House Of the Desperate (COMPLETED)

Chapter 20

Chapter 20

Voting day came slower than the others, because everybody wanted to get it over with more. Although that deep down, Emma, Ashton and Lucy figured that the others were bound to all vote for Molly, it still scared them a little bit, but they tried to remain confident.

This time, Molly was the first to vote.

"I'm voting for Ashton", she said, trying not to act scared, "and I'm voting for him because he's a selfish, depressing freak! That's it!"

Ashton glared at Molly.

"Well, it's the truth", said Molly, who wanted to say her peace before she died.

Next to vote was Paul.

"My vote is for Molly, because she's changed into a stroppy, rude, loud-mouthed, spiteful, stupid cow!"

Nobody had seen Paul talk like that before. It surprised everyone to talk about Molly like that, even though they knew that he disliked her with a passion.

Next to vote was Lucy.

"I'm also voting for Molly, because of the same reasons as Paul. She's changed. I know that this place would make some people change and go a little bit crazy, but I think you understand the things that you are doing and saying is wrong, and that's why I'm voting for you".

Molly knew that if either Ashton or Emma had voted for her, it would be all over for her. However, the rest of the house received quite a shock when Ashton decided to vote.

"I have decided to vote for myself", said Ashton, "and I'm voting for myself because I think that my behavior has been awful over these past few weeks, and I think that either Emma or Lucy deserves to get out of here more than me. They would appreciate their lives more".

"Don't be silly, Ashton", said Paul, "You don't deserve to die for what you did!"

"The others deserve to live more, though", replied Ashton, facing the floor.

Emma was the only person who knew who was going to die now. Without any further ado, she picked up the photo, leaving the room tense for only one minute, and put both Ashton and Molly out of their misery.

"My vote is for Molly", she said, "over the past few weeks, you have made me angry, and I just want to see you get your comeuppance, which I am".

Althought Emma felt it was slightly morally wrong to do it, she grinned at Molly, and waved to her.

"Well, I don't care about dying", said Molly, knowing fine well that she was lying. "Molly, you have ten seconds left of life", said The Leader.

"F*ck you!" screamed Molly, dancing around in her cage. She then started making chimp noises and then got on the floor, pretending to be an elephant.

"You're all going to Hell!" she screamed.

There were four shocked faces staring at Molly - she had gone totally insane within seconds. She then laughed, and the ten seconds were up - she dropped into the cage, where she was dropped in liquid nitrogen, which froze her within seconds.

"Oh...my...God!" yelled Emma, "that was eventful!"

Knowing that there were still two months left, the remaining four contestants sat down around the sofa, feeling depressed.

Paul then got up, looked away from the camera and started talking to the other four.

"Don't look at me. Don't even talk to me", he whispered in a voice that could only just be heard by the others, "act like I am not talking to you".

The others did just that, and they seemed to ignore Paul.

"I have a plan to get us all out of here".

This shocked the four of them.

"There is a way out, after all. Listen to me. If you all agree, in the middle of the night, when The Leader might not be watching, I will go into the bathroom, and carefully remove the toilet from the floor. The toilets will lead to the sewers, and we can find our way out into the streets from there. It might work, or it might not, but it's worth a shot. I'm not sure if I'll even get out of here alive anyway. So, I know that it involves some risk, but tap your hand if you are with me on this".  

The three others tapped their hands excitedly, hoping that it would work.

"Good", said Paul.

Suddenly, the worst thing ever happened. An alarm suddenly went off, and Paul looked straight to the air vents, where he saw what he only had nightmares about - he saw white gas seeping through, the gas that would kill a human being in one breath, and it was moving fast!

"Oh my God!" screamed Emma, "what did you do?!"

"We're all gonna die!" yelled Lucy, "it's the end!"