Deck of Fate

Chapter 3

Today wasn't anything crazy and I just got more supplies and set up camp in a building facing the screen that told us where to go.

That night I was going to play another game so I needed to be ready, for anything. I hope I won't run into anyone else, that I know, otherwise I might have to lose them too.

But, one thing was for sure, if I stayed alone I would be okay. And I wouldn't have to worry about anyone else if I had to play a game of hearts.

I still hadn't run into other people, so that probably meant they were either hiding together elsewhere, or lurking in the shadows waiting for games like me.

I have been here for 3 days now, and now had 12 days on my visa, if I kept this up, then I could take a break some nights.

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Later that night the screen lit up again and had an arrow pointing to another lit up building a few blocks away, I only took my two knifes and the clothes on my back, not wanting to take my backpack everywhere and risk losing it.

I walked to the building and it was a 7 story apartment building. When I walked in a few people looked up at me, some high school girls, there were two men in a corner.

Shit, they must be in that twisted friendship group the others were in, I had to avoid them just in case. There were a few others including a confused guy in a baseball cap, few older people, and someone who looks like he could be a gangster. Another guy in the hoodie was listening to music.

I have a MP3 and headphones, but I didn't want to take it out until after the game started. I picked up a phone from on the table and another girl came in, we made eye contact and she grabbed a phone. The guy in the cap was asking her questions about where we were, two others came in but I wasn't paying attention until I heard Karube shutting the guy down.

"Karube?" I ask and look, it is him.
"Oh y/n, you're here too? Hey actually you know some medical stuff, can you help he has this burn-"

"That's the first thing you ask? Sorry but I don't know how to deal with burns, cuts or gunshot wounds I'd be happy to help. " I cut him off, the voice over the speaker or wherever it is coming from said that it was going to be a game of tag, and we had to stay away from a tagger. Otherwise a bomb would go off.

"A bomb?" I heard Karube and arisu talking, and then after the robot or whatever was done speaking the gangster guy started talking to them, explaining more about the cards.

I put in an earbud, so I could still hear things around me, then I walked up the stairs to the sixth level. Good floor to start out on, I was listening to (favorite music) and waiting for the game to start. I could hear the high school girls below me arguing and I saw the stretching girl run off. Stretching girl? I got to come up with a better nickname than that.

The hoodie guy was in the corner of the top floor and I saw the two friendship guys walk up there too.
That meant that others were on the lower floors. I was right by the staircase in the corner of the 6th floor, it was either take the stairs or maybe I could jump down floor to floor.

"The tagger is now starting." Great the game is starting.

I am assuming the tagger will start out on the first floor, but I heard an elevator running. The one girl was listening too, I could see her down the hall. It looked like she might have been panicking and she went over the ledge. That was my cue, I walked up the stairs quietly and waited for more noise.

Not even a minute later gunshots echoed throughout the complex, and then I could hear Karube and Arisu yelling, another voice too, probably the gangster looking dude.