Warning: This is a dark erotic horror / thriller.
This story involves sexual orientation play. Don't read any further ahead if you think you might be offended.
This story, while not violent, will contain themes which include implicit homophobia, kidnapping and blackmail. Themes that belong solely in the realm of fiction, that this author would never condone in real life.
In the first chapter there'll be no action to speak of, instead it will set the scene and give the reader some background information about our main characters, and the predicament that they find themselves in.
All characters are 18+
BIG BROTHER
CHAPTER ONE
John felt consciousness slip back around him, pulling him out of a deep sleep. His muscles felt a little stiff and cramped after the long nap, he must have slept in an uncomfortable position through the night, he figured. He began to stretch his muscles out and groaned as he fully woke, ready for the day ahead.
John opened his pale blue eyes and looked around, and realized almost immediately that this was not his bedroom he was waking up in.
He was half sitting, half lying on a reclining leather chair, with the head rest back, and the foot rest raised.
He scanned the unfamiliar surroundings, and his eyes caught the sight of his boyfriend, Steve, also lying few feet to the side of him. His mid-length black hair covered most of his forehead and the left side of his handsome, sleeping face.
John then caught the sight of two more people inside the room with them. It took him a moment to recognize them. They were two senior girls that John and Steve knew from class. Their names were Sam and Jessica.
Like Steve, they were also sleeping, and positioned awkwardly on their own separate leather reclining chairs, opposite them.
"Steve!" John called his boyfriend, but there was no response.
"Steve!" John called, a little louder this time.
Steve began to stir. "What?" he replied, groggily, on his way to falling straight back to sleep.
"Wake up!" John said, practically yelling this time, despite being inside a room with two other sleeping people.
This seemed to make the two girls come to, as well.
"ugh!, where a I? The first girl, Sam, questioned aloud.
She was a blonde pretty little thing, slim, but still somehow rather curvy. She had brown eyes, which was the first thing John focused on, as she opened them to peer back at him.
"Where am I?" was the first thing she asked him directly, as she took in the sight of the unfamiliar room.
"I don't know," said John, "I just woke up a moment ago. I have no idea where we are."
"What's going on?" His boyfriend asked in a croaky voice before clearing his throat, now fully awake and becoming increasingly aware that something wasn't quite right.
"I don't know," John replied.
Jessica was completely awake now, too. Her long red hair was in quite a messy state. She took in her surroundings and had the same questions the rest of them had.
Just then a speaker mounted on the wall in front of them crackled, and a screen in the center of the wall flickered to life.
On the screen was some kind of computer generated image. A shape that resembled a human eye, in pink and green streaking colors, superimposed on a white background
Then a male voice began to speak through the speaker. He spoke very clearly and deliberately in both the tone and the choice of words used. Sounding almost like a machine would sound, but John could tell there was a human behind it.
"John, Steve, Sam, Jessica, welcome. How are you?"
Jessica spoke first. "Where am I? What am I doing here?" Her voice sounded confused with a touch of panic.
"You four are here because you have been specially selected to be part of a new and exclusive reality show." The voice paused for a moment.
"First of all, please complete the following instructions, it will make the remainder of the explanation for you more simple to understand."
"Walk to the edge of the room, once outside the room, you will notice an open steel door, walk through the door, and then walk along to the end of the passage way on the other side. There you will find another steel door, that door will be closed and locked. Take a good look at both doors along the way, notice their structure and the security locks, and then come back here, to this room."
The four of them looked at each other, sharing very confused looks before following the voice's instructions. Several moments later they returned to the room and to the seats they had woken in.
The voice then spoke again. "Good, very good. Now, we wanted you to get an idea of where you were, and your new surroundings. You'll have noticed that both steel doors contain digital combination locks. They can only be opened if you happen know the code to open them. Each door contains its own code. There are over forty thousand possible combinations to open each of them."
The voice paused for a moment, to allow the guests to process the information it had shared so far.
"We tell you this to explain to you that there is no realistic way out of here. Items such as food will be brought through, one door at a time. One door will always remain closed and locked while the other one is open. However, we do have every intention of letting you go, once your time here is complete."
"Complete? What do you mean Complete!? What's going on? Steve asked, sounding clearly distressed.
The voice then asked them all to open each of the four boxes placed on the small glass table in front of them.
Inside each box was a ring.
The voice explained that the rings could detect the rhythms of their heart beats, and determine whether or not what they were saying was true, or false.
