The 40th Floor

Chapter 12 - "See you on the other side"

Daniel's POV

We were all running and screaming until Stuart hit into a wall and bounced off it falling onto me then I fell onto Courtney who fell onto James. The lights flickered back on slowly until they were fully on.
"Fuck my head, you dope Stuart watch where your going", James complained as usual.
"How can I see where I'm going !? Either the lights went out or I went blind and just regained my eyesight!", Stuart defended himself winning his case. The three of us were in shock on how smart that actually was. Well anyone of us could have said it if we need to, except Stuart, that's why we were surprised.
"Guys where's Lauren and Luke?", Courtney questioned.
We went silent for a second knowing we lost them.
"Well fuck that well done Stuart well fucking done", James threw his hands up in annoyance. "WHAT !? HOW WAS THIS MY FAULT!", Stuart screamed. "Everything's your fucking fault Stuart", James put his hands on his hips casually. Stuart stuttered continuously in confusion and looked over at me and Courtney. We shrugged. "He's kinda right to be fair Stuart", I broke it to him.
"I thought you were different Daniel, Cara would not be happy with you", Stuart said and realised a few seconds later what he just said. His eyes bared thinking how much he fucked up. You could see James jump a bit maybe it was just me but he was pissed. "What did you just say ?", James asked Stuart.
"Ah haaahh you know I just said ehm that Clara would be snappy with you cause Daniel has this thing with a girl called Clara but woah she's controlling she would snap if she found out Daniel killed a fly woah", Stuart epically failed in covering up.
"Your full of bull shit Stuart", Daniel said walking up to me.
"You like Cara?", James asked me furiously.
I thought for a second. "Should I even deny it at this point", I said to him.
James stood closer to me as Courtney tried pushing him off put he nudged her out of the way. Stuart grabbed onto Courtney. "Ohhh things are getting tense", he told her holding on for his dear life the poor fella.
"You KNOW I like Cara how can you fucking like her? How can you even try man! Who even gave you permission to talk to her in the first place we all know she's mine and no one else's", James said to me through his teeth. "PERMISSION TO TALK TO HER!?", I began to snap. "FUCK YOU MAN I CARE ABOUT HER MORE THAN YOU DUDE SHE WOULD NEVER GO FOR A CONTROLLING FREAK LIKE YOU SHES NEEDS A GUY LIKE ME AROUND TO PROTECT HER FROM A GUY LIKE YOU SO DON'T YOU TELL M-", I blared at him until I got cut off by a fist in my face. I grabbed onto his shirt and through him away from me and Courtney had to break it up.
"GUYS STOP YOU ARE ACTING LIKE CHILDREN ! COP ON", Courtney shouted at us. We stopped but you knew by both of our faces we wanted to kill each other.

The lights shut down again and turned back on after a few seconds but something completely different and almost able to knock you cold of fear creepy happened. The bare wall beside us now had two double doors we all screamed even 'Mr.Tough guy James' screamed. It had a note that Courtney grabbed immediately. We read the note in our heads as we were so shook.
"The Horror Games?", Courtney managed to say. I grabbed the note out of her hand and tuned it over. It had more.

Don't worry your friends are safe, for now ;). Cara and Ken are with Lauren and Luke who will also be doing The Horror Games, one thing we didn't tell them is that if you pass the test or 'game' you get to see who didn't pass and you can choose one person to save, tough decision thought, it is guaranteed you won't all pass so choose wisely :). If you find it difficult to choose you can kill yourself freeing the friends you struggled to choose from. So good luck, you will need it. ;).

We were shook. "Facing.. ou .. our.. big... big.. biggest... fe.. fears", Stuart trembled. "Well done", James said. "SHUT THE FUCK UP JAMES YOU DO REALISE IF YOU OR STUART DON'T PASS NO ONE WILL PICK YOU SO IF YOU WANT TO LIVE SHUT THE FUCK UP AND GROW SOME BALLS", Courtney yelled at him in frustration and worrisome.
"That doesn't matter I will pass", James said.
"Well then congratulations because so will we and so will Cara and when she finds out what you did she will hate you", she talked back to James not letting him win the argument he did not deserve to win.
"Fuck you that won't happen". "You know what my friends and myself are in danger I don't have time for you so shut the fuck up", Courtney said shutting him up.
"Well good luck", Courtney hugged Stuart and I. "See you on the other side?", I asked them *excluding James here*. "See you on the other side", Courtney said back to me. We both looked at Stuart. "You honestly think I will get through this?",Stuart said tearing up.
"I'm going to get through this Stuart I won't let these guys have me. Demons or spirits or the devil, who ever is controlling us, I won't let them have it, so I promise I'll choose you to save", I told him. "Really ? You promise?", Stuart asked me. "I promise", I answered. "Pinky swear!", he held out his pinky. "Pinky swear", I agreed and we pinky swore. "Lock it?", Stuart asked with a grin on his face. I sighed and locked it. "Thumb war?", he asked getting annoying. "Oh Jesus Stuart we are done", I said not agreeing to the thumb war or any further offers. "Yes sir", he said nervously. "Shall we?", Courtney asked me.

We stood in a line and Stuart on the side held onto my hand, me holding onto Courtney's then Courtney feeling bad held onto James as she rolled her eyes. James did the same. "Just because I won't see you again", James told her. "Yeah we won't because I won't be the one being controlled by demons, unless of course you decide to die slowly", she said sneakily to him. "Hah funny whatever just promise to never become a comedian all though it would be pretty funny to see you fail", he sniggered at his pun. "You too hun", she sighed in annoyance. He rolled his eyes.

"Okay okay whatever, are we ready?", I asked. "Ready they replied. "Cringe", James commented. We ignored him as Stuart and James opened the double doors with their free hands. We walked in the doors slamming behind us.

"GUYS!?".