Chapter 2: A Normal Day: Part 2
Erika was not the brain that her brother was. She was more socially apt than she was knowledgably. However, she was not a total failure at school. She managed to get by with not good yet not bad. She could probably rise to the ranks of her fabulous brother if she applied herself more and actually cared but she found school stupid, pointless and, above all else, boring.
In her third period, English, she had been having a hard time paying attention. She was caught up about the scene on the bus earlier that day. A few moments after she had gotten on the bus, she had sensed something eerie, something not right, something not…human.
As if her questioning her senses wasn't enough Damien had tried to talk to her as she was leaving the bus. This was unusual in many ways unto itself. One, he knows better not talk to her, two, if anyone got wind of them being related, she'd never live it down, and three, he never talks to her so if he was willing to risk it then it must have been about something important.
Also, at lunch she thought she had heard her name being called out from across the cafeteria. Erika had gotten really scared because all the people that would call out her name was already with her and it was a man's voice, she did not consult with any men aside from teachers, and never out of class either.
"Erika!" Mrs. Kelly said, "Will you please stand up and read the rest of it?"
Erika got slowly to her feet, picking up her book, as luck would have it, she had no friends in this class who were paying attention that could point out where she was.
"Um…" she stammered, "I…I don't really know where we are, sorry, Mrs. Kelly."
"Maybe I should give the whole class a pop quiz on your behalf about Shakespeare's sonnet no. 32, then." Mrs. Kelly said mockingly. "You kids better start studying now. You may sit, Erika."
Embarrassed, feeling like hundreds of eyes were pointed at her (it wasn't really hundreds of eyes, maybe 40 or 50, but certainly not hundreds), Erika sat back down and tried to hide the rest of the class.
Luckily for her, there was only 10 more minutes of class left and, once those were up, she was first out the door.
Now, her English classroom was situated in a long hallway of classrooms, all full of students that should be pouring out of class right about now. However, none of them are. The students who were just in the class with her that should be coming out right behind her weren't.
At first she thought she had imagined the bell and that she left when she wasn't supposed to. She quickly went to turn back and go into the class however, where there should have been a door was, in fact, just a wall.
She looked down the hallway again and saw no doors on any of the walls and no end to the hallway either.
She spun around to look behind her to see if there was any way to get out the opposite way. There wasn't. The only thing that was there was an ominous looking man in a trench coat and big, floppy hat that covered most of his face.
"Who are you, what have you done with me?" she yelled out to him.
He raised his head, revealing only the glint of one eye. Like going into an epileptic seizure, Erika's head felt like it was going to split in two. She screamed the loudest she could scream and finally, collapsed onto the floor.