Mitchel

Mitchell was visibly shaking as Tanya turned their car into the car park outside Tom's Hardware Supplies. The large, warehouse-like store had a large car park, easily fitting more than 60 cars, but Rachel had been very clear in the instructions that had arrived this morning.

Tanya looked sideways at Mitchell for a moment, and even though she'd been angry with him for over a week now, she couldn't help but mouth "sorry" to him as she parked in a space furthest from the entrance.

Two full days had passed since Rachel had announced her diabolical plans in their kitchen. She'd left immediately after announcing that one of them would soon be suffering a Final Humiliation to make all other humiliations pale in comparison. She'd been pretty clear though, as she'd made her exit, that they'd be hearing from her very soon with the details of the first task.

After a couple of sleepless nights, a small package had mysteriously appeared on their doorstep this morning, addressed to Mitchell.

His fingers had trembled as he'd undone the bright pink bow on the box, packaged as it was in obscenely cheerful My Little Pony wrapping paper.

Breathing in deeply, and with a pensive Tanya hovering close by, Mitchell had opened the box almost as if a live snake might spring out and bite him on the hand.

There had been no snake in the box, but in truth Mitchell might have preferred that over what was in there: a small note, and a cacophony of color masquerading as a costume.