Have you ever met someone that's so nice that it feels like....there not even human? They're just so nice it feels like it's all a big lie. Are they really that nice? Or are they just faking it? Why would they fake it? Are they doing it to get something out of you? What would they want? Money? Attention? Or is it something even worse? Why?
After I got hit with what felt like a bat, all I could see was darkness.
𝘸𝘩𝘺?
𝘸𝘩𝘺 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘵𝘳𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘩𝘶𝘳𝘵 𝘮𝘦?
𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘥𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵?
𝘐 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘨𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘮𝘦?
𝘐 𝘮𝘦𝘵 𝘮𝘺 𝘧𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘥 𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘐 𝘸𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘰𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘺.
𝘚𝘰 𝘸𝘩𝘺 𝘥𝘪𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘱 𝘨𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘮𝘺 𝘸𝘢𝘺?
𝘐𝘴 𝘪𝘵 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧𝘪𝘴𝘩?
𝘐𝘴 𝘪𝘵 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘥𝘺?
𝘞𝘏𝘠!?
𝘞𝘏𝘠 𝘔𝘌!?
*SLAP*
"h-h-huh!?"
"It's time to wake up! It's morning already!"
"Cmon, you don't want to lose another finger, do you!?"
Hearing those words woke me up like a bullet to the head.
"HUH, WHAT F-F-FINGER!"
"HAHA, JUST KIDDING!"
Fearing he did cut them off, I quickly tried to look down to see, but...
"h-h-huh!?'
𝘸𝘩𝘺 𝘤𝘢𝘯'𝘵 𝘐 𝘮𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘮𝘺 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘥?
"Oh, guess you finally noticed!"
"WHAT DID YOU DO!"
"Whoa there, I was just getting there!"
"So anyway, have you ever seen those movies where some guy gets tortured on a wooded chair!"
"Yea, you get the idea, right!"
"HAHA!"
"n-n-no."
"Please stop!"
"What's wrong! Scared!"
"HAHA!"
"WHY!?"
"why you ask!"
"well..."
"WHEN SOMEONE OFFERS MONEY, I'LL DO ANYTHING! HAHAHA!"
"o-o-offered."
"yes, did you not hear me right!"
"Right then, if I don't get things started I might lose this job."
"h-h-huh w-w-wait!"
"I CAN OFFER YOU MONEY TOO!"
"oh."
"HOW MUCH DID HE OFFER, I CAN PAY IT IN DOUBLE!"
As I said that, he started to walk, he slowly got closer and closer. He got to my face and whispered in my ear saying
"oh, and where is all that money gonna come from?"
"huh?"
"Your poor Jackson! You have nothing!"
"t-t-that's not true!"
"oh, so where's the money."
"t-t-today I found a lott-"
"You mean this!"
I quickly looked to see what he was talking about. He had the lottery ticket I had found. He was swinging it from side to side.
"w-w-where did you get that!"
"Oh, is someone's mad!"
"HAHA!"
"Look kid, the guy who hired me said he would give me half of it if I killed you!"
"k-k-kill me."
Hearing those words hit harder than anything I had ever felt.
"Hmmm, if I heard right, you said if I let you go you would double what they offered me."
"Yea that's right!"
He intensely looked at me with a creepy grin on his face.
"Are you offering the ticket for your life?"
"u-u-umm."
"yes or no!?"
"y-y-ye-"
"HMM, I DIDN'T HEAR YOU!"
"YES!"
"good."
"But you know."
"I can't just let you go."
"This is where I kill all my victims."
"I W-W-WONT TELL!"
"yea, I don't know."
"Please, I won't tell a soul!"
"Oh, I know!"
"I CAN JUST CUT OFF ONE OF YOUR FINGERS!"
"m-m-my f-f-finger!"
"WHAT? BUT I OFFERED ALL MY MONEY!"
"Yea, money is nice, but hurting someone is just much better."
"hmm, so which finger should I cut first?"
"Oh, I know!"
"I'll just cut them all off!"
"HAHA!"
"A-A-ALL, WAIT NO!"
"Fine, relax."
"Let's see. Where did I put it?"
He searched and searched, I thought he was searching for something to cut off my fingers with.
"There it is!"
𝘈 𝘤𝘰𝘪𝘯?
"Ok, this is how it's gonna work!"
"I'll flip the coin ten times. If it lands on heads that's one finger gone."
"Is that fair enough for you?"
"n-n-"
"Just kidding, I don't care what you think!"
"Ok, here we go!"
