I woke up suddenly and browsed the room quickly with my eyes, I could see nothing, I could hear the loudness of my own shaky breath, I felt the floor, it was tiles, the room was cold. This was familiar to me. I was definitely not in the hotel room anymore but I realized I couldn't just hear my breath, I could hear someone else's as well.
"H-Hello?" I said, staying completely still.
"Shaun? I-Is that you" Andy said, I smiled in relief. He was okay.
"Y-Yeah it's me, where are you?" I asked, crawling carefully across to where I heard his voice.
"I don't know Shaun I really can't see right now." Andy said in a sarcastic tone, I felt someone's warm hand as I crawled.
"ah! Something's got me" Andy said, thank fuck it's Andy's.
"it's me Andy, it's okay"
"thank god" I felt him hug me, I smiled in the darkness and hugged him back, something in the room lit up, I squinted my eyes and looked over to the light, it was a TV, the dark clown popped up again. No, fuck.
"Hello Shaun and Andy, want to play a game? But this game is different, and I'm sure you're well aware of this by now" the dark voice began, I stared at it, my breathing heavy.
"WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM US NOW!?" Andy screamed at it, I looked at him, this is one of his fears, he hated being in the game last time, he was shaking in my loosely wrapped around him arms, I saw a glimmer in his eyes.
"Look to your left, you'll find a tub of acid" I closed my eyes remembering Brooke's screams from when she put her hand in the jar.
"you have 3 minutes to pull out one of the five keys from the jar of acid, only one of them works in the sliding door on your right, if you do not complete in time, the walls will slowly close in on themselves and squish you to death, you have three minutes, your time starts now. The TV turned off as the rooms lights lit up, I saw the red timer pop up on the wall '3:00, 2:59, 2:58' I heard the walls move, I pulled away from Andy and went to the glass tub of acid.
"Andy, I'll grab each key and give them to you to open the door okay?" I said to him, looking in the jar.
"but Shaun, w-what if you don't make it by the time-"
"just LISTEN to me okay, it'll work, just stay there, I'm not letting you die Andy, that's the end of it" I said, I heard him sigh and walk over to the door, I looked at the timer '2:10, 2:09, 2:08' I swallowed the lump in my throat and looked at the acid, putting my shaky hand toward it slowly.
"come on Shaun…" I heard Andy whisper. I clenched my eyes shut and bit my lip, making a slight whimper noise as I reached my hand inside the tub, it was burning my hand, I looked at the tub with my teary pain filled eyes, my blood started to mix in with the acid, grabbing a key, I pulled my hand out and threw it to Andy.
"Tell me if it works!" I screeched as I put my hand back in, grabbing another key, a tear escaped, making its way down my cheek.
"nope!" Andy said, slightly worried, I threw him the next key and shoved my hand in and grabbed another key quickly. The pain was excruciating.
"not the one SHAUN!" Andy almost screamed, I looked at him and threw him that one, I groaned and bit my lip as my hand was becoming numb with its burning sensation. I looked up at the time '1:00, 0:59, 0:58' I felt myself panic, I put my hand in and tried to grab and pull out the other two keys.
"SHAUN, I GOT IT, I GOT IT!" Andy screamed to me, I smiled in relief and got up, running my way across the now narrow room, Andy slid the door open and we both ran through. I looked back and watched the walls close together, I'm so lucky to be alive right now.
"that was so close" I said, my breathing uneasy.
"yeah, it was…oh god Shaun! Your hand…" Andy said, lifting up my arm, I looked at my hand, skin was peeled off it, I was bleeding a lot. I just stared at it. I couldn't believe that it's my hand. Brooke's hand once looked like this. Andy ripped apart of his flannelette shirt off and started wrapping it around my hand, I bit my lip and inhaled sharply, I couldn't bare the pain.
"you didn't have to do that" I said to Andy, he loved that flanno.
"I don't care, your health matters to me" I looked at Andy's face properly, there was a tear escaping it.
"Andy, why are you crying?" I looked at him worriedly and wiped the tear away with my good hand.
"I-I just can't lose you okay? You're all I got, now come on" Andy started walking down the hall, I followed behind, I was starting to get used to my crippled hand, didn't sting so bad.