The next day I was still recovering but was able to move about and it was a few minutes before the first bell went, when me and hale discussed yesterday's events. "and your utterly sure it wasn't there before? And that the tree and glasses were at that exact spot?" Hale asked me for the umpteenth time. "yes! Are you sure there was no one about? No traces at all? I mean I picked up no scents of a human." I replied. Hale was holding the match stick in his fore finger and thumb as if it were a puzzle that he couldn't crack. He sighed. "ugh, we will talk about this later. The first bell is about to go, we might as well head over to science." I nod and get up off of his bed, I try to keep my wrist still but I flinch and a little pain shoots through me. I ignore it and keep a straight face. Hale grabs my good arm and stares at me; seeing straight through my poker face. "it still hurts, huh?" I hesitate before answering "not really." He keeps a hold of my arm a little longer but soons loosens his grip. He opens his door and we go into the corridor.

Around half way through science, we were doing an experiment by joining up an oh so simple circuit to light up a bulb. I was spaced out staring out the window with my chin resting on my hand. Hale was sat opposite me and was rolling his eyes when the other boys on our table weren't looking. I awoke from my trance and glanced over at Hale, he was currently looking casually over at Shane who looked helplessly at the wires in front of him. I could see the reflection in Hales eyes. I blinked twice as I realised there was a light tapping on my shoulder. I turned around to see the boy sat next to me, watching intently at my every move. I jerked my head back in surprise and he smiled. "ha, sorry for spooking you! Could you help me with joining this wire up? It's a bit fiddly for me." He says and shrugs innocently. I force a smile at such an average request. How boring. I reach out with my left hand but think better and pull it back under the table to my lap. I get my right hand and awkwardly reach out for the wires. The boy looks at me with confusion. "why don't you use both hands?" he asks me and reaches for my hand under the table.

I can feel Hale watching and when he hauls my wrist above the table his eyes go wide in concern. I wince unconsciously and he drops my hand in surprise. "what? Did I hurt your hand?" he asks worriedly. I try to smile but it must have came out a little weird and he takes my arm again before rolling up my sleeve. "woah. What did you do to your arm!?" he tells me and examines the bandages. I shuffle uncomfortably in my chair and my eyes dart over to Hale for an answer. He frowns and gets out of his chair to stand beside me. "she just sprained it in PE yesterday is all." Hale says smoothly. I nod in agreement and the boy nods understandingly. "ah, oh yeah! You guys were proper good!" "thanks." I say while Hale goes back to his seat.

I fix the wires with my right hand and turn my attention to Shane, I glanced over at him and I found him looking indiscreetly in my direction. I blinked once and cocked my head to one side, trying to play dumb and he shakes his head and drops it to the table as his cheeks flush red. I smile to myself and turn back to the window to think.

The bell goes sooner than I had thought and I pack up my things, I walk out of the classroom amongst the wave of students before walking side by side next to Hale. "that was a little awkward, next time you have to be more careful." Hale says seriously. "hmmpf, me? Careful?" I say mockingly. I pat my side where we both knew was a knife hidden. He rolls his eyes before hitting me on the shoulder playfully. "okay, anyway, what were you thinking about back then?" he says questionably. I look at him confused before a look of understanding washes over my face. "ahhh. Oh, I was just thinking about that match stick." "yeah, what about it?" he replies. "well, what if it's a sign?" he stares in front of us for a while. "wait, like there's going to be a fire or something?" I nod. "hmmn, keep an eye out. I mean we definitely know something's trying to stop us from doing the job." Hale says. We stop talking and enter the cooking classroom.

We walk to the back of the room and I observe the surroundings. It was quite a peaceful place, we were high up in the building and there were tall windows that lined one wall. I gazed out and was able to see the vast playing field. We were stood in the back corner close to the windows. Shane was stood on the opposite side of the room close to the window also. The teacher started to talk as everyone took their seats. It was adouble lesson so during the first half we made our cakes and then the next we sat and listened to the teacher. We had just finished making the cakes and they were cooling down as everyone started to clean up the dishes.

I sat down and randomly looked out of the window out onto the field. Instantly a light caught my eye, I squinted and tried to look into the trees at the orangey glow. The mysterious orb floated in mid air between two trees. Suddenly something shifted behind it and a tall figure was revealed. My eyes widened in panick as the scene sunk in, the sphere of light was actually a flaming arrow, the figure had just moved from aiming at myself to the other end of the classroom. Where, Shane was sat. my eyes darted around in wild concentration, looking for a way to save Shane. Hale noticed at once and came over to me. He took me by the shoulders and shook me "woah, Kat! Whats wrong!" I pointed directly out of the window and he looked to and from the silhouette to Shane. He slowly understood and whispered "im guessing this, is what the match stick meant." I nodded and he looked to his left. i watched as he jerked his hand outwards and banged hard on the fire alarm. A loud ringing noise sounded out immediately through out the room and soon spread out down into the school.

