Testing Day||#Eyho

Chapter Three

June 21st, 2037
12:32 Pm
Testing Day
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I walk into the lunch centre. I examine the different people in the lunch room. There are happy people, sad people and just people smack dab in the middle.

Teigan and another girl are talking. She's having trouble with her water bottles and when he finally opens it, it makes a mess. They laugh and then he looks at me.

He starts to walk over to me. I smile at him and start to laugh.

"What happened to you?" I ask, knowing exactly what happened.

"You know what happened." He says. A familiar gap of silence is between. "Why are you so quiet?" He ask.

"I don't like wasting words, not necessary." I say, I feel like a badass but I do cringe a slight bit.

Of course, who else but the woman dressed in all white starts to talk, I wanna tune her out but I'm worried I might miss something important.

"In the next mentality test— or stage two, you will work with a group. From then on, you will work with that group for the rest of the test." She says.

I shrug, though I still mourn to be in a group with Charlie. I don't know anyone here. So this is gonna suck ass. . .

"The first group, will be: Michele, Yonathan, Fernando, Joana, Taylor, and Lucy." She then began calling group after group, I wait until my name is called.

"The 18th group, will be: Teigan, Marco, Zjhavia, Klynn, José, and Rafael."

I have no idea what to expect of this group, but I do know that, mentally, they're weak. I can tell already. Even Teigan himself, and I like the guy.

Then we all have to wait to get into the room, the testing room.

——————————————————————————"Will group 18, please step up to the doors." The device in our wrist says aloud, in sync.

We walk up to the door, and a loud creak noise follows the doors as they open wide. All we see is a dark room.

Then, dim lights turn on, and there's a nice little house setup. It's way nicer than the houses in the inland.

We step inside, the the device beeps and starts to instruct us.

"In this test, we want to see if you can find out what happened to the woman in blue."

Projectors project faces onto mannequins in different poses. One of a woman, in blue, chocking on something. Two men trying to save her. And a woman, expressionless, sitting at the table unbothered.

Immediately my group-mates, examine everything. They overthink too much.

I plop myself down onto the couch and play with the pen I have. They look at me like I'm crazy.

"What?" I ask.

"Why are you sitting your ass down?"  Marco asks.

"It's not like I'm sitting and not helping."

"Would you guys stop for a second, we should really focus on the puzzle." Zjhavia says.

I roll my eyes. Suddenly José jumps up and his face looks happier.

"What is it?" Rafael asks.

"I found it. I know what happened."  José says.

"Go ahead, dude. Tell us."  Marco says.

"Well the lady in the blue and the man on her right are together, and they came together to eat dinner with the man on her left and the woman across from her."

"How do you know this?" I ask.

"Because they have mud on their shoes, meaning they were outside."

Everyone looks at the woman in blue's feet and all nod.

"But, see how the woman in blue is reaching for the man to her left as she's choking? Well they are having an affair. And the woman across from her knows. So she poisoned her with the sauce on her plate."

Teigan walks over to a desk with a light on one side and no light on the other side. "Would that explain this formula, for the poison?"

"Yep."

"Time to press the confirmation button." Zjhavia says. She happily walks over to it, I interrupt her jolliness.

"Nope, you're all wrong." I say.

"What?" Everyone else says.