"Charlie, c-come on, please." Justin was practically begging his best friend now. "We've already looked everywhere, Chaz. There's no use, we're trapped." He ended his plea in a nasty coughing fit.
Charlie -now hunched over and leaning on one of the walls for support- looked up at his friend's squinted, tear filled eyes. "We're not giving up this easily, I know you know that. Just snap out of it, you're in shock." He grabbed the other boy's hand and squeezed as tightly as he could manage. "We have to be in charge here, we're our house prefects. We can do this, Justin."
Justin took his free hand and wiped away the tears caused by the smoke, and then helped the other boy stand up. "You're right. We… We can do this, we've got to." He paused, looking around trying to think. The two of them were on the first floor, but the main door they came through was completely blocked by eight feet tall flames. Every window seemed to be conveniently blocked as well. "Charlie, there's-"
"Just hold on," He cut the other boy off before he could start panicking again. The obvious escapes were definitely not an option, so there had to be something upstairs. Charlie pulled Justin carefully along to the staircase. "There's no other way, we have to look for a fire escape or something up there." He turned back to look at his friend, who was staring at something lying on the floor. "Justin, what-"
"I-is that…?" He had a look of sheer horror on his face. "We have to help the others first, Chaz, we can't just leave them here dying!" He pulled out of Charlie's hand and ran over to the object on the floor, only to find it was Dwight trapped under a piece of the ceiling. "Charlie… Charlie help me lift this off of him. It's Dwight!"
"Shit…" Charlie muttered and rushed over to help. They successfully managed to lift the piece off, only to find the boy unconscious. "Is he still breathing?"
Justin leaned down to check for a pulse, finding one and nodded. "Just barely. I know CPR, I can stay and help any people here while you go and find us all an escape."
Charlie gave his best friend a concerned look, before nodding and quickly making his way up the falling-apart staircase to the second floor.