The King's Game

It was just a game. Simple and carefree like all other games. It was a way for bored teenagers to let loose for a bit; a way for us to feel powerful, wild and alive. We all loved it, the game. We wanted to play forever. But we got older, more responsible; we had to leave behind the game and all its secret pleasures and guilt. But one of us couldn't let it go; someone didn't want to stop playing. It was just a game, at least it was only a game in the beginning but not anymore.

Aida, Joyce, Ari, Felix, Narissa, and Evan were all once close friends years ago. In their senior year of high school, they had decided to play the game they all loved one last time. But something went wrong in that last game, something horribly and irreversibly wrong, something they never spoke of again but can still see the truth of what happened in each other's eyes. The game that had brought them together was also the thing that broke them apart. For ten years they put the truth of what happened behind them but when one of their old friends is murdered in strange circumstances they realize that someone is trying to bring back the old game along with its old players.