Traitor

Day 1 (4:13 a.m.)

Jacob's POV

My eyes widened as we all looked at each other, now unable to trust one another with this new revelation.

"Which one of you bastards killed my friends?!" I shouted, springing to my feet.

Eliza held up her hands in surrender as Aiden sat down with an eyeroll, Kiara started to pace, Amya and Sophia looked at each other.

"Hold on! We don't want to make any accusations! Remember who the real enemy is: the kidnapper." Eliza held her hands out in front of her as if she was stopping a fight. "Whoever the Traitor is probably gets a reward of some sort if the kidnapper wins. Like they get to leave unharmed."

Amya narrowed her eyes as she glared at Eliza. "That was pretty suspicious of you to say, Ms. President. How do we know that it's not you trying to save your own skin?"

"Guys, please don't fight!" Sophia cried, and everyone turned to her besides Aiden and Kiara. "If we work together we can all escape with our lives! Don't forget about the super powers! That would make it easier for us to win! So please don't fight!"

Eliza held her hands behind her back while Amya crossed her arms.

Everyone was silent for a second until Aiden shot to his feet.

"Kiara you got anything, I'm empty?" He asked, and we all turned to Kiara who was still pacing.

"It's coming together." Kiara mumbled and I threw my hands in the air.

"What's coming together?! What are you talking about?!" I shouted, and Aiden slapped a hand over my mouth.

"Don't interrupt the process!" He hissed. "Unlike you, Kiara and I started to think of a plan that could get us out of here. But I'm too biased so any plan I make ends with you dead or being the Traitor."

I swallowed and stepped away from his clammy but cold hand.

Kiara slapped herself in the face and we all whipped our heads around to look at her.

She was silent and still for a second until her eyes widened. "I've got it!"

Kiara sat down and we all followed in her movements.

"Okay. So first step is too drink the power juice."

"Power juice?" Eliza cocked her head.

"Whatever it's called!" Kiara exclaimed. "Anyways, we drink the power juice. Step two, we see if the powers really work and then use them to get the hell out. To fulfill step two we'll have to explore the house and find a weak point to target it."

We all nodded along.

"Genius! Completely unbiased!" Aiden clapped his hands before holding a hand out to me to shake. "So no hard feelings if anyone dies, alright?"

I slapped his hand away with a huff and turned away.

"What an ass."

Amya raised her hand. "Right. So um, how are we supposed to be sure that this isn't poison that we're drinking?"

Kiara sat back down, tapping her chin.

Then Sophia stood up. "I'll test it. I'm least useful among all of us here, so if I die then it's poison. If I live, then I'll see if I can teleport."

"No! There has to be a better way to tell!" Eliza stepped forward as Amya picked up her glass and sniffed it.

Sophia looked at Amya warily. "What other option is there?"

"I think I can sniff it out." Aiden picked up his glass. "I've had my share of interaction with poisons."

"Dude you're so scary!" I stepped away from Aiden. "I bet you anything he's the Traitor! He's so calm and sure of himself!"

Aiden rolled his eyes as he said nothing and dipped the tip of his tongue into the drink.

"What are you doing?!" Sophia cried as Aiden let the drink sit on his tongue before swallowing.

Everyone went silent as they waited for Aiden to drop dead. At least that's what I was waiting for.

Aiden shrugged. "It's fine."

Aiden blinked quickly as he stumbled back a bit. "Woah."

Kiara stepped closer to Aiden, carefully watching his reaction with worry.

"Aiden are you sure that wasn't poison?" Kiara asked carefully and Aiden nodded, rubbing his chest.

"Yeah. It just felt kind of electric when it settled." He replied, and we all looked at each other.

Kiara picked up her drink next with an excited expression. "Bottoms up, I guess!"

"Wait!" Eliza exclaimed, but it was too late. Kiara chugged the entire glass.

"Me next!" Amya drank all that was in her glass as quickly as Kiara had and Sophia cringed.

"Guys, be careful!" Sophia cried. "It could be more dangerous if we take it in large doses!"

Benjamin shrugged. "Oh well. Might as well join the chaos."

Benjamin dumped the drink down his throat and Eliza looked like she was about to faint.

"I will too, I guess." I decided, slightly enjoying the look of terror or Eliza and Sophia's faces.

The drink had an orange flavor and it felt very fizzy as it slowly worked down my throat.

"SCREW IT!" Eliza screamed and she downed the entire glass in one gulp.

"You guys, be careful!" Sophia cried, tears filling her eyes.

Everyone went silent as Aiden slowly finished off his drink with a bored face.

Suddenly, Kiara dropped to her knees.

Sophia instantly ran over to her and gripped her shoulders.

"Um, are you okay?" She whisperd quietly.

Kiara's eyes rolled to the back of her head and her jaw propped open, foam billowing out of her mouth, blood mixed with the white substance.

Sophia screamed and Eliza started punching herself in the stomach, most likely tying to get herself to throw up.

Aiden shrugged. "I wanted to die anyway."

I turned to him while Benjamin started trying to get Eliza to stop.

"There is something severely wrong with you." I stated and Aiden threw up peace signs.

"I hate him so much."

Abruptly, Kiara stopped moving and everyone in the room went silent.

Kiara's eyes went back to normal, tears filling them, but not falling.

An ear splitting scream made all of us cover our ears as it rang on and on. It was coming from Kiara.

Then she dropped to the ground, twitching every now and then.

We all looked at each other before screaming and running around the living room, not knowing what to do.

Suddenly, Aiden collapsed and then his eyes rolled to the back of his head, foamy blood coming out of his mouth as well.

We all screamed as Sophia started trying to stop the foam, her hands being covering in the substance.

A migraine suddenly invaded my head and I lost feeling in my legs, collapsing on the ground.

I could soon see everyone around me but Sophia dropping to the ground until my eyes started to roll back and I no longer was conscious.

Pain overtook my body and I wanted to tear my skin off. My brain felt all muddled and I couldn't think at all. My muscles felt like they were going to explode.

Then everything went from red to black.

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Thank you very much for reading! So uh. Was it poison? Or was that just the power juice doing it's thing?

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