Guardian

Lock down Drill

(Chapter 1)

Josh opened his eyes and found himself staring at the ceiling. "Another day of hell in Spanish class" he thought to himself as he leaned back in his desk. Josh was good at Spanish, so good that he didn't even need to go to the class, of course he was only good because he was in fact Mexican. Josh saw himself as an American first then a Mexican, so naturally he preferred English to Spanish, but he knew just as much English as he did Spanish. It was an easy A for him and the easiest and most boring class of the day even though it was only his second period. Josh covered his face with his hands and laid his face on his desk.

"Hey you wanna help me with my Spanish homework" a girl asked sitting next to Josh.

Josh knew who it was as soon as he heard the question. It was Riley, the prettiest girl in the class. She was probably 2 inches shorter than Josh was, which but her at around 5'6, she couldn't have weighed more than 120 pounds, she had the prettiest brown eyes and hair in the world, well at least Josh thought so, and she was the nicest, most un stuck up girl he had ever met.

Josh lifted his head from the table with a smile.

"Sure what do you need help with?"

Before Riley could answer, the intercom buzzed to life.

"Attention Students we are now in a lock down, all staff lock the classroom doors, close the blinds and proceed to making your rounds your section of the school buildings. This is not a drill, all students remain quiet tell further instructions."

Josh's Teacher quickly complied with the intercom instructions and left the secure room to check the rest of the schools hallways.

"Huh" Josh whispered to Riley, "I wonder what's going on."

"Probably a burglary in one of the neighborhoods next door, kind of like last years, remember?" Riley responded as she knelt down onto the floor under Josh's desk.

"Yeah most likely" Josh said in a disappointed voice. "I just wish something more exciting could happen like a bomb threat or something to get the adrenaline going…"

Just as Josh uttered his last sentence a loud piercing shriek echoed through the hallways, followed by a painful cry.

"Holy shit, did you hear that?" Josh exclaimed as he got up to try and look through the door window.

"Don't go out there they might see you" Riley urged with worry in her voice.

Thud, thud, thud

Josh turned around quickly before reaching the door, wondering where that thud sound had came from, he scanned his classmates in the room with a questioning face.

"Did any of you guys make that sound?"

No one in the room responded, they all just stared in horror at the big window in the back of the room as it cracked after each continuing thud from the outside.

Josh quickly moved towards the window and pulled the blinds open.

There was no one there, just a bloody hand print.

"Oh my god some ones hurt out there" Riley cried, "we have to go help him."

"Like hell we do" Josh retorted, "were perfectly safe in this room and you want to go help some psycho, crack head thief who just almost busted our window?"

"Well I'm going out there you all can stay here if you want, someone needs help."

With that Riley stood up and walked towards the door, determined to help the injured person outside.

"God damn it, you can't go out there alone, I might as well go with you to help the person out."

Josh really didn't care about the person outside, he just wanted to be in Riley's presence, if he could impress her somehow, he thought, he'd have a chance at getting with her.

Josh and Riley made their way to the door and walked out leaving behind the rest of their classmates in the room.