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Chapter 3:
Cody frowned as Zack walked away from his desk. His brother almost turned back, making him think that he might apologize for his mean words. Then Mrs. Thomas’ cranky voice grabbed Zack’s attention, screeching his name.
Bob turned around and asked Cody what happened, acting as though he wasn’t listening the entire time.
“Zack has this weird idea in his head. He thinks that he’s not good at anything, but I know he is. He said the stuff he’s good at––like popularity––doesn’t actually matter, and he wishes he could be like me in things like academics. He’s not really that stupid; he just lacks common sense,” Cody said with a smile on his face as he watched Ms. Turner return. “If he would put in the time to study, he would do just fine.”
Moments passed as Bob struggled with a comforting reply, but finally came up with something just as the teacher started talking.
“Okay class, sorry about that. There was just another problem from our ‘star student’ that needed attention,” Ms. Turner said sarcastically. “So we were discussing factoring…”
“I never really knew he felt that way,” Bob finally answered, continuing the conversation while Ms. Turner was instructing. Cody nodded; he always knew it in a sense.
Minutes later Bob shot a rubber band across the room, whacking Ms. Turner in the back of the head. Just as she turned around to her finger at him, Mrs. Friendly’s deep voice bellowed over the loudspeaker: “Please pardon the interruption, but Mr. Favinger, if you could please come to the office immediately. Thank you.”
They all knew what that meant; someone was in the building. This was more serious than a code-blue, and no one was alerted of a drill taking place, so the class went to the back of the room and crunched down quietly. Cody suddenly remembered Zack and wondered where he was. He got a sick feeling in his stomach…
Seconds later, there was a banging on the door. The banging gradually grew into a loud thumping, as Ms. Turner listened and watched fearfully. And then she remembered: she had forgotten to lock the door! At seemingly the same moment as this thought raced through her brainwaves, the door knob slowly began to turn. Opening the door, a man dressed in black wearing a mask took one look at Ms. Turner, lifted up his gun, and blew her head off. The kids jumped, shocked at what had just happened right before their very eyes. A few started crying as the murderer peered around the room.
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Principal Morris quickly got to his feet, commanding Zack to hide in the closet. Thinking of how much of a nervous wreck Cody must be at this point, Zack walked over to the closet and knelt down with a grin on his face. He loved drills that took time out of the boring day.
Mr. Morris shot Zack a mean look when he saw he was smiling.
“What’s wrong with you, boy?”
“Nothing, I just think drills are fun,” Zack replied casually.
“I am the principal of the school. I would know if there was a drill. This is NOT a drill.”
Zack thought for a moment and then realized that he was talking to the leader of the school…the one who would plan a drill…
His face grew more serious as Principal Morris threw the door shut.
“Wait, where are you going?” Zack called through the closet. His response was a slamming the door leading into the office.
Boom! A loud gunshot came from above that made Zack jump. He looked up and remembered that Ms. Turner’s room was right on top of the office he was in.
“Cody! No!!” Zack thought frantically, forcing his eyes shut as tightly as possible. “It can’t be. This can’t be happening...”
Another gunshot came from the floor above him. And then, silence. Zack sat still for a minute worrying about the safety of Cody and his other friends who were left in the room.
Wondering where the police were, Zack listened to four more gunshots and a few people screaming. He heard the floorboards squeaking, as if someone was walking towards him. More scared than he had ever been in his entire life, Zack squeezed his eyes shut as much as possible, hoping he would he would wake up from this terrible nightmare. The man investigated the room, finally opening the closet door and finding Zack inside. Zack was violently hooded before he could open his eyes to see what was going on. He fidgeted, yelled, and tried to fight, but the masked-man was just too powerful. The kidnapper dragged Zack out of the office and out the side doors of the school. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Carey immediately ran over to the corded phone in the kitchen and anxiously wondered who she should call. The first person who came to mind was Kurt, her ex-husband. They agreed that Carey would always contact him in case of an emergency with the boys. But considering what has been happening lately with him, Carey frantically dialed Bob’s mother’s phone number. It rang twice until she picked up the phone.
“Carey!! What’s going on!?! I just turned the news––”
“I know!!! What do we do?!” Carey almost yelled into the phone.
“Okay, let’s just calm down for a second here. I’m sure all three of our boys are fine. There are many, many kids in the school. The chances that our kids are affected by this in any way are very slim.
“Yeah, I guess you’re right,” Carey said while running her hand through her hair, trying to calm down.
Carey then heard a gasp from Mrs. Bobby that sent a cold chill down her spine.
“Umm…Carey, are you watching Channel 10?”
“Nope, Channel 3. Why?”
“Well turn to Channel 10…” Mrs. Bobby said nervously.
Carey quickly threw down her corded phone in the kitchen, running over to get the cordless out of what you could hardly call a living room. Pressing the channel up button four times, she finally arrived at Channel 10. Her mouth fell open even wider than it did just a few minutes ago.
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Cody sat in shock just after seeing his terrible teacher being executed. He looked up and saw the man in black had his eyes fixed on him.
The criminal pointed at Cody, signaling him to get up. When Cody gave him a confused look, the psycho lifted the gun from his side and pointed it at his head. The boy quickly got to his feet and walked tentatively towards the front of the room. Bob then decided that he wanted to try to play hero when his friend was grabbed roughly by the arm and pulled towards the door.
“Hey! Where do you think you’re going with him?”
The mysterious man turned around slowly, lifted and cocked his gun, and then pulled the trigger. Cody and all the other eyewitnesses gasped, and many continued crying.
Frozen, Cody stood there, hoping he would just wake up from this horrible nightmare.
“LET’S GO!!!” the man yelled.
Cody turned around slowly, and, with a ghostly look on his face, he stared up in complete and utter amazement at the man he believed to be dead.
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Remember that the next chapter will be up in about a week or two. There are 8 chapters plus an alternate ending in this story.
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