a short story I wrote for English at school, I might put a little more detail in later but i had a set amount of words so had to keep it pretty short and to the point I guess. Enjoy

Scarlet had always loved the colour red, it had been her favorite since before she could remember. Many people had assumed there was some significant reason behind it because of her name and her eyes,but truth be told she just felt the colour was extremely alluring. Scarlet was a young adult, or she would be tomorrow, Scarlet had was born albino, she had bright blood red irises and was born with pure white hair, once she was old enough she had dyed it a red. Tonight she would be hosting her sixteenth birthday, she had invited her friends around for the night and hap planned to play games most the night, she had decided to play their favorite childhood game, murder train.

Scarlet's friends begin to arrive, those who could drive themselves and others arrive in small groups walking from just down the street. Once everyone had arrived Scarlet greeted them with a sly grin, when asked about the night's activities she would shake her head, hold a finger to her lip, and say

"It's a secret, wait till later when it is a little darker," she then lead them to the living room where she had built a nostalgic fort with cushions, chairs and blankets and had laid out a buffet of junk food.

"While we wait let's sit back relax and watch some horror movies," she says opening her arms widely and dramatically,

"Nice setup you got hear red," archie says with a small smirk, archie and theo have been my neighbors since kindergarten. We had all lived close together back then but by now ari, eli, cleo and nash had all moved to the next suburb over sometime during middle school, nora and kai just sort of drifted apart when they left. That is why she decide to do this, as a final goodbye in a way, the last time that they could all get together and act like children before growing up.

After a few horrors, most the food is eaten and it is now dark enough that we can shut all curtains turn of the lights and have the whole house completely dark.

"Alright guys, gals and all my pals. Time for the last horah, tonight, we play murder train!" Scarlet says dramatically, she grins deviously down at her friends

"Y'all remember the rules?" she asks.

"Of course, but just in case can you go over them?" ari scoffs sheepishly.

"Alright who ever draws the king out of the cards in my hand is the murderer, don't tell anyone what you got the cards are returned and the lights go out the killer had to tap or squeeze the victim's shoulder and whisper your dead in their ear, once a body is found you yell body and all lights are turned on everyone gathers and we hold a meeting to try find the killer, if the killer is chosen correctly the game restarts if not we continue until they are found or until everyone is dead ant the killer is the last one left." scarlet explains holding out eight cards for everyone to pick from.

"Ready?" she asks, the group collectively nodding and handing cards back, she peaks at hers and smiles.

"Begin!" the lights are turned out and only the sounds of them scampering through the dark can be heard.

Scarlet wait behind in order to let her eyes adjust to the dark before she stealthily sneaks after her victims. She listens carefully at each door until finally coming up to the kitchen she hears shuffling. She peaks in and sees a figure struggling to get under the dining table to hide without making noise. She creeps up and taps them

"You are dead my friend," she whispers

"Dang should have know it would be you," ari mutters before laying down carefully.

Scarlet giggles then creeps off to find someone else. After a while she had managed to get four of her seven friends, that leaves three left to find

"I FOUND A BODY!" cleo yells from the living room. she runs back and join the group. Looking around she makes note that she had yet to catch cleo, nash and nora. Waiting another minute they decide the rest must be 'dead' and start.

"Ok so who wants to go first?" nora asks

"Well Scarlet was the slowest to get hear so she is either the killer and trying to throw us of or was hiding in a room further away from the crime scene, and cleo was first so she is either the killer or an unfortunate bystander." nora says making guese very much the same as back when we were kids, she was always the sort to make rational decisions.

"I vote cleo," Scarlet says

"Sorry cleo but so do, I" nora says, nash nods in agreement.

"No problem i'm not the killer so I guess that means i'm out till you find them or they find you good luck," she says sitting next to eli who was 'dead' on the sofa.

"Let the game continue!" cleo says. The lights go out and again we scatter. This time Scarlet immediately follows Nora, after a while she enters the bathroom and hides in the tub. Walking in behind her she holds her shoulder and says

"You are dead," she says her red hair falling over her eyes as she leans down to whisper it.

She then turns to find nash, the last victim standing.

She walks around the house for a good five minutes before she hears a loud ear piercing scream come from the bathroom, she smiles and jogs back.

"Your suppose to say I found a body nash, not scream bloody murder," scarlet says with a laugh as she walks the small room. She stops and blinks. Taking in the sight. There where she had left her in the tub, was nora. Only she wasn't just lying there waiting for the game to end, her raven black hair and punk rock attire was matted to her skin and stained red with the blood which poured from the large gashing wound shaping her smile to go from one ear to the other. Tears form in scarlet's eyes as she looks at her beloved friend painted with her once favorite colour, she couldn't bring herself to move any closer or any further away from the gruesome scene. She instead stood watching as nash held nora's limp body by the shoulders shaking it desperately hoping it was all just a prank.

all up the casualties were five of the eight, nora, ari, eli, archie and kai had all been brutally murdered during our game of murder. Scarlet, nash and cleo had all survived thanks to cleo calling the police when she had witnessed eli being suffocated by the killer, a renowned serial killer known in the media as J.C. they caught the man and he was sentenced for life. Funerals were held for each of them and after that Scarlet moved out, her nash and cleo lost contact and only got together on the anniversary of the horrible night to pay respects to their stolen lives' of their friends.

All this happened five years ago, Scarlet has since then despised the colour red, she could only ever think of the way it had painted the bodies of her friends, she had let her hair return to its natural white, she wore brown contacts to hide her eye colour, she could never look at the colour as the warm, bright colour she had once adored.