"What kind of a stupid name is Alejandro the 56th anyway?" Rida blabbered yet another question to the guard who groaned and looked up to the sky as if wishing it swallowed him whole.
"It is the kings name, utter it with respect!" He yelled straightening back up. They had been walking for god knows how long and in between Rida got bored so she decided to ask the guard questions. "Do you mind not yelling?" Rida said tutting.
Rayyana had to agree with that one, she was getting a headache from Rida's questions and the guards shouting. "He wouldn't be yelling if you would just stop asking questions!" Fatima said for what seemed to be the 30th time in the same hour. Rida just shrugged at Fatima and then leaned into whisper "I'm trying to get him to crack, maybe he will let us go if we keep on talking!"
Fatima's eyes widened and she nodded eagerly "Wait you're right!" Fatima turned around to talk to the guard but he instantly said "STOP." The girls all stopped and looked up at the humongous palace. How had they not seen it?
But what else caught their eye wasn't just the huge palace, but what it was made of. Rayyana glanced at the material and gasped yearning to reach out and touch it. "Is that..."
"gold?" Marium finished for her. The guard held an amused smirk as he also looked at the palace as if seeing it for the first time. "Alejandro the 56th is very rich as you can see." Rich couldn't begin to describe Alejandro really. "Damn I could eat this gold." Marium said out of nowhere.
Marium heard a soft chuckle and turned to the guard who was staring at her "I said the same thing when the Palace was made." Marium blushed and nodded looking away, a hint of a smile on her face. Rayyana gave her a sly smirk and inched forward "that's twice you've blushed now."
Marium gave her a sharp look and answered with a kick to her knee. "Ow!" Rayyana cowled and backed away from Marium remembering to tease her more
later.The guard side stepped the girls to knock on the big double doors that looked like it reached the sky from the angle the girls were standing at. The doors opened with a squeak, quite slow. Marium yawned and said "How much longer?" The guard shushed her and turned back to the doors that were still opening. "the nerve." Marium muttered.
5 minutes later, the doors were finally open and without any warning the girls barrelled inside desperate to sit and also to see what the inside looked like. They all stopped at the main foyer taking in everything made of gold. And everything was made of gold. To the high ceiling all the way to the rats.
"Uh well this is....tacky." Fatima said slowly looking back at the guard. "I get that Alejandro or whatever likes gold, but isn't this too much?" The girls nodded along with Fatima's words, gold was good but this way way too much. The guard rolled his eyes "Gold is never too much. By chance are you all poor?" Everyone gasped at the accusation, yes they were poor but the guard did NOT have to say that.
"Well if everything is made of gold...do you think his dick is also made of gold?" Everyone besides Fatimas turned to Rida "Why is that the first thing you think of?" Rayyana asked genuinly worried. Fatima shrugged "It's a good question."
The guard shook his head "hmph it seems you're the first batch who won't survive Alejandro." What? What did he mean by that? Before anyone of them could ask him another question, the guard led them to yet another set of big doors. Not as big as the main ones, but big. "You are about to meet Alejandro the 56th, you must not speak unless he says so, you must not breath, sneeze, fart, whatever."
"Oh well in that case, let me practice holding my breath." Rida said with fake amusement. But Fatima sucked in a deep breath and tried holding her breath..she lasted less then a minute. "Yeah it seems we have a problem." She said while wheezing. "Did you just say fart?" Marium asked with genuine amusement.
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The Sleepover
Mystery / Thriller4 friends 1 night 1 haunted house 1 button Can they make it out alive?