Chapter 8: Not Alone

It had been so dark in the school that I hadn't even recognized the fact that the classroom I had found the open window in, was my history room, the room that I followed Tom out of. I also hadn't noticed that the corridors I had been through were the ones I followed Tom down to see him go into the janitor's closet for the first time.

As I walked down the corridor, I noticed that there was a room at the end of a corridor that branched off the corridor I was walking down, that had a light on and the door was open. Inside the room, I could make out the outline of a person, a person who was getting up and walking towards the door.

Panicking, I opened the first door I saw, forgetting to turn off the alarm! Suddenly, my tablet flashed red and two buttons appeared on the screen. One said 'Call the police' and the other said 'Ignore. False alarm.' I hadn't realized that the program that gave me control of the cameras also gave me control of what to do when the cameras detected movement.

I pressed the ignore button and sank to the floor. Everything I had done up until then could have been a lot easier. I could have just walked through the school, ignoring the alarms as soon as they flashed up on the program. There wasn't even an alarm sound, as my tablet's volume was turned all the way down, so it wasn't as if anyone would have known!

Then I remembered. There was a person coming towards me. I tensed, automatically, slowing my breathing and silencing it. I could hear footsteps in the corridor, slowly edging towards the room I was in.

"Hello? Are… Are you an alien? Have you come to take me away?" I heard someone say. I recognized their voice. It was Mr Flatly! He was in the school? Why? It was night time. Didn't he have a home?
"I come in peace," he whimpered, getting closer to the door. I sat in silence. I didn't know what to do. That's when it hit me. I didn't have to do anything.

I quickly got up and threw a chair out into the parking lot through a window that I had opened from the inside. As I suspected, my tablet flashed again. Thank goodness I hadn't come in through the car park. There was a camera out there as well! I sent the alarm message from the program, not my tablet, to the nearest computer that I presumed was in Mr Flatly's office.

Just as the door handle turned, I heard a reasonably loud siren come from the direction of the room I had seen him come out of.
"Oh dear, there are aliens outside. If I stay in here they can't get me. If I call the police they'll come in and abduct me! I'll… just ignore it," he said as his voice drifted away from my room. I heard his door shut.

I sat in silence for a minute, waiting to make sure that I was sure that I was ready to go out there.
"If you're sure you can do this from here, go to the closet. If you're not, Jess, then leave before you get yourself arrested!" I thought. I wanted to do this. I had come that far. It was too late to turn back. I took a deep breath before emerging into the corridor and walking towards the closet…

Sorry about the super short chapter (593 words - not including this bit)! The next one will be longer, possibly the longest so far...
The next chapter may not be published that soon, as I want to make it longer and better than the others, and may not be published this week. This is also because I am going to write a few more chapters with it...