The Dare Train

1. Some are nice and some are deadly.

"What a wonderful day" I said from the upstairs room above the fish and chip shop that my father had left me when I had just turned 18; I hadn't been able to use it until now. I'd made sure that I'd taken the necessary precautions to make sure that I didn't get caught: Double glazing, sound proofed the walls and had blackout blinds added to every window. I could see seven out of the eight people that I asked to meet me here, and if they don't want to come then they missed a chance but if they're late then I suppose they'll never be late again because they'll soon be dead.

Nobody spoke for a few moments however as soon as the final person cautiously walked in I spoke up again. "Just to send a message out to all of you lovely people: I do not accept tardiness and therefore this will be your first and final warning." I decided that I should let him off for being late this once as he may have his reasons. And if he's late again then I suppose he'll never need to worry about anything again will he? "Shall we get started with the rules?" I waited for someone to reply but everyone just stood looking around at each other. I repeated myself and made myself clear that I did not like being ignored.

"So the rules are very simple: One, you take it in turns to pick a dare, they are in a random order so some may be nice and some might be deadly." I waited a couple of seconds for that to sink in. "Rule number two is that if you decide not to take your dare then you will die a horrible death." Some of them started to look around for an exit but the two girls and the teenage boy just looked at each other. However the oldest member of the group was a man around 35 and he was looking for the camera. Ha too bad that he would never live to destroy it because the only person who could find it would be myself. If they did find it they would more than likely be dead quicker than they could tell anyone the location of the hidden device. The camera wouldn't be much use to them anyway, there was nothing saved on there and the camera was so high up that nobody would even try getting it. The camera was solely for my purpose.

"If there are no questions then we'll get a move on "A bloke shoved his hand through the air, why did I pick him, I needed someone interesting not a good for nothing rich kid. "What do you want; I said we would get on with it."

"I just wanted to ask if we are staying here the whole time." What a stupid question but I suppose I'm going to have to answer it anyway.

"It really does depend on your card. And when you're dead, you're certainly not staying here" I managed to convince myself that I wouldn't have to touch any of the dead bodies I would just get the other people playing my game to do it; I would do it but that means getting my DNA everywhere and I'm not prepared to do that. "Stand in a line, the person at the front needs to collect the box and go to the back. This will be the order that your dares are in." They followed my orders like I was someone of great importance - Oh yeah I was. "You, at the front, what's your name?" I made sure that everyone was wearing name badges so that they could have conversations with each other but I couldn't see those through the camera.

"Paul" Paul was a good looking man in his twenties, even though he may look nice he was a complete prick on the inside. He believed that women were no good at doing anything and that they should go back to the days when women stayed at home to play 'mummy'. Immediately when I saw his Facebook I didn't like him and knew that he needed to die.

"Paul, take a card out of the box and read it aloud"

"Okay" he reached into the box which had now been placed back on the table. He looked at it and smirked "Punch the wall" he did it without thinking. "Is that the best your dares are going to get?"

"Did you not listen what I said earlier? Some are nice and some are deadly." He didn't say anything he just looked down at his feet in embarrassment. "Next person pick up your card" one of the only two girls stepped forward I would have only had boys but I decided a couple of weeks with only boys would be so boring I needed something else to liven up my life. "Read the card out"