"Joey!"

He jumped at the familiar sound and tone of Michelle's voice. He looked around to confirm what he already knew: nothing had happened. . .yet. He couldn't explain it but somehow he knew it was going to happen exactly as he saw it.

"We have to get out of here," Joey said in a panicked voice, and when no one budged he added, "NOW! WE HAVE TO GET OUT OF HERE NOW!" He looked as they all stared at him with mixed expressions. Some were scared, some were worried, but most were skeptical.

"Calm down, Joey," Michelle said, "everything's fine. You said so yourself this morning."

"Well I fucking lied okay," he said, "I'm full of shit. Happy? Now let's go. If we stay here we're all going to die! Let's go!"

"What the fuck are you talking about," Tyler asked, "Are you some sort of psychic now?"

He began to rationalize things. He was tired and that's what probably caused the. . .whatever that was. That had to be it. Other than Michelle shouting his name, nothing was the same as it was. Of course it wouldn't be the same dumb-ass he thought you can't see something like that and expect it to play out the same, right? Let's face it. It was a hallucination brought on by lack of sleep. That's exactly what it--

A man that looked like he might be a professor began power walking in their direction. "Shit!" he exclaimed, "I'm gonna be late!" He began to jog and eventually started running. He tripped right by the group and they all began laughing except for Joey. Hey, Joey could remember himself saying to the man, don't trip. The whole group would have laughed again and the man would start to run to wherever it was he was going. He then began to run to wherever it was he was going. . . again.

That's it Joey thought We're getting out of here now. "Look," he said, "I don't know what just happened to me but I saw us all die."

"And how is that," Andy asked. "How the fuck could you see us all die?"

"Dammit, Andy, I don't know. But i did. And it was horrible."

"Screw this," Tyler said, "I'm going to the cafeteria."

"No," Joey said, "you can't, that's where it starts."

"Where what starts?"

"The whole chain of events that kills us all. Well actually it begins somewhere else but that's where people start to die and--"

"Okay," Andy said," I'll bite. How do we die?"

"It depends on who it was. It started with a wildfire in the woods, okay? First you die," he pointed to Will, "and then you," he pointed to Cali. He went down his list of who died and when and only when he got to the end did he realize what little sense he was making.

"Let's just go," Joey said, "come on." He walked away and turned when he realized that no one was following him. He looked pleadingly at all of them, hoping they would come. Michelle was the first to cave. Then Jackie and Brent. Eventually they all joined him except for Andy and Tyler.

"Not happening," Tyler said, "I'm hungry and I'm going to get food."

"Come on," Cali pleaded, "for me."

"Look," Joey said, "I will take you out to a restaurant and pay for everything you get if you just come."

Tyler hesitated for a second and then agreed to come.

"Andy," Joey said, "let's go!"

"No! This is all bullshit. You're lucky you got the rest of them with you and you know if it wasn't for Cali, Tyler would be right here."

"Okay," Joey said, "Fuck it. Just stay stay here and fuckin' die, Andy."

"Joey," Michelle said, "You can't just leave him here."

"He's not coming, Michelle. Besides we're running out of time. We can't stay here and wait for him."

"Please, Joey. He's our friend."

Joey stood there with a strained expression on his face. He sighed and turned to face Andy.

"I'll tell you what, Andy. If this place doesn't go to hell in the next five minutes I'll give you a hundred dollars. Okay?"

"Hot damn! You got yourself a deal."

Joey led them to a distance far enough from the school where he thought they'd be safe.

"Can you tell us what the fuck is going on now" Michael asked, "I think we have the right to know what you 'saw' don't we?"

"I guess."

Joey stood there and tried to remember what he had seen.

"Right now, there's a magnifying glass in the middle of a field out there," he pointed over to the nearby forest, "and pretty soon the rays from the sun are going to ignite that field."

"This is bull," Tyler said.

"Then the wind is going to start blowing it towards the cafeteria."

The wind began to blow. Nobody noticed.

"Right about now, Cali would have gone in the back. Will had gone back earlier to tell the staff to get more food out. She didn't want him touching her food. She was trying to bring him back out. Then they argued for a little bit and will leaned against the back door. He caught on fire cause the fire from the forest had worked it's way to the back door. It was made of wood for some reason. Then he hit one of the gas stoves and. . . boom. Wait a minute!"

"What is it," Michelle asked,"are we safe?"

"Maybe. If Will caused this and he's not back there. . .maybe it won't happen. Cali and Will would have died and then Tyler fell trying to get away from the giant fireball that was created. And Amy tries to get out but the explosion shook some of the building loose so the doors were blocked. And once the flames got to the door, the whole place just exploded."

Andy stood looking at his watch. "Get ready to pay up, Joey. We're at four minutes, fifty seconds. Fifty-one, fifty-two, fifty-three fif--"

"Hey," Jackie said, "Does anyone else hear screaming?"

They did.

"fifty six, fifty seven. . ."

"No," Joey said, "Will's not there! It shouldn't--"

The cafeteria exploded.

"It just took longer," Joey said, barely aware of what he was saying, almost in a daze, "will not being there wouldn't just stop it from happening. It would just make it take longer. How did I--"

They all watched as burning chunks and bodies were thrown everywhere, setting off more explosions.

"Duck!" Kenny shouted.

Joey looked up and saw that a huge piece of their soon-to-be former college was flying in their direction.

Everyone dropped to the ground except for Will.

"What are you guys doing?"

He looked up and saw it. But it was too late.

It came down, hitting him in the head.

The force was so great that his head was perfectly separated from the rest of his body, which remained standing for about ten seconds.

Everyone stood up as soon as Will's body hit the ground. The blood began to spread on the pavement.

"What the fuck," Tyler said to Joey, "did you do? WHAT DID YOU DO?!"

Joey stood there in disbelief. "I--I--I didn't do anything. I tried to stop it, I--" He couldn't believe that this was actually happening. He knew that he would wake up from this any second.

He didn't.