Short stories

Gunslinger

"Once again Tiana, thank you for participating in this."

Not like I had a choice.

"Anyways, you'll be in a room with three other people for two hours. One of these hours you'll spend figuring out which one of the three people is going to try to kill you. Guess correctly before that hour is open and you're fine for the next hour. If you don't, then I wish you luck. During the second hour the person who wants to kill you will take action. You must fight them off until they die, or until you die. Understand?"

I nodded

"Good, I wish you luck." She handed me a suit and gave me the directions on where to go.

I walked into the room, wires everywhere

Its freezing in here...

I rub my hands against my arms trying to generate heat in my body, eventually I gave up and started to strip. Shivering the entire time.

When I was done dressing a man with white hair entered the room.

"Hello, Tiana is it? I'm George, I'm just gonna take your vitals and such. So just lie down on the cot in the corner." He pointed at a small spring cot in the corner in the room, I hadn't noticed it before, it looked absolutely uncomfortable, but I did as I was told.

He moved the table in the center of the room, getting close to the cot.

Once he was close enough he took out a small machine and hooked it up to my finger. After a couple minutes it bleeped and he removed it from my finger.

He wrote down the numbers on the clipboard in his lap, nodding as he did so.

"Well, you're good to go, when those doors open just step into the room" he gestured to the wall on the the other side of the room.

He handed me a handgun, and left.

I sat on the cot for about 30 seconds, then the doors opened.

I walked into the room, this one was spacious with white walls and floors.

I looked over at the three people I was supposed to analyze, and I felt my heart stop.

There stood my two best friends, Jada, and Cindy.

And my crush, Skylar

What the hell? Why were they here, they couldn't possibly want to kill me!

We sat in silence for awhile, I analyzed each of them closely, their breathing, their body language, everything.

Skylar was sitting in the corner on the ground, messing with his hands, he seemed nervous, perhaps it was him?

Jada had known me since we were 3, if she wanted to kill me she would've done it already. She was standing up, leaning against the wall chewing bubble gum, staring at the ceiling, she was trying not to look at me, a possible choice.

Cindy was from my middle school, she moved to another state in the 8th grade and came back for her sophomore year, she was shivering, obviously cold. She glanced up at me every now and then, and when we made eye contact she would smile.

I looked at the clock on the wall, 15 minutes left. I stood up and they stared at me, I scanned the entire room looking at them then staring at the security camera.

"I have made my decision, I know who to kill, and it was an obvious choice from the beginning." I raised my gun and pointed the gun at Cindy. "Thank you for your service in this project." I then raised the gun to my head an pulled the trigger.

I woke up sweating and breathing heavily, my pod was open, the wires for my heart rate pulled out. The room was empty.

Just then a woman with dark red hair came in, she had bags under her eyes and a blood stain on her arm.

"Hello Tiana, welcome to the Gunslinger project. You'll be put in a room with three other people. Two of these people will have guns, one of them will try to figure out who the other Gunslinger is. If they guess correctly they get to shoot them, if they guess incorrectly they are killed. You won't have a gun in this experimenr. However you'll need a lot of luck."

She guided me into a room and gave me a bodysuit. and let me dress. I was then taken into a room with two other people.

The woman spoke again "The fourth person will arrive shortly."

When she did arrive, she was very scared looking, shivering, eyes bouncing around the room, she stared at me a lot.

Finally she stood up after about an hour, she didn't say anything but held the gun out, facing me, and pulled the trigger.

I woke up sweating and breathing heavily, my pod was open, the wires for my heart rate pulled out. The room was empty.

Just then a woman with dark red hair came in, she had bags under her eyes and a blood stain on her arm.

"Hello Tiana, welcome to the Gunslinger project. You'll be put in a room with three other people. Two of these people will have guns, one of them will try to figure out who the other Gunslinger is. If they guess correctly they get to shoot them, if they guess incorrectly they are killed. You won't have a gun in this experimenr. However you'll need a lot of luck. Hey you okay? You seem really pale."

I got up, grabbed a gun from the table and raised it to,my head, "This is a dream,isn't it? If I shoot myself I won't be harmed." I pulled the trigger and saw black.