Chapter twenty two

I woke up a while later, not knowing how long I've slept for. I started rocking in the chair, admiring the scenery of the library and the outdoors. Sitting for fifteen minutes before getting up to go get a little snack and something to drink. I got up and walked to the food room. I met with Kylo in the room. No one was there, but us. I looked for pickles to snack on. I grabbed some pickles, that someone brought from the store, bottled water and ate some pickles with Kylo.

He took two more of the pickles and ate them. I didn't care as long as I got my snack. I kept eating my pickles when I looked at the time. It was close to noon. I washed the plate and put it away. "Less than twenty-four hours and we leave."

"I know. Can't wait to see my family."

We headed back to the library. Instead of sitting down and rocking, we played cards. We've played crazy 8's Speed, War, and Uno. When Samantha came to join us, we played Cheat. Hunter and Ethan came in and we dealt with them to play cheat and uno. I remember when they came back from their trip, we all played cards. Man that was fun.

We played for a while then. All of us together, no one going their separate ways or alone. Having fun before tonight, and the last person dies, then the rest of us goes and lives our lives. We put the cards away and took out Catan. I was red, Kylo was blue, Hunter was green, Samantha was yellow, and Ethan was black. I love this game so much. We played for hours together, forgetting that one of us is going to die tonight. We headed over to the gym and went to the storage room to see what we could do. Couldn't find anything to do. We gave up and left.

We all headed outside. Our last full day here, then tomorrow we leave at noon, get our breakfast, get all packed up and ready to go. Also taking the body to the dump and calling the garbage man. I started getting a headache. It was pounding really bad. I leaned against the wall and told them that I'll catch up to them soon. I went in to get a glass of water. My headache went away and I left for them. I saw them in the field and I ran. Getting there, Kylo, Ethan and Hunter are laughing. "Thank goodness you're here. I was lonely." Samantha said.

We watched people go by and the cars. We counted how many trucks went by. So far only fifteen passed. While we were watching the cars, I saw a pink jeep go by. I think of all the good times my family sees that pink jeep. We would get excited over it and warn the others. I laid down on the grass. Ethan gets tackled down to the ground by Kylo. I giggle to myself. The sun was shining down on me and it blinded me so badly, that I had to seal my eyes shut. I turned my head away from the sun.

I laid my hands on my tummy and just stayed, listening to all the sounds and aware of my surroundings. I sit up and I see Kylo running up to me. "Everyone left. I came to pick you up." He literally picked me up and I wrapped my arm around his shoulder. "Okay, you can put me down now."

He did just that. We walked to the doors talking. "You know, these past two weeks brought us all together. I mean closer than ever. We used to go our separate ways and stick with our friend group."

"I know. It's amazing how two weeks can bring us closer than we usually are." Kylo answered in a deep voice. we were at the door and went in.

It was nearly dinner time at this point, but no one was really that hungry. I stayed with them for the rest of the day. Apart when I had to go to the washroom and had to eat. We just talked. "Remember the first night, everyone was so scared and now we just have to leave." Hunter said. I do remember that day. We were all freaking out to who's going to die and who's going to live. I cried myself to sleep the first few nights. How the second night I met the killer. My first kiss. How I wanted to hurt him the night I met him.

I will always look back on those memories. It was a fun day with everyone. Soon we'll be able to go home, one of them won't be coming home with us. It has been a very long/short day. You know how it feels so long but when you keep yourself entertained, it feels so short? Well that's how it felt. It was close to seven and everyone went their own way. I went to my room to read for a bit. After that, I went on my phone to text my friend Katrina.

Hey what's up. Tomorrow I'm coming home.

Nothing much and that's great! When do you come back tomorrow?

Afternoon. So after twelve, the survivors will return.

Glad you're still alive. How many people are left?

Including me is five. Someone will die tonight and that will be it for dying, and the four survivors including the killer will go home.

That'll be nice.

Gotta go, see you tomorrow.

See you tomorrow, bye.

It was nice talking to her, letting her know that I'm safe. I snapped one of my other friends, Cora, and I told her the news. I put my phone away to get a snack. Once I got there, I made myself some cheese, crackers and peanut butter, then left. I went back to my room to snack on. On the way, I had to eat or I'll get mad. I continued eating once I got back to my room. I shoved it down in less than ten minutes. It was getting dark and I knew I had to go to bed, but I wasn't tired. So I stayed up, and the time was almost 9:30.

I didn't hear anyone awake, so I assumed that either everyone is in their rooms doing something, or they're asleep. Everything was peaceful. I was getting a bit tired, so I laid down and closed my eyes for a bit.

I woke up in the middle of the night, wide awake. I heard a yell coming from in the pod. I got up to see what happened. I walked down the hallway and all I see from the hallway is blood shooting from the right. I ran to see why there was blood scattered- "Oh my god." I whisper. There lies Hunter with his head smashed. "What are you doing up at this time?" I look up and there's the killer walking over to me. "Is the killing done?" I asked in a hushed voice. "Yes. Yes it is." I hugged him with tears rolling down my face. The game is over and we'll be able to go home in the afternoon. See all of our families. I hugged him so tightly. He held me close to him.

We continued hugging, then he stopped and looked up and towards the main hallway. "What-" "Shh." he said, laying a finger on my mouth. He never did this so this means something is up. I hugged him and wrapped his arms around my head and back. I wanted to ask what's going on, but I'm afraid he won't answer, or shush me again. So instead I stayed silent, I'll ask him in the morning. He kept looking in that direction, although I could tell he wanted to break free. I shook him. "Killer."

"Yeah," he slowly turned away to look at me. "Is everything ok?"

He looked back, then at me. "Yeah . . . Yeah everything's ok."

"You seem cautious."

"No, everything's fine. Don't worry about it."

I heard a yell. Not just any yell from the others, a blood curdling yell. I gasped and jumped back. The killer kept his grasp on me, holding tight. He looked in the same direction. "Killer." My voice shaking, clutching him, looking in the same direction. It kept going and going, then I think back on when I had those screams in my head. I realized that those were the same screams.

It stopped suddenly. He started walking towards my room and brought me with him. He closed the door and brought me to the bed. He laid down with me and we fell asleep instantly.

Tomorrow, we will all get to go home.

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