Kyra was off being absolutely oblivious, but that wasn't particularly strange. It took one look at her, just one glance, and absolutely anyone would know she's an airhead.
Sorry.
I know I sound bitter, super judgmental, and I also know making excuses will just make me sound like a whiner.
Oh life's not fair. I have cancer. I can't just run around being free, completely oblivious to the world around me-
My therapist calls that "Unhealthy coping mechanisms," whatever that means. I'm dying. There's no such thing as healthy. If it makes me feel better, I'm gonna do it.
The downside of being observant, is the rest of us knew what that meant. Immediately. Something went wrong with the machine. Time moved slower in here. It could be centuries for us before anyone knew something was wrong.
That, of course, meant very different things to each of us. For the past year and a half I've been coming to terms with my inevitable demise, and now suddenly, not only will I get, I don't know, a hundred lifetimes, but I also get to be a God doing it? Sign me the fuck up. And let's be honest, I wasn't ever gonna get married, not looking like this, not with an expiration date. The life in here wasn't gonna be any worse, any less real than my "real" life.
So naturally, I'm on team do nothing and live like kings.
Brynlee and Kyra, if Kyra could be bothered to pay attention, they're so fucking self obsessed I'm sure they'd be my opposition. They'd panic not getting the constant validation, the constant praise, not being so close to their phones. It's not like they even had the imagination to make this place interesting. Then there was Juliet, some famous French singer. She too, would undoubtedly want to get out as soon as possible. All the money in the world, all the fame, her life couldn't be better.
That meant I'd be outnumbered.
That meant those three were actively trying to kill me.
Sam, fortunately, was fake (I knew the whole time), so he won't be a problem. That left Natalie. She, at least, will be on my side. Obviously.
We were still outnumbered.
"What do we do?" Brynlee was panicking. She started to hyperventilate. To keep myself entertained I imagined her head swelling up, thousands of warts and dots of acne popping up across her skin.
"Where's Sam?" the French girl asked in her insufferable accent. (You have the powers of a god and you can't be bothered to fix your fucking snot-filled accent? Seriously?)
"Sam was a program," I said, obviously, "They wanted to show off. They wanted us all to be smug, so they could say, and Sam here was a program the entire time, and you didn't even know."
"So we're down here alone?" Natalie asked. I stared at her and smirked as I forced a beard to start growing down her chin. Somewhere in the distance, Kyra was laughing like an idiot, giggling as she created a castle or something.
"How do we get out?" Juliet asked, more phlegm.
Brynlee, like an idiot, glanced at me.
"It's not like anyone will hear us scream," Natalie whispered, "We don't have a beacon."