5-Beginning

          This was the plan: I would contact Mr. Gunter and beg him to join the games, lying to him about me losing my 5 grand in the casino the other day. After he lets me join the games I’ll sign up and secretly meet up with Linda. She’ll tell me what game #1 will be, as well as how to beat it, since she will know what the game is before I do. She told me there are about 20 games that are shuffled and then 8 games are picked at random at the beginning of the games. Linda will be there with her father and other rich psychos when the games are picked. There’s a short intermission between each of the 8 games, during which I will „go to the toilet“, in front of which Linda will be waiting for me. After I find out what the game is I will return and win the game! I’ll do that during each intermission. I don’t need to win every game, but 3 or 4 would really hurt their wallets, so that will be my goal.

          To win 3 or 4 games.

          That’s all I need...

          I contacted Mr. Gunter and begged him to join the games. He let me, just as Linda and I predicted. He said that I was lucky, because this was the last day before the games begin...

          The lincoln came to pick me up half an hour later. The driver and I were silent the whole time. „We’re here.“, were the only words that came out of the driver.

          The apartment was huuuuge! Like, enormous! It was black with tinted windows. I think I counted around 15 floors before we entered.

          As soon as I entered I was impressed by how luxurious everything looked; the big statue of a fallen knight in the middle, the big, golden ceiling on top; the expensive-looking red leather seats near the receprion-thing or whatever it’s called, then, there were four modern elevators -- 2 left -- 2 right. There was a big glass wall and transparent doors that led to a big bar.

          God, I wish I was rich enough to stay in this kind of an apartment just one day...

          I didn’t have that much time to look around, because the driver pulled me to the nearest elevator. We went to the 13th floor. „The first 12 are for the guests.“, he explained.

          When we arrived I was shocked to see what was there. 10 rooms that looked nothing like the entrance. These rooms, they looked... similiar to my apartment! That’s when I realized this floor was for us: the players...

          When the elevator closed the driver gave me a note that had a single number written on it: 9. „Your room.“, he simply said. „Your key is inside the room. You have 4 roomates. Don’t worry, there are 5 beds inside.“, he turned around and put a blue card in a machine next to the elevator. I heard a *beep* and the elevator opened. The driver left.

          Out of curiosity I tried going into the elevator. It didn’t work. Not without that blue card. We were basicly trapped here! But I guess they had to do that to prevent someone from finding out what the games are before the games even begin. Too bad they didn’t predict someone would make friends with Linda, hehe...

          Well, it was time for me to meet my roomates...

          I entered my room and saw a key on a table with a label #5. I guess that meant ’roomate #5’ or something like that.

          I took the key and opened the doors that led to, what seemed to be a living room. 3 other people were there.

          „Hi!“, said a guy that was about my age. He had a black hair and he wore a pair of black fingerless gloves with two red lines coming from top to bottom. He also wore some bluetooth headphones and a cotton brown jacket.

          „Hi, my name is Ken.“, I said.

          „I’m Axel. Nice to meet you. The fat guy on my right who’s eating pringles is Boris.“ , Boris looked and waved at me; „He and I signed up together. We found out about the games 2 years ago, but only now did we get the courage to actually join. What about you, Ken?“, Axel asked me. He seemed like a pretty chill dude.

          Thanks God to that! I was afraid that all of my roomates will be drunkheads or assholes. Or, hell, both! But Axel and Boris seemed to be cool guys. I’m not sure about the third guy, tho. When I entered he looked at me with an angry look in his eyes, then he moved his sight from me.

          „I was in debt when this guy called Mr. Gu...Mr. G. told me about the games.“, I decided not to tell them that I knew Mr. Gunter’s name, nor to mention that I knew Linda. They were my competition afterall...

          „Yeah, I thought so... We’re in a bit of debt, too. Boris owes around 8 grand to some guy called Noah Balley or something like that, while I owe 12k to a guy whose bike I totaled with my car about a month ago. Also I’m, like, 2 or 3 grand in rent debt or something. This is my chance to at least pay the damn rent, sooo...“

          Just as Axel finished talking someone entered the room.

          She was wearing a dark red-black coat and a dark purple dress-thing... I’m sorry, I have no idea what female clothes are called, haha... Anyway... she had mid-sized brown hair and a pair of glasses. Also she was hot, not as hot as Linda, tho.

          „Oh, a new roomate...“, she said. „Haha, what’s your name, loser?“

          Ok, so she was a thot. „Kenneth.“, I said with disgust. I don’t know why this got me so mad, but whatever.

          „Janneth. Stop messing with them.“, said that guy who was quiet all the time. „We both know we’ll be enemies as soon as the games start, yet these fools are still acting all friendly.“

          He stood up as he said: „I’ll see ya at the games.“, he walked towards the bedroom. „Oh yeah“, he added before he entered the bedroom, „I do not wish you good luck.“

          He slammed the bedroom door shut.

          „Haha, he’s right. Well, I’ll also go to sleep, since the games will start around midnight. See ya, losers!“, Janneth said as she went to slee-WAIT THE GAMES START AT MIDNIGHT!? Crap, I thought I’ll have a bit more time before they start.

          „Yeah, it’s smart to get some sleep before the games begin...“, Axel spoke to me. „I-I didn;t know they started at midnight...“, I replied.

          „Oh! Well that’s understandable, since you just came here 10 minutes ago. All of us were here since yesterday or two days ago, so they informed us on time...“

          „Should we also go to sleep, Axel?“, Boris asked just as he finished the pringles.

          „Yeah, we should.“, Axel replied, then he turned to me: „Ken, I would advice you to also get some sleep. Also... good luck, mate! I hope we won’t be too much trouble for each other, haha!“

          „Yeah, I hope so, too.“, I smiled. „But actually I won’t go to sleep, yet, I have to... find somebody.“

          „Oh, ok. Good luck in that, then. Bye!“

          I exited the room and started looking for that guy, Josh. I looked for 15 minutes but with no success. Half the doors were locked, and in the rooms which had unlocked doors Josh was nowhere to be seen. That being said, I didn’t just waste my time, since I saw about half the players...

          Most of them looked like standard poor failures, so I wasn’t worried about them. There were a few I was worried about, tho:

·       A girl, not older then 19, who was dressed all in bright yellow – I’ll call her Yellow.

·       A guy with moustache – I don’t know, he lookes like a gambling master, I’ll call him Moustache-Man.

·       Then there are, of course, Boris, Axel, Janneth and the fourth roomate.

          I returned to my room and went to bed.

          Who knows what will happen at midnight...

          Man, I hope Josh is here... He’s the only guy I have faith won’t betray me. Well... maybe him and Axel, I’m not sure about Boris, tho...

          But... oh well...

          We’ll see...