Part One
Braden walked to his friends who were already seated at the table eating lunch. He sat down next to Brooke where he always sat. Across from them were Mathew and Kathryn. To the left of Brooke sat Austin and Isabella. "So how has everyone been settling in?" Asked Austin. It had been his idea for them to sign up for the exchange program to go to Rome. Everyone responded with the same exhausted "Fine." It had been a long plane ride. As they ate Braden turned to take everything in. He stopped mid-turn when he saw someone staring at him. The man had a face that looked like it must have been burnt at some point in his life. Braden didn't think much of it and continued eating. "So how does everyone like their" BEEP BEEP BEEP! "Agh what is the awful noise!" Mathew screamed. They turned and looked around. When they did they saw smoke rushing into the room through the front doors of the restaurant. They immediately all got up from the table. The front door was entirely blocked with the crowd of other people in the restaurant rushing to get out. "What do we do?!" Yelled Kathryn. "I think we should try to go through that other door!" Brooke yelled as she pointed to a door at the back of the room. They all got up and ran towards the door Brooke had pointed out. They opened the door and were surprised to see a ladder going downwards. At this point the fire was inside the restaurant so they decided to go down the ladder anyway. Braden held the door open while everyone else started climbing down. He looked around and saw the man with the burnt face smiling just as he was engulfed in flames.