The Escape Room

Day 61

Unknown Point Of View

"What day is it?" He asked, using a stick to beat a rock lightly out of frustration. But he isn't as frustrated as I am.

"Day hundred?" Milicent replied with a doubt.

"No! It isn't!" A voice said from the crowd.

"Then what day is it?" I asked yelling. My voice, carrying the anger I was hiding from my face.

"I think two hundred!" The voice exclaimed and all heads turned to her direction.

"You say what?" Charlotte asked, surprised.

"What has day got to do with our situation? It won't solve anything and instead will keep on increasing if we don't act fast. Who knows what before us now!" Eunice exclaimed. That got everybody and she was right, we don't know what we will face when we take the next few steps. 

"Let us all stay prepared and alert, something might appear from anywhere, you know that right?" The timid girl said, now she has something to talk to the group about. It isn't her fault.

"As always!" The big guy in our midst yelled from the back.

"This is a daily talk, it has become a routine so why remind us? If you have forgotten then just say it to yourself. We don't need your constant reminder, you aren't a clock or alarm for crying out loud!" I yelled angrily. They might not understand why I have been on edge for days now but why won't I be? I have been struck in this damn place for more than fifty days and I don't see my release or escape coming soon.

"Not we but you or I, please personalize it. You can't talk for me, you don't know what I want or don't want, so next time think before opening your mouth," a lousy ugly duckling said confidently.

Her twin sister tapped her lightly on her arm to call her to put.

"Ouch! What?" She replied her with a glare.

"Don't do that Mia!" Amy said to her.

"Like I give a shït!" She uttered before stomping away. I hope you step on those little rope holder.

"Anddy, can you get yourself together? Everyone is on edge here and irritated, do you think we like our situation? No, we don't, I don't! I miss home like crazy and I will do everything and anything to get my ass out of here," Joyce said, trying to comfort me. But instead of it to do that, it was rubbing off in the wrong way. Wrong effect, extra irritable.

"Haaaa! F^çk Carolina!" I groaned out long. "This is all her fault," I yelled, coiling more into myself. My legs hurt from seating with my kneels bent for long. How long? I have lost count, the place encourages memory lost.

"Teach has nothing to do with this, it isn't her fault!" Joyce said convinced of what she was saying.

"What?" I yelled at the top of voice. Now, everyone was barely paying attention to me.

"Hey! Ya! Mind yourself! You could wake up those hungry deadly demon with your unnecessary tantrums," Mia yelled from where she sat on a branch. Isn't she scared if the branch is just a sleepy rope holder creature.

"Like I f^çking care? Everyone is still going to freaking die here," I reassured her.

"Oh! So you are the next?" She asked with a smirk

"What?" Everyone echoed while I stared at her eyes wide opened.

"Let me go!" She mumbled as her sister firmly closed her (Mia's) mouth with her hand (Amy's).

"Than f^çk you all," I announced, getting on my feet simultaneously, "goodbye. Meet you at heaven or the gate of hell," I reassured them.

"You will only wait at the gate of hell for long because you won't see anybody," Mia yelled at my back and different eyes drilling holes into my back. After few steps forward in the only visible path, I felt someone's hand brush my neck lightly before grabbing my collar and pulling me very hard to the back which made me land on my butt.

"What the hell?" I yelled.

"Thud!" A large piece of rock just landed on the very spot I was before being pulled. I looked back and saw him looking at me with concern. Fake!

"What the hell?" I yelled before landing him a punch on the nose.

"Like seriously?" He yelled back at me, holding his nose before pulling him up.

I rushed up and gave him a second one quickly but before the third one could touch him, my hands were grabbed and pulled to the back.

"Let me go, you freaks! Let me go, won't you hear?" I struggled in their hands but they dragged me to my former spot before I left, sat me and tried my hands and legs with some weird cord.

"What the hell? What the meaning of this?" I yelled continuously.

"He just saved you even though I wanted you dead!" She announced.

"Mia!" Everyone called, surprise by her utterance which I'm not baffled about. Left to only me and her in this unidentifiable place, I will let her go or die even if she was savable. We share a very mutual feeling towards one another.

"But it is the truth, why won't you guys buy it?" She asked, pacing about.

"Come Mia, if he is a jerky jerk, that doesn't mean you should be, yourself, just leave this piece of shït alone," Biggy contributed.

"Haha! Haha! You are so funny, Biggy, oh… no… it isn't Biggy but loverboy, sorry it skipped my mind. She will never ever look at you, but you can keep up the good work, others will earn from it." I said to him, laughing still.

"I have told you countless times, I am not Biggy but…" he was saying.

"Brian. Brian not Biggy!" I joined him to complete the statement.

"You are a funny guy!" I said laughing seriously. "Talking to you guys is fun and lovely," I added. "Now, can you freaking untie me, I am not some sacrificial lamb," I yelled "game over. This ridiculous game is over!" I added, yelling.

