Blood

Three

Trenton pulled me through the little girl, which seemed to have made her smile fade and a frown appeared on her small face instead. But I didn't really get to continue watching her (nor did I want to) because Trenton started running, pulling me behind with him. 20 minutes.

"AAAAGHHH!! HELP ME, PLEA-"

We reached the top just as that scream surfaced from within the mirrored walls. Trenton huffed, "17 minutes, Frey, cmon." I glanced around quickly to see if any of the walls might show a hidden door but my efforts were wasted. Useless.

"HELPPPPP ME!!!"

The sound was so close though! Trenton ran down to the left side of the wall and pushed himself against it, moving on to the right, putting his weight on the walls. He beckoned me to do the same thing and pointed to the right side. I understood. Without a sound, I started from the right side and pushed my way to the left, hoping one part of the wall would soon open up as a door.

"PLEASE! NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!"

We must've been close though, because we heard a small, quiet grunt, "Shut up." Trenton and I stared at each other. I knew what he was thinking because I was thinking the same thing. That voice was so familiar. Too familiar. As if it was a voice we would recognize anywhere. I shook the thought away, nah, it can't be. We continued moving forward and I was lost in thought before Trenton and I nearly bumped into each other as the mirrored door flew open.

I nearly fell in but luckily, caught myself and turned to Trenton. Seems like he kept his somehow straight posture. We looked into the room and saw a woman sitting on a chair with ropes tied around her. She was bloody with bruises. There was someone in front of her though. Most likely the torturer. The woman's eyes darted the room before landing on us but her torturer didn't even glance at us. His  blade was held out in front of him, covered with blood, which was dripping down from the blade down onto the wooden floor. I took a step forward but got stopped by Trenton, he shook his head and mouthed , "NO".

Instead, the guy holding the bloody blade turned to us, "Hey."

Trenton and I stared at him. "Jay."

Well, that's startling. What's Jay doing here? I mean, I expected to find him here but not in a way like this! Why is he hurting someone? The Jay I knew would never do something like this. I know him and trust him. The situation may look bad and at its worst but there's probably a good reason. There always is with these kind of things, right?

But Trenton didn't seem all that shocked because he fiercely walked up to Jay and smacked the back of his head, "You careless princess! Do you really think it's alright to let her see your face, you idiot?" I rolled my eyes, his very own classic move. Trenton made it his #1 top priority to make sure that we always had our masks on. Before coming into this room, he even made me adjust my own mask.

Jay seemed to look pretty calm at the outburst though. Well, until Trenton surprised him by punching his face. That really got Jay off the hook because you could really see it in his face. But I don't think Trenton is that pissed because of the mask. I think it's because he saw Jay torturing a woman that seems pretty innocent and smelled human. Because we were seeing a new side to Jay. One that doesn't seem very human or very Jay.

As Jay strikes back, Trenton dodges and moves over to the right side and punched Jay's stomach in return. I winced, Jay was no match for Trenton and only landed ONE punch on Trenton. Although I was clearly enjoying the show, I didn't just stand and watch. Instead, I went through my weapons. They were still new to us since our dads provided these things to us only last week. Where is it? I thought it was strapped to my arm...or maybe it was my thigh..?

My hand reached my boot as I felt around for it. I felt the sharp edge and grabbed it, exclaiming, "Here it is!" Then I yelled to the two idiots, "Shut up, both of you!! Trenton, we only have 10 minutes left. Jay...?"

From underneath Trenton, I heard Jay's muffled voice, "6."

Sighing, I walked over to the tied up woman and uncapped my pen, revealing a pointy needle instead of a pen's top. The woman's eyes grew big as I got closer to her. I said to her, "Relax, darling, all it's gonna do is erase your memories of us." Honestly, I almost felt sorry but it had to be done. Business is business, right? I stuck the needle into her neck and waited a few seconds before pulling it out. After I pulled the needle out, Trenton ran over and licked the blood off before it dripped to the ground and exhaled, "So hungry....."

Jay got up from the floor and sighed, "I really gotta go." He picked the now unconscious woman up from the chair and ran off, leaving me and Trenton. Instead of walking ahead to catch up with Jay, I waited to walk with Trenton... Because he was still in bad shape because of his hunger. 8 minutes.

But that the bottom of the staircase by the huge doors, little me stopped us. She jumped onto Trenton and raised a fork to his throat. I yelped. Jay had been waiting for us on the outside of the door. He put the woman down slowly and raised an eyebrow.

Trenton grabbed her hand and forced her fork away from his neck as I tried to pull her off of him. Two minute.

I snatched a small knife from my wrist and stabbed the girl, who turned to smoke and drifted off but only after she turned to me and said, "I was only protecting you..................."

One minute.

I said, "Come on, Trenton!" and ran out the door to where Jay was standing with a bag in his hands. I asked, "Did you get the money beforehand?"

Without saying anything, Jay nodded. He seemed strange but I shook the thought off. His eyes were left behind me, probably staring at Trenton, I thought. Either way, I was thrilled. We have money to give out to the poor tonight and all three of us made it out of the horror movie alive and well, without being noticed by the cannibals that inhabited the house. Then I turned to Trenton to tell him to come to my house but there was no one there. It was just me and Jay that had made it out of the house.