Chapter 12

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It's two in the morning and I haven't slept... I don't know what is keeping me up, the creepy, all-black clothing guy? Seeing him on the table crying his eyes out? Or the fact that James is still grieving? I'm feeling really dizzy; I think I'll be able to sleep. I close my eyes.

"Kirstie!! Wake up!!" James was shouting.

"James?" It was completely dark, I can barely see him.

"We have to go before it catches us! Now!!"

I woke up, I was in a warehouse, it was rusty, it smelled like something is rotting, my feet was chained. I panicked.

"Where are we?!" I asked.

"I don't know! I just woke up and heard a scream!"

I look around and saw a key at the corner.

"There! A key!"

James pulled it, it was rigged! The walls started to close on me.

"James! Throw me the key! And get the heck out of here! Now!!" I shouted.

He throws me the key. He hesitated; he didn't want to leave me.

"No! I'm going to stay here! With you!" He says.

"Are you kidding me?! Just leave!" I begged.

"No!! I'll stay!!" He shouts.

"This isn't a freaking movie! Stop being a cliché! Just leave!"

James started to leave step by step, still hesitant. I'm trying my best to get the chains off, James is still there, just ready to get me as soon as I break lose, the walls are closing in. I close my eyes... I can't do this. I just know it. I'm defeated... 

All of a sudden I heard a loud clang, I open my eyes, and saw the chain was broken, James picked me up. He started running as fast as he can, the door was really far away, and the walls are really near.

"No. You're not going to die like this! We're going to grow old together, see our grandchildren and die happily!" He says.

The walls are really near! We were able to escape the walls! Thank goodness! I smile at him.

"Thank you, I guess we are obsessed with each other" I jokingly said.

"You have no idea" he says, and winked.

"We're such a cliché..." I say, he nods at me.

We heard another scream. We came and check it out, I was surprised! It was Hoodie and Cutie.

"What are they doing here?!" I asked.

There was some sort of contraption; I and James were shocked at what we were seeing.

"Help me..." Hoodie softly says.

Cutie mouthed the words 'please save me', I was in shock. All of a sudden there was a man, standing in between them and said in a dark, deep, and disturbing voice.

"There is a key, hidden in one of those pots... If you choose the wrong pot... One of them will die, if you choose the right pot, you'll have to choose which one to save, there are two of you, and there are five pots, there are two keys, and two chains, you have to unlock the chains at the same time, or else one of the other gets impaled by this sword, tied to the chain... It's your choice that is on the line" he explained.

"You sick psychopath! You'll never get away with this!" James shouted.

"Come on, James. Let's choose."

We chose our pots. I smashed mine on the floor and there was a key! James smashed his open and... There wasn't a key. I look at him with a sad look and look back at Hoodie and Cutie.

"Ah... Now you have to choose between them, shame..."

James looks at me.

"I don't know these guys... Who are they?" He asks.

"They're my classmates..." I say.

I look back at them, Cutie or Hoodie? Cutie is a good guy, but I'm more close to Hoodie, but I don't want Cutie to die... Hoodie? No, Cutie! Wait... Hoodie, Cutie? Hoodie... Oh gosh! I don't know!

I look at them both and stare at them, I look back at James, and he's giving me a worried look, I look at the guy, and he's looking at me, smiling with his yellow teeth, and staring at me with his yellow, piercing, disturbing eyes. I close my eyes... I have made my decision...

"Hoodie".

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