Solstice

Mirthful Day

Today, I slipped out of Seth's place to plan a surprise for him since I was leaving tomorrow. I had him go downtown where everyone surprised him with a game of laser tag.

"The teams will be divided as called." the instructor began. "The gold team will be Seth, Carmella and Sasha. The blue team will be Dean, Roman, Summer and Tyler."

"That's three against four." Sasha complained.

"It's fine, Roman is looking for Pokémon again. He caught three on the ride here. He doesn't know where's at." Tyler explained.

"Your vests are your team color. Even though you have teams, you can still tag your partners, so .... don't do that. Enter the maze, you will have a 15 second countdown to hide. You may begin when you hear the bell." the guy said.

We all entered the maze and chose places to hide. The speakervoice finished it's countdown and gave us The Purge speech.

"Anyone else freaked out by The Purge warning ?" Seth asked everyone.

As we started, I struggled to find the team leader, Seth. Every corner I turned I saw Roman running into walls on his phone.

"Ha ! You're out bitch !" I heard Summer yell.

"Sasha has been eliminated." the speaker voice said.

I heard a small scream, followed by a buzzard.

"Carmella committed suicide." the speaker voice said shortly after.

By my count, it was Tyler and myself against Seth.

I caught up with Tyler and we chose to run together. Each time we passed him, Seth slide away from getting caught.

"Roman ! Move your fat ass ! You're in the way !" Tyler screamed.

His vest lights turned off as Seth shot him from behind.

"Tyler has been eliminated." the speaker voice went.

"You son of a bitch !" Tyler yelled before shooting Roman.

"Roman has been eliminated by the dead."

"This place is weird." I said staring Seth down in the dark.

"Sorry babe, but you're dead. I've been doing this for years." he said to me.

We split up and started from scratch. I was so close to him, I could hear the sound of him breathing through the fog.

"Thought you were sneaky huh ?" I said as I grabbed him and put the laser gun to his vest. "When we leave from here, you're gonna buy me grilled cheese sandwich and mozzarella sticks. Are we clear ?"

"No touching ! This isn't football ! Separate and start over ! You have five minutes." we heard the instructor yell.

We separated and the countdown had started. It felt as if he was always right behind me. My blood boiled, my eyes kept playing tricks on me as I as gold lights running in every direction.

"Okay Seth ! Give up !" I yelled in frustration.

I heard a loud bang noise and Seth starting to whimper.

"Dean ! Get over here !" he cried shining his laser in the air. "I ran into the wall. I think I my nose is fractured."

I ran around the corner to aid Seth, but when I got to him, he shinned his laser off a mirror and hit my right in the chest.

"Dean has been eliminated. Thank you all for playing. See you next year for the annual Purge."

"You little fucker ! You actually believed me ! Oh no, help ! My nose is fractured ! Hahaha !" he laughed standing up. "Try again next year."

I chased him through the maze until I caught him. I spun him around as we laughed until I tripped and fell on him. We giggled and cuddled in the corner until the lights came up.

*Seth's P.O.V.*

"Congratulations Dean. You win the game, here's your prize: a stuffed elephant in a wheelchair in sunglasses." a worker said to us.

"This place is weird. Handicap stuffed animals, The Purge .... I thought this was a family thing." Tyler said.

"You're grown people playing laser tag, that's weird." he said walking away.

"That was so much fun ! We had an awesome time ! Buy we Starbucks." Carmella asked.

We all went out for Starbucks, and ended the day just the way it should be ended. No drama, no blood and just peace.

"So what do you guys have planned for the night ?" Roman asked everyone.

"I have to go to work tomorrow. The week I asked off is over today." Tyler said.

"My modeling agency wants me to go to go to Vancouver tomorrow morning. And Sasha's working on her shoe line." Carmella said.

"Instead of Jordan's, their called Sasha's." she confirmed.

"Come on, let's go home." Dean whispered in my ear.

"We're just gonna go back to my place, it's getting late." I told everyone.