(1D) Saw ; The Beginning

(1) Chapter Five ; A New Game .

Niall Horan ; 

It was dark. I couldn't tell if my eyes were open or not, but I could hear voices. I listened to them, bicker back and fourth for a while still unsure if this were all real. The longer I analyzed the voices, the more I was able to recognize them.

   

  "Uahh..." I groaned, feeling my head. It was pounding for some reason and it was impossible to ignore. "Haz? Lou?"

   "Ni??" Harry's panic told me something wasn't right.

  "Yeah?"

   "Oh thank god!!!" Louis gasped, some distance away from me. "A-are you alright??"

  "Yeah, I-I'm fine..." I mumbled, choking when I tried to lean forward.

   

What the fuck? I felt a piece of metal around my neck, and my eyes dilated in fear. I started to claw at it but it was no use, it was locked into place.

   

   I started to tear. "Wh-what the fuck?? What is this??"

  "Ni, calm down..." Lou said with a shaky voice. Was he crying too? "We have it around our necks too-"

   "No, no, no!" I cried even harder not wanting to play another game. I hardly survived the last game I was in and Calum was dead because of it. I was not about to do it all over again. "Lou please!!! I-I can't! I can't do this again!"

  "Ni..." Harry whimpered, cracking his mellow voice. "P-please, we need to stay calm... F-for each other...."

   "I'm so tired of this..." I felt the warm tears rolling down my face but there was nothing I could do to change the fact that I was in this game. "Please! Just make it stop!"

  "Don't... Talk like that...." I heard Liam grunt. I was relived to hear his voice.

   "Li!" Lou nearly shrieked. "Oh my god, are you alright?"

  "Never better..." he joked, coughing in pain. "Ni? You listen to me, you need to stay calm alright? If you have an attack here, we don't have the means to pull you out of it, a-and none of us can take losing you-"

   "Li I-I can't do this..." I whined pulling my knees up to my chest and burying my face in them. "I-I just wanna go home...."

  "Don't do this to us, please!" Liam begged. "You have to hold on, just please... Don't give up on us... Not now, not when we've already gotten this far-"

   "This far??" I questioned. He said that like there was an end. "What makes you think that he's letting us out of here no matter how far we get Li?? To him, this is probably just a game-"

  "You'll make it out of here I swear" he promised, and the tone in his voice told me he were serious. "Just please... Don't leave us now...."

   

I leaned up against the little wall that was behind me, pulling at my hair. Beads of swear rolled down into my eyes causing them to burn.

   

  "Please tell me I'm not the only one with something around their neck?" Liam sniffled sounding a little fearful.

   "No" Haz answered. "We all have it too-"

  "Fuck..." Liam cursed. "What is he waiting for- Wait, where's Zayn??"

   "I don't know-" Lou said muffling his voice.