many hours past, it's now breaktime; current time: 9:45.
It's already break time. I'm sitting on my chair on the front row, near the window, looking outside as I daydream. I say to myself, "We're already in senior high school, and it's just a few months we're about to go to college." I sighed heavily.
"And the paths that we're taking are different; are we going to get separated soon?"
Amy then suddenly opened the door to our classroom, shouting, "Oii!! Souta! Let's have lunch together!" while Steff was bowing to apologize to my classmates.
"Shut up! You're bothering the others," I said as I stood up in my chair and walked towards Amy and the Steff.
"Ah!" she realized. "I'm sorry," she said as she bowed. "Hey, Souta, hurry up," she whispered. I giggled. "Okay, ok, relax, I'm coming."
Steff is always silent; she doesn't talk too much to other people besides us. I don't know why, I said to myself, gazing at her.
While walking in the hallway towards the cafeteria, a loud scream of a girl spread across the campus: "AAAGGGUUUUHHHHH!!!!!!!!"
[ Everyone, there is an emergency; please proceed to the evacuation center! Now! ]
Everyone is confused; however, some students immediately run as fast as they can toward the evacuation center.
(Note: The evacuation center is in the middle of the school, and our building is in front of it, just a few minutes walk away.)
We are shocked and confused by what is happening, so we look out the window from the third floor. It is breaktime, and most of the students are in the cafeteria but students are scattered around the school.
We see a terrible scene below us. There are blood and body parts everywhere, and people are scared and desperate. We keep hearing the alarms and the noise of panic. Some students are biting others, some are crying out, and some are pushing them away. We are scared and don't know what to do.
We look at each other, wondering how our school became so dangerous. We need to get out of here, but we don't know which way to go. The hallways seem like a maze, full of unknown dangers.
We smell the fear in the air, and we hear the disbelief of the others. Some students tried to call their families, but the phones are busy with too many calls.
The teachers tried their best to keep the students calm and tell them to go to the evacuation center.
[Please do not panic!! Go inside the evacuation center before it's too late!!] A teacher with a microphone said the evacuation center is a gym area; it's a covered area that can fit all the students. However, going in there is plain suicide.
With adrenaline coursing through our veins, we began to panic.
"What's going on!?" Amy asked with devastating eyes; she's panicking her hands and feet are shaking.
"I don't know," Steff said. She also looks worried; things are serious after all.
I remembered the meme that they'd been posting on the internet—that the virus was the start of the apocalypse! Shit! to think that it was going to become true! I gripped my hands tightly. We're powerless. I look at my two childhood friends; they are both scared. They don't know what to do.
"Augh! Fck it!" I've decided to make a move! Even if it means sacrificing myself! I should not make myself look weak, or else they will lose hope.
I then hold the hand of Steff and Amy; they both look confused. I then ask them, "Do you trust me?" with a serious face.
They were confused about what was going on and said "yes?" with a question while holding their hands: "Good! Let's get out of here!" I said that with determination. I look cool, but my hands are shaking. What if we fail? What if I let them both die? I'm making a fool of myself.
"Souta, we trust you. We won't regret what will happen, so please keep your head up," Steff said. She must have noticed my fear. I smiled back and said, "Thank you," then ran towards the stairs going down the second floor.
Other students also ran there, so it was full of people. We had a hard time going down after the struggle, and while holding their hands, we finally got down to the first floor, but I didn't run toward the evacuation center; I ran opposite the evacuation center, leaving the students.
Amy noticed this and warned me, "Hey! Where are you going, Souta? The evacuation center is in the other direction!"
Steff then talked to Amy and said,
"Don't worry, Amy, it's Souta we're talking about. I know he knows what he's doing; trust him."
"But..." Amy looks worried; she doesn't know if she should follow me or not. After all, I'm just her friend; it's her life that is on the line.
However, Steff is a bit different; her trust in me is on another level. "Look at him; he's running towards where the emergency axe is, breaking the seal, and stealing the axe; he's thinking several steps ahead. We can only trust him in a situation like this."
"Alright! Now we're ready! Let's get out here," I said with determination and a plan in mind while holding the emergency axe. "..." Amy thought for a second. "Alright! I will really blame you if we die, okay!?" Amy exclaimed, smiling as she now trusted me.
I smiled back. "Don't worry, we're not going to die," I replied. "Big talk," Amy said. "Hey, let's immediately leave while those things are busy on the gym," Steff said, reminding us.
I then ran toward the back gate of the school as they followed me.
The school has two gates: the exit and entrance. Where they are going is in the back gate, which is the exit. This is the gate that is near their building, while it's surrounded by other buildings. That's why those things haven't got here yet. Most students know that the gate is locked, and it's impossible to climb the fences as it has spikes on it. That's why they chose to run towards the gym, which is in the middle of the school. For me, it's a suicide; those students must've died by now.
We can only pray for their survival, but I know that they will die. After all, like in the movies, bitten students must've been get there and turned, killing the students inside and spreading the infection.