The hurt and the proud

The difference between Benny, I and the girls is, well, Benny and I only had eachother, they had everyone in the grade, it was crazy, I wasn’t sure wether I wanted to cling to them, or keep away from them. Either way I did both.

We had been walking and stopping for so long that we were tired and drained

“Why don’t we take shifts so some of us can rest?”, I quickly added on “I’ll take the first shift” Benny nodded

“I’ll take second then” the girls shakily agreed with us and sat in the room we had chosen to stay in. A room that seemed safe, that was quiet, creepily quiet, but the creepier the better, it meant that I was grounded to reality, so I didn’t slip away into my mind.

I didn’t know how safe it was for me to fall asleep but I managed to because Benny woke me up by gently shaking me, I opened my eyes and slowly got up, my back aching and my muscles groaning, I grabbed onto Benny’s arm as my eyes adjusted to the dark again, he guided me out to the others as we started moving down the hallway.

“Oi, psst” we looked around for the voice

“Uh hello?” I called back quietly

“Hey over here” we turned to see our teacher. Mr smith” we walked over to him and he pointed further down the hall

“There’s these things” we nodded and placed a finger to our lips and he nodded, and we guided him along with us. He pointed to the next hallway and we turned the corner, one of those things jumped out at us and ran like crazy, screaming as it was on fire, we pushed ourselves into a tight corner as other things attacked it and set themselves on fire.

It looked like a nightmare, we were surrounded by them in the room as they attacked the noises. I desperately looked around for an escape but on found a little pebble, it wouldn’t be loud enough to get their attention, neither was the other pebble even if thrown together, I looked around the roof and found an alarm system, I lined it up and threw the pebble...I missed, it made a small plop noise and some of the things went to check it out while the others continued ripping eachother apart. It was horrible, they looked like us humans but also didn’t.

I lined up my second shot and drew in a shaky breath, I closed my eyes and threw it as hard as I could and it hit it! It sent off alarms and water. They hated it, they screeched as their skin blistered and bubbles. Water. Water was their weakness, they couldn’t stand it, they all scattered and we rocketed out of there and booked it down the hallway, we got halfway down and heard screaming, we cautiously turned that way and I covered my mouth as I gagged.

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