The Werewolf Game

Chapter one

I hold my mother tight in my arms, crying. I'm scared, I have an awful premonition...

At exactly 8 pm, all the sixteen years old must go to their room, alone.

The monitors will then pick, by drawing lots, twenty teenagers to bring them to an abandoned village where they'll play the werewolf game.

I've been watching that show since I'm a kid, and the older I got, the creepier I thought it was. But still, I never missed an episode. It fascinated me. And I analysed every detail, in order to be the best if I was selected.

Unless they all had the same idea ...

My stepfather, Parik, kisses my forehead with tears in his eyes. Since my mother and him got married, after my father died, we weren't close, because before being my stepfather, he was my uncle, my father's brother. And now I regret not spending more time with him...

Mom gives me food and let me go out to say goodbye to my friends, so if I'm chosen, I'll have no regrets.

My Doc Martins sink into the mud. I breathe the wet air. A few drops fall on my face.

I enter the Main Street of Commerce. I say hello to some of my mother's friends, and their answers are sad smiles, to show their compassion.

I exchange my food for money to an old woman who also tells us false auguring. My plans are to go with Eva and Bob, my best friends, to the rich's amusement park.

When we see each other, we hug, trying not to cry. We're all sixteen, and I'm afraid one of us will have to play.

"I love you so much yo crazy girls !"says Bob.

We weep our tears away and call a cab. When he arrives, we only have nine hours left before "going to sleep"...

When we arrive, thirty minutes later, we pay the taxi driver with the money I won, and Bob puts his arms over our shoulders.

I'm blushing. Bob is handsome, clever, kind, and romantic. He is basically the perfect man. Eva and I are in love with him since we're fourteen. I fell in love with Bob when he started spending all his time with me after my father's death. Eva sometimes came but she had to take care of her five siblings since her mother was pregnant with the sixth.

We pay the entrance with Eva's money. Bob plays some kind of gun game. He easily wins three golden rings. It's crazy that they give such expensive things... But after all, this park is for the riches...

Bob gives one ring to each of us. 

"If one of us is chosen, he or she'll have a souvenir of the other two."

Eva and I hug him. I'm afraid I'm gonna be chosen for the game of course, but I'm even more scared that one of my friends is going to...

We then walk in a dark room. Bob starts reading something. I try to act normal but I can't read. I preferred not to go to school, so I could win money, and now I regret it.

Bob turns to us and explains that this is a special laser game : we have laser guns and a vest, but in that vest there is a heart that the players must take from their enemy.

Bob pays and I wait for more players, while Eva is going to the toilets.

Bob sits next to me and take my hand.

"If I'm chosen, I want you to know ... I mean, I'd like to tell you..."

Is he going to say he likes me too ?! My heart is beating faster.

He scratches the back of his head.

"It's hard to say... I love Eva, but I can't tell her. Could you please let her know... And tell me if she shares my feelings..."