One Of Us Will Die.

Chapter Sixteen

2030...

(Austin's pov)

Tears welled up in my eyes as I realised that just like last time, the game was hunting us again.

It was all happening too fast, and I needed to find a way to stop it before I lost her yet again.

Elijah is player number 3, which explains why he has been possessed twice, I knew it was coming again.

He would be possessed again to complete his number of times before the game moved onto the next player.

If only I knew that night that it was the game that led us to play truth or dare, then I would have tried my best to avoid it.

Our days were numbered.
unless we stopped the game.

It was either the game or us.
And at this point, we weren't playing the game. Rather, the game was playing us.

It's been four days since the incident in the classroom.

The others were terrified to find out about what happened, and Elijah kept blaming himself.

We were holding at a party that's hosted at the boy's dormitory.

I tried to make sure to keep my eyes on Veronica and to make sure that elijah also stood as far away from her as possible.

Veronica was dancing with Grace when I approached them.

I loved seeing her like this.
So carefree, so her.

I gently tugged her arm and led her away from the dance floor.

At first, she was about to protest but immediately kept shut when she realised I was the one pulling her away.

I still had that effect on her, and it always warmed my heart.

Once we were tucked in a safe corner, away from all the noise and crowd, she finally spoke.

"Austin..."

Without warning, my lips were on hers. She stood there, rigid and taken aback until my grip tightened around her. She ripped through her surprise and reached up as she wrapped her arms around my neck, her fingers tangling themselves in my hair. I tried to pull her even closer as I kissed her back with every pent-up emotion inside me.

Suddenly, the tenderness of the kiss was replaced by hunger-a wild, seemingly insatiable hunger. She nips at my bottom lip as my mouth desperately meets hers once again.

We were both lost in the sensation of each other when we heard a loud crash that startled us and made us break apart.

A loud scream of horror pierced through the air and vibrated through the walls of the house.

"What's that?" Veronica asked in a panicked tone.

We quickly ran back into the party, and that's when we saw Elijah standing on the stairs rail, holding a random girl by the neck as he licked her blood, which was dripping from her neck.

"Who is next?" he asked as his breath came out in heavy pants.

He seemed to be in a dilemma as his eyes flickered between different shades of red and white.

He was trying to fight it.

Trying to shake off the hold the game had on him.

But he was failing miserably, and if he kept on fighting the tug of the game, then he would eventually die.

Tears rolled down his cheek as a manic smirk was plastered to his face.

The party was suddenly in chaos as people started running off, crashing into furniture's while fighting their way out.