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K.HJ - Truth Or Dare

"You gotta do this!" You hear your friends yell or more like discuss something in the secret hideout.

The hideout is an abandoned laboratory where you sometimes work on illegal stuff. The discussions take place every day here where everyone in your friend group (it's just 2 people) gather to share about the current news (conspiracy theories) and rumours they heard around the town while you are busy building your prototype.

"Bro, I don't wanna die too early. First, fucking global warming, now this shit? Nah I'm out!" Claire shouts as she bangs the old lunch table discarded in the room. Well that's Claire, one of you two friends, being herself. You smile at her humour which strangely manages to entertain you.

"But they offered a reward of 250 grand, if we spend a night there and return alive." You listen keenly to Kevin who explains the plan before you to decide to jump into their conversation. He's obviously got a strategy if he's pitching the idea, doesn't he? He has to!

"Alive? The fuck is going on there?" Claire yells in terror as it laces her body manifesting itself in her tone which shivers and shrieks.

"Rumour says, it's Dracula, who was sleeping till last month in the villa." Kevin whispers loudly as if he intended you to hear on their spill the tea session.

"Which shithead woke him up, for fuckssake?" Claire huffs and pushes back her chair. You hear the screeching of the rusty metal and make a note to check their safety because you don't want anyone to break their bones from falling off that thing.

"Someone from med school. They're missing apparently." Kevin slurs his sentence as if he's making things up or masking up the important details. Cheeky little Bastard who's always up to something. Probably some anatomy geek must have gotten all curious to see Dracula in the flesh and fainted in there or lost his way.

"And now, we're going there to feed him?" Claire shrieks, whose voice sounds like a scared five year old upon seeing a clown which she is to be honest.

"No, obviously! To show whoever is hiding in there, that they cannot hide for long." Kevin's sentence catches your attention and you think whether to join them or wait and hear more. Of course, you choose the latter.

"So... we're going to expose them?"Claire asks excitedly as if in hopes of going on a ghost hunting mission. They are her time passing activities and the ghost files is her favourite show. "What if it's a cannibal or serial killer?"

"Can you speak positively for once, Claire?" Kevin shrugs, shaking his head in disappointment.

"Sorry." Claire says softly and the conversation stills, creating an awkward silence in the room.

You finally decide to interrupt as you pull your chair to their table and make yourself comfortable on it. "So, what's the plan?" You say, chewing the strawberry flavoured gum and reading the expressions on their faces.

"See who finally decided to pay attention?" Kevin mocks you and you roll your eyes at his statement.

"Does the area have connectivity? Comms? Anything?" You ask him, because he certainly has some information on this if he's even mentioning the topic but he has a tendency to hide things till after the disaster is done.

"Nope everything's dead. There's a strong magnetic field apparently..." He trails on his words, again and clicks his tongue.

"What in the Stranger Things?" Claire wonders with her mouth hanging open.

"Shut up Claire! You're watching too much science fiction." Kevin yells at her, sending a stern glare at Claire who turns her head down with a frown on her lips.