Eric Jonas
Most of my classmates stood up and hurried upstairs. Who screamed? Are there still remaining students in the campus aside from us which is uninfected?
Because of curiosity I can't help but to put my mask on again and hurried through the stairs outside.
"Don't open the door!" Mylbie said beside the window. "Why?" A voice inside the room. "Please listen!"
"Now, grab any fabric around you, cover your nose and mouth, be sure not to inhale any green air." She instructed the terrified girl. "Green gas?" Asked the girl. "Yes, it's not very visible inside," Ma'am entered the scene.
"Be careful, go outside and quickly close the door, be sure not to let the gas enter," Ma'am added.
The girl did what what instructed to her, and so, we considered the room a safe place for now. She gaze at us like weirdos since we're wearing masks like idiot, though it's the only way to survive. What makes her more terrified is the actual green gas lurking more visible, unlike a while ago.
"Once you inhale that gas, you'll die." Ma'am said under her mask for the girl's knowledge. Who knows if she accidentally inhale a part of it. "Anyway, miss what's your name?", Jake a classmate of mine ask. "Blessie," said the blonde girl.
"What are we going to do now?" I asked ma'am and also some of my classmates who are paying attention of my words.
"Find a new way out," she said, now walking in the hallway with faintest voice as possible. "What could be it is?", I threw another question.
"We can dig." All of us tried to hide our shock, is she even serious. I thought that's the only issue not until Blessie spoke.
"Are you sure there are no remaining students?" Everyone gaze at her, including me.
"You're planning to save them then go, be a heroi—", Dianne's voice was interrupted when Mylbie spoke. "She's right, how about the remaining students? We should help them, before...they die."
"Let them be."
"Don't act a hero."
"They'll find their way out."
"How selfish you are!", I spoke at last with a hint of rage. Now all heads are on me. "Two people had already sacrificed their selves, let some people benefit to it." I added.
"They're right," Ma'am said who is always late to the scene. "We need to find some, and our mask is about to last, digging with this state has a least chance of survival." Everyone seems to be agreed in our adviser's words.
"Where we could start?" A voice asked. "This building." Ma'am stared at it. "Let's go!"
We walk around, searching carefully. The first building we'll be inspecting is a six-storey one.
We started in the first floor, no signs of people but we search for something valuable such as knives or what.
We gain some equipment such as baseball bat, tubes, meter sticks, and watch for time managing, since mention a while ago, our mask is about to last.
We proceed on the next floor and still no one was there, and like before we gathered equipments for us to use. But for me, I hold nothing. We continued until the last floor. We tiptoed to the tiled floor of the stairs, as we reach there, a maintenance with blood dripping from his mouth chased us. I was shocked in horror and unable to move.
"Ken!" Mylbie, I recognize her voice, threw a baseball bat. I grab it tightly and smashed to the zombie. Because of too much pressure I applied to it. It is now lying in the floor with blood dripping from his head.
I fall from my knees, "Sorry." I just killed someone, though he plans of doing that to me too, I still the one who did it.
I stared at my hand, a hand of a murderer. "Ken," an angelic voice with a soft palm touch my shoulder gently caressing my back. Still my eyes are wide with tears slowly pouring into it. "It's not your fault," Mylbie continued of what she is doing.
She held my hand, and hugged me afterwards, no, it's undeniable that I a killer, a murderer. Whatever the man state is, I have no right of killing him.
"Let's proceed." Ma'am guide the way. Mylbie supported me from my shaking knees.
We continued searching until we felt that our mask is losing it's effect.
"Let's search for an unaffected area. We might not last if we go to our classroom and so with Blessie." Ma'am stated.
We continued for a while. Then found the library thereby. We all entered and slam down our bodies to the floor because of exhaustion.
We removed our mask which has no longer effect.
"I'm hungry," a voice said. "All of us." Someone corrected.
"Stop being clingy to Jake." I heard the voice of Dianne. "You're just jealous." Blessie defended.
They continued arguing but no one bothers to stop them. All of us are exhausted.
"Can three boys gather food from the canteen?" Ma'am suggested.
Three boys volunteered after, then they went outside. I'm too tired to go with them.
"How dare you!" A slap covered our ears that forced me to open my eyes, Dianne in rage slapped Blessie. Blessie fight back and pulled Dianne's hair, they continued to fight but no one stopped them.
Jake stepped in the fight and cease them for a short time.
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