I swallowed. My throat was getting dry. I think it was from all the chalk dust getting into my mouth. I needed the water fountain! I put down my chalk and creeped to the door. No one was in the halls.
"Good." I walked out the door but then stopped.
"But what if someone sees you, Maddie?" I asked myself.
"I don't care. I'm thirsty. Plus, I don't think anybody's left in this school anyways," I answered.
"Okay. But if you get caught, it won't be MY problem!" I walked quietly down the hall and turned the corner. But I didn't see the water fountain.
"Hey! Where is that dumb thing?" I asked grumpily. I ran to the other end of the hall and looked both ways. Still no water fountain. I ran and ran and ran. By then I was pooped. I trudged past more doors when I spotted it!
"Yes! See, Maddie, I knew I could find it!" I pushed the button and drinked a lot of water. "Mm-mm. That hit the spot!" I pushed the button once more and drinked again.
I wiped my mouth with the back of my hand.
The Library was right across the hall, so I went inside. I ran inside and found a bunch of books. I took them off the shelf and sat down in one of the beanie-bag chairs on the floor.
"The…the…" I squinted at the long word on the cover. It was a word I didn't know how to read yet. I tried to sound it out, like Sharpay told me to do. "The…M-U-S-K-R-A-T. Mu…mus…" I gave up. It was too big. So I settled on 'mustache' since it sounded right.
"The Mustache," I read. I turned the pages and made up a story since I didn't feel like trying to read it. "Once upon a time, there was a guy with a hairy mustache. One day he went to the park and he saw a lady with a mustache. They fell in love and had very hairy kids. The end."
I gasped when I heard feet coming! I grabbed the books and stuck them on the shelf again, and I quick hided behind the bookshelf in the back.
I peeked through the books and saw a man. He was pushing a trash can and he dumped the smaller trash can's garbage into the bigger one, and then set it down again. He was whistling "If I Only Had a Brain" from my favorite movie The Wizard of Oz.
I made sure I didn't make a peep. I breathed in relief when he was gone. So I left the Library and quietly ran off down the hall to find a better place to hide.