•//forever alone\\• player 230

II

ah, it was my best friend. I breathed a sigh of relief, and said hi to her. she, as usual, started to babble. «you know that a really hot guy made me play and gave me some money cause I won? plus he gave me his number... he must have really liked me!» as she told me, I walked out the door and started heading to work, with her following me.

after a while, she showed me the card the man had given her, and from there I froze. I snatched it from her hands, and looked at it carefully. she got nervous «what are you doing, give it back to me! he gave it to me, not to you» «do you want to call the number?» I asked, she answered yes immediately.

«but... what exactly do you have to do after calling the number?» «I don't know, you play games to get a lot of money, that's it.» she replied dryly. I wanted to ask her more questions, but I was very late for work. I quickly said goodbye to my friend and ran.

I threw open the office door, I "worked" there so to speak, my partners and boss treated me like a slave. seeing that I was late they got pissed off. It wasn't the first time I arrived after the scheduled time, all that was missing was for them to fire me.

I was unemployed. It seems that he had no use for me anymore. In fact, there was already another girl on top of one of the guys' legs, who was kissing him. she was also dressed as a cleaning lady. as I walked slowly back home, I thought about those notes I found in my room. was calling the right choice?

I thought about it the whole way home: I was in debt, the only money I had was what the mysterious guy gave me, so it was the only option I had to live normally. I got home, took the card and dialed the number. I called it.

a voice answered, asking for my name and age. I was silent for a moment, then answered. “kim geneva, 25.” I started to shake a little, my leg going up and down, nervous. the mysterious voice said «welcome, miss kim geneva, you've been accepted. please make sure to be here tonight at 10 p.m.» plus a place.

the place was quite far away, but I didn't complain, maybe he would have rejected my request to enter the game, I didn't want to risk it. the line went dead. I put the phone down and sighed, lying down on the bed and making myself comfortable.

it was 10 in the morning, i still had a lot of time left. for a while I scrolled on my phone, tried to draw or read but the motivation to do so was non-existent. I was listening to the music until my friend called me «hello?» «hiii love, I called the number and I got accepted! they're picking me up at like 10 something.» before she could continue to say anything else, I said something, «I got accepted too.»

on the other end of the line it was silent, it was disturbing. after 10 seconds my friend spoke «what?» «they gave me the number too. i called and they accepted me. they're coming to pick me up at 10 too. maybe we can go wait together.» the sudden silence made me think that she wasn't happy that I was going to that place too.

«oh well, at least I have someone to gossip to and show off my hear me outs. just don't steal the guys, okay?» she said. «don't worry, they won't even look at me anyway.» she chuckled a bit. we then decided to go out together for a few hours.

she was laughing carefree, I was still worried about what would happen at 10 in that place. «no but that guy who gave me the ticket was really fine, I can't wait to see him again.» she continued to say, almost in love. I wasn't surprised by this, she had a crush on every new handsome boy she met.

I, on the other hand, was the type of person who, as soon as I fell in love with someone, couldn't get them out of my head. we were complete opposites, but as they say, "opposites attract."

we had known each other since kindergarten, and from there we became inseparable. as we grew up our attitudes changed, she was a spoiled girl who always wanted to be right; while I was basically a half-depressed girl with anger issues.

thanks to her extroversion, however, she introduced me to new friends and even boys, but I was never attracted to any of them. even if I got together with someone, she would fall in love with him and ask me to leave him or he would outright cheat on me. (true story)

11pm, my friend drunk as fuck, I took her to the place where she was supposed to wait for the game guys; I found out they were different. I let her lie down, and hoping she didn't run away somewhere, I walked towards my meeting place.

I was freezing, I wasn't even wearing a jacket. I looked around, wondering. what if they were kidnappers and had tricked me? what if they wanted to kill me? those thoughts were stopped when a van approached me, stopping so I could see the person in the front seats.

the window rolled down, revealing a person dressed in red with a black mask. it nodded towards the door, as it opened. you couldn't see what was inside, I swallowed and went in, my heart was beating like crazy. As soon as I sat down, I glimpsed the shadow of what looked like a person, and the door closed instantly.

then a voice began to speak to me, an almost mechanical voice. «oh, kim geneva, what trouble have you gotten yourself into?»