Chapter 4 – Sam
The bell rang and I head out of the classroom and towards the cafeteria. A little way down the hallway, I turn into the girls' bathroom. I knew that Janet told me to follow along, but there was no way I was going to do something her dad told her to do. Anyway, if I didn't know what was going on, then I'll just stay out of it.
"What are you doing?" I here Janet's voice behind me.
"Going to the bathroom," I lied, turning around. "Stop sneaking up on me. It's creepy."
She ignored my last comment. "No, you're not. You can't go in there. You're going to get yourself killed."
"Well if I knew what was going on, maybe I'd be more willing to do as you say. But I don't, unless you were planning on telling me?"
She stood glaring at me, then turned around and stalked toward the cafeteria. "Your funeral," I heard her whisper under her breath.
I ignore her and sit against the wall of the bathroom. I sat, peeling my orange. After a little while I open my book and begin reading. A few minutes later, I look up. I didn't hear a thing. Usually it was loud during this time of day. I quietly get up and, in camouflage, peak my head out of the bathroom.
I was beginning to wonder what was happening and what Janet was going to do, when a loud noise came. At first, I didn't know what it was, but then I could make out footsteps. Lots of them. Out of the cafeteria, came all of the students, walking simultaneously down the hallway. As I watched I could see teachers coming out of classrooms to join the crowd. Not even the teachers were excluded from this march.
I ducked my head back inside, so not to be seen, for camouflage is not invisibility. I reminded myself that I was looking for Janet and Hilda, and stick my head back out, hoping for the best. I see Janet right as I do and yanked her inside the bathroom.
"What you doing?" she exclaimed, "you're going to get us both killed!" She tried to rejoin the group but I pulled her back. Then I immediately went back out and pulled Hilda in with me.
Janet stares at me, dumbfounded, while Hilda continued to walk toward the exit. "What's going on Janet?" I demanded. Before she opened her mouth, I added, "and don't lie to me."
She sighed. "There's a mutant controlling them. I don't know who and I don't know where they are, otherwise they'd be dead by now. I told you to follow along so we could see where they are being taken and possibly save them."
"And why aren't we brainless zombies?" I asked.
"I don't know, but it gives us an advantage. Probably because you eat a lot of chocolate. We can stop this person and-"
"Wait," I interrupted, "when have you ever cared about anyone in this school?"
"Well I assumed you two would be affected and I would prefer if my only friends weren't kidnapped. And even if you weren't, you would want to save people and I'm not going to let you do that alone. You'd get yourselves killed."
"Okay, I guess that makes sense. But how do we, uh, fix, Hilda?"
"Oh, that's easy," she says with a smirk.