The Wheel

50. David

I can't eat anything at all! I feel a little sick. I went around the buffet table several times but touched neither the food not the drinks. Oh, I hope this song is the last one, because I didn't like any of those compositions. I'm very choosy when it comes to music: in order for a sing to be added in my playlist I need to listen to it fifty times – if after that I still like it, I buy it on iTunes. I haven't decided yet what genre of music I prefer the most: I might just like any song.

I have a hunch that Ayama's intriguing statement about a potential 'wolf in sheep's clothing' or a foe among friends is just her messing with us so that we would suspect one another: she became bored and wanted to have some fun. I remember an episode from an old TV series 'The Twilight Zone' where the lights went off on one of the streets in all the houses, except for one; and the others started suspecting that the inhabitants of the house were aliens. It turned out that there really were aliens, but they decided to mess around with people and turn off all electricity with the help of a device on their spaceship: they just wondered how people would behave. Maybe we are in the same situation?

Okay, if I were in a detective movie, according to the law of genre the guilty one is the one that causes the least suspicion, so I think it's Veronica. Yeah, she sometimes becomes hysterical over minor things, but...she's a girl after all, although Emma and Kate are way more mentally stable. On the other hand, David, you were crying because of that stupid video, remember?

God, David, what stupid assumptions you have! It's a real life, not a thriller or a detective movie! I want to get out of this room and have some sleep! This whole situation started to annoy me!

Finally the song was over and everyone finished eating. Well, who's next?

Another composition started playing! Wait a second, it's Veronica's ringtone! I look around to her and see her taking her phone out: that's the first time when only one phone is vibrating in this room.

"It's my mom!" she said, surprised. "My mom is calling me!"

Veronica swipes across the screen and gets even more amazed.

"It works!" she shouted. "Hello, mom!" Veronica put the phone to her eat.