“It’s been like a decade since I was in the closet, Rodney,” I say with a chuckle.
“Oh! Well, I would hate to be the one to put you back in. I’ve been out as trans since I was old enough to talk,” he says and I can hear the grin in his voice.
“You’re trans? No way. So am I,” I say without thinking.
“Oh my gods. And they were both trans,” Rodney says, quoting a silly meme. We both laugh. Just then, the door pops open. We both start screaming our heads off.
“Would you two stop screaming, it’s just me,” Rin deadpans. “What are you two doing in here?”
“It’s not what it looks like,” I say right away.
“Yeah! We were making out!”
“What?”
“Did you find anything yet?”
“Just the gas tank,” Rin says as we stumble out of the closet together.
“Found you!” Kei says, running down the hallway.
“Scatter!” I shout, darting away from the group. I can hear someone get sliced behind me. I yelp as I dart down the opposite hallway, hoping it’ll lead me to a place where I can find the crowbar or pliers.
Inside one of the house’s bedrooms, I find the crowbar. Perfect! Time to head towards the basement! Before I can dart back out into the hallway, I can hear someone outside the door.
“Shit,” I whisper to myself, crawling under the bed and holding my breath.
Someone steps inside and I swear I can feel myself starting to sweat. They walk around the bed, open up the closet, before walking back towards the door. Just as I’m about to breathe a sigh of relief, the kill cut scene starts up, showing the killer grabbing my legs and pulling me out from under the bed.
“Jesus Christ,” I yelp out, watching as my character dies and a moment later, the ‘Killer Wins’ screen pops up. We all get teleported back to the warehouse.
“Guys,” Rodney is saying with a whine. “I don’t know if this game is good for my heart! I didn’t think there would be so many jumpscares!”
“That was so muchfun,” Kei says and I can hear the smile in his voice. He’s having a great time being the killer. “Pay up! A deal’s a deal!”
I groan as I pull up a second tab on my second monitor. I search for Kei’s stream, sending five gifted subs over.
“Thank you for the subs, Snow!”
“We weren’t evencloseto escaping,” Rodney says.
“Yeah, because you two were busy making out!”
“That’s what you guys were doing all crowded around the closet?” Kei asks, “I thought you were exchanging items or strategizing.”
“We were having amoment. Thank you very much,” Rodney says seriously. “And you guys ruined it!”
Rin bounces up and down. “Okay. Hear me out. You could try actually being good at the video game?”
“I swear to thegods,” Rodney starts to say but his voice cuts off as we jump into another match.
The rest of the night passes like that. After the first match, the survivors get a better grip on the game and we manage to escape a few times. Rin wins as killer and Rodney wins as killer twice. For some reason, the game never gives me the option of being the killer.
“That’s so unfair,” Rin says softly. “I feel kinda bad taking those subs since you didn’t even get achance.”
I just shrug. I don’t really mind one way or another because everyone had fun and chat had a fantastic time. I’ve made up the loss of subs with new subs coming and checking me out from the others’ chats and hopefully, my chat is doing the same for them.
“We’ll play something else next time and I’ll win those subs back.”
