Sam and Colby: The House

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"I'll get it!" I called out, running over to answer the knock at the door.

                "Well shit, she lives!" Brennen said.

                "I don't think anything will ever kill Nessa. If anyone in this world is immortal, it's her," Mike said.

                "Come in, losers," I said with a laugh. "Pizza's on the counter, Sam wanted to play a game."

                "As he always does," Mike laughed, grabbing a couple slices of pizza while Brennen did the same. We made our way into the living room, me taking my spot next to Colby.

                "Okay, so this game's called Paranoia. You draw a card and it has a question on it. You get to ask whoever you want, but you whisper it to them so no one else can hear. That person answers with someone's name that's here right now. Then we flip a coin. If it hands on heads, the question stays in your head. If it lands on tails, you have to tell everyone the question and they'll know your answer. Make sense?" asked Sam.

                "No the fuck it does not," said Reggie.

                "Okay, here's an example. I'll draw a card... okay, this one asks who's the most likely to get addicted to crack. So I'd whisper that to someone, I'll do Kat for now. She'd answer the question and say...," Sam trailed off.

                "Definitely Jake," Kat said.

                "Okay, so all you guys would hear is Kat saying Jake. Now we flip a coin," Sam said, taking one out of the game box and flipping it. "Okay, it landed on heads which means that you guys wouldn't get to know what I asked, just that Kat's answer was Jake. Got it?"

                "Okay, yeah. Got it," said Aryia.

                Sam went first, asking Kat a question.

                "Totally Colby," she laughed. It landed on heads. Kat asked Devyn a question next.

                "Oh, hands down Nessa," Devyn replied. The coin landed on tails.

                "Okay, the question was 'who is most likely to be able to kill someone with one shot'," said Kat.

                Everyone laughed. I didn't. Well, I did, but only because everyone else was. I was almost killed with a shot. Almost had the same fate as Mary and Bernice. I was thankful that Sam shushed everyone when his phone started ringing.

                "Hello?" he asked. "Hey, man. How you doing? Wait, what? When? Oh my, oh my God. Is everyone okay? No one got hurt? Oh, thank god. Yeah, no, of course. Yeah, I'll let them know. Yes, she got out of the hospital yesterday, she's alright. No, thank you. Bye."

                Sam hung up the phone and looked at all of us.

                "It's, uh, it's the house. The Gein house. That was Matt on the phone. He said someone burned it down. Last night. No one saw any smoke or anything. Matt just drove over to it and it was completely burned down, everything gone. Nothing was salvageable," said Sam.

                "Oh," said Corey.

                "Wow," said Jake.

                "That's... that's really weird," said Colby.

                "The fuck it is. I'm glad it's gone. Something in there wasn't right," I said.

                "No kidding," said Kevin.

                "I got super bad vibes the whole time we were in there," said Tara.

                "I did, too," said Devyn.

                "Poor Matt, though," said Kat.

                "I think he'll live. Planning to live off of the wealth of a deranged ancestor isn't something I'd ever do," said Kevin.

                "Yeah, I agree with that," said Reggie. We kept playing the game for another hour, then moved on to watch a movie. Everyone settled on The Silence of the Lambs. I made it about ten minutes in before I felt sick to my stomach. No one had any idea that the movie was based off of Ed Gein.

                "I'm uh, I'm going to go to bed. I'm tired," I said, suddenly standing up.

                "Oh, okay," Sam said.

                "I'll be up in a minute," Colby said.          

                "No, it's okay. Really. Stay down here," I said, not wanting to take him away from the fun. I left the group and went up to me and Colby's room and crawled into bed.