once again my storie takes place during a scout trip.
The Mafia Game
i had just landed with the airplane and gotten back to my hometown after ive been living and working for a whole year in the bigger city.
not only some time since i moved out from my parents house, but also a long time since i was at a scout trip with everyone from the old place.
i found it kind of strange though, the fact that we had an entire weekend where the scouts would be sleeping over at my old elemtary school. i entered the door and well, nothing had changed at all.
it felt weird, it had been 5 years since i was a student here myself.
also i never expected anyone to miss me as mutch as it appeared. suddenly a lot of people i never knew cared about me saw me and wanted a hug since it was sutch a long time ago last time they saw me.
when did i become so important?
one of the girls that hugged me was Silje. she had grown since i last saw her, but still had the same curly blonde hair and blue eyes.
"STEFFEN!!!" i heard her scream as she came running towards me to hug me.
"wow, you gotten a lot taller since last time i saw you, before you where like two heads shorter than me and now you are like... just one head shorter than me"
next thing i knew she started to pinch my arm.
"is that supposed to hurt?"
dont get me wrong, it's just the way she is.
"you got see something" she said and pulled me with her.
she dragged me in to one of the classrooms where the girls where sleeping and showed me a drawing on the classrooms white board.
"Sofie could'nt make it and i missed her so mutch i made a drawing of her to replace her"
a while later i had been walking around to say hello to everyone else there then Silje came back with another girl called Rebecca who was about the same age as her. Rebecca had red long hair and green eyes.
they wanted me to play a card game with them that we call MAFIA.
"why me?" i asked.
"because you are really good at it, you are the only one here who the imagination to make it fun"
the game is actually quiet simple.
you got one person to tell a story, while the others are regular players.
it can be as many players as you want. more people playing, then it's more fun.
you have the usual cards but you pick out as many as there are players.
if there is 5 players you only need 5 cards, if there is 8 players you only need 8 cards.
in the cards there is only one red while the rest are black.
the story teller stock's them and give away the cards to ones who are playing.
of course nobody else but the one who has the card shall see it.
the one person with the red card is the mafia.
if you are many players you can have 2 red cards witch means 2 mafias.
"you start as the story teller" Silje said as she pointed at me.
"sure, its just..." i looked around and noticed that most of them where just kids.
usually when i played this game before i had searched trough my darkest of my imagination to come up with something. but could i really do that now?
"okey, here goes. it has been a quiet and normal day in the village, everyone is tired and goes to sleep"
everyone was sitting around on the floor and bent forward and closed theyr eyes as i was telling the story.
"what they didn't know was that a mafia was in town, the mafia woke up and choosed a victim"
i saw Rebecca wake up and she pointed at the one she wanted as a victim.
"the mafia goes back to sleep... the morning came and the sun is rising. everyone woke up except you"
i pointed at the red haired girl that Rebecca had pointed out as victim.
"you got killed tonight by the mafia" now the interesting part came, i had to tell how she got killed.
"umm, you got poisoned" i said, considering all the kids around.
"BORING!" Silje shouted out. "say those kind of things you usually do, we want stories with blood and gore in it"
"okey, fine... we found your dead body with all your guts pulled out and a chicken eating your eyeball."
the girl seemed a little stunned, but she took the joke.
now the others who survived had to frame someone for beeing the mafia who murdered her and come up with a reason why they believed it was the other person.
at last everyone had to vote what story seemed to be most correct and decide who they believed where the mafia.
when that was decided the one who got framed would be executed.
of course the mafia where also aloved to frame someone.
the person who got framed first was a young boy who of course was not the Mafia, so the game kept going until they discovered who the mafia was and got her executed or until the mafia had killed everyone else.
the game kept going on and on as there was a new person to get the red card.
we also switched turn for who was beeing the story teller, witch means i got killed a lot too.
after a while the young boy left and i noticed that something here was not right...
I WAS THE ONLY MALE WITH 7 GIRLS AROUND ME IN THE GAME, AND ALL THE GIRLS WHERE 14 YEARS OLD OR YOUNGER.
it felt kind of weird, playing this kind of a game with all the way to young girls.
"i don't really feel comforble" i said with silent voice.
Rebecca heard me and said "why not?"
