They were all trapped in a nightmare. One moment it was an ordinary rainy day. The next, a burst of red and black splattered against the building walls and wet pavement.
Total silence reigned.
There, on the pavement was a single shoe drenched in tar and clumps of red tissues scattered all over the place. Some students looked as if someone pranked them with red paint.
One girl slowly reached out to her face, there was some liquid dripping from her cheeks.
A whimper started it all. And then, everyone was screaming. Pure terror was heard one after the other. Screams after screams reverberated in the whole campus as continous loud popping sounds were heard. It was chaos. It wasn't just one body. It was as if they stepped on landmines and they became a chain of bodies exploding one after the other.
She did not wait any second longer. She ran for the stairs and raced towards safety. It must have been the blood. At the back of mind she thought that a chain reaction would never happen without a trigger. She had to avoid the blood. Was it skin contact? Or anywhere? She was about to reach the third floor when a burst of blood sprayed on top. In a panic, she threw herself back down. Her eyes frantically traced for any sign of blood on her. There wasn't anytime time left to spare, the students were starting to come up the stairs. She crawled backwards until her foot kicked some door open.
Idiot! The Research faculty room. With haste for survival she half crawled half jumped towards the room. The door burst open with a bang. She slammed the door shut and locked it before anyone else had the same idea as her. As soon as she locked the door, a loud bang was heard against it.
"Open the goddamned-!!" a muffled grunt suffocated the scream. It was followed by three more loud pops. She whimpered and scrambled away from the door.
Barricade! She had to reinforce the door. With her eyes blurred with tears she dragged several study tables and stacked them against the door. As soon as she stacked the last desk, her knees buckled and she crumpled down in a heap of choked whimpers and endless tears.
A puddle of glistenning red slowly leaked below the door.