Everyone stopped what they were doing and some girls shouted in a frenzy. I rolled my eyes and sighed in relief when Shane had mixed in with the frightened crowd. Then I noticed that the figure had disappeared, I should have felt relieved but an uneasy feeling settled in the bottom of my stomach. We filed out of the class room and down onto the back pitch. Away from the figure. We stood in lines and awaited further instructions, lots of teachers had been running around like head less chickens, obviously in a state of confusion. I almost chuckled to myself as all their efforts were going to waste. It was funny to think that I could have single handedly done much more damage to this school than any fire could do. After a while of standing on the sodden grass, the head teacher walked out onto the field with a megaphone in hand. They began to speak "okay, sorry for alarming you, we have searched the whole of the school but still no fire has been found. We are still unaware of what had actually happened and at the moment we just presume it was some prank pulled. We will get to the bottom of this but for now you can go back to your classrooms. It is almost time for lunch so please collect your things and carry on the day how you should." Sighs of happiness were heard as the head teacher said these words.

Ifollowed the rest of our class indoors but stopped to wait for Hale. He had run off when we got outside to search for the figure. He came through the door very calmly and spoke "no traces, nothing at all. Not even another 'clue'" he shrugs and we walk back up to join the end of our class. We go inside and go to wrap up our cakes. I go over towards mine whilst rolling out tinfoil. I stop dead in my tracks and drop the role, the last of the class trail out and the teacher goes into the sepereate office so its just me and Hale. Good thing too, otherwise some of those kids would have gotten a little scared. I walked over to my table to the expected plain cake but i peered down at the cake. It had been iced beautifully but on top sat a bullet.

I picked it up and Hale came to stand next to me. He looked down and said "well, at least we know what this means?" "what? You mean that their going to try and shoot at Shane this time?" Hale shrugged and took the bullet from me. "I will examine it later, but it looks like a machine gun. any way go and look for Shane. I want you to stick with him through out lunch okay?" "got it!" I say, I walk out the door but not before I dump the cake into the bin.

I jump down the stairs and out into the corridor, I go down the empty hallways and I stopped my ears twitched, I heard nothing. NOTHING. It was too quiet, I started up again and ran down the corridors to the lunch hall doors. I paused and flung open the doors.

Hundreds of bodies lay broken and bloody on the floor, I gasped and stood back taking it in. the back doors hung open and bounced from the walls, my chest heaved up and down faster and faster but I don't know why, ive seen this more than once. I quickly scanned the hall, I saw rose spread out with her eyes open on the floor. but, no Shane. "Shane!" I yell. "where are you?!" no reply. I suddenly hear a clatter in the kitchen and a quick curse. I run and jump over the bodies and dragged open the kitchen door. Shane was sitting in the corner with his knees drawn up and blood splashed on his face and uniform. I opened my eyes and bent down to him. He opened his eyes and almost screamed. I quickly placed my hand over his mouth. "shh. Its okay. Im going to protect you, you don't need to be scared." He looks as if he is about to cry and I worry that maybe he wont come with me. "okay, I need you to come with me now, we are going to get you to a safe place." He shook his head and started to shake. Suddenly Hale shouted "KAT! KAT?" where are you?!" I shouted back "they are all dead but Shane is in here! Go out the back door, I think that's where they escaped!" "what? Okay! Im calling a jet!" the sound of running echoed around the silent hall.

I looked back at Shane who looked pretty white at that point. "look, you need to come with us, we wont hurt you. If you stay here, its likely that those people will come back and they WILL kill you." He looks at me with frightened eyes before nodding slowly. I pull him to his feet and see that his leg was bleeding. "oh, you've been shot!" he looks down and nods like it was just his imagination playing tricks on him. I put one of his arms over my shoulder and support him out of the kitchen door. "okay, close your eyes, you might not want to see this." He does as he's told and closes his eyes shut tight. We step into the large puddles of blood and make it to the door, I quickly look around and see Hale running towards us. "HEY! IS SHANE OKAY?" Hale shouts across to us as he shoots in our direction. "yeah! I think he's going to go into shock soon though, and he has been shot in the leg!" I yell back. Hale stops infront of us and supports Shane's other arm with his own.