Chapter 17: The Game
(note: this chapter references John Wick ch 4. If u haven't seen John Wick ch 4 yet, u have been warned)
"Ok," said the dealer. "Who's up first?" We had a huge discussion and came up with the order we were gonna go by.
"Alright," I said. "Boob will go first. The second will be Horn. The third will be Potion and as I said before, I'll go last."
"Great," said the dealer. He started shuffling the deck. "Please come sit down Boob. Game one of four is about to start. Though you all are probably wondering what my name is right? Well, I'll tell you. My name is Deckr."
"That makes a lot of sense," said Potion.
"Not bad for a name," Horn agreed.
"Alright," said Deckr. "Here are the rules. The game for each of you is five card poker. You will each get a chance to beat me but you only have one hand. This means that you only have one chance. May the cards be in your favor."
"Let the game begin," said Boob. So the game between Boob and Deckr began. I had a feeling Deckr was going to cheat as he works for 6. This was why I wanted to go last. I looked very carefully to how Deckr was playing. Boob had a straight in his hand.
"Wow a straight," whispered Potion. "You could win this."
"I might," Boob whispered back. "Alright! I'm in. Call the cards." Deckr flipped the cards over to show nothing in Boob's favor but he as feeling confident.
"Reveal," said Deckr. Boob reveled first to show a straight. "Not bad but it seems I have beat you." He revealed to show a flush with the five cards on the table. Boob was in shock as the rest of us were too but I still had my theories. It was now Horn's turn to go with me looking at the playing style of Deckr again.
(readers note: have you spotted the twist yet?)
Game two had begun. Horn had a two of a kind. The three cards revealed so far made Horn have a three of a kind. "I'm in," said Horn. Deckr took this as a call to reveal the other two cards. Just like Boob, they didn't favor Horn.
"Reveal," said Deckr. Horn revealed to show they had a three of a kind. "Sucks again guys. This game belongs to me." He revealed to show a straight.
"No way," said Horn. My suspensions were starting to become more clear. "
Could he be cheating," I thought to myself.
"Looks like I'm up," said Potion as she sat in the chair in front of Deckr. "Let game three begin." So the game began. The speed of it was much faster. It was over just like that. I didn't have enough time to analyze Deckr's playing style. Potion revealed a two of a kind while Deckr had a full house.
"One last chance guys," said Deckr. "Give me what you got." He pointed to me.
"Alright," I replied. "Let's do this. By the way, I'm a detective. So you might want to play fair." This gave Deckr a shot of shock.
"I'm not cheating," replied Deckr with some tension in his words.
"Your tone of words says otherwise," I replied. Deckr started the game. "Let's see. I final game begins now." I picked up my cards to see I had a three 3s, a 4 and a 6.
"come on detective," said Boob. "You can win this."
"We believe in you," Potion agreed. The first three cards were revealed. They were all aces.
"Looks like someone might me lucky," said Deckr.
"Yeah," I replied. "It won't be you."
"We'll see about that," said Deckr revealing the nest card. It was a 2. It was now time for the final card. It was a 4. I had a three of a kind as well as a two of a kind. I could win this but with my inspection, Deckr might win. "Reveal." I revealed first to show my cards. "Not your luck. Looks like you all will not get that key." He revealed to show three aces.
"I knew it," I said. "You little dirty cheater." The other three in the group gave a smile. "Give us the key or I call the cops." I revealed my phone with the cops shown.
"Alright, alright, alright," said Deckr. He gave us the key.
"Thank you," I said. "Come on guys, we have some investigating to do."
"Right way," the other three agreed as we went right through the door.
Deckr may have cheated but that didn't stop our detectives. Will find Crystal behind this door? Will we find anything else? Does 6 know about this? Find out in the next chapter
TO BE CONTINUED
