IT31 || 31 days of IT

10 - Avoid The Darkness

Thank you  GoreBabe
  for being such an amazing co-writer!

It started out as just another college party. A party that Eddie and Mike didn't want to go to but the rest of their friend group overpowered in the voting. Of course, they could have stayed home. But the guilt their friends would have made them feel would have lingered far too long.

There was drinking. That's the given at a college party. There were even joints being passed around. Richie was the first to snatch one then Beverly. It seemed like a typical party...Until the sunset.

"Alright, alright. Everybody settle down! We're going to play a game!" one of the men that was hosting the party slurred loudly above the laughing and chattering. "It's called spotlight! Anybody fuckin' heard of it before?" he listened to the responses from the party then laughed lightly. "Alright, for those of you losers that don't know. Spotlight is a game where all you have to do is stay in the light. Simple enough. You end up in the dark? Ya lose"

Eddie sighed heavily and rolled his eyes.

"I lose then" he mumbled. 

"Nah nah nah!" Richie wagged his finger in Eddie's face. "You're playing, boy toy"

"Come on, Eddie. It'll give us something to do" Beverly stood up and pulled Eddie to his feet. "Let's do this boys" she wrapped her arm around Ben and the other arm around Eddie.

The game started normally. The game zone was the whole floor of the hall that the party was being thrown in. This meant that eight of the ten rooms were accessible for this game. Big enough area but that only meant it would be tougher toward the end. The other two were for the losers to go to - luckily they were the rooms with the refreshments in it. 

Most of the drunks lost toward the beginning. They were too busy falling over their own feet and running to a bathroom to throw up. 

Richie, Eddie, Beverly, Ben, Bill, Stan, Mike, and a few of the other partygoers were left. That's when the game twisted to something nobody could have imagined.

Suddenly, gunshots could be heard from the two rooms that were filled with the losing members. The ones still in the game all froze with terror, their heads snapping toward the sound. Screaming came from the rooms before it all went silent. The ones still in the game tried to run for the exit but to no avail. The exits were all locked.

Beverly grabbed a chair to try to break a window but felt the chair be pulled out of her grip. She spun around and looked up at a man with a black hoodie and clown mask over his face with night goggles wrapped over the mask where the eyes were.

"Ah, ah, ah... If you leave the gaming area. You lose" he grabbed her roughly by the arm and shoved her toward the middle of the main room. The rest of the gaming members were shoved to the middle as well.

"What the fuck kind of sick game is this!" Richie yelled out. He got a backhand to the face, forcing him to fall to the floor with a thud!

"The ten of you will continue the game. Same rules. Light means you move on to the next round. Darkness means you lose. Let's just say, you don't want to lose" the leader of what seemed to be a gang, held his machine gun in the air. "Let's begin, shall we?" 

The lights went out. 

"You have thirty seconds!" the leader called out. The remaining members dashed for the lights that were placed around. Beverly ran to the closest lamp while Stan found a lantern in a separate room. The others found their own lights. "Three...Two...One!" suddenly, shots went off. Everybody fell to the floor, trembling with fear.