A week had passed since the revealing of the runaway serial killer, nobody, not even the teachers, in our school seemed to be bothered. Though it could be for the best to just forget, and not cause mass hysteria.
I had woken up to the loud buzzing sound coming from the alarm clock. My arm instinctively reached out, from under the purple covers, to smack the small annoying object sitting on the nightstand next to the bed. Friday, one more day I had to endure before the weekend. Then Sora, Riku, Selphie, and I could go out and spend some time at the nearest mall, buy some things, and forget about all the school work that had to be done before monday. Before the alarm could go off again, I pulled the covers all the way up to my head and felt myself drift back into sleep.
Thirty minutes had passed before the alarm went off again, and once again I slapped it to turn off. Looking at the time on the on the clock it read eight o'clock, shock ran through my body. Class would start in forty minutes, I immediately sat up trying not to hyperventilate from freaking out. My eyes quickly looked at the closet door, where my uniform should have been hanging. The white button up shirt with a blue plaid skirt and tie were nowhere in sight. My heart started pounding in my ears, with realization that my uniform had gone missing.
"Okay. Calm down kairi, its gotta be somewhere in here" I whispered to myself. "where was the last place you saw it at?"
My memory started to slowly come back from the event that took place the night before. I had gone into the girls communal bathroom to take a shower. My purple and pink backpack, filled with all of my bathroom essentials and clothes, was hanging off of my shoulder before it fell onto the ground in front of one the shower stalls. I slid the shower curtain to the side and reached inside to turn the knob over to the hot side. The bathroom slowly started to fill with steam as my legs walked me over to the sinks to look at my reflection in the mirror. My violet eyes were staring back at me, my auburn hair always made them pop out and even more noticeable . With that I gathered all my hair into a bun, brushed my teeth, washed my face, and got undressed.
Once I was done with the shower, got dressed, gathered all of my personal belongings, and went back to my dorm room. My heart stopped when I realized that I forgot to put my uniform in my backpack.
I ran back to the communal bathroom and bursted through the door, almost knocking over the short blonde haired girl I saw a week ago, to see if by some miraculous chance my uniform was still there. Her bag fell to floor as she tried to regain her balance, her expression gave off that she was terrified but then realized why I was there.
"Did you accidentally leave your uniform in here?" She softly spoke as she slowly pulled out the clothing, from the bag she had around her shoulders, and handed it to me. "I was about to put it in the lost and found bin."
"Yeah I did, thanks. You're such a lifesaver!" I let out a sigh of relief. "My names kairi by the way"
"Oh, mines Namine. I'm new here" Her voice sounded so delicate, heck the girl looked so delicate.
"You'll like it here, I promise." I added quickly then left to start the day.
We were all sitting around the round table at lunch time. Sora was next to me with his arm around me, while I was laying my head on his shoulder. Selphie was going on about the how many of the new male students were cute, nobody seemed to be listening because this was the fifth time she reminded us of her opinion. Riku was complaining about the new rules that were set in place this year. Mainly that nobody was allowed out of their rooms to go into the commons area, or any part of the campus, past ten o'clock.
Our food was brought to our table by several of the cooks and servers. There was a bowl of mash potatoes, corn, and carrots. The main dish was precut roasted chicken and our beverage was iced tea and water. We all got our plates and started passing around the bowls of food and serving our selves. Right at that moment Namine came to my table with the spiky blonde haired guy from a week ago.
"Hi kairi, do you mind if me and Roxas sit with you guys?" Namine pointed towards the spiky blonde haired boy.
"Oh, no. Not at all you guys are welcomed." I answered.
Namine and Roxas brought up some chairs, sat down, and started serving themselves. We went around the table introducing ourselves quickly. Before long Yuna and Rikku showed up and introduced themselves to Namine and Roxas. Yuna was a blue eyed brunette, with her hair cut short just below her chin. Rikku herself was a true blonde, not one of those girls who bleached their hair constantly, and had it up on her usual high ponytail and her side bangs crowning her face.
"So, I was thinking about joining the school's volleyball team" Rikku stated.
"Oh wow Rikku, think about all the cute guys attention you would be getting for wearing those really short shorts!" Selphie added
"I know right!" Rikky agreed
Riku, Sora, and Roxas rolled their eyes at Rikku and Selphie's conversation. Those two were always boy crazy, though RIkku was a little more calm about it. Yuna on the other hand was more like me, we were both very academic, took school seriously, and complete book worms. But today she was unusually quiet, which was strange cause she would have been laughing by now with Rikku's and Selphie's conversation.
"Did you guys hear about that serial killer?" Roxas started. "They haven't found him yet, they think he's hiding somewhere."
Everybody at our table got quiet for a second. Roxas was looking down at the glass of water before him, in deep thought, just running his fingers on the rim of the cup.
"They also think that he's somewhere in Twilight Town." Yuna added, though she looked terrified to even mention it.
"WHAT?!" Selphie almost screamed. "You can't be serious, the school is going to go under soft lockdown if they really think he's somewhere here in town, and do you know what that means?" Selphie waiter for a response and when no one said anything she continued. "None of us can leave the building, unless of course one of our parents came or we were part of the staff!"
