Kidnapped For A Game Show

Maeve stared at the little notches on the side of the bunk bed, and ran her finger over the lacerated wood. ‘So that’s day five?’ She asked.

‘Minimum.’ Kim said. She was sitting on the floor with her back against the wall. Her knees pulled up to her chest as if she was hugging her own legs. The long brown hair was hanging in front of her best friends face in greasy peaks.

‘But how did we end up here?’ Maeve asked. She frowned and tried to think back. She had some vague memories about going to work, going out for drinks with Kim, and afterwards doing some drunken online shopping. What did she buy again. ‘Maybe they slipped something in our drinks,’ she said.

‘Oh stop it.’ Kim sighed and hid her face in her knees. ‘We’ve been over this, neither of us remembers anything, they drug us, they drug us constantly, they wipe our memories or feed us amnesiacs or something. We don’t know anything.’

‘Well we know we’ve been here five days.’ Maeve said gesturing towards the notches.

Kim shrugged.

Maeve got up from the bed and sat down next to her, she put her arm around Kim’s shoulder. Her forehead resting against Kim’s cheek. Kim had been her best friend for as long as she could remember, they basically grew up together, they were inseparable all through high school and University and now they even worked at the same company.

‘At least we’re together.’ Maeve whispered softly while stroking the back of Kim’s head. At loud banging sound ruined the moment. Maeve jumped up and pressed herself against the wall. The door swung open. A crude man stood in the doorway, he had brown shoulder length hair and a ragged beard, he was holding some sort of cattle prod in his hand. Then again he was dressed in a fairly expensive suit.

‘You.’ He said pointing with the cattle prod to Kim. ‘Come with me.’ Meekly Kim hoisted herself up from the floor and in her thin see-through night gown she sauntered towards the man, he wrapped his arm around her shoulder and wanted to guide Kim out of the room.

‘Nooo!’ Maeve yelled. She jousted at the door, the guy pointed the cattle prod at her and zapped her. A painful electric pulse through her left arm. He closed the door and locked it.