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3: Acid Rain ☔

I groaned and sat up. The sky was covered in dark clouds. I frowned and looked around to find myself in the middle of the street.

"Arghh!!" I groaned and extended my hand around to reach for my glasses. Thankfully, I was able to see without them but still I need my smart glasses to have clear vision and it is connected to my phone too.

I put on my glasses and saw 6 other girls next to me. "Where are we?" One of them asked and I rubbed my face in panic.

“Welcome to our welcoming game arena, all of you are selected for the first round.”

The mechanical voice spoke. But we were in the middle of the road. Where is the speaker?

I blinked and looked at the other girls in fear. They were already standing so I stood up as well, slowly.

“There is a telephone booth around you. There will be concentrated sulphuric acid being poured over you in 3...”

My eyes widened and I ran towards one of the booths but someone pushed me and I fell to the ground.

“2”

I looked up to see three girls already entered the booth. The door closed and locked automatically. My eyes watered and the others started crying but then my eyes landed on the umbrella beside the booth.

“1”

I lunged over the umbrella before grabbing and opening it. Everything happened in slow motion, because as soon as I opened the umbrella the rain started pouring.

"AHHHHH!!" I heard screams from the girls. I turned around to see a horrific scene in front of me. The drops of acid poured down over the three other girls.
 
I gasped seeing the craters immediately forming in their skin. Their skin was turning black. I whimpered, my breath shortening at the sight.

I turned around but then I heard the telephone ringing inside the booth. I blinked at it but the girls were too busy crying inside the booth.

Well, I was crying too but I looked up to see the acid destroying my umbrella too. My eyes widened but then I saw something written on the inside of the umbrella over my head.

"Pawn shop." I muttered and turned around everywhere until my eyes fell upon a pawn shop having the same logo as that on my umbrella.

I saw a big poster in front of the huge glass window of the shop.

SHOW HER THAT YOU LOVE HER,
GIFT HER A RING
💍💍💍

"Three rings . . ." I mumbled and thought but then realised something. I looked over to the girls at the telephone booth. "Hey! Listen! We need to stop this rain!"

I screamed and they looked at me with big eyes. "Pick up the phone and put it back down!" I screamed at the top of my lungs, my hands clutching the umbrella handle tightly.

"What?" A girl spoke in confusion. "Pick up the phone and put it back down!" I screamed again but this time making sure every word of mine is clear.

One of them nodded. She picked up the hand of the telephone and the ringing stopped. She put it back. "Now pick it up after 3 rings!! Exactly three rings!" I screamed again and they nodded.

Why was there a telephone booth in the first place? We haven't seen telephones for a long time. Is this a virtual reality game?

I looked at the burnt bodies of the girls beside me. Then why did they die? Is this a part of my illusion? My thoughts were cut off when the telephone started ringing again.

RING RING!

"One," I mumbled holding the umbrella and shrinking my hands inwards because the end of the umbrella was withering away.

RING RING

"Two," I mumbled again. The two other girls looked at me and I was staring back at them intently.

RING RI-

The girl picked up and I heard a door unlock. I turned around to see the door of a cab open. "The door opened!" One of the girls screamed.

I quickly ran towards it with the umbrella and sat inside. But as soon as I got inside, the rain stopped.

The door of the telephone booth opened and the girls got out. I threw the umbrella on the ground.

The girls were approaching my car but suddenly the door of the car shut by itself. I banged on the door from inside and they banged it from the outside.

“Acid Rain will start pouring again in 3, 2 . . . ”

They panicked and turned around to run back towards the phone booth but the door of the booth shut closed by itself, leaving them outside on the road.

I tried kicking the door to open but it was of no use.

“1!”

The acid showered again and the girls screamed outside. I covered my ears and pulled my legs up to my chest to hug them.

The car started moving by itself but I was too traumatised by their screams outside. The automated car was driving by itself when a mechanical voice spoke.

“Congratulations! You have cleared the first round. The next round will begin tomorrow morning. Till then we will take you back to your home. Good night!”