In 7 Minutes

The Game: Prologue

We've been sitting in this room for the longest. It was hot, sticky and humid. I was hungry and cranky and nobody knew what they wanted to do. I was getting bored but I wasn't bored enough to join in their stupid game. I never played before. I don't even understand its concept.

We were all chilling in Damon's bedroom without any oxygen to breath. Safyra was sitting on a love seat located directly across from his bed. Sitting in an Indian style she asked, "So who's going in first?"

"I don't know, why not you and Damon?" Nate asked.

Nathanial was sitting on the floor right in front of her. Her hands were continuously running through his hair in a certain kind of rhythm. I was on the window sill where there was a sitting area attached to it. I pulled my knees up to my chest and rested my head on my arms.

Damon had shrugged his shoulders in a simple 'I-don't-care' matter while Safyra started to protest against it.

"Can someone fill me in? I don't know even know what we're doing," I said, cutting Safyra off in the middle of her nonstop rambling.

"Nate wants to play 7 minutes in heaven. I'm in because we got an even amount of girls and boys and there's no relationships status between any of us besides you and Ethan but it's alright because he wouldn't mind sharing for now," Damon casually responded laying down on his bed throwing a ball in the air and catching it repeating the cycle.

Katherine strolls in through the door playing with her nails completely ignoring the world.

"You make it sound like she's a whore," she said with a little disgust in her tone.

My eyes widen and my jaw dropped an inch. Katherine looked at me and rolled her eyes.

"Oh please, don't look so surprised."

"I'm not a whore . . . That's kind of mean," I said looking down at my toenails.

Ethan was the next to wonder in through the door. He had a bag of chips in his hand.

"Ok, are we ready?" Ethan asked his mouth still full of chips.

"Close your mouth when you're eating, Nasty," Katherine muttered taking a seat on the edge of the bed playing with her long black curly hair.

What she said had such an effect on me that without thinking I just shouted out, "I'm not a whore!"

That's when everything got awkward. The room got silent and everybody was suddenly looking at me. I had never felt so insecure then how I felt at this moment. I sighed heavily and hid my face between my knees and arms.

"Who said you were?" I heard Ethan ask.

"You did obviously," Katherine retorted. You could almost hear her eyes roll.

"No, I didn't. I would remember calling my own girlfriend a whore." Ethan stuffed more chips into his mouth.

Katherine sucked her teeth. "You didn't need to say it. You basically showed it. Letting these boys kiss your girl playing some game. Are you that stupid?"

I looked up at the two of them just thinking about how that even happened. How could they even make a compatible couple? They can't even stand being in the same room with each other without starting some sort of childish argument. Ethan even refused to hang out with us while she was around just because he was embarrassed at the fact that she dumped him before he dumped her.

Damon sat up quickly and threw the football at Ethan and managed to hit him square in the stomach. Ethan immediately began to cough choking on the remaining chips currently in his mouth. I couldn't help but laugh at his facial expression.