Chapter 11: Panic
Justin walked through the hallways of the frat house very quickly and quietly. Slowly opening the doors he can across, he looked into every room to see if there was anything inside that can help them. So far, there was nothing anywhere, and even better was that he has not run into anyone inside the rooms that might try to kill him. He also noticed that as he continued through the hallway that it was getting much quieter. He could no longer hear Jett or Freddie in the house either, and it was not a good feeling.
He felt like he needed to know where they went, and so he went back towards the staircase, moving as quietly as he could. When he made it to the first floor, he knew something was wrong when there showed no sign of Jett. Before he let himself overreact, he needed to know if Freddie was still in the basement. Slowly opening the basement door, he looked through the darkness to see if anyone was around, but it was extremely difficult to even see his hand in front of his face. Glancing around the basement, nothing caught his eye until he saw underneath the light from the moon a body lying lifeless against the wall. Panic quickly set in as he felt his heart begin to pound rapidly against his chest.
Justin did not want to take the risk of staying there a moment longer than he needed to as he quickly turned around and fled from the fraternity house. He had no idea where to go, but he knew that staying there would not be a smart idea.
Sam woke up from her tiny power nap, sitting up straight and rubbing her eyes she began to regain her vision and noticed that Alex wasn't sitting next to her anymore. She tried to keep herself calm as she felt her heart begin to race and her breathing get heavier as she started to panic.
She stood up really fast and nearly tripped over her own feet when she noticed Alex sitting in the other corner next to the door.
"Hey, are you okay?" Alex asked as she went over to where Sam was now sitting on the floor with her hands over face. A tiny nervous chuckle came from her.
"Yeah, I'm fine, I freaked out for a second because I thought you were gone." Sam said as she pushed her hair from her forehead.
"Oh, sorry to freak you out, but I was just making sure no one was out there." Alex said sitting down next to Sam.
"How did this happen? How did this crazy psycho manage to lock us in on this large campus and still be able to know our every move and be able to find us so easily?" Sam asked.
"I don't know, but I never thought of that. How does he know all that? He might have someone helping him since there's no power and no way of him being able to track all of us." Alex said.
"That's a good point, but who is it?" Sam asked.
"I have no idea, but I hope it's not true, because then we would have been friends with a possible killer." Alex said.
"Okay, so do we have any idea where to go?" Logan said as he, Kendall, James, Carlos, Harper and Carly hid behind some bushes while trying to figure out where to go to find the other students that were supposedly on the campus as well.
"They can be anywhere, if they are still alive. And even if they are still here and alive then they are probably hiding, which would make it even more difficult to find them." Harper whispered.
"She's right; we should probably spilt up so we could cover more ground." James said.
"Really? You want to split up into smaller groups so we can make it easier for this guy to take us out. We should stay together and find these other people and figure out a way to stop this guy and call the police." Kendall said.
"Fine, we'll do it your way." James said.
"Okay, we have to move fast and quietly. We should probably find places where we can hide in between buildings just in case. Okay, Logan you go first, you can probably use that brain of yours to figure out where they might be hiding." Kendall said to which Logan nodded. "Carlos you go after Logan then Harper and Carly in the middle, James you go after them and I'll bring up the rear. We need to keep our eyes peeled in every direction to make sure this guy doesn't come out of nowhere. Is everyone ready?" Kendall said, making sure everyone knew the plan before starting to figure out where to go first.
"Okay, I think we should go towards the science building since its closest, there's an alleyway in between the two buildings that we can hide in just in case." Logan said.
"Lead the way. Let's just check to make sure the coast is clear." Kendall said giving a "go ahead" nod to Logan after they scanned the area for any unwanted visitors.
Logan led the group, with everyone following quickly behind in the order they agreed upon. They all looked in every direction, keeping an eye out for the janitor, but luck was on their side since he was nowhere in sight. Once they reached the alleyway in between the two buildings, they let out sighs of relief before they set out for the science building.
"Is there anyone out there?" Lulu asked Hayley, who was staring out the blinds of the window.
"No, there's still no one out there." Hayley said.
"I can't believe any of this is happening. I just never thought this was how we would be spending our first day of spring break." Jake said, moving from the door to a chair next to Lulu.
"None of us expected this; let's just hope we're able to see the rest of our spring break." Lulu said.
"Guys, there's people out there! Except they're not the others from before." Hayley said.
"Well who cares who they are, they can help us." Jake said as he and Lulu moved to the window to see who was outside.
"That's Carlos!" Lulu said.
"Come on, we should tell them we're hiding in here." Jake said, as he unbarricaded the door and led the other two ladies outside, or so he thought. Hayley was right behind Jake as he went outside, and Lulu was right behind her, but her twisted ankle made it a bit more difficult to keep up.
She just made it out of the chemistry lab when she heard the sound of a glass door being slid open. She turned around to see the janitor standing there holding one of the trophies that the chemistry club won in a competition. She made a movement towards the door, and opened her mouth to yell for help when she felt the trophy striking the back of her head. She fell to the ground, her vision blurry and blood trickling down her neck. She saw the outline of the janitor as he held the trophy over his head in preparation to hit her once again.
"N-no, p-please don't k-kill me. P-please." Lulu said, tears filling her eyes and she was barely able to move her hands to wipe the tears. Without hesitation the janitor brought down the trophy once again hitting Lulu across the forehead, this time with enough force to kill her.
He wasted no time in standing around as he went back the way he entered the building through the hidden door that leads to the underground tunnel system.
"Hey! In here guys!" Jake said to the group of people who were hiding in the alleyway, scaring all of them in the process.
"Hey, we found someone." Logan said to the others behind him.
"Come inside, we're hiding in the chemistry lab." Hayley said as she joined Jake next to the group of students.
Jake turned around to look at Hayley when he noticed Lulu was missing. "Where's Lulu?" Jake asked Hayley.
"Lulu's with you? I thought she went home." Carlos exclaimed.
Hayley turned around looking behind her and towards the door to the building. "I thought she was following us, but she's probably waiting inside."
Carlos wasted no time and ran inside the building, not expecting what was there waiting for him. He looked at the floor in the middle of the hallway and saw Lulu lying in a small puddle of blood, with a gash on her forehead. He ran over to her and fell on his knees.
"No! Lulu! No, please don't be dead." Carlos said, the panic and fear in his voice and tears rolling down his cheeks.
The others quickly ran inside too, and felt their hearts sink at the sight of Lulu's lifeless body in Carlos's arms and he cried and cursed at the fact that his girlfriend laid dead.
Hayley, Harper and Carly went over to Carlos and comforted him as Jake and Logan locked and barricaded the door leading outside as James and Kendall checked to see if the janitor was anywhere in the vicinity, but he wasn't.
They all sat in silence allowing Carlos to grieve, and even for the everyone else to do so as well. Kendall sat against the wall and let the silent tears fall down his cheeks as he knew that Jo must have met the same fate that Lulu did. Logan stood with his back to the group thinking of everything that has happened so far, and the fact that his mother has something to do with the psycho that calls himself the "Campus Killer."
Internally all these students are panicking, and trying to hide the fear and anxiety was not helping. They needed to face their fears of being the one killed next in order to make it off the campus alive, but that was the problem: facing your fears is always more terrifying then the actual fears themselves.
