Chapter 18: games
[Cry's pov…]
"We have something serious we have to talk to you guys about…" I said…
The room fell silent as all of them looked at me… Felix and Amelia looked at me with worry and curiosity, and Kathrin with complete and utter confusion… really?
"We do?" Kathrin asked… damn she's slow at times…
"Yeah… it's about the party…" I replied…
"Oh… that… a-are you sure?" Kathrin said as she blushed faintly… the look I gave her was supposed to tell her to calm down and that I wouldn't tell them her secret or anything, and by the looks of it she understood it…
"Yeah…" I said calmly before turning back to Felix and Amelia.
"Okay… the thing is… Kathrin and me have talked about it, and we think that the thing Miranda wants is to get a lot of secrets out of everyone…" I said as calm as ever…
Felix and Amelia looked at each other and then back at me…
"What!?" Amelia asked, but it was more like she just said it because she couldn't believe what I had said… why's that? Does she have some sort of secret that none of us knows about?
"We have good reason to believe that those are her intentions…" Kathrin said, answering before I got the chance to do so myself…
"Why do you have such good reasons for believing that?" Felix asked.
"Because it was originally my plan for figuring out… something…" Kathrin answered… that was a close one Kathrin…
"You mean the… oh… but that plan was as good as bulletproof…" Amelia said, and Felix looked confused once again… poor guy… we never tell him anything…
"Yeah… it was..." Kathrin said… she sounds so depressed… I looked at her knowingly and kinda just put my hand on her shoulder… she looked kinda surprised by this, and I guess I can understand that… it's not really like me to take the initiative to do any affectionate actions… and especially not when it comes to physical contact like this… but she seemed really glad that I did though… I think she understood what I intended by it… how much it really meant…
"Thanks Ryan…" Kathrin said with a slightly sad smile…
"Don't worry about it…" I replied, returning her smile with one of my own…
After my attempt at comforting Kathrin I noticed that Felix and Amelia were having some sort of telepathic conversation through their eyes… what? When did this start!? By the looks of it Felix was trying to comfort Amelia… and Amelia was just freaking out… why!? Did they talk about something when we were in my bedroom?
What!?
"Okay…" I said warily as I eyed the two of them suspiciously…
"I'll tell you later" Felix said, or well he didn't actually say it out loud… it was more like he told me with his… WAIT! Felix have powers too!? I'm not the only one… damn…
"So… this means we probably should get to know most of each other's secrets… not the ones we just can't tell right now… but the ones we could use to cover up for the big ones…" I said… it makes sense right?
"Yeah… I think Miranda is going to use various games to make us spill our secrets…" Kathrin then said.
"Yeah that sounds like her alright…" Amelia said angrily… I've never seen any other feelings than happiness and shyness from her… well except in resent situations… it's weird how fast things like this accelerate… it's like you're getting deeper and deeper into their lives…
But you have to be careful who you chose… because when you get into their lives, it's hard to get out…
"Wait, what do you mean by that? It's not like it would matter more if we spill them here…" Felix asked…
"I think you've got the message wrong… I meant that we tell each other what we think we could cover up some of our more… personal secrets with…" I replied… that's a good plan right?
"I still don't quite get it…" Amelia said… really? I think that was pretty understandable…
"Since you suggested this, you'll start it right?" Kathrin asked me, and I could see her devilish smirk… damn she recovers fast…
"Fuck… okay… let's take… Felix and me… our relationship isn't out yet, so we could go slowly forward… like first tell them that we're gay or bisexual or whatever, and then the next time tell them that we're interested in someone… and if we still aren't left off the hook we'll tell them that we're currently dating someone… and that gives us a lot more resistance to actually telling them we're dating…" I said…
"Wow… that's actually pretty smart…" Kathrin said…
"Yeah…" Amelia said and Felix just kinda nodded in agreement… wow, thanks guys…
"Wait, what if it's a question game? Like someone else asks you a question and you have to answer?" Amelia then asked…
"Then we'll 'play against each other', we'll ask the first questions to each other so that we'll be the ones to set the start… that way we avoid starting at for example the question 'are you currently dating someone?' and make it start at 'are you interested in someone?' because then it would take longer for them to ask us if we're dating someone… because people don't often connect those…" I replied… I'm so smart… I haven't had too much time to think this through, and I already came up with such a smart plan…
"Wow… when the fuck did you get the time to think this through?" Kathrin asked… heh…
"I didn't… I'm just a natural genius!" I replied, and I could see Kathrin's expression of admiration turn into an expression that literally said "are you fucking kidding me?" and I just couldn't help laughing…
"But this plan of yours can't really be carried out unless we know each other's secrets…" Felix said…
"Yeah… I know… we still have to tell each other our secrets… I told you that at the start… we don't need to tell the most personal secrets… but we have to give each other something to work with…" I said…
The room got quiet and Frank paid us a visit… haven't heard from him in a while…
But I've got the feeling that he's going to hang around us a lot from now to the party was over…
"Damn it people… why are you so afraid of telling some of your smaller secrets?" I asked even though I knew that it wasn't that easy…
"Well if you think it's so damn easy then you might just as well start it!" Kathrin replied… she's so hot headed… but I guess I am too because I immediately said "Fine!"… that's probably a bad idea… I mean I have one of the biggest secrets here… well at least I think I do…
"Hmm… so how do we actually do this? I mean it's… just…" Amelia started when I didn't say anything for a while… hey don't judge me… I mean I have no idea how to start this…
"I… I have no clue…" I replied honestly…
"We could just tell a lot of things about ourselves?" Felix then suggested… yeah that could work…
"Yeah… okay let's go with that…" I replied… I was silent for a while as I tried figuring out what to say…
"Umm… I guess… there's really not too many secrets to tell you… I think the whole dating Felix is kinda it…" I replied, and I could see Kathrin looking with me with a raised eyebrow… "Oh fuck you… not like I can tell that one…" I tried telling her with my powers… and seeing as she just rolled her eyes, it worked… I must say, having these powers is awesome…
"Then how about the whole shutting people out of your life at some point thing?" Amelia asked… well fuck…
"That's… kinda… hey guys this isn't going to work… let's just do it another way… we can't just sit here like this… that's just way to awkward… and no-one will feel too well with this…" I said…
"Okay, but how should we do this then Mr. Natural talent?" Kathrin asked… sometimes she just pisses me off…
"Well we have to make it into a game or something… that'll make it feel more real too… like Miranda would make it…" I replied…
"Yeah that's a good solution, but how do we do that? Why did Miranda have to do this!? Fuck… what do we do about this!? Why do we have to tell these secrets anyway?" Kathrin asked, and I couldn't help but agree to that… but there was one thing about it…
"Hey, telling each other some of our secrets will only put us closer… but then again this is kinda forced… that's why we need to play some sort of game… that way we could just relax and take everything nice and slow…" I replied… and the whole room got quiet again…
"So… truth or dare anyone?"
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I wasn't too sure about this chapter... I mean all I've done in it was just... nothing...
and that's kinda why I made the next one right away...