Chapter 1: FIRE!

Poppys pov:

I was lying in my bed when suddenly the smell of smoke filled my lungs. I woke up and to my horror as I looked out of the window I saw a full blazing fire. "Kate!" No response "KATE!" "What is it?" Kate asked in a sleepy voice, "There's a fire!" "Help me wake everyone up!" At these words Kate jumped to her feet and ran to the window. "Shit!" She cursed under her breath. I ran out into the hall and smashed the glass around the fire alarm letting out a gasp as blood trickled down my hand,but I had other things, more important things to worry about. I ran banging on doors and shouting: "wake up everyone there's a fire!"

About ten minutes later nearly everyone was out, I stood by the window to listen to make sure everyone was there but then Mrs. Kingsley said something that struck fear like lightning through my body: "Kate?" And I heard drippy gasping as she said the three words that horrified me: "Kates not here."

I sprinted towards our dorm and sure enough there was Kate trapped under a pile of rubble.

I removed the rubble that buried her feet.

"Kate!" I shook her, nothing happened. I shook her again harder this time and sure enough Kate's eyes fluttered open.

Kates pov:

As I opened my eyes I gasped as I saw flames around us. "Come on" Poppy said as she heaved me out of the door, both of us coughing loudly.

When I mustered enough strength to walk on my own I heard Poppy say: " I'm going to check if there are any more students in the building." I was about to tell her to not be silly and come with me but she was already gone. I looked where she ran but all I saw was flames.

Poppy's pov:

It was around 5 minutes ago I left Kate and I was getting tired.

I looked around, smoke was filling my lungs but I didn't care if someone was in here I'm going to find them. Five minutes had gone and I was breathing heavily and coughing uncontrollably. I decided to try and find a way out, but just as I staggered across the room and into the next hall,I heard a loud bang and I was thrown across the room, my vision went blurry and I heard a ringing in my ear then everything went black.