A Land of Tales and Dreams

Murderous Mystery

Week 98

Prompt:

You are told that you are about to enter a room with one person that wants to kill you, and two people who would do anything to save your life. Inside, you find your two best friends and your crush.

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Oh no, you think as you push the door open and slip inside silently. With a slight crack in your voice you ask shakily, "Ok, which one of you wants to kill me?"

Your crush raises their hand and says, "That would be me," with a smirk on their face.

Before you could reply and ask your crush what warranted this betrayal, your friend pipes up and says, "Oh my god, please tell me you two are planning to have an enemies-to-lovers romance trope where you have knives to each other's throats while staring at each other with attraction and hate in your eyes because that would be amazing!"

"That wouldn't be amazing," replied the fourth person in the room while glaring at your friend. You look over to the fourth voice as you hand's seen another person standing in the room earlier: it was your mentor.

"The guy's about to kill me! And you're trying to tell me that that's your biggest concern right now?" You scoff in disbelief and cross your arms in front of your chest.

"He never actually said he was going to kill you, just that he wants to," your best friend reminds you, still caught up in her daydreams of your enemies-to-lovers romance with your crush turned apparent wannabe murderer.

You inhale deeply before saying, "How do we know he's not lying to throw off the real killer?"

"We should get the lie detector to know if he's lying or not!" Her face brightens up with an unsettling grin.

"Do you not trust me?" Your crush piped up, the smirk on his face that reminding you too much of all the Wattpad heroes your friend used to rant to you about in the dark hours of the night.

"I don't know how I can possibly trust a person who gives me flowers one day and says he wants to kill me the next day," you roll your eyes and get the lie detector lying at the corner of the room. Sadly, the lie detector had no batteries. So, it was a good thing it had a backup rechargeable power system built in.

It didn't matter in the end, as the world exploded mere moments after the batteries entered the machine.