"well the fact that i'm the only guy here and..." she wouldn't let me finnish and suddenly she said
"Steffen, relax. you are man, you don't have to worry around us girls"
it did not really help mutch
"yeah, and all of you are at least 6 years younger than me"
Rebecca seemed a little confused "your not 6 years older than me, how old are you"
"20"
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Rebecca started to count on her fingers and realized that i was right. i don't mind having friends that are younger than myself, but when i'm sitting among a bunch of girls at that age... that... is just... weird...
i decided that i might as well just play along, after all they still wanted me to play the game.
after a while Silje and Rebecca where not really taking the game as seriously as they did at the start.
so told them that if they kept it up i might get some duct tape for them.
at first i was just joking, but i did have a role of duct tape with me.
finally it was my turn again to tell the story. by now a lot more people had gathered around including some boys as well, so we had slipped in an extra red card to make 2 mafia's instead of one.
somehow it was almost like faith wanted it to go my way. this time both Mafia's where Silje and Rebecca.
i told a story about beeing onboard a train and that the mafia had choked someone with duct tape and let the body hang outside one of the wagons attatched to well... duct tape

this time somehow one of the guys decided to frame both Silje and Rebecca at once. everyone agreed and they didn't even get the change to defend themself.
i kept the story going "both mafia's where discovered at once and they got punished by getting duct taped in one of the wagons until they reached town where they would get exeuted"
suddenly Silje said "you and that Duct tape of yours" then Rebecca said "i don't think you even dare to tie us up with it"
"yeah, me neither. you can try but you won't be able to"
i smiled to them "oh REALLY. you don't think i dare to. eh!"
i walked over to the room my backpack was and got the roll of duct tape.
i came back to them and said. "once again, you don't think i dare to?"
Silje screamed when she saw me holding a big role of duct tape as i walked toward them.
"no, i don't think you do" Rebecca was a little stubborn at her facts, but still should have checked.
if anyone ever dares me to tie them up. then they better not complain when i'm done with them.
i grabbed Silje first and got her on to the ground so i could start wrapping the tape around her.
then Rebecca tried to help her out by punching me in the back of my head.
i just turned my head to her and said "was that any necessary." i grabbed her to and somehow managed to hold them both to the ground with my feets while some other boys was cheering for me.
i started to tie Silje's arms crossed in front of her and then did the same to Rebecca. i somehow managed to turn them both over so i could tape they'r feets too.
now that they couldn't move mutch more than jumping around i started to wrap the duct tape around Silje's stomach so her arms got pinned down.
now i left her jumping around a little and went to do the same at Rebecca.
i thought i had gone easy on them as i didn't do mutch more than that, and thought they should be able to free themself if they wanted to.
suddenly i saw Silje jumping after some tiny blonde kid, and she was so mad i swear i think she was crying.
i knew something was wrong and started to worry if had gone to far.
"wow, Silje. are you alright?" i asked quickly.
"NO I'M NOT. THAT UGLY F***ER KICKED ME IN MY BACK!"
i was glad she did'nt go mad because of me, but i got really mad myself now.
only a coward punches a girl unless if she is trying to kill you. but kicking a girl that can't even defend herself because she is tied up? that's LOW!!!
i grabbed the guy in his shoulders knowing i was a lot bigger and 1374 times stronger than him i knew i couldn't beat him up. that would be just as low as what he did, and wanted to show that i was a better human than that.
"hey, kid why did you kick her in the back?"
"i just wanted to"
now i got really mad, he didn't even have a reason.
"get out of here, NOW!!!"
"why?"
"if you can't behave then you can find somewhere else, i don't want you ruining the fun for everyone"
he walked away without seeming to even care. i checked on Silje if she where alright.
even though the siuation we where in, Silje and i always had some special friendship. it all started at another scout trip when she and Sofie and another girl kept hanging around me for some reason. they liked to tease me and i never took mutch offense by them. so suddenly i gave them some candy if they could behave witch they did. and after that they used come to me if anything troubled them.
well at least Silje and Sofie, the other girl quited in the scouts shortly after.
but the other two used to come to me if they had a problem or if they where hurt.
maybe that's why they liked playing mafia with me, because i was like a mafia for them who took care of they'r problems. i don't know.
anyway, i checked to see if Silje was alright and by now she was actually laughing.
i assumed that meant she did'nt mind the sticky situation a little longer and figured, hey i got a camera.
i went to get it and when i got back i noticed that both Silje and Rebecca had gotten a lot of attention by the other boys.
"are you ready for taking a picture?" i said.
"NO!" was Silje's reaction to it and Rebecca just said i was mean.
some of the other boys holded on to them while i took a picture with an evil laughter.
they kept jumping around trying to get out of it. but still they didn't get out of it.
i was sure i gave them an easy job, could it be i did a little better job than i knew myself?
after 15 minutes or something Silje kept complaining to me that she couldn't get out.
"fine, i'll realese you" i said and started to tear up the Duct tape.
i realesed them both and they seemed slightly angry at me.
"what, you dared me to. you said that i could try".
later when it was bed time and everyone was going to sleep i talked with them again to make sure they where alright in case i went too far.
"just you wait, we are gonna get back at you"
that's they'r way to say we are okey. Silje even asked me later if could share the pictures with her so she could show them.
the day after i managed to tie Silje up one more time but that is such a short story that i'm not even sure i should bother to share it.