"So, we're the only one's left" Jan Girl whispered.
I had just been up not two minutes and in the early stages of trying to figure things out. I saw Ukani, I saw Jan Girl, I saw, Pinzz? I thought I had, but maybe it was only in the dream. The horrible, horrible dream. Was that It? Only three people here? Where was everyone else, if they were hurt, at least we'd see them!
"Jabu, do you hear me or not?!?!" Jan Girl practically screamed hysterically.
"Yeah, I'm fine. Sore like hell though. Where is everyone?" Jan Girl's eyes watered as she looked away. I wasn't an idiot, I knew that something had happened. But that dream....
"You don't have a right to.... complain about Your injuries, Jabu." Immediately, everyone perked up, the new voice was unexpected. I looked over in the corner to see Tyler, slumped down Under a desk, his forehead bleeding profusely, and his nose looked clogged like hell. Much worse condition than any of us.
"Tyler!" Jan Girl screamed. Being the least unharmed (but the most emotional), she ran to him and propped him up onto a chair. When I say 'running' I mean this girl can run. "I'm glad you're ok," She said as the watery eyes began overflowing, "I knew you would be."
Tyler looked up at Jan Girl, his eyes pained and seemingly distracted, he didn't want her to see him like this, and that was obvious. He faked a smile and said, "Yeah, I'm fine."
Then we saw it. The pipe stuck out through his shoulder, but only slightly. You could hardly see the blood seeping down his black shirt. The horror in Jan Girl's eyes was something that would freak out even Pinzz, if she were here.
"Ommygod!!!" Jan Girl screamed, frantically searching the room for something to heal Tyler with, in vain.
"It's ok, I can barely feel it."
"I don't believe you, we need to find some way to take it out." Jan Girl.
"No!" Tyler bellowed. We were all shocked to hear this seemingly peaceful person go insane. The pipe didn't hurt now, but if we didn't get it out, well, we couldn't move on. We had to press on, we didn't know what would happen next. Would there be another, whatever happened? It seemed like the building collapsed. I finally got up the nerve to ask somebody, "Where's Pinzz?" I pleaded.
Jan Girl just ignored me, Tyler was thinking to much about the pain that would come. Ukani looked at me. "She left us. She went out the door."
I was shocked to hear this, I looked over at Jan Girl and Tyler, and for a split second I saw it in her eyes, Jan Girl's eyes. They were together, but even Tyler was shocked to see this semi-murderous look in this seemingly emotional person. What was her problem with Pinzz? I shook it off, we needed to find her before she got herself killed.
"Why didn't you guys go after her?" I asked Ukani. This time, Jan Girl spoke.
"She decided that you weren't good enough to wait for, same with you Tyler."
"Wait?"
"Well, you and Tyler were still asleep, she felt that she needed to go alone." Tyler looked puzzled, and I was downright furious. Not at Pinzz, but Jan Girl. She was trying to lead us on, and Tyler believed her. He had no choice. I on the other hand wasn't so stupid.
"I'm sure there's more to the story than that, JG."
She shot a piercing look at Ukani, "no more than I told you."
"Well, if she's gone, and we're all awake, then why are we still in here?"
"Dammit Jabu, I-", Jan Girl began as she was cut off by a harsh scream from down the hallway. Pinzz's scream. Jan Girl immediately ran to the door to open it. No, she was locking it! Fumbling for the lock on the lower side of the handle, she found the bolt to still be working.
"What the hell are you doing!??!?" I bellowed.
"If someone's out there, I don't want them in here. There's no telling what they'd do if given the opportunity to come in to us. Helpless."
"That was Pinzz's scream, dammit!"
"I can't be so sure."
"But, Pinzz!"
"Even if it's Pinzz, she's one to go insane, we don't need her here."
"Pinzz!" I struggled to get up, the cut on my leg throbbing all the while. Jan Girl quietly smirked at my pain. Limping up to the door, I heard another scream.
