The Johns

House of Cards

I just then realized that since what I was wearing was drenched in water my light pink clothes was semi see through. I quickly grabbed the towel and covered myself.

"What is this place? And how come all of you are dying your hair?" I said and chuckled.

"What don't like my pink hair?" Nate smiled. "You must be freezing come and follow me to help you find some clothes." I followed him then I remembered he didn't answered my question.

"Again, what is this place?" He turned a door knob and we went in.

"This is my place, my room. When we moved here, they didn't want to be underground so I got this place all for myself." He threw me some black party dress that reached below my knees. "Don't ask, this is my sister's clothes. I'll leave you and try to search some underwears here." He left me and I turned to the closet filled with clothes. There were underwears but why would her sister's stuff be here.I opened a door and it was the bathroom, so I washed myself and wore the clothes I got.

Even though it was a party dress it was like a conservative party dress. It was supposed to be zip up behind but I can't seem to reach it. As in cue, the door opened and Nate came in and placed one of his hand on my hips to make me stop moving. He zip it with his other hand but it stopped halfway through. He placed both of his hands on my hips and I can feel he used his teeth to zip the dress up.

"You look good." He said and turned me around. "Come lets go to my place's living room." We went out and walked to this room that seems to be a replica of the living room upstairs. "Have a seat." He lead lead to the couch and I sat, he sat beside me.

"So why didn't the others dibs this place? It's beautiful." I said.

"Well back then this was like a cave of some sort. I just made my dad to make this what is it now." He smiled remembering. "When this was done being renovated, the others were green with envy but hey who can blame them. This is ma place." I chuckled.

"So why is there exactly a pool at the bottom of the well? Why did Jake pushed me? How did you know I was going to to fall?" I asked him all at once that he covered my mouth with his hand.

"Hold up, dude." He didn't removed his hand so I slapped it away. "Ouch, anyway. We are in a specific sequence. If you advance to the last one without completing the past ones, you need to retry all over again." He explained. "Oh, about the pool. Originally only me and ma pops knew about it. The others always come and would wish and drop some coins. It would always drop at ma pool so I always get it." he laughed. "Jake was furios when I told him there would be a pool to break your fall."

"Still, it doesn't make sense why Jake pushed me." I said. He laughed.

"Jake's dare was you to kiss him, right?"

"How did you know?!" I asked him.

"The person after the last one must know what kind of dare he would ask, so that we can have a clean sequence until the very last one." He said. "So, did he confessed yet?"

"Yeah." Nate suddenly stood up and was jumping around.

"Finally, took him a long time!" He said fist pumping the air. "So what did you answer?" I shooked my head. "Poor him, oh well. You'll fall for him anyway." He returned to sit beside me. "Can't you just stay with him, you don't know how many times he thought of how to confess to you. Heck I was his practicing buddy. Gross, dude."

"Well, sorry for that Mr, know it all." I said and he laughed.

"At least this know it all has a heart." He suddenly looked at me. "So-"

"Don't worry. I'm used to it." He turned his head to the left.

"Anyways, the dare."

"Right, what is it?" He looked at me.

"Don't worry, it's just something simple." He handed me a 4 cards. "Just build a house of cards and that's all." He smiled. I flipped the cards, there were aces. Ace of Spades, etc.

"But this are just four. I can't build a house with only these."

"Correct." He leaned in closer to me. "That's why I dare you to search the remaining 11 cards, in just 30 minutes and build them too." He backed off and made himself comfortable. "Don't worry, the cards are just here in the living room."

I stood up and walked around the living room. I spotted one beside the flower pot, one behind the bookshelf, one under the coffee table, one under the couch, one on top of the door, two inside a flower pot, two in between of two chairs, one on the floor.

"Where's the last one?" I muttered. I looked at Nate and he was looking at his watch.

"It's almost 10 o'clock and you just finished 2 dares." He looked at me. "And you have 12 minutes left before my dare ends." I looked around the room once more for the last card. That's when it hit me.

"In the living room." I whispered. I looked at Nate and came closer to him. "We're in the living room." I exclaimed at him. He gave me a sarcastic look.

"Tell me something I don't know." He said.

"That mean you have the last card." I pointed at him, he claps and gave me the last card.

"Good job, Sherlock." He looked at his watch. "You have 9 minutes left." I quickly went to the coffee table and started building there. "Oops, sorry sunshine." He kicked the coffee table and I need to start all over again.

"There, done." I said placing the last cards.

"Congrats dude." He claps and gave me a thumbs up.

"Now what? didn't you said the dares was in a specific sequence. Where is the next one?" I asked.

"Don't know when he would do it." There was a ringing sound heard from above. "10 o'clock. I heard earlier this day that the dawn for tomorrow would be in between 3 and 4 o'clock." He smirked. I stood up and went to the door. "Where are you going?" He asked.

"Leaving I can't just wait here for nothing." I said and opened the door but as I opened the door the electricity went out and we were in darkness.

I felt someone was close to me. My vision is slowly becoming clear since this was in the training. I can see someone has night vision goggles on. I tried to kick but he easily dodge it. He went beside me a karate chopped me, making me unconscious.

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I woke up, so it must be five minutes already. I looked around and it was still dark.

"You alright?"