James woke up to the sound of his alarm clock and quickly jumped out of bed and started getting dress bot bothering to waste time turning off the alarm clock. He took up his bag and rushed down stairs.
"You're late" a little girl said putting peanut butter onto a slice of bread.
"I didn't notice" James said sarcastically, as he took up one of the sandwiche his sister made.
"Mom already left, she might come home late"
James left the apartment with his sister Ellie as they walked to the bus stop, after a few minutes of waiting they board the bus among other passengers. Ellie came off first as she hugged her brother before stepping off the bus. After 8 minutes James reached his destination and hopped off the bus rushing to his class, but no amount of running could save him. He was getting tired as he pushed forward and kept running, he reached his class pushing the door aside and stood at the door breathing heavily and sweat coated his face. He thought he was about to get a lecture but he didn't hear anyone only his classmates talking and giggling about. He looked up looking around the room and realized the teacher hasn't arrived yet, maybe all that running did help him. She walked to his seat as someone came behind him dropping their hand around his shoulder. James looked up seeing his friend smiling from ear to ear.
" Sup bro, seems like you're late again" his friend said while chuckling.
" Yeah hey Alex. So where's Miss Burk?"
" I dunno, I guess she's absent"
They then heard a few students talking about the news that's been going on for the last 3 days and the videos on social media. Alex looked at James curious face noticing he was unware of the current trend.
" It's just the News about a virus outbreak and the government being like start stocking food and all that" Alex explained jokingly. A few students over heard Alex and joined in on the conversation.
" I'm sure it's just some government bullshit, they just want us to buy out the current stock at stores and then they'll go the threat has been dealt with or fast alarm and all that"
There was no teacher so they had the first two sessions free, everyone engrossed themselves in different activities, a few girls talked about there idol post of his being sick and some others girls were making a dance trend for their blog, the boys were on their mobiles, reading comics and just having a conversation, as for a boy who sat at the back reading his textbook. James didn't have anything much to do so he kept talking with his friend Alex while skipping through his notebook. The first session ended and the second one began, but this time they had a teacher, Mr. Johnson entered with a slight cough and began his lesson only twenty minutes in a student who had been sleeping the entire time suddenly fell to floor and started throwing up.
"Ewww..." The class said in chorus. The student who fainted vomited a dark purple liquid mixed in red. Two boys helped the student up and carried him to the nurses office. Another two student then went to the went to the janitors closet to clean up the mess. Mr. Johnson then felt something rising within him so he went to the class door as the two student were returning with the mop and bucket, they wanted the janitors help but was told he was cleaning up in another class. They knew they couldn't just leave the mess laying in class so they decided to help. As they walked to the class were they saw Mr. Johnson throwing up too.
" Oh come on, you got to be kidding me. I did not sign up for this" one of the boys said seeing Mr. Johnson.
" Look at the bright side now you can add janitor to your resume after graduation" the other boy joked only to receive a glare from his friend.
They both worked cleaning up the messes while the other classmates were answering the worksheet. Because both students were cleaning up the vomit theit classmates decided to answer their work sheets for them. Some time pass and it was lunch time, the students bought there lunch and sat wherever. James bought his and sat outside with Alex who was