You stood beside the wall waiting in line to get your role. You had gone to a halloween party and the theme was "The Clue". Just exactly like the board game, find the murder and solve the crime. Someone tall stood behind you, and you can feel them staring.
"I'm sorry am I making you nervous?" The person says.
You turn around and wave your hand. "No, I'm okay."
Your attempt at lying failed since your voice kind of cracked. "Sorry about that, its cause you look like someone I know." He says.
You nod and turn back around.
The line moves and everyone gets their character. You read yours silently, 'Elizabeth Grove...Assistant investigator, undercover as an heir'.
"Does your role suit you?" The same person from before sneaks up behind you.
You jolt and hide your paper quickly, "That's cheating, and I guess." He nods, "Mine suits me perfectly to be honest." You slightly smile, "May I ask your name by the way?" The person smiles," You first cause ladies first."
You cock an eyebrow but then slightly laugh, "(y/n)."
The person smiles,"(Y/n), nice to meet you I'm Harry."
His name suit his look, but something doesn't feel right about him. Maybe it's just because of you two barely meeting. The day turns to night and soon everyone gets prepared to start the game. You and Harry kept talking, soon you two formed a little group. Being with him was pretty nice, or so you thought.
The game begins and you begin to get nervous. "Let's start this shall we?" One of the coordinators says through the speakers. Everyone was handed walkie talkies to talk within their groups. You make your way around the large mansion-like place and look for clues. Everyone talked on their walkies, which left you confused cause of miscommunication.
You decide to turn the volume on low. The game goes on for what seems 3 hours. You make your way to the billiard room. No one was in there, matter of fact you didn't run into anyone much. You find something suspicious on the billiard table. As you look closer you see that it is a knife.
"Yes!!! Finally found a clue!" You say and put on your glove.
You pick up the knife gently but notice that its covered in blood. "Wow..they went all out on this..looks almost real."
You put the knife in an evidence bag and begin to make your way out. Picking up your pace, you decide to call Harry on your walkie. "Found a knife, what have you found?" You say.
In a few seconds you get a reply, "Good, I have found some amusement." Harry says. 'What? Amusement? What kind of a clue is that? He must be joking and lost for sure,' you thought.
"Alright then, I will look for more clues." You say and put your walkie up.
The way you had been walking around and trying to find all these items makes you feel you are in CSI. You walk into the indoor pool area and see the pool water all red. 'Hmm...what caused this pool to turn red' you thought.
"Scary isn't it?" Harry pops out of nowhere, behind you.
He seems to like sneaking up on people. You turn back to him and smile.
"A little, I was thinking of how the entire pool would turn red."
Harry bends down by the edge of the pool and rubs his chin. "Theres a body down there. It appears to be female since you can see the long locks of hair." He stands back up and looks to you. "I think we just found the murder room."
His smile kind of creeped you out. It can be that he is acting out his role but theres just something you can't pinpoint of him.
You two walk together to find more clues, he always walked behind you though. Every time you stopped and asked him what's wrong he would just say a different excuse.
"Harry are you ok?" You ask as you two looked in the library.
"Yea, I'm fine." He answers coldly.
"You know it's been real quiet lately..where is everyone?"
"I honestly have no idea. I've noticed before but just dropped any thoughts since I am going to unknown areas."
A certain book catches your eye, but you are too short to reach it. You move a stool in front of you and proceed to step up. Keeping yourself sturdy was a hard task, you almost slipped. Then a pair of hands hold your waist, and you quickly snap around.
"Careful there," Harry stood behind you. "We've already had one death to solve here, let's not have two."
You smile and continue to reach for the book. As you pull it off of the shelf you notice movement at the corner of your eye. Harry helps you hop down, and you both walk over to the other side of the room.
A dark hallway was hidden behind one bookshelf. "Ugh I don't have a flashlight.." You murmur under your breath.
Harry peeks and goes ahead and walks in. Can he be any more weird? You thought. In a few seconds the dark room is light.
"There is a light switch," Harry shouts.
"How did you know that? You've been here before?" You ask.
"Nah, I just figured..I didn't think there would actually be one."
You two go in and walk into a completely different one. The room was so different from the mansion, it looked like you walked into a different dimension. Torture object lied around the room. It's like you stepped back into time.
You two become curious to see if there are any clues. "(Y/n)!" Harry calls for you. "Look at this!"
Harry had a folder with a bunch of papers in his hands. "Looks like a list of deaths," you say as you read the pages.
You look past each name and date, trying to find the one for todays exact date. "Got it! Martha Lewis...2015...cause of death: beat up and drowned."
"This is honestly too easy! Looks like we won!" Harry smirks. "Let's celebrate,"
You look across the room, "Yea but not in here."
"Looks like you guys solved the mystery," The coordinator pops out of nowhere. "You two are the only ones who got this far!"
You smile since you had just been assured of your win. But something felt off...
Harry grabs your hand suddenly and pulls you closer to him. You look up to him and notice a glint in his eyes.
"You caught on quick there Harry. See this is why I gave you Lead investigator," another coordinator walks in and smiles. "You're probably wondering what's going on aren't you (y/n),"
"Uh yea!" You say seriously.
"This was all a set up. The entire game was us all along. Remember you saying that people seemed to disappear?" Harry still held your hand.
"...I don't.." You get cut off.
"We killed them. See this is our hobby and everyone who came felt into their own death trap. We don't do the killing ourselves to all. Some rooms had traps, and the rooms locked right after. We like to relax and watch before the finale," the coordinator holds up cuffs.
You had to think quick on your feet, but flipping Harry still held your hand. You try to get away from his grasp but instead he pulls you out of the room. "Run!" Harry shouts back to you.
You two run without looking back. "Let's make this a chase then!"
*A/N: sorry for this being over a month late! I have had all this written but didn't know where else to take it. If I get ideas I will make the next chapter? Haha...anyways thank you if you enjoyed it! *
