Xianei

'Ignore them…' Garrick thought grievously as he walked down the hall as fast as he could without running. Cat-calls of many kinds reached his ears from students he didn't even know, but had heard the news. Despair rocked his body as he squeezed his eyes shut, trying to ignore the comments all around him. 'Only a few more feet…' His classroom was up ahead, a paradise in itself, getting Garrick's hopes up as his feet went a bit faster against the dirty linoleum floor. Ducking into the classroom, he gave out a relieved sigh as he made his way to a desk, but as fast as the relief had come, it disappeared when a familiar student walked

 My blood was pounding in my ears, through my veins as fast as it could go. I was sure that he would hear it and discover my hiding place, but I felt paralyzed. I clamped a hand over my mouth to muffle my heavy breathing and my sobs. They were dead, my best friends were dead! The image of their bodies mangled and broken, beaten and bloody, burned into my brain. A whimper escaped my throat as I pictured the room again, blood splattered on the walls, pooling around their bodies, spreading out along the floor. I squeezed my eyes shut as I tried to suppress the noises of dismay that my body was making. I was going to die, he would find me any