CHAPTER NINE: DELINQUENTS

"Creatures?" Alli exclaimed in an exasperated tone. "Exactly what kind of creatures are you talking about?"

Adam was searching for the right words when Wesley watched his feet and muttered loosely, "The kind we were never warned about."

Bianca's eyebrows met while she watched the fellow classmates she would be fighting for her life with. She wouldn't have minded cutting a few of them loose.

She would've been a lot more confident if she was just with her original survivors. But Holly J, who had helped them out the most ten months ago, was away with Declan.

Everyone was horribly jealous of the ginger graduate. Holly J would be perfectly safe tonight with no worries about her life going through her head at all. The most she would be worrying about would be the project she'd been given.

Bobby was the first to speak. "So let me get this right. We're stuck in a school with no help, and now we have the company of some freak creatures?"

Fiona nodded with no emotion and said, "It looks like there was no escaping KC's revenge in the end."

Adam noticed Jenna's skin slightly shiver at the mention of KC. When it had been released that it was KC who had murdered all of those people, it had affected many people. But it had messed up Jenna the most. She's missed school for a whole month and Simpson had excused the absence out of pity.

It must suck to know that the father of your child is a murderer.

The three survivors watched the others with steady caution. Most of their eyes were wide with fright at the fact that they were really locked inside this school with no help. Bobby just looked angry, and Adam and his two friends looked calm and prepared for anything.

Bianca thought back to the night ten months ago. There had been the one person who had snapped early. That had been Fiona, and she would've been murdered in that hall if it hadn't been for Adam and Holly J.

So who was going to snap first tonight?

She locked eyes with Owen, who looked like he might have an aneurysm. His jaw set for a single second before he began backing away from the group of teens.

"Owen, what are you doing?" Bianca asked with squinting eyes.

"I'm getting the fuck out of here!" he yelled in response. The football player gave them all a retreating look before running down the hall.

Bobby turned around and began running after his friend.

Fiona yelled after him, "You'll get yourself killed if you do that."

Bobby didn't even glance back as he watched the bully meet a fork in the hallway. He was just about to turn left when a freakish creature jumped at him out of nowhere.

Everyone's eyes went wide, and Adam moved himself in front of Fiona.

"What the hell is that?" Dave demanded to know.

All of them began moving to get a better look at the creature backing Owen away from it. But Adam, Fiona, and Bianca stayed still. None of them had any interest to see how Owen would be murdered.

Suddenly a thick chain flew out of the creature's mouth, tying itself around Owen's thick neck. Anya covered her mouth to stop herself from screaming.

Choking sounds came from Owen's mouth as the creature pulled him on his back. It began dragging him in the other direction when Bobby took a running start at the weird thing dragging his friend across the floor.

"Hey! Bobby, get back here!" Fiona screamed at him.

Adam was already running after the curly-haired rich boy. He'd almost reached the scene where Owen had just been pulled when Adam caught a nice grip on Bobby's shirt from behind.

He yanked him back, causing Bobby to cough and land on his back. Bobby was wincing on the ground while Adam stared down at him with angry eyes.

Bobby watched the younger boy's eyes flare as he warned, "Don't make another stupid move like that. You'll get yourself killed."

Adam didn't even make a move to help Bobby off of the floor of the high school. He glanced over the other chosen victims while Bobby stood behind him, rubbing his neck awkwardly.

Adam had some kind of anger about him that none of them had ever seen. Bianca stepped to the front of the crowd with Fiona hesitantly following behind.

"Take my advice well," he lectured. "Do not try to save someone if your own life is threatened. You won't succeed, and you will only get yourself murdered beside the other victim."

Alli gulped next to Connor, who was trying his best to keep his cool right now. He definitely didn't want to snap like Owen had just done.

"You're only giving KC what he wants by doing that. His purpose is to go deep into our minds and find that dark place, making us snap. For some, it will be easier. But don't you dare give mercy to him."

Adam's jaw set before he moved away from the crowd and began to walk in the opposite direction from where Owen had been strangled and dragged away.

They all followed him without even acknowledging it. He hadn't asked them or ordered them to follow him at all, but right now they were playing follow the leader. And Adam was the leader.

Anya retreated from Dave and Sadie to catch up with their so called leader.

"Where are we going now?" she asked in an innocent tone.

Bianca rolled her eyes on the other side of Adam. Fiona stayed silent and kept as close as possible to Bianca.

"We're going to my locker," Adam replied. "I've got some things in there I think could help the situation."

Anya was going to ask what kind of things, but her words got trapped in her throat when she saw the evil glare on Bianca's face. Clearly she didn't exactly like people pestering Adam over anything. Even if it was just a simple and innocent question.

Adam had seen the look on Bianca's face, but he ignored it like it was nothing. He was in no mood to get caught up in stupid teenage drama when he was too focused on if he was going to be able to survive another night full of KC drama.

He picked up his pace when they turned the corner to his locker. Adam ordered a couple people to keep lookout while he twisted the combination to his locker.

Fiona, Bianca, and Sadie all stood close to him while he dug through his locker. Adam took a step back and cocked the weapon he'd retrieved from the pits of his locker.

"A gun?" Sadie asked. "How did you get that past those metal detectors?"

"That doesn't really matter right now." Adam handed the gun to Bianca before digging further to fetch the capsule of pills at the bottom.

Fiona's demeanor wavered a bit at the actual sight of him holding the antipsychotic pills.

"Do we really need those?" Sadie questioned.

"Yeah," Adam answered, "unless you want me to chase after dead friends tonight."

He slammed the locker shut and snatched the gun from Bianca's grip. He turned the safety on and placed it inside his pants and began walking down the hall again.

"Where are we going now?" Anya asked while chasing after Adam and the two girls. Everyone else followed.

He answered simply. "I have no idea."