"Open the door Lynne." Said Tyler. Jan Girl's eyes grew wide in shock. Ukani and I, our heads in unison, turned to look at the battered Tyler, "Open the door, Lynne." He repeated.
Jan Girl quickly straightened up, said "ok" looking somewhat disappointed and betrayed by Tyler. Was she really looking out for our group, or did she want Pinzz gone?
Pinzz had finally made it to the door. Less screaming, but we could still hear her gasping moans from outside the door. She struggled with the door handle as Jan Girl slowly and reluctantly tried turning the lock.
"Oh my god, someone let me in! Let me in! Neomorpher's dead!"
I felt like I'd been punched in the stomach. Neomorpher was... dead. We'd always had hope that the other people on the middle and left side of the computer lab had survived, but hearing that one of us was confirmed dead.... well, we all took it really hard understandably. But nobody took it as hard as Ukani.
"What was he doing outside?" Wailed Ukai. We all looked at Tyler, most blamingly, Jan Girl sympathetic. Tyler looked lost in thought. No, he was confused, but confused about what? We knew what he had done, he knew what he had done. His secret. The secret that we all shared. He'd led Neomorpher to his death, though not on purpose.
"Why was he outside!?" Ukani repeated, pleadingly. Tyler just looked blank, Ukani wasn't conscience when Neomorpher had left. Jan Girl wasn't about to bring down Tyler, and I just wanted to keep quiet.
Though Neomopher was dead, we needed to press on. No telling when this roof would collapse, or when help would arrive.
"What do you think caused it." Everyone ignored me, I didn't blame them. It wasn't such an appropriate time to say such a thing. But Tyler perked up, obviously looking for a way out of this uncomfortable situation, "Caused what?"
Pinzz finally seemed to realize that the door was in fact unlocked, she frantically jumped in out of the invisible harm's way. "Neomorpher.... he's dead." Ukani looked away, Tyler didn't show any sign of expression, he'd been through the whole 'I don't know what's going on' faze and now just seemingly didn't care.
I spoke up, "We've go to press on, no need staying here for any longer. We have to get outside the building." Pinzz immediately shook her head, Jan Girl smirked at Pinzz's uneasiness, but quickly caught herself.
"Pinzz, we've got to leave. If we stay, we'll stay with them," I directed my eyes to another body, the torso cut in half, no telling where everything else was, "and I don't think you'd want that."
"I never said no, Jabu." She smiled slightly, then let out a huge sigh. Poor Pinzz, she'd had a tough time fitting into this place and now she seemed as distant as ever. The Pinzz we all knew, or thought we knew, was falling apart. Where was our source of laughter, our witty spammer? Life wasn't the same without her, and now seeing her depressed got me feeling blue myself. If Pinzz couldn't handle this, how would we? I found myself realizing that I was being very selfish in the matter, this was a tough situation, we were all depressed. Well, something was up with Ukani, and Jan Girl.
Ukani had seemed distant, and she'd realized that 'something would happen.' That seemed kinda strange, Ukani was no psychic. She didn't even get headaches for god's sake. I heard that some dogs can predict earthquakes before they hit, and I'm not the only person who saw the movie Phenomenon. I tested her.
"How much damage are we looking at, Ukani?" I whispered.
"An earthquake that powerful would have the force to decimate an entire town."
Something was definitly up with Ukani, maybe she smelled something.
And Jan Girl. She seemed more manipulative than me the eye, I may be exacturating, but I've seen the way she looks at Pinzz, I see the hatred, the mistrust, and the raging inferno inside of her waiting to vocanically explode. I was pretty sure I'd been the only one to see this. Pinzz was to spacy at the moment to notice, Ukani was in her own world, and Tyler just didn't seem to care. Maybe I shouldn't care either, but I felt a sort of need to help Pinzz. She seemed to have less than nobody at the moment, and needed help in this time of weakness. I wouldn't let anyone hurt her, for anything.