Serial killer

5

I walked down a long corridor. My heart raced, my head spinned, my hands cold.

I couldn't be more terrified.

The floor creacked under my feet. I looked with horror at the door in front of me.

It had strange marks on its rotten wood.

I don't know why in hell I opened it, slowly turned the latch  making a loud noise.

It was too dark for me to see the interior.

I entered.

Silence filled the room. I turned and winked a few times trying to adapt to the little light.

And then I saw it.

I let out a small scream.

Suddenly, I woke up with surprise.I touched my forehead. It was crazy hot and covered in sweat.

Thank god, it was only a nightmare. Then I realised real life was also a nightmare...

I took a look at the clock on the wall. "8:00 am", I whispered to myself. Did I have to go outside or someone woud knock?

Like if they had red my thoughts, a childish song started playing through a small radio on the desk.

After the horrible song ended, the same creepy voice made me jump off my feet. No, my mind couldn't afford listening to that man again. He said we would kill each other just to get out of this place. I tried to avoid the sound, but it was too loud for me to ignore it.

"Good morning ladies and gentlemen!
I hope you slept nice and tight. Today is monday, first day of your thrilling adventure together, make sure you get dressed and come to the main cottage to have breakfast; our chefs have prepared an amazing meal including whatever you want.

When you finish, I recomend exploring the beautiful island you are in, and never forget to smile!"

I cursed under my breath. This people were using us and laughing at our confused faces. My body didn't want to move, but my stomach said the opposite.

I showered and brushed my teeth thinking about what kind of food there would be. Then I rushed to the wardrobe and quicky looked at the clothes it had.

It didn't take me long to choose, as the only thing there was was jeans and different horrible t-shirts. I took a look at my reflection in the mirror.

I looked like a strange traffic light. The bright yellow shirt was really tight, it was hard to breathe. But everything in the wardrobe was of the same size.

I tied my blonde hair in a ponytail and opened the bedroom door. It was sunny and hot, I assumed we were at summer. I spotted John exiting his cottage. I walked to him. My mouth blew open under his beauty.

His muscular chest was shown under a pink t-shirt which had a funny cat drawn. He smiled and my cheeks burned.

"Hey! Kira... is it?", he said breaking the awkard silence.

Obviously, I thought. It was hard for him to remember all of our names.

"Yeah...", I answered.

He laughed at my flushed face. "Do you mind we walk together to the main house?", John said still giggling.

I nodded instantly. I really didn't know how to handle this situations. Hot looking guys made me feel nervous.

While walking with John, I realised I couldn't remember most of the names of the people I met yesterday.

Only Alex, John, Danielle and the boy who acted like the leader, Jeremy. I had completely forgotten about the rest.

We reached the main house and found Danielle waiting at the door. She waved at us.

"Hi! I've been waiting for ages!, she said with relief.

We talked while waiting for the rest. I discovered Danielle was a huge fan of heavy metal; I didn't expect her to be wearing a Metallica t-shirt. She had her short ginger hair stuck in a black bandana. It looked like if she were going to a punk concert, which was nothing alike how she was yesterday.

The fact of Danielle's extravagant looks and John's cute cat shirt made me think I didn't know all this people, they were complete strangers. But for some reason I was trapped in an island with them.

Alex arrived a couple of minutes later with the tall thin boy and the girl with glasses; who by the way wasn't wearing them today. John gave a friendly hug to the skinny dude. I asked Alex, who looked at them with disgust, what the boy's name was again.

"Johny, and the girl, just in case you can't also remember, is Anna", she said still looking at them.

Alex acted strange around boys, it made me curious, but I thought better not to ask. Anna came to me with a huge smile; she looked prettier without glasses.

"Well, I guess this looks a bit like a summercamp, don't you think?", she played with her long hair. "Yeah, but more creepy", I said dryly.

The ones left came all together. Jeremy, Damien, Blake and the small girl, Grace. Alex presented them for me with sleepy voice. Her messy hair was all over her face and she had circles under her eyes; it was obvious she hadn't slept well.

I could sense the ukranian boy looking at me, he made me unconfortable. Something about his light eyes and his white hair reminded me of my father, that horrible man. They looked kind of alike. Both were not very nice.

Jeremy leaded the way into the dining room. For our surprise, there were full plates of food waiting for us. Jeremy scratched his chin and told us not to touch anything yet. "It may be poisoned, we should be careful what we eat", he said giving us a serious look.

Anna walked past him and into the kitchen. I followed her.

"Where are the people who prepared all this food...?", she asked taking a cupcake from the empty room's table. She turned to face me. Her face was pale.

"This is the worst holiday of my life...", I said trying to not to look stupid.

Whoever was doing this shit, was going to regret it. If only we had some kind of clue.
I inmediatly regreted thinking that, because a clue meant killing one of us.

"I promise I will find the person behind this, and I will end him", Anna smashed the cupcake against the table.

Jeremy entered the kitchen with a half eaten apple in his hand. "What are you doing? We have already started to eat, Blake refused  listening to me and ate a cookie, so now we are  ignoring the poison thing...", he said while chewing the fruit.

Anna stared at the smashed cupcake, "Oh..."

We both rushed into the dining room and filled our plates with food. I hadn't eaten more in my life; none of us had.

By the time we had all finished, Danielle stood up and asked for silence.

"Guys, I know you will not like this, but... We need to find answers", she started.

Johny raised his hand. "You mean we should kill each other?!?!", he asked with shaky voice.

She laughed histerically, "No!!! I mean we have to search the island, maybe we discover something useful..."

We voted on wether exploring or not. All of us except Alex, who didn't like the idea of walking, accepted.

Jeremy divided us in groups. I crossed my fingers not to be with the ukranian boy.
It didn't work.

"So the only ones left are, Kira, Damien and Grace", said Jeremy. Definitly, it was not my lucky day.