It was Marta's brother's birthday and they had prepared a surprise party for him. His friends,
uncles and other family had already arrived and were hiding. When his brother arrived home,
everyone shouted… surprise! However, something had happened to the young man,
because he had a sad expression. Everyone continued with the party,
and Marta noticed the absence of her little sister, so she decided to go upstairs.
As she passed through the hall, her cousin came out of one of the rooms and asked her
if she wanted to play the Smile Game. Marta didn’t know it, but she accepted, because she
felt like entertaining herself with someone. Her cousin jumped up and ushered her into the room,
where she also found her sister. She hugged her and the cousin told them out loud: "To
start playing you have to blindfold yourself and do what the host does, which in this case, is me,
because I have invited you to play with me." Marta didn't like the idea of ​​blindfolding her,
so she didn't cover them completely, leaving the lower part slightly raised, to be able to
see a little. In this way, she was able to observe that the boy, when the three were blindfolded, had
removed the cloth from his eyes and was looking for something under the bed. Marta, pretending
not to see anything, asked him what he was doing. But the young man only laughed in a macabre way.
Suddenly, he took out a very sharp knife, then, Marta quickly took off the blindfold
and ordered him to hand it over to her. When she wanted to take it from his hands,
the boy pushed her hard. His face looked like that of a psychopath and without stopping laughing and
staring at her, he began to cut his mouth at the corners, drawing a long smile of blood.
The young man slowly approached the little girl, offering her the knife to do the same.
But Marta kicked him, preventing him from approaching her sister. The young man got
up from the ground quickly and they began to fight. He insisted that they
should continue with the game, because she had agreed. In the middle of the struggle,
the young man stuck the knife in Marta's back. She could only yell at her sister to run away
and call her parents. As blood dripped from her back, her cousin crouched down and stared at her
as he whispered, "This little face is missing a smile." And suddenly…everything went black.
Marta woke up in the hospital surrounded by her parents and older brother. She
tried to speak but she couldn’t, she had a bandage that covered the entire lower part of her face.
The doctor came in and removed the bandage, told everyone that the image could shock them, he still
didn't know for sure how the wounds would heal. When the cloth was removed, Marta's parents and
brother were shocked; They gave the young woman a mirror and she could only scream in fright.
She had the same smile as her psycho cousin. Marta told her parents that everything had been
the young man's fault. They looked at each other, and told her that her cousin wasn’t at the party,
they wanted to tell her at the end of the celebration. Her uncles and cousin had an
accident on the road, and the aunt was the only survivor. Her older brother had just heard the
news when he came home and discovered the surprise party, which is why he was so sad and withdrawn.
Weeks later, Marta's aunt went to visit her and brought her a book called "The Smile Game." The
young woman knew that this fact couldn’t be a coincidence and quickly read the first page.
There, it was explained that the game was a ritual that kept the spirits in the earthly world. The
spirit tricked humans by posing as another mortal and inciting them to play. Then, he cut their
mouths, drawing them a big smile. In this way, he cursed them and took away their souls, so that he
could continue wandering through their world. At the end of the book, there were photos of
several people with the same smile that she had. Marta never stopped dreaming about the game and
her cousin. She could never again look at herself in a mirror and see the result of The Smile Game.