Stay Safe: Sequel To Stay Silent

Chapter 3 - The House Keys

Mark pulled into the parking lot of Nate's apartment. "Alright. Mark, you stay here. Nate and I are going in."

Stephanie opened the door and allowed Nate to lean on her. However, he was a little too heavy and she collapsed.

Mark got out and helped pick him up.

Stephanie rubbed the back of her neck, embarrassed. "Thanks."'she said. "Do you have the key?" She asked Nate.

"No, I had it in my jacket pocket, but when I woke up at the red room, my jacket was missing. They must have taken it." Nate guessed. "And since I was unconscious, I couldn't see it while we were escaping."

"Wait, didn't you carry Nate out, Steph?" Asked Mark.

"Well, technically, I dragged him." She said, biting her lip.

"Well then, didn't you see the jacket on the way out? While you were escaping?" Asked Mark. Nate looked at her, looking optimistic.

Stephanie bit her lip, trying to ignore the conversation.

"What did you do?" Nate raised an eyebrow.

"Well, I did see the jacket." Nate got a little smile, but he shouldn't have gotten his hopes up. "But when I was burning those bodies... I-I wanted to drive home the idea that those bodies were us. So I put it on the corpse."

"And then you..." Nate started.

"Burned them." She shrugged, trying to make it asked like it was no big deal.

"YOU BURNED THE KEYS!?" Nate shouted, getting up off of leaning on Mark's shoulder, he collapsed instantly.

As Mark picked them back up, she started to get angry. "Well, I couldn't have burned them! I used acid to disfigure the faces and fingers!"

Nate's jaw hit the floor. "YOU DISINTEGRATED THE KEYS!?"

"Hey, we all had to sacrifice! I gave up a perfectly good bracelet!" She yelled.

"A bracelet is nothing COMPARED TO MY HOUSE KEYS!" He yelled, frustrated.

As they continued their fight, Mark was about to yell at her too, but then he thought of something. It had been a while since he last saw Stephanie, but there was something he remembered from the night she was kidnapped. It had happened the same night as Scary Games Friday, and he had been able to watch a few minutes that night. But the thing is, she wasn't wearing a bracelet in the stream. Taking a look at her wrist, he noticed that she still wasn't wearing a bracelet. However, something was missing. Her wedding ring.

"Look, the braclet doesn't matter, okay!?" She yelled to Nate. "Besides, it was too close to the couple's hand..." She looked down sadly. "It's gone."

Mark considered telling Nate to shut up, but Steph caught him looking at her hand, noticing her lost ring, and shook her head no.

Mark was confused, but decided not to say anything. After Nate was done yelling, Mark helped him to the door.

"So, since SOMEONE DISINTEGRATED the keys..." Nate looked directly at Steph, who rolled her eyes. "How do we get in?" They thought for a second before Steph had an idea. She went around the back of the building, telling them to wait. After a few minuites of silence, they heard shattering glass. Hearing a few footsteps inside the door, they were greeted by Stephanie, and behind her, there was a shattered pane of glass.

"I got in."