I Scored Myself A Mate

"Luke are you alright?" he asked him and placed his palm on his arm only for him to swing his arm and remove it. His face hid his palms and he could see his body trembling with frustration. 

"It wasn't enough what Markus told me before now I have this to deal with." He said, mostly to himself because Alex had no idea what he was talking about.

"People are looking at you" Mikael warned him and his body froze. He rubbed his face and raised his head looking around him with a deathly glare. Everyone who met eyes with him immediately turned around minding their business. 

"What they are not regular observers of the tantrum of the day?" Mark asked with an ironic smile.

"Shut up Mark" Luke answered him rudely but he didn't seem to mind. Alex was the one who reacted and stood up too.

"Don't talk to him like that" he said and Luke stared at him for a second. He let out a heavy sigh and just left without saying a word or looking back.

Alex was taken a back from what he did. He had simply dumped everyone and left. He had left him in there while he felt like a fish out of water and simply ran away after swearing at his best friend. 

"Well that wasn't the best comment you could make." Mikael said and got ready to follow him.

"He doesn't like parties I assume." He commented and Mikael laughed. It was interesting how he wasn't aware of the danger and the ominous feelings he would be receiving from Luke, even though he had warned him. It almost seemed like he was unable to keep his mouth shut. He always had to spit out that remark and make his dislike for the young wolf as obvious as it could be. "Um, I'm sure you can find your way back to your room." 

"Huh? No wait! What the fuck come back!" Mark screamed at the running Mikael and kept mumbling swears when he left. "I already don't like this place. Cool right?"

"Come on. It's just like the first day. And they don't seem as mean as I thought." Alex tried to comfort him but he didn't seem to be in the mood for that. He was thinking. Probably of a way to return to their room since Alex didn't remember the slightest detail. He was too busy worrying about everything.

"I can help you get back" A girl with purple hair appeared out of nowhere with a huge smile. Mark looked at her for a second. She was tall and thin with huge blue eyes. Almost looking like a doll. Her tanned skin had a golden glow to it and her hands were resting inside the pockets of her jeans. She was very pretty but he couldn't help but think there was something off with her, her smile was too wide and her eyes seemed too focused. 

"No we are good we can get back ourselves." 

"What? Why? I don't really think we can. We would really appreciate the help actually. My friend is a bit rude sorry."

"No problem! I'd be glad to Luke's friends are mine too and as for your friend, don't worry I don't bite. So let's go?" she asked and tended her hand so they would begin walking. Alex moved first with a small smiled plastered on his face filled with relief as someone was kind enough to offer them help.

Mark on the other hand was another case.

The whole way he had a weird frown on his face and he kept staring behind his back every two seconds like someone was following them. The purpled haired girl then stopped in front of a staircase. Alex believed he recognized the polished wood, it was the same place he had hid with Luke, their bodies so close. He blushed at the memory and stepped on the first step ready to go up but the girl stopped him.

"Let's not go from there. It's tiring. I will show you a shortcut" she said and passed by the staircase getting deeper into the narrow hallway.

The place seemed completely empty once more but now Alex knew why. Everyone was still at the dining hall and they would probably soon go to some common room or their own bedrooms to rest. It seemed like loitering around with no actual purpose was not recommended at this place. 

Dimmer and dimmer the lights kept getting fewer and Mark was looking more and more anxious. He had approached Alex and grabbed his little finger trying to feel that someone was near him in the semi darkness. 

"This route seems a bit weird" Alex commented looking at the back of the girl.

"Oh don't worry we are almost there." She said and indeed soon she stopped in front of a huge metal door. 

Somehow it seemed like they had left the main building on their way there but Alex wasn't really sure if they had actually been outside or swapped buildings. The place had changed vibes completely though. From the polished wooden floors and cleanness of the main building suddenly there was a feeling of decay around. The walls were chipped and dust was forming in the corners of the ceiling and floors. Little spiders forming their webs everywhere and Mark coughed from the thickness of the air waving his palm in front of his face to get some of the dust pecs away. 