"That would be a total nightmare!" RIkku whined.
"Even then I don't think the staff could leave without special permission." Namine quietly
said.
"Guys we have nothing to worry, the school has high security." Sora counter argued.
For some reason Sora's Input didn't seem to calm down the group as they continued discussing ridiculous "what if" events, that would never take place. Riku had his eyes closed acting as if he wasn't listening, but we knew better to know he was about to explode. Roxas was still looking down at his cup, this time though he wasn't running his fingers along the rim instead his hand was just lying on to the side of his cup. He also had a concerned facial expression and didn't feel like talking, I didn't either not with finding out new information over the serial killer.
"WILL YOU GUYS JUST CALM THE HELL DOWN!" Riku yelled at us, causing several tables around us to stop talking and turn their attention over us. Several of us at our table actually jumped, and Namine seemed a little bit frightened. "Just forget about it. You guys are going to end up causing mass hysteria over something thats isn't really that big of a deal" With that Riku got up and left.
"Hey Namine." I said to get her attention. "You shouldn't be afraid of Riku, He gets like that sometimes. He doesn't like to see us worried over things we can't control."
Namine nodded her head at me and gave me a weak smile. This was going to be a long rest of the day. The bell finally rang releasing everybody to go on to their next class, everybody at the table immediately got up and left , I was about to get up when Sora grabbed my arm and pulled me gently back down. He gave me the sweetest smile as his eyes sparkled with joy, then he got close to the side of my head. His hot breath was against my ear, and my face started to feel like it was burning.
"Meet me in the commons area after classes today." Sora whispered, he then lifted my face up and kissed me softly on the lips. Gave me one last smile, and got up to go to class.
I sat there stunned like always whenever he did that, if only I was able to do that to him. Once all my thoughts were gathered, I got up smoothed down my blue plaid skirt and went off to my next class.
"Alright class I've got an announcement to make" Ms. Henderson calmly told the class.
Selphie and I looked and each other hoping it wouldn't be what we were suspecting at lunch. Ms. Henderson took a long pause before continuing what she was going to say. Even though she was doing her best to hide her emotions, she looked worried.
"The headmaster sent out an email to all teachers to tell their seventh period, that the police have informed us we are going under soft lockdown." She took a huge breath before continuing. "Now what that means is no one is allowed to leave the building without special permission. If your parents decide, after we call them, that they want to come and get you. You are allowed to leave the campus then." Well there goes my plans for the weekend.
Everybody in the room gasped and started whispering amongst themselves. Selphie looked like she was on the verge of crying, but trying so hard not to. It was really hard on everyone to hear that we might be in danger at this point, even I couldn't believe what was happening. The whispers started growing louder and at this point they were just students almost shouting at each other.
"Kairi!" Selphie loudly whispered at from two seats away.
"What?" I answered back.
"What are we going to do tonight?" Are you serious, was what I was thinking when i heard this. We were under soft lockdown and all she cared about was how we were going to spend time, while being locked up in the school.
"I don't know, Selphie" I said trying to not sound annoyed. " I know I'm going to meet sora in the commons area, as soon as class is over."
"Oh! Thats a good idea, I'm coming too!" She clapped her hands together, like she always did when she was excited.
It took everything in me from not smacking my head onto the desk in front of me. Selphie was so self centered sometimes. It was my chance to be alone with Sora and she just had to ruin it. I looked at Selphie in the eyes and gave her my best sarcastic smile I was capable of.
Class continued as usual. Mrs. Henderson pulled out her class set books of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, and began passing them out. She gave us some back story on how messed up the Fitzgeralds life was, and that thankfully their daughter Scottie Fitzgerald didn't turn out anything like them. The class started reading the first chapter of the book when the final bell of the day rang. Everybody go their things together and left back to their dorm rooms or the commons area. I unfortunately had to wait for Selphie to gather her things before I was ready to leave.
"You know Kairi, I think you and Sora should be put in the yearbook as the cutest couple." Selphie said cheerfully as she organized her books in her book bag.
"Thanks Selph thats really sweet, but we both know that those polls are nothing but popularity contests." I stated.
"So? I think if you guys did enter it you would win." She finally swung her bag on her shoulder.
We started walking down the hall together dodging the students as we made our way to the commons area. What was quite odd was that nobody seemed to look like they were the least bit concerned that the whole school was forced under lockdown, everybody was laughing and seeming to look like they were having a good time.
"Selph if any one of us out of our group were to be cutest couple, it would probably be Riku and whatever girl he chooses."
"No, Riku would most likely get best looking guy." Selphie fought back.
"Okay whatever, you win" I had said this when we finally were stopped by a group of students in front of us. I was prepared to get Selphie's "YAY!" phrase, which did not happen. I turned to look in the direction that Selphie was at, and noticed there was writing all over the walls. It looked like the letters were painted red and still wet, but slowly drying brown. Then it hit me that it wasn't paint. It was blood and read: "You can not hide from me" over and over all over the walls.
