pokerface. chishiya shuntaro

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"IS THIS for real?" A man scoffed as I put my hands in my pockets turning my attention to two other guys.

"Hey, man. Would you mind telling me what my symbol is? And then I can tell you yours." He said and the other guy agreed happily until the guy whose name I learned was Yaba spoke.

"So, the 20 of us need to eliminate each other until we somehow figure out who the Jack of Hearts is. What makes you think that anyone is trustworthy?" He said and I thought.

Chishiya can't be the jack of hearts since we both came in together, I would have heard or seen something right?

I paid not much attention drowning in my own thoughts until a woman in a blue dress spoke with excitement.

"I have an idea. How about we get together and make teams to tell each other? So that way, nobody can lie." She smiled and I scrunched my eyebrows.

"Good idea. Um, would you mind if I joined up with you?" A woman behind her asked and more followed "Me too?" "Excuse me. I'd like to join as well." A guy that looked like he would be in everyone's dreams said.

"Sure! The more the merrier!" She laughed "Can I join too, please?" 

"There's something off about her." I mumbled and Chishiya looked at me and smirked.

"Hey, wanna tell each other the answer?" A guy in a cute overall turned to us "If you're trying to survive, I would examine all the people here a little more carefully. Make sure you keep the ones who don't lie close. For all you know, one of us might be the Jack.." Chishiya explained to him as I lightly slapped his arm.

"Of course-" "You see, they all started breaking off into groups. Everyone wants to know who's trustworthy and who's not. Take those two." He interrupted and pointed at the people who were having sex at the start of the game.

'Oh hell no.'

"Before the game started, you wanna know what they were doing?" Chishiya said and I looked disgusted at him "Why are you dying to tell people, don't remind me!" I exclaimed as he looked amused.

"That guy wants to control everything she does to exert power over her so that she can't interact with any of the other players. Which is smart, in the long run. If you've got someone you can trust that much, that's how you can win the game." Chishiya explained eyeing me slightly making me think about things.

Appropriate things.

I listened to a conversation happening downstairs.

"That kind of childishness makes you painfully transparent. You're ashamed of the darkness inside you, which makes you petty and jealous. You try to keep yourself safe behind those bangs. You hide your face so that people won't see your ugly, empty soul. You're a pathetic excuse of a human being who judges others to feel better. Pathetic and small. But that's what I like about you. We should be friends." 

'What a great way to make friends..'

"Hey, do you wanna join our team? No pressure or anything." The woman in the blue dress asked what it looked like the guy in the overall "It's not that I don't want to." He said looking back at us and I smiled lightly.

"Okay, we'll join the group!" Chishiya answered for all of us.

I was in the cafeteria eating some crackers with a drink I took from the shelves "I see you're getting comfortable here.." Chishiya said sitting beside me as he placed a packet of biscuits down.