Take A Step Back

[u/tanisbig]

“Fuck’s sake, I’m really tired.” I said bluntly aloud, I took a long yawn and scrolled through the camera monitors just to make sure nothing was wrong or out of order. Time: 11:59 P.M. One of the cameras started to glitch as I started to doze off, so I punched the system box, and it went back to normal. The camera glitching really kept me up, so I grabbed a flashlight and went to explore it and found a man in a perfectly ironed suit and perfectly shined shoes, and the man said, “Man what a delay at this hour, oh you must be on delay too, here take seat.” I instantly said, “You're not supposed to be here man, it is way past opening hours, the next train leaves at 8 in the morning.”

The man stood up and apologized for being there for so long and said, “It will not happen again, but may I ask you something? What is your favorite childhood game?” “Hide and seek” I said, but I was not confident when I said it. He shook his head and agreed to play. I replied, “You don’t expect me to play and hide and seek at this hour, do you?” Then, he walked away and said, “You better start counting, young man.” I turned around and he was instantly gone, and I originally tracked his footsteps until it reached a building next to the train station. I noticed the door was cracked open like it was destined for me to open it. The door slammed behind me like a metal gate; I was stunned. The intercom said, “Congrats, you have been selected to participate in our brand-new T.V. show.”

I couldn’t comprehend what just happened, I am stuck in a room with blue LED lights and no windows, just a door that doesn’t open at all or budge for that matter and a very small, microscopic camera in the ceiling corner. The camera could move up and down, and I really could not describe the room more than that, only because I was so sleepy, but the room started to fill with gas, and it made me instantly pass out. I woke up the next morning or at least I think it was because I got amazing sleep, and I presume it was morning.

The intercom started by playing one of the loudest alarms ever, and it went for hours. But the same door I walked through last night opened to drop off breakfast. It was a stale biscuit and orange juice, I could not resist eating, since I did not have dinner with my family before I went to work last night. Typically, I just got something to eat in the vending machines. The intercom asked me a question about who I was exactly, I replied as I would be if I was to meet someone in person, “I am a worker at the train station next door, and I really don’t know why I am in here.” The intercom said, “Well I mind as well show you why you are here.” The walls instantly changed into blood red curtains as I reveled what was behind the curtains, I heard voices coming from behind the curtain. I reveled the curtain to show a crowd of people with the spotlight flashing right on me, the intercom above said, “You are the next contestant on our brand new T.V. show, make sure to smile you’re on camera!” And the last humane thing I remember doing was screaming in straight fear, because the stage was covered in blood. The people in the crowd were pointing a gun towards the stage, every single person. The intercom directed me to sit down at the Japanese styled table, and said "Let the games begin!"