Twisted

Chapter 18

Bonnie watched as Janet started to prepare for the sacrifice.
The thing that worried Bonnie the most is it seemed all too natural
to Janet. Like she'd done it a million times or something.
Bonnie shuddered.
Janet placed the knives on the table.
She ordered Emma to get the jars out.
It was like watching a mad scientist at work.
She hardly said a thing except to yell orders at Emma
every once in a while.
Emma looked as though she hated having orders yelled at her.
Bonnie knew how she felt.
Bonnie could see the team of the two weren't seeing eye to eye with one
another.
She took this as her chance to talk to Emma.
Bonnie looked at Janet.
Bonnie could tell she was no longer there with them and probably didn't even see them.
She walked over to Emma, keeping her eye on Janet the whole way.
" Don't you hate it when she bosses you around?"
"Oh my God, Bonnie, she's been doing it for eight months now. We started this
game only about a year ago. None of this stuff is real. I found this room one night
when I was bored in my room with nothing to do. It's actually the gardeners room. That's
why all this stuff is down here."
"Of course," Bonnie giggled, "That's what it looks like!"
"They keep everything down here that they have extra of. Janet and I just cleaned up everything
and then we invented this stupid scavenger game. We made up a deck of cards and we'd have to go to
different parts of the hospital to find things. We'd move up level to level to level. Right now
she's at the sun level. I started noticing that Janet started taking this game a little too
seriously about ten months ago."
Bonnie nodded.
"See, you have to bring gifts to the Gods. That circle and star on the floor signifies the center of the
Gods. The gift first starts out as something small. Then, it keeps getting bigger and bigger and harder
and harder each level as you go up."
"Oh my God! Janet's been lost in a game!" Bonnie was a little shocked. Janet was always the
level headed one, how did it get to be this point?
"See, in the first level, we both had to bring a lock of hair. I bought one from one of the wigs
off the cancer patients. She cut one off of a person. It brought her up to the second level faster
than I. Then I not only had to do one more thing for the first level I also had to do a second
level find. So it took me more time. That's why I'm not as powerful or as high up as Janet.
I started to notice that things were going wrong when we got up to level four."
"What's level four?" Bonnie said getting angry.
"We had to bring blood on a knife as a gift to the Gods. Now mind you, we could substitute blood
for red juice or ketchup if we needed to. I went and pricked my finger and brought my blood on a
knife first."
"What did Janet do?"
"I think she killed Billy!"
Emma cried.