x-clownsdontbounce-x thank you so much for your support darling :-) your reviews are very much apperciated

jhenybadefan I will :-) thanks for the support

Venus Beauty I agree lol, but I sympathize with him and he won't be the villian here (much at least lol)

12:27 in the Game show

"What's going on?" screamed Jade.

"For our second episode of Brain Squeezers, our favorite team is back with a new twist. Teams will be divided into couples. Cat Valentine and Robbie Shapiro, Trina Vega and Andre Harris, Tori (Aka Tori all the time) Vega and Sinjin Van Cleef, Jade West and Beck Oliver. I will ask a question, answer correctly, get a hundred points, answer wrong, get doinked" their host said beaming.

"Are you crazy?" asked Andre.

The buzzer sounded

Andre started screaming, as he jumped up and down, the floor underneath him was burning up, heating the soles of his feet, that remained for 11 seconds, before it started cooling down.

"Rule # 1. No talking is allowed unless it was to answer a question"

12:28 AM in the gameshow

Beck Oliver never got scared, so why did his heart feel like it was trying to breakthrough his ribcage? Why was the sensation in his legs gone? How come his head felt like it was on fire?

Next to him, stood his girlfriend, looking determined- yet slightly afraid; her face contracted into a scowl, daring anyone to doink them.

"Question number one: Beck, what ice cream flavor did you find the letter 'S' for the Ke$ha private concert contest?"

Beck looked around to find his looks of panic on his friends' faces, how did the games host know they were trying to win a private concert for Ke$ha? How did he know they had trouble finding the $?

"Uh-um, chunky nut blast" he said unsure.

"Wrong" the buzzer sounded again, and Beck felt his stomach drop "that's a doink"

He closed his eyes, waiting for the pain to come, but none came. He heard his friends gasp in horror and guessed the pain was reluctant to come, he knew that the body natural pain killers that don't allow us to feel anything until hours later. But the sound of Jade's struggle for breath, forced him to open his eyes.

Jade was hanging by the neck with a rope, her fingers trying to tear it off her neck as he legs flailed about madly. Her eyes were glassy and unfocused, as her mouth opened and shut rapidly and her face turned a sickening bluish color.

That's probably what Sikowitz had meant about experiencing true terror, he could only look at the situation from afar, eyes unwilling to blink. Even though his limps felt icy cold and numb, his brain and heart were about to burst into flames, words seized to come out, but he was screaming too loudly in his own head.

Let her go.

After a few agonizing seconds, Jade was let down, the ropes loosening around her neck; she coughed loudly, taking in the gulps of air gratefully.

He was the one who got the question wrong, why were they doinking Jade then? Then it hit him, no pain they could have inflicted on him would be as excruciating as watching Jade suffer. This wasn't just a game show, these people knew what they were doing, they knew everything about the gang. Obviously they had a bone to pick with them, and there was no way to find out what it was, because any word spoken would result in yet another doink.

Beck looked over to Jade, she seemed fine- as fine as she could get at least, he tried reaching over to touch her, but the handcuffs stopped his hands.

Their eyes met, his warm brown ones met her mysterious green eyes; usually his eyes would offer her stability and composure, but now they had a glint of insanity and trepidation in them. Jade's eyes had lost their flare slightly, but maybe that's from the near death experience.

One thing was for sure, they were going to die.