"Guys! It is getting late and you know we can't be here for too long, I think we should start move. We've rested enough even if we had a little trouble but we are prepared right?" Saya, Class rep, said with her usual authoritarian voice.

Everyone left me and went for their bags, their little worthless weapons and anything they think is useful for the next phase. He walked up to me and dropped my bag on my tried legs.

"Seriously Andrew, you have to let things go and focus on getting out of this place. It was a terrible mistake, I am not happy myself about what happened, I just happened to be a used machine for that moment," he said explaining some gibberish to me, it was ununderstandable.

"Get. The. F^çk. Out. Of. My. Face!" I lightly yelled at his face before spitting at him.

"Eww!" He cried before cleaning away the liquid mucus sliding down his nose.

"This is stupid Andrew, you have to stop and let it go," he exclaimed.

"Let what go? Over my alive and dead body!" I exclaimed.

"What?" He questioned.

"Yes! You heard me right, even when I'm dead, I won't let go and will forever haunt you for it unless you go before me," I announced.

"This is a meaningless discussion, let have this discussion when we have successfully gotten out of this place, let's focus on getting out," he said before smiling.

"Keep your rotten smile to yourself, there will never be a meaningful conversation between us and either of us is leaving this place alive and I will never let you leave this place alive. You are dead to me," I threatened him but he was unwavering.

"So you know for a sure that we aren't having meaningful conversation, well we will see about who gets out life or not," he said before stepping away from me. He couldn't even loose me free before going, I picked the knife he placed in between my legs in my front and struggled with the cord. While I struggled, others just stood there watching me hopelessly. They were the one who tried this trash to my wrist.

"Have you guys resolved it?" I heard Mia say to him. A lousy person can never whispered well but always lousy.

"No! I don't think he wants to," he replied her. I could feel his glares on me. "I don't think he wants to patch things with me ever!" He added after a few awkward silence.

Oh! I'm so glad that he knows that, there is never going to be a resolution either are we patching things dead or alive.

"Really?" They continued like I wasn't some feet away from them.

"The matter now have the living and the dead involved," I heard. Of course, they are. They are involved.

"What!?"

"Hey guys, let move it!" Saya yelled like she was use a trumpet or horn or something. Oh, she truly was.

I got up immediately and started leading the group into another phase, find the door, go in, face whatever creature we have face and move on, as simple as that but people still end up dying.

The unknown journey was stressful and quiet. Everybody was trying very hard to be quiet and still talk with their 'fans' while some of us just have to endure this long boring trip because we have no one. And this is all his fault and I will make sure he pays in all kinds, ten thousands folds. Yes! Not one nor ten either hundred nor thousand but ten thousands.

I heard heavy footsteps behind me and became alerted, extra alerted, and stylishly draw my made up stick sword. It was useless but better than appearing before any creature bare handed. I felt the thing or person touch me on the shoulder, cold touch it was. I swung my sword towards their direction and it was Joyce, she was fast enough to dodge my attack.

"Take it easy, cowboy!" She said, laughing. How do you laugh when few minutes ago you almost got hot by a wooded sword?

"I am no cowboy, cowboys tends over farms and cows but you obviously see no cows here," I said to her before I started walking at her front.

"Haha! Whatever! Nothing is creeping behind you without our knowledge, so we gat your back, just tend to your front," she explained.

"You know that's not true, if anything creeps behind me, I'm left to myself," I said to her when something quick flash before me then into the walls. What could that be? I gripped my sword harder.

"No, don't think so. Even Mia that seems to hate your gut gat your back, she is just pissed that your grudge against Ulric is hard and high. And you know grudges are forbidden here, so…" I tried to explain but I suddenly lost interest when I heard his name. I will necomplainedver call him by his name, ever!

"Oh, please Joyce! If you are here because of him then off my back, bro!" I exclaimed to henot just him alone," she whichr.

"Come on, Andrew! What has he done to you for you to hold such massive amount of grudge against him? Ulric has apologized on so many occasions but you are just too stubborn headed. Besides, it for your own good to get rid of the grudge, not just him," she explained. I'm not even surprise, when did he become so special that everyone wants me to forgive him.

"What!" I uttered as I turned to look at her. "Are you saying what he did wasn't wrong?" I asked, confuse. What's wrong with this people?

"He is not in the wrong, he tried to protect himself. It was self defense in plain grounds," she explained.

"What!" I uttered again, shocked!

"Come on Andrew!" She said trying to touch me.

"Don't!" I said harshly before turning away from her and walking away.

I saw something running quickly in front of me after taking few steps away in anger. It ran again to the other side, a shadow running in flash, then again.

"Everybody! I think them are awake! Be alert and re…" I heard Saya screamed from her position in the middle. I just tripped on something.

"Andrew!" Everywhere echoed as they all shouted my name but I wasn't there.

"Haa!" I was falling deep. It's black and chilling cold!