I walked into Leah and Jack's place, to see that they are making out on the couch like an old couple. They are the reason I can't do that with Ashlyn right now. I barge in, and I turn on the light. They stood up and looked in my direction.
"Okay, enough you two. Now, we need to find a way to get Ashlyn and Mads out of there before one of them gets dangerously killed because of your family!" I said to Leah, and she nodded, standing up out of bed, as she ran into the other room.
I raised my eyebrow at Jack, who decided to nod and change his outfit in the bathroom. I smiled, and then looked to see that Tyler was looking out at me from the place he is fishing at.
"What do you want?" I asked him, and he smirked.
"Your girlfriend." Tyler said, and I rolled my eyes, turning back around.
Leah and Jack are finally back. Good, because Tyler kind of annoyed me at this point in time. He is not getting Ashlyn. I swear to god.
"So, what do we do first?" Leah asked me, and I shrugged, looking at her.
"I don't know! What do you think we do first?" I asked her, and she thought about it for a second.
"I think that we should learn how to play card games!" Jack said, and Tyler, Leah, and I looked at him with faces of confusion. What the hell does playing card games have to do with getting my girlfriend and her childhood best friend out of that place?
"Because no one is saying it, what the hell do card games have to do with anything?" I asked him, and Jack sighed.
"You know, in Burnville, playing cards was a tradition. You see, in the rule book," Jack started saying, as he ran to the other room and grabbed the rule book he grabbed from Burnville. "You can make a bet, with a losing and a winning side. If you win, you bet something. If you lose, you offer to give something. We could--"
"We could say that if we win, then Mads and Ashlyn come out. If we lose, we can say that I go in there." I said, and everyone nodded, except Tyler, who was looking at me with a raised eyebrow.
"I offer to go in instead of her." Tyler said, and I widened my eyebrows.
"NO! She is MY girlfriend! I sacrifice myself for her!" I said, and Tyler rolled his eyes.
"Fine. Whatever you want, Damara!" Tyler said, and I rolled my eyes, smiling at Leah and Jack.
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We are in mine, Tyler's, and Alia's house, as Jack and Leah teach me how to play Poker like they do in Burnville in the olden days.
"You see, that king of hearts is known to be a bust! A bust is when you burn the other person's card, figuratively. You give them 40 damage." Leah said, and I nodded.
"And the Ace of hearts demolishes them by 30 damage. You need to know, you start off with 500 health in the entire game. It is very hard to win. I have tried several times, but it is difficult. It consists of three rounds, and if you two aren't dead by the third round, you have to go to sudden death. In sudden death, we randomly shuffle the deck and you take turns pulling cards until someone gets a heart. The person with hearts at the sudden death loses." Jack said, and I nodded.
It has been two hours, and I know a little bit more about the game. We haven't played yet, Leah and Jack just finished explaining it to me. Alia nodded, and I knew that with Alia's nods of approval, the game is legit and was played back in her day.
"Are you ready to play your own game? Both of you?" Leah asked me, and then looked up at Tyler.
"Yeah. I'm ready." Tyler said, and he got in the chair straight across me. I looked at him with annoyance and anger in my eyes.
"I am going to kick your ass." I said, and Tyler rolled his eyes.
"In your goddamn dreams!" Tyler replied, and Leah put the cards on the table.
Jack is the dealer and Leah is the watcher. In a game of BurnLash, there is always a watcher and a dealer. You start with five cards. When you place, you draw right after. So far, Tyler and I are both at 500 health.
"Okay." Jack said as he started to deal five cards to both Tyler and I.
"You can't look until we say so." Leah said, and I nodded, as Tyler was curious and wanted to look at the cards.
Then, after passing the five cards to us, Jack made two separate piles of twenty-one, so that we each have different decks to grab from throughout the game. I looked at him, and he looked at me.
"Okay, now you may grab your cards." Jack said, and I grabbed mine right away.
I have two Aces, the ace of spades and the ace of clovers. I have the 6 of diamonds, a 7 of hearts, and the queen of diamonds. I wonder what Tyler could have that would possibly beat me.
"I am excited for what's in store." Tyler said, and I rolled my eyes, placing my 7 of hearts.
He placed a 10 of hearts and took my card, putting it in the burn pile. He took five damage off of me. That fucking bitch. I decided to place the ace of spades and he placed the Ace of hearts. This literal dumb fuck. We put the cards in the burn pile. Right now, I am at about 460 damage. This is honestly a little bit annoying now.
"You know you won't hold onto her." He said, and I got even more annoyed.
I slammed an ace of clovers on the table and he placed the queen of spades. I rolled my eyes as he took my card and placed it in the burn pile. I am honestly so annoyed. In case you're wondering why the queen of spades beat the ace of clovers, well, think of the cards as if they were a kingdom. The clovers are the peasants, the spades are nobles/merchants, the diamonds are the soldiers/guards for the royalty, and the hearts are the royalty. Pretty much how it goes.
"Oh. I fucking will." I said, as I placed the ace of spades.
He rolled his eyes and placed the six of diamonds. I slammed the table, and he put my card in the burn pile. I am honestly so irritated right now. How did he get the best cards?!
---
The game ended, and Tyler won, by a lot. He was at 350 health when I died. I rolled my eyes and stared at him in his eyes, and then looked at Leah and Jack as they nodded at Tyler.
"Okay, Tyler is going to be the sacrifice. Sorry, Damara." Leah said, and I rolled my eyes.
