Mythomania-A The Mole Fanfiction

Day 8 Part 1

WARNING: THIS CHAPTER CONTAINS STRONG LANGUAGE.
No street lamps provided the tiniest slits of light to seep through the windows of the living room. Nobody had bothered to turn any of the lights on downstairs either.

All I could hear was the sounds of six other people shuffling along the wall Simon had probably just slammed them against, because that was what he did to me.

I haven't heard any of us say a word since I got downstairs-we've probably accepted that the Gamemaster is only here to put us into debt and there's nothing we can do about it.

"Let's play a little game," Simon offers.

"Can I go back to sleep?" yawns Eli. "Please," he adds.

"The Gamemaster said I could take even more money off the pot."

Eli sighs. "Whatever you say, O Great Zombie."

"Do I need to start docking money for every time you guys call me a zombie? I have a name."

The group goes quiet again.

"Yes? Or rather, you guys have no choice but to say so?"

"WHYYYYY?????!!!!!!" cries Star. "I couldn't even sleep all night!"

I roll my eyes. I'm sure she's barged into a number of rooms asking if anyone would want to sacrifice their precious sleep to watch Bridgerton with her. I would know, because I was one of them. And I'm not even into Bridgerton. Nor do I have an intact TV.

Simon points behind him-I see the outline of a round contraption. "Here's a wheel. Very exciting, right? If you can resist the temptation to spin it, I'll let you guys back to your rooms with your pot reset to $0. But if you spin the wheel, you'll get the opportunity to either double, triple or even quadruple your pot."

"Spin it," says Star nonchalantly.

"WHAT?" Ty yells.

"THE F*CK?!" exclaims Julia.

"You realize not all of us are rich, right?" By the tone of his voice, I very much hope Eli doesn't have his phone on him.

"What?!" asks Star, confused. (If she's the mole, she deserves an Oscar-and we each deserve a lot of money. From Netflix themselves.) "Didn't you hear Simon? Wouldn't it be great to get four times as much money for the pot?"

"Not when spinning it now would put someone in four times as much debt," I reply. "I mean, not that it'd matter to you, but not everyone has the luxury of going 'mommy, I don't want to do school anymore because I'm 15 and I want to focus on content creation and even if it blows up in my face you'll give me your credit card, right?'"

"Because even people like Taylor Swift wouldn't hire someone without a degree or a ridiculous amount of talent and experience for my age," says River.

"School, in general, is important for your development, even if you're just going to start an animal rescue business," says Ty.

"Yeah, I may not believe that college was right for me, but I at least stuck out high school," agrees Julia.

"Julia's right. Hannah and I figured we at least had to graduate high school-even if a baby-in case the photography business didn't work out because who doesn't graduate high school in 2020?!" Eli tuts. "Entitled rich people, apparently."

Star sighs. "Ignore them, Simon. Spin the wheel."

"Are you illiterate?!" asks Julia.

"Simon, don't listen to Star!" squeals Eli.

"Don't spin it!" hollers River.

"What they said!" adds Ty.

"Don't even touch it!" I warn.