She smiled, "Because you don't always get what you wished."
Sophia stared at Emily puzzled, "Emily…you?"
"Like I said Sophia, there are rules. Rules you have to follow." Emily stood there thinking for a moment, "Live or die, make your choice. The clock is ticking." Emily turned and started walking for the door.
"Wait! No, please don't leave me! NO!" Sophia screamed, but Emily left shutting the door behind her. "Oh god, oh god."
Suddenly the walls shifted and they grinded against the floor as they were slowly moving inwards.
Sophia jumped and panicked. Looking at her wrist she looked back up to the walls, the grinding against the floor got louder. She reached for the scalpel and held it close to her wrist. She sniffled quietly.
"Oh god, I don't want to do this!" She felt the sound from the floor pound in her head. She held her head tightly and started to sob. "HELP! SOMEONE HELP ME!" she screamed.
Luis slowly walks up to the television screens. He looks at the first one and sees a girl screaming and observed the walls around her closing in.
"Holy shit." he whispered. "This is a fucking game? What the fuck?"
He looked away from the first screen and slowly looked at the others. He couldn't tell what was happening to the others because they were all in the dark. When he reached the last one, something about the last one caught his eye. There was a sliver of light and he could see someone, a man. Luis's eye's widen as he stared closer.
"It can't be." he stated.
Emily paced back to the main room as she had a serious look on her face.
"The first game has begun." She said out loud to herself. "And now there's no going back." She continued to walk.
She suddenly had a flashback to when they first met. She kept walking as her head sank low. She started to sniffle at the memory she had. She then raised her head and cleared her voice.
"You can't do this Emily, stay strong." She sighed and continued to walk.
She reached the door and slid it open. When she walked through she saw Luis staring the television screens.
"Hey! Get away from there!" she shouted.
"Oh, sorry!" Luis shot back. "I just wanted to look…I'm sorry." He pointed to the first screen, "What's going on with her? Why is she in that room? Why are the walls moving in on her?"
Emily sighed heavily, "God shut up…" she walked towards him. "Stop worrying about her, she has no use to you." She paused in front of him, "I told you that you'd understand in time, okay?" She placed a hand on him.
"Get the fuck off me you crazy bitch." Luis jolted away from Emily and paced to the wall about 5 feet away from Emily.
Emily rolled her eyes, "Whatever, you'll get it soon." She looked up to the clock, 6:45:04. "Time's almost up Sophia…better hurry up."
"Sounds like you're trying to encourage her, not let her down." Luis said quietly, but loud enough to still hear.
Emily shot a look at him, "Shut the hell up, you don't know anything." She got up from her chair. "This is my game, and I'm running it my way. So shut the fuck up and say NOTHING." She started to walk towards him but backed away as she felt she shouldn't be wasting her time on him. She laughed and sat back down in her chair. Then brought her focus on Sophia's screen, looks like she was having on hell of a time.
Sophia slashed around the room screaming and yelling for help. But couldn't cut herself, she was to petrified to. She screamed again and again, attempting to cross the blade across her flesh.
"COME BACK HERE YOU BITCH!" Sophia yelled, "HOW DARE YOU FUCKING DO THIS TO ME! FUCK YOU!" she screamed then wiped a tear from her cheek.
She collapsed to the floor and sobbed again. She looked at the scar on her wrist again and covered it trying to forget about it. But the grinding on the concrete gave her not just a headache but a remembrance of why she was there.
Time was flying by, a clock outside of the window wall showed 6:25:28. And it continued to countdown. Sophia wiped her eyes and stood up again. She attempted again to cut herself, but still couldn't do it.
"Why me? Why of all the people did she have to pick me?" Sophia sobbed a little more, as the clock still counted down.
The walls were now only 5 feet from where Sophia sat. She was panicking and hyperventilating.
"Oh god, I can't do this." She gasped, "I'm going to die." She continued to sob.
Emily glared at Sophia's screen with humor. She looked over at Luis to see him staring down at the floor. She focused back to the television screen.
"She wont do it," Emily said to herself. "I know she wont, just give up." Emily shifted to the left and looked at Luis, "Well, how you holding up there champ?" she let out a chuckle.
Luis looked up with a disgusted look on his face, "What's it to you…bitch?"
Emily got a questionable look on her face, "Oh gee, you think your mom would be happy if she heard you talking like that to a girl?"
"I don't give a fuck right now, all I know is that I'm stuck with a fucking psycho." He groaned from what he had said, kind of wishing he wouldn't have said it.
"Ha, it's okay…I get that a lot, shocking? Naw." She looked back to the screen.
"How do you even gather the strength to do this?" Luis questioned.
Emily looked back to him and then started down to the floor.
Two hours ago Emily stood in the room Sophia is in now, She was dragging Sophia into the room and lying her down. She slowly put Sophia in the position she wanted her to wake up in.
She looked around, "I never thought I'd be helping a serial killer play his game."
Emily stared back down at Sophia and sighed. Then took a black bag from her side pocket and pulled out the tape player and set it down. She then carefully removed a scalpel and set it down next to the tape player.
She then headed out of the room, closing the glass wall and locking it. She knocked on it and turned away. As she approached the door she looked back at the unconscious Sophia and gave a long exaggerated sigh; and left shutting the door behind her.
Sophia screamed at the top of her lungs, as she attempts multiple times to cut, but still retracts and sobs at the clock. It now showed 06:10:52. She panicked now, it's down to the last ten minutes and she's spent most of her time sobbing and screaming.
"I have to do this!" She attempted but failed once again, now sighing. "I want to do it, but I can't!."
The walls were now only inches away from her. She stood up feeling the air tighten, her lungs felt empty, and she started to breath heavily. She looked out the glass window and sobbed.
"This is my last moment," she sniffled. "This is where it ends? It can't!"
She looked down at her wrist, as she slashed her wrist once. Screaming out over and over again as tears rolled down her face. She repeated the cycle sobbing now. She looked at the clock, 06:05:06.
She looked down at her wrist, she barely cut through. She sobbed as she raised the scalpel and slashed her skin over and over as more blood gushed. She was screaming now, crying her eyes out. She kept cutting as time seemed to go by faster. She continued but stopped for a second to look at the clock, 06:01:45.
She continued to slash her wrist, until finally she saw a key. She went in to grab the key and shriek with pain as it was sore. She retrieved the key. Walking towards the glass window having almost no space to move she slowly walked to the ending. Trying to get the key into the keyhole, she struggled. She cursed and screamed. She looked at the clock, 06:01:02.
"NO!" she screamed.
The clock flashed 06:00:00. On the screen Emily watch the walls slam shut, squishing Sophia to death, blood poured from underneath the glass wall.
Emily laid back as a small tear feel down her face, "Game over…Sophia." she said holding back emotions.
Luis looked at her and observed her actions. "So…who's next."
Emily looked at him with a smile upon her face. "You're about to find out."
The first screen went black, and the second one lit up.
"One down, four to go…"