"I do not care if I am shit at this game, I will practice and by the time we go and challenge her, I will win and I will get my girlfriend back myself!" I said, and Jack shook his head.
"No. Tyler beat you. He is going to be the one playing the game, and you are staying here." Jack said, and I slammed the table, walking into my room.
-Ashlyn-
I am missing Damara a lot. I want Damara. I know I do. It's not Tyler. It never will be. What kind of brain poison was I filled with? God I am so stupid.
"Hey, Mads, how long have I been in here?" I asked her, and she looked at the rope.
"You've been in here for a week and a half. I have been here for four days." Mads said, and I gulped.
In a week and a half, before I know it, I will get hung, and my friends won't even care if I die or not. They are all about them and poor them and crap. What about me! Aren't I worth saving! They're probably having a mental breakdown.
"I am scared. I don't want to die yet!" I said and Mads and I held hands the best we could.
Then, I hear something open. Like, the door. I look up and see it's Damara. She looks so beautiful, I could kiss her right now. I look down at the rope and try to squirm a little bit.
"Leah is a traitor. She's the one who locked me up in here!" Mads said, and I am so confused.
There's clearly some stuff that I don't know about. Some context or something. Damara puts her finger on her lip, telling us to be quiet. I nodded and she walked over to me, untying my rope and then untying Mads's rope. We ran out as fast as I could, to make sure that the triplets didn't catch us.
---
We are finally at home and I feel amazing. Well, not AT HOME itself. I am with Tyler, Alia, Leah, Jack, Mads, and Damara. I hugged Damara first when I got home and Tyler just raised his eyebrow. He should know that I love Damara and not him. Damara has been there.
"How the fuck did you get them out without being caught?" Alia asked us, and I shrugged, looking over at Damara.
"I grabbed one of their invisibility potions. They are horrible at hiding their spells. I have more invisibility spells for you guys. It probably won't be needed, but it's there just in case." Damara said, as she pulled out 14 bottles, I am assuming there are invisibility potions in them.
"Nice job, babe." I said, and I leaned in to kiss her. I can tell that Tyler is bothered, but the thing is that his opinion doesn't matter. I need to let him down gently, I just don't know how to do that yet.
I go into one of the guest rooms that is filled with orange just for me. I smiled and I laid in the bed, as I didn't get burnt in any way. I feel great, you know. My birthday is in about seven months, and I will be able to control the entire kingdom with one finger. I will control who gets what colors, with their background, and their life stories, and where their family came from. My future kid will be the next orange, so I am not going to pick that for anyone. No worries about that. I keep thinking about how my friends are going to pay for the repairs of BurnVille and how we are going to make it a place for everyone to live in.
"Okay, so, how exactly do we defeat Dysio?" I asked everyone, and Damara showed me this fancy glass dagger. It doesn't look like normal glass.
"We need this. This is going to help us. It isn't exactly going to kill them, but it will banish them to another realm that they are going to be locked in forever. Their own personal hell. Trapped in an old day where the day just nonstop repeats itself. We will make sure it's the worst day of their lives." Leah said, and I raised my eyebrows, looking at everyone else.
"That sounds exactly like Vampire Diaries." I said, and everyone looked at me.
"No one knows what that is." Tyler said, and I can tell he is annoyed that I am dating his cousin. It isn't my fault that I love her, and that I am happy with her.
---
He should find someone who makes him happy, I just can't help him with that. I shrugged and walked to the fridge, getting myself something to drink. I am thinking about milk. I grab the milk jug and I see Tyler walking towards me. He is not that attractive. I don't even know why I kissed him back. STUPID ASHLYN!
I walked away before he could walk to me and I sighed, turning on Vampire Diaries on TV, because why not. Damon and Elana are the epic love story. At first, she starts with Stefan and I honestly like her with Stefan. He's a sweetheart, and will do anything to protect her at any cost, but she will do whatever Elena wants, and not treat her like a little puppy dog baby. I sighed and I just kept watching it. NO! Stefan and Elena broke up!!!!! STUPID KATHERINE WITH HER TRICKS AND SEDUCTION! Hey, Damon loves you. Why don't you just fucking settle for him.. Like goddamn. That is what I did in seventh grade when I couldn't get the boy I like to notice me. I settled for the one I didn't like, and well, it became one of the best relationships in my entire life.
I really want popcorn, but I don't want to get it. Eh, it can wait. Vampire Diaries is so much more important, even though it is the second time I am watching it. I cried at the end of season six. Elena being stuck in that coma hurt so much. Damon even wanted to kill Bonnie just to get his true love back. I see Tyler walking down the stairs and just looking at me. I shook my head and I looked back at the TV, as I just ignored his horrible looks and his horrible inflated ego about himself.
"Hey, Ash. How's that show?" Tyler asked, and I rolled my eyes.
"Just leave me alone already." I said, and Tyler walked towards me, and he grabbed my hand, as he put his mouth to my ear, and I rolled my eyes.
"Not. A. Chance." Tyler whispered in my ear, and he walked away. I rolled my eyes, and laid even more back on my couch.
I sighed as I looked through my phone and I saw that I got a text from my older brother. He hasn't been in my life the past five months because he isn't actually my fucking brother. His text said that him and my little sister miss me. I rolled my eyes because they don't know anything about what is going on. They don't know that the color society is jeopardized.
"Come here!" Damara said, and I ran up to the room. I sighed, looking on her TV, at the news. I raised my eyebrows and I don't know what to do about what is said next.