*Toss* *Flip* *Drop*
𝘛𝘢𝘪𝘭𝘴
"Guess you got lucky. Ok, here we go again!"
He flipped the coin ten times and out of those ten times, it was head...3 times.
"Man, guess luck was on your side this time!"
"But you weren't lucky enough! HAHA!"
"OK, HERE WE GO!"
He started off with my left hand. Every time he cut one-off, I felt like death would have been a much better option. Every time I heard and felt a finger being removed, felt as if I lost something precious. The crunching noise that would echo around the room and the blood that would splatter across the room, painting the floor red, just made the experience much worse. After he got to the 2 fingers, my brain went blank. I still screamed, but it wasn't me, I had already disappeared into the red of the blood.
"AHHHH!"
"ALL DONE!"
He finally finished cutting them off, but the blood didn't stop. After a minute I finally regained consciousness...and that's when I finally started to feel the pain.
"Wasn't that fun!?"
"AHHH! Make it stop!"
"Stop with the screaming! Here take this to help with the bleeding!"
"Jeez, now get out of here before I change my mind!"
Right as he said, he untied me and I got out of the wooden chair and ran.
"Wait, before you go! do you wanna know something!?"
I didn't want to stop, I wanted to keep going, but what he said made me stop in an instant.
"Wanna know who hired me?"
I slowly started to look back and listened to what he said
"His name was, umm. Right, his name was Parker!"
"If you know a Paker you might wanna be careful. Or you might end up here again."
"And I'm not telling you this cause I'm kind. I'm doing this because if you get revenge on this guy, then it would also benefit me."
He was telling me this, but I wasn't paying attention. I had stopped listening after he said that name and started to walk away.
I thought I would feel relieved walking out of that hell, but hearing what he said felt worse than when I was getting my fingers cut off.
I walked and walked, I didn't know where I was, but I walked. After a while, I made it to some street. The sun started to shine down on everything, making everything colorful, but it all looked black and white to me.
Minutes felt like hours. I walked and walked until I had reached somewhere I knew.
"t-t-this is the spot where I found it."
"T-T-THAT PIECE OF PAPER THAT RUINED EVERYTHING FOR ME!"
"huh?"
"OHH, THERE HE IS!"
I turned around to see who it was, but...
"Hey!"
....
"There you ar-"
"Whoa, what happened to your fingers!"
...
"Hey, are you listening!?"
"who are you?"
"Ohh so you can speak!"
"Right, anyways. We were filming a video yesterday."
"and?"
"Well, we were filming a prank video yesterday and you were one of the guys who fell for the prank."
"Anyways, do you still have it?"
"have what?"
"The ticket! The lottery ticket from yesterday!"
"oh, that."
"Yea, do you still have it?"
"so it was yours?"
"Yea, we bought some fake tickets online so that we could make this video."
"so it was a fake?"
"Hmm, oh yea! Who would be stupid enough to drop something that valuable!"
"ha."
"Did you say something?"
"it was a fake."
"It was a fake."
"It was a fake!"
"IT WAS A FAKE!"
"HAHAHA!"
"hehe, yea p-p-pretty funny right."
"HAHA!"
"so...anywa-"
"SO IT WAS A FAKE! HAHAHA! SO THIS IS YOUR DOING!"
"huh?"
"YOU MADE ME GO THRU SO MUCH!"
"Wha- Calm down man!"
"OHH, BUT I AM CALM! HAHA!"
"OHH, I KNOW MAYBE I SHOULD CUT YOUR FINGERS OFF TOO!"
"HAHA! THEN WE WOULD BE EVEN! RIGHT!"
"wha- cut fingers. Look man, I'm just looking for the ticket! If someone got hurt because of some fake ticket, that would be on me!"
"WHA- HURT! HAHA! THAT WOULD BE BAD! BUT IT'S TOO LATE NOW! HEHE!"
"Wha- Look, never mind you can keep the ticket! I'm gonna go!"
"OHH, LEAVING ALREADY! BUT WE'RE JUST GETTING STARTED!"
"HUH? GUESS HE ALREADY LEFT."
As the sun hit my face as I walked around the streets, I felt relieved. Relieved that I had lost everything.
"I DON'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT ANYTHING ANYMORE! BECAUSE I ALREADY LOST EVERYTHING! HAHA!"
But why does this feel familiar?
Why does it feel similar?
Has something similar happened to me before?
And without thinking, I had walked into the woods and stumbled upon what seemed like an abandoned house...