Irrevocable.

Chahel’s heart skipped a beat after she read the text her daring friend, Zara, sent her.

“Meet us at Woodbridge Hospital, Midnight. Dare to say yes?”

Chahel couldn’t believe it. She heard rumors about that place a lot. People say that patients were tortured for illegal experiments for fun, the walls were full of their blood. There were messages written in blood and creepy doctors. Whoever dared to enter that ‘haunted’ hospital would never return back.

She wanted to turn back. But she remembered Zara’s mocking face, Layla’s laugh and Victoria’s disappointed face whenever she backed down. After all, they all were 6th graders. They should be brave.

While her finger hovered around the keyboard, she texted a simple, three letter word.

‘YES’.

Her parents were sleeping while she snuck out for the dare. She thought she said her final goodbye to them. The hospital looked normal from the outside. But as soon as she entered……………

BLOODY WALLS, BONES, BLOODY MESSAGES. Chahel got creeped out. Suddenly, she felt a hard tap on her shoulder. It was just Zara and her friends. “So you are really here Chahel? Hahaha! I thought you would chicken out as usual.” Funny right? Despite saying yes to a creepy dare, Zara still made fun of her?

“Basement. That’s where the real dare is!”, said Victoria, trying to look brave. No! Not the basement! Many bones and blood everywhere. They went down the stairs together. While Chahel could hear some creepy whispers like, “Don’t go! You said Yes!”. She thought she was just imagining it all. But it felt real.

Suddenly, the door slowly creaked open, with a terrifying shadow seen from behind the door. It looked, broken. It looked, terrifying. It looked like, it needed help. The moment they checked what was actually behind the basement door, they all were chickened out. Especially Zara. It was a skeleton, which missed some of its parts, and there was a message written on it.

“I NEED HELP! YOU NEED HELP!”.

Layla screamed, “Aha! Not so brave now, aren’t you, Zara?!”. At that moment, Chahel heard another whisper.

“I SEE YOU! GIVE YOURSELF TO US! PLAY WITH US! BECOME ONE OF US!”. Along with that, she heard rattles of bones, splashing of blood and slicing of skin.

“I think I want to go home! We all should go home! Why did we agree to that stupid dare of yours Zara!? You just had to mock us when we backed off!”. Unfortunately, those were Layla’s last words. Two arms from above dragged her from the arms. She screamed as it twisted her whole body and broke all of her bones! Everything went dark as Chahel heard a loud pop from Layla’s body as it snapped. The two creepy arms dragged her away.

“LAYLA! NO!”. Screamed Chahel. She slapped Zara on the face. “This is all your fault! We lost our friend!”. “I am sorry! I just wanted to mess with you!” said Zara, sobbing. “Layla died. THAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN YOU ZARA!”, screamed Victoria.

There was a moment of silence as she said that. Tears falling down from Zara’s eyes. She couldn’t believe what Victoria actually said to her. We all can’t deny that it is their fault they said yes though.

Chahel could hear more creepy whispers. “DEATH!”. She was going crazy. In fact, she was so crazy that her eyes turned red of madness. She knew there would be another victim among three of them. Victoria suddenly disappeared.

“Victoria? Victoria!”, screamed Zara as she noticed Victoria was missing. “Victoria will die”, whispered Chahel. Zara spotted a glimpse of a doctor with a bloody saw. Her heart skipped a beat. This time, Zara heard a whisper, “Ready for surgery?”. Chahel could hear a lot of screams. One of the voices sounded like it was coming from Victoria. They got out of the basement, only to fall in a surgical room, with hundreds of bones and bodies. Victoria was one of them. Slashed to death.

Apparently, the doctor Zara saw a glimpse of was Victoria’s murderer. She slashed Victoria to death with the saw he was holding. He was the one who whispered, “Ready for surgery?”. Zara thought she was going to be next. That is when Chahel saw a message on the wall, “YOU SAID YES, YOU ARE NEXT!”. Who was writing all these? It seemed like there was no way back. It seemed like it was irrevocable.

Zara suddenly got kidnapped by another creepy doctor. The doctor made her unconscious by giving her an injection with Chahel tried to pull her away from him but she was taken away. Chahel closely followed him. And they were surprisingly going to a clean surgical room which looked neat and sensible. But Chahel knew what was going to happen next. The doctor would slice her open which would make the hospital bloody and full of Zara’s bones. But she didn’t want to just watch it. She wanted to prevent it!

Chahel picked up another saw from the ground and carefully went closer to the creepy doctor. The doctor picked up a surgical knife and tried to slash Zara. But Chahel lunged at him and sliced his head open. But he was surprisingly still alive. He took the surgical knife and stabbed himself. But he was still alive, indicating that he was immortal. Now Chahel didn’t know what to do.

She noticed a mark on his chest. It was a heart mark. Maybe that was his weak spot. Chahel lunged at him again, snatched the knife from him and stabbed him at that mark on his chest. His body exploded with body parts falling everywhere and blood splashing everywhere.

Chahel and Zara tried to look for an exit door but there was no exit door or any other way to get out. But Chahel spotted an open window. They both escaped from there. Zara promised to never mess with Chahel or anyone else. Chahel promised to never say yes to anything without thinking twice.

They both went home, but Zara spotted a doll of a doctor with a saw in his hand, smirking.

After a week, Zara’s dead body was found at the school clinic. She died due to getting injected with a dangerous chemical. Chahel knew why. The doll she found was from the doctor and it was haunted. There was a message on Zara’s mirror.

“YOU ESCAPED, BUT YOU WON’T SURVIVE”.

Chahel destroyed that doll instantly. She lost another friend. Those were her only friends. Layla, Victoria and Zara. She decided to make new friends who wasn’t so brave enough to do such creepy dares. And she successfully made the perfect friends, Mira, Sara and Nikki. The perfect team!