Ditched.

My worst nightmare...

     "Haaappy biiiirthdaay toooo yoooou!" Christine blew out her 8 candles with a satisfied breath of air and smiled at the blinding flashes of multiple cameras. "pizza. cake. playground. presents. pizza. cake. playground. presents." was all that was running through her head. She came back to reality and saw everyone already digging into the pizza. She wanted to be the first one to climb up into the skytubes and feel as if she was on top of the world, so she started to scarf down a couple pieces just to prove to her dad that she'll be playing on a full stomach. As she was starting her second piece, everyone was nearly finished and ready to get their play on! As if they had to evacuate the building, Christine's mob of friends stampeded to the playground leaving her behind. Ditched. She stopped (eating), dropped (the pizza), and rolled (/ran) toward the play area when she was immediately jerked back. Turning around, she saw her dad's "nuh-uh-uh" face; you know, the classic:

"No way josé"

"Christine, remember the buddy system, find a buddy, and always stick with her. Don't ever let her leave your sight." Christine's dad is a worrywart. Christine sighs, "Yeah, yeah, now l'eggo of me!" Christine's an eager beaver. Heading for the play area, Christine grabbed the first familiar face she saw and said,"Hey *Jill, let's go up in the skytubes! Race you there!" Someone reached the top and looked out one of the windows and said that this place looks like Disney World. That was me.
"*Jill, doesn't this pla-", Christine looked back and swallowed the rest of her sentence as she saw no one around her. Ditched. Already panicking, Christine started crawling through one of the tubes but reached a dead end. She tried to retrace her crawls yet it looked like a different path. She was trapped in a tubular maze of colour...

     ...Staring at her own closed eyelids, Christine saw flashes of different colours and heard a soft bass beat thu-thumping in her ears. Opening her eyes, she looked up and spotted the coloured disco ball spinning to the rhythm of the music. Multiple couples were swaying around her. Someone grabbed her hand and pulled her to the dance floor. Christine opened her mouth about to scream for help when that "someone" exclaimed, "C'mon Christine, dance with him just once!" Christine crinkled her eyebrows together then slowly released them, realizing that this was her best friend trying to perform some kind of puppy-love-blind-date set-up. "Whoa, hold up, peer pressure!" Christine wanted to disappear into the crowd but when she started taking a few steps backwards, everyone conveniently moved out of the way. Ditched. And now 7 pairs of eyes were watching her every move, including her clueless "blind date." Sighing, Christine started walking toward the center of awkwardness just as the DJ started blasting an upbeat party song...

...The ringing in her ears, the hardcore beat in sync with her thumping heart, the suspense rising in her every step, the paranoia of someone following her..."man, do they match the music with your emotions on purpose?", Christine thought as she crept along the corridors, laser gun in hand. She was illuminating under the UV lights and her vest and gun was glowing blue. Magnum was her game name, and she was at rank 5 out of 20. Trying to keep up with her fellow teammates, they were racing to find their opponents' red base and take them down. "Blue base has been hit. Blue base has been hit." The robotic voice from above echoed throughout the maze. "Ugh, are you kidding me?!", *Brittany shouted. She has a short temper. *Brittany gathered up all her anger and converted it into motivation, dashing through the twists and turns. Christine tried to keep up yet made a wrong turn and stopped short at a dead end. She heard *Brittany's shrill voice, "Ha! Found you, and now its 1 against 9, get outta here sucker!" "wait..1 against 9....then that means the rest of the red team.." Christine slowly turned around and met face to face(s) with nine glowing devils. Ditched...

*name changed for privacy reasons