This man was absolutely infuriating, I desired to have nothing to do with him. Sitting here in a room, feeling hopeless was definitely not on the desired list of things to do. Being kidnapped by some psychopath was also not on my ideal list of things to do today.

“Stop moving, you’ll trigger the trap,” I argued with Andrew. The aforementioned rolled his eyes and focused more on trying to figure it out. Finally, he gave up and just sat still. I looked around the room trying to figure out how each thing was connected, but it was just a conglomeration of messes that made no sense. I was simply lost looking at these different puzzle pieces. Maybe I should have payed more attention in the Saw

movies instead of cowering away out of fear or the fear of vomiting.

It was then a voice generated message played on the speakers,”The game has begun, two foes will become one, unless light is found in the darkness.” The speaker clicked off and slowly there was this turning of noise that sounded like an old heater sputtering to life. “What does that even mean?” Andrew asked causing me to roll my eyes. “You never shut up do you?” I snarled feeling something riggten against my wrists.

“Neither do you, you have this prissy attitude all the time and it’s annoying!” Andrew shouted back before a grunt left his lips as his chains tightened too. “Well at least I’m not a pathetic almost high school dropout because you don’t apply yourself,” I snarked and felt the chains tighten again.

After about ten more minutes of arguing, and probably amusing whomever had captured us, we had stopped. “Okay let’s think through the wording carefully.” I saw Andrew nod, his hands were bloody following every negative comment he made towards me. So at least we figured out that we would need to be pleasant to one another to make it out alive. “We are two foes, I’m thinking by becoming one it means we will be smashed together because every time we insult the other, the chains tighten which pushes those nails closer to us. “ Andrew was trying to figure everything out, but this was difficult to do so. “Light on the darkness? Does that mean a compliment or-“ He began to ask but I thought about it some more,”Isn’t that a song or a reference to something?” I spoke and then wracked my brain. “It’s a title to a movie, it’s the subtitle to the God’s Not Dead third movie.” I was shocked, I didn’t know Andrew was a believer.

“You’re a Christian?”

“Yeah, why?”

“I never would have guessed to be honest.”

“I wear my grandpa’s cross, all of the time.”

“Mine has been passed down from female to female.”

Suddenly everything had been put into perspective and the chains came off and the spikes went away. The heavy grating of metal could be heard as the door moved away and the sun could be seen.

“Maybe next time.”