The Girl Who Killed

Chapter Thirty-One

The house was still dark, all but the lamp next to the couch was out, and the cold from outside was coming in through the open door. Sabine had everyone sitting in the living room. Nada, Kitty, and Mal on the couch, Kale, Kyle, and Jeff on the floor in front of them, and Ashton in front of them. 

Zoe and Sabine stood, as dictators, above them. Standing on stools. Zoe's wrists were bleeding, and Sabine's face was twisted in the most evil, power-lusted look, everyone wanted to cower down. Except Nada, of course. Nada had had enough. 

""Now, what to do with them, Zoe?" Sabine asked.

"Uhm," 

"I know. We'll kill them. Nada lost, anyway. We'll start with.... Kyle." 

"No!" Nada shrieked. "No, Sabine. You only said five." 

"With a twist of seven. The end. You lose. Comprende? Kyle. Stand up." 

"Kyle, stay down." Nada hissed. Now she was raging mad. "Sabine, it isn't fair to twist things like that. It's like playing Monopoly and starting out without being told how many times you have to go around before you start buying things."

"But it's not Monopoly, Nada. It's life. Kyle, here." 

Kyle slowly stood. 

"Sabine, what are you going to do?" 

"Oh," Sabine ran her right hand along Kyle throat, then smiled, taking his face in her hands.

"SABINE! Stop!" Ashton jumped up and pushed Kyle out of the way, knocking Sabine off the stool at the same time. "You've got to stop. You can't do this." He was on the floor, Kyle thrown to the side, he was obviously scared now, something Nada had never been aware that her best friend could feel. 

Sabine's face filled with anger. "You little-" She stopped and smiled manically. "I can do whatever I want. You know why, Ash, Baby? Because I won't get caught. I will never get caught." Her laugh was more than mental.

Ashton's face paled two shades, and Zoe averted her eyes. "What are we going to do with them?" The usually firm tone in her voice was gone.

"I'm going to snap Ashton's neck. That's what I'm going to do first." 

The lamp flickered and when it was easy to see, Ashton was on the ground. "NO!" Kitty cried out. She started crying. 

This only fueled Nada's anger toward the blond bitch. 

She sat up straighter. One, two.... 

"It's like the horror movies, you know," Sabine sighed, wiping blood off her hands. She hadn't been clean when snapping his neck- or maybe too clean? The bone was sticking out the side, blood gushing onto the white carpet. "Where the lights flicker and someone's dead, then everyone is so scared, they are all hunched over in the corner, having run like the wind and being winded, all the same? Well, you realize we can hear you when you breath so heavily?" She laughed her crazy laugh. 

Zoe's toe started tapping. She was anxious. 

"We'll make this interesting. Hide and seek. Kitty, Mal, and Jeff. You get first dibs on hiding spots. Twenty seconds. Stay within the boundaries of the house. Go." 

The three ran off, and Nada was out of her seat, bolting to where Kyle was. She knew where they would hide. Her, him, and Kale. There was a place in the basement....

"Oh, look at you two. So cute." Sabine laughed. "Oh, no. Kyle, you go hide. Go." 

He looked at Nada and something passed between them. He knew where to meet her. 

"Tick, tock, tick tock. The clock ticks. Ten, nine, eight." 

He smashed his lips against Nada and stood up, taking a step to calm his dizziness from standing too quickly, then bolting into the darkness. 

Sabine laughed. "Go, Nada. Kale, too. You got thirty seconds, and whoever I find will be dead." 

"How long until you end the game?" 

"A half hour after I call the end of the game. Whoever comes out will be dead." Her smile showed how much blood shed she intended. "Unless, of course, you are willing to leave them and come with me?" 

Nada spit at her. "Never in a trillion years, bitch." 

"So be it. One. Two." Her scowl was scarier, and Nada shoved Kale in front of her. "Three. Four." 

He had no idea where he was going. they needed to be halfway down to the basement. Somewhere Sabine had never been aloud, since it was closed off. Locked. With the key Nada always kept around her ankle, something she never mentioned to anyone. 

Kyle stood by the door and she unlocked it. They all stepped onto the steps, hearing Sabine's slow crazy voice counting. "Fifteen, sixteen, TIME'S RUNNING OUT!" 

Kale held up his phone and Nada fumbled with the lock, but succeeded in locking the door. "Step as quietly as possible." Nada whispered. Kyle found the piece of wood and slipped in first, making a loud oof! as he hit the ground below. "Careful, there's a drop!" 

She pushed Kale in, hearing the crunch his phone made under him in the darkness. She grabbed the wood and replaced it behind her quietly and carefully, something she had been practicing since she was little. 

"Twenty-five!" Sabine's far away voice called.

"You guys okay?" she whispered so quietly she could barely hear herself.

The light shone from Kale's broken screen, showing both the boys undamaged standing in front of her. 

They were in a panic room built by the home's previous owners for their daughter who would have panic attacks often. She was killed in a car accident three years after she moved out.

Nada pointed to the far corner, the darkest corner, which held a ladder under a trap door that led into the actual panic room. Kyle went first again, then Kale. They were out of time. Sabine was coming after them. They hunkered down in the solid metal room and Nada secured the top, resting her fingers to her lips when Kale shined his light at her.

She took his phone and slammed it against the wall to make sure it didn't break. He let out a whimper and Kyle slammed an elbow into his stomach. 

"We can't trust your phone." Nada whispered in the quietest way possible. "You've been here the whole time. Kyle never brings his over." 

Kyle took his phone out of his pocket, which had a cracked screen thanks to his own land, and texted nine-one-one, something that had only just become possible. 

Nada read the messages over his shoulder.

Nine-One-One there is a murderer in my gfs house. We need help now. One's already dead. 

He put the address and a next came back. 

We are sending someone right away. Stay put.

It would be a while until the police got there, though. 

The urge to pee suddenly filled Nada. It always did when she played hide and seek, and that's how she always lost. Her breathing got shorter. 

"Hey, stop breathing like that." Kale snapped. 

Kyle's phone went off. "Hello?" He whispered loudly. 

Nada could hear a woman's voice on the other end, but not what she was saying. 

"Kale, I gotta pee. Really bad." Nada hissed. 

She heard the door be broken open above them. The urge to pee heightened. 

"Send someone!" Kyle hissed into the phone, turning the volume all the way down and setting the phone on the floor. 

Zoe crashed into the cellar. "I thought we'd find you here." 

The grin on her face was nothing short of crazy.