The room was filled with only the sound of sobbing which came from the ladies who mourned a classmate they hardly knew while the guys and I just stared at the horrifying image before us. Suddenly I felt a bump beside me, it was Everett, “I see he noticed the vent, I'm guessing that means it's only a matter of time before others begin to think of an escape plan as well,” she whispered calmly. “True, but something bothers me, I'm certain the school wouldn't have known he went into the vent before they turned it on right so how did they know he was dying,” I replied. She nodded almost as if she had discovered something. “I've also wondered the same, my guess is they're not just watching us but know where we are as well.”“I'm not certain, and I don't want to jump to conclusions too, let's meet tonight. We have a few things to discuss.”I couldn't sleep, the image of that boy's body was carved deeply into my mind and I couldn't help but feel sick. How many more people would die, when
“It's Dale, isn't it?” I stood still as I could not believe my ears, Zane who walked ahead of me suddenly stopped and turned around. “The person you wish to investigate is Dale isn't it?” He asked again. I wanted to question what his words meant but then I realized that there was no need to deny it, it would only further complicate things and besides, I needed as many people on my side as possible but first I had to find out what it was that Zane was up to. “So what if it is, do you have a problem with that?” “I figured something was wrong, I wanted to quietly investigate things myself but then I realized you and that chick might already know something so I decided to join your little show,” he answered. Now that everything was out of the box there was no need to feign ignorance, if I wanted to escape then what bad is having my enemy on my side for a change? “What do you know about Zane?” I asked. “Hmm? That punk and I used to practically be neighbors, he was always fond of do
“What happened?”When I opened my eyes I was in my room. I'm pretty sure that wasn't where I fell asleep but somehow I ended up here. “How the hell did I get here?” Ethan babbled as he woke up. It seemed to me like I wasn't the only one who went through something crazy, I wish that was our only problem m but there was more. My neck felt stiffened and very uncomfortable, something cold and metallic was around it. "Hey Ethan," I called for his attention but I did not need to explain the situation to him as he instantly reacted with widened eyes and I did as well. "The hell is that collar?" I asked. I was pretty sure it was the same thing on his neck that was on mine. It was exactly like a dog collar save the designs and small screen at the from and back. "This is just getting messed up, now they want to treat us as animals this time? What do they see us as?" Ethan flared. “I don’t know about you but something tells me things are about to get intense,” I said to him Tiredly Eth
“I can't believe that jerk gets to live without his memories, if he can't recall what he did to us then isn't that the same as letting a criminal roam free,” Austin argued with anger. His anger was understandable, I too was pissed and barely holding back from exploding however things were the way they were and there was nothing we could do about it other than to figure out our way around which wasn't going smoothly. The person I wanted to investigate was right before me, I had to revisit my plans. “Well, I still think he might be useful, there might be something, anything at all, a trace that could help us,” Tasha said. “You sure about that, I mean the last thing the school would want to do is to give us a clue about how to escape this hell hole,” I replied. Things had started to look complicated for us, our plan seemed to slowly be coming to shambles as our last hope sank like a stone, and we had arrived back at the drawing board. Just as our gathering began to turn into an a
“Well if it isn't Mr. Anderson, a pleasure to meet you, allow me to introduce myself. I am Mr. Edgar, the Principal of this prestigious school, what I'm about to tell you is quite confidential, I wouldn't like preying ears so forgive my hasty actions.”In all my life, if anyone had told me that I would be meeting with the principal of the school I would simply laugh it off and say, “The principal wouldn't want to meet with someone like myself,” and yet here I was, playing some sort of message from the principal himself. If I could put my feelings in one word then it had to be, “funny.”Surely this was a recorded message directed to me but, “why me.”“Thank you for taking out your time to play this note, Mr Anderson. I can understand just how alarmed you are but do not take this as a threat or problem the reason I am making this video is because I would like to make a deal with you.”“A deal?” I repeated. I didn't like the sound of that but it sounded tempting, I wanted to know what t
I thought he was supposed to have lost his memories or something, the thought that he may have tricked us baffled me greatly, perhaps which is why the moment the barrier between us came undone the first thing I did was to prepare my angry face, one that showed that I wasn't going to be played for a fool however-“How did it go? Did you get any message?” Dale asked. He seemed to be genuinely concerned to know what it was that happened while I was inside the barrier which made me wonder if he was faking it or not. “Enough of the suspicions,” I told myself as I turned to Dale. “Tell me,” I said, “how did you get this device?” The both of them stared at each other for a bit, and then at me, the look on their face seemed to be asking whether or not I wanted to hear about it. “Out with it you two!”“Alright fine,” Zane said, “Dale, you tell him, it isn't something I'd have the pleasure of talking about.”With a face of disgust, he turned away and moved away, it wasn't that far of a di
I dragged my legs through without any idea of where we were headed. If I dared to even stop moving I would be pushed from behind by one of the guards, all the while only one thought was on my mind. “If only I could discover more.”I hated it, how short I was on time, I had come to the point where I was hopeless, how exactly did he want me to save my classmates when I had little to no time? The scene of piled-up bodies certainly wasn't something I would have liked to see again. “Too bad he was the only one.”Suddenly something inside me clicked. I knew something inside of me perceived things differently but I had only been able to sense it now. “What if someone else was in on the whole thing?” At long last Dale” 's words had begun to make sense, the words he kept saying echoed in my head. “We,” I thought to myself. “Not I.”I knew then and there that there was still hope for this terrible situation, Dale was not working alone, perhaps this game was unavoidable but I was glad I h
Rules, or should I say excuses, excuses for them to kill us. To my greatest disarray, I had to not only figure out a way to not die but also a way to save as many people as possible. Was that possible? Probably, I wasn't sure but I had to try. I stood up, ready to take the first step in action, I made my way to the center of the room and stood. I could feel everyone staring at me, they whispered amongst themselves and probably wondered what I wanted to do, some of them didn't look pretty excited to see me and a few looked hopeful.Their intentions are crystal clear, they wanted to reach the door before anyone else, but how foolish they looked, how nervously they trembled, most of them wouldn't even last three minutes in here and might collapse right during the game. “Hello everyone,” I greeted only to be replied by the dead silence that followed after, soon everyone returned to speaking with their peers and left me like an outcast. Well, what could I say, it was what I did someho