"Let me open this door and after this room we will be at the doors." 

"Is this place some kind of storage?" Alex asked and she laughed. 

"Yeah, I mean you could call it that." She answered letting Alex with even more questions. She searched her pockets and took out a huge key chain that probably had more than twenty keys on it. Some silver, some gold and some simply old and rusty. A rusty key definitely fitted this place better, he thought and he was right as he observed her grab the oldest looking key from all and trying to unlock the door. 

At first it seemed as it was stuck and with a dissatisfied expression she pushed the door a few times twisting the key until it opened. The sound it made was deafening. Like someone had scratched a chalk board and it opened slowly, revealing bits and pieces of the dark room. 

The two boys waited for the girl to step in first and turn on the light at least since she had been there before but she didn't. Mark looked at her, waiting but she didn't speak. She looked at them and then at her watch like she was expecting something to happen. Her lips moved on a silent countdown and when she raised her head she first pushed Mark in roughly, making him land on the dirty floor. 

Alex gasped in shock and looked at her not knowing what he should do. His friend screamed at him to run but everything seemed to happen so fast that he found himself falling on the floor face first next to his friend, blinded by the darkness. The little light that entered the room showed only her figure as she said

"Wait here for a while will you? Someone needs to talk to you. Also you REALLY need to work on your reflexes. I mean I even gave you time to ran." 

Mark jumped up and ran towards the door but it was fruitless. There was no competing their strength or speed no matter how good your reflexes were. Alex had realized that quite some time ago. The best you could do is comply reducing the risk of getting injured more by attempting to escape. 

"Shit! Did I tell you we shouldn't follow her? Did I? That bitch's smile reminded me of a psycho. Stop being so nice just because you want your boyfriend's friends to like you. Every single one of them are pieces of shit. Get that into your head." Mark said angrily. 

He didn't want to make Alex feel bad but he was sick and tired of watching him be the victim of other's obnoxiousness all the time. That idiot Luke had left him like a lamb in between wolves and had ran away somewhere to brood by his emo self. Now they had been pranked on their first night and of course they had not even a chance of winning against one of these people. They weren't people in the first place! 

"I'm sorry" Alex mumbled and got up. His hands fumbled the moist from humidity wall as he searched for a light switched and Mark mimicked him at the other side. 

"I don't need your sorry. I need my best friend. Don't turn into the pitiful protagonist that needs saving all the time. You are not like that"

"I know, I know that I just don't want to cause problems for Luke."

"So it's okay for these dogs to cause problems to you. I get it. They are strong and beastly and would probably kick our ass but I hate doing nothing."

"I'm really sorry Mark." 

"Don't say…Oh, I found it" he exclaimed and the clicking sound of flipping a light switch was heard. For a few seconds the light flickered until it stabilized and lit up the small room. "Holy fuck!" Mark shouted 

"Oh my God what the hell?" 

The whole room was bathed in blood. The floor had blood stains and blood all over, huge red patches here and there and Alex realized that the wall weren't moist. It was that his hands were painted with blood and he hadn't realized in the commotion. He quickly wiped the blood on his jeans but he still felt disgusted. They were scratches everywhere of the walls and huge metal hooks were drilled to the ceiling and hanging downwards.

"What the heck is this place? A torture chamber?" Mark screamed and headed towards the door only to flinch back and ran to where Alex was because the door was opening revealing three people. 

The two were familiar. One was the girl from before wo had locked them there. The other one tanned and beautiful with gorgeous blonde hair was Lily and the third seemed familiar only to Mark. He had a huge gauze wrapping his head with a bright red patch on it. Yeah, he was the guy Luke had beaten up while they were trying to find Alex. This was definitely not good.

"Hello boys, Let's have a chat" Lily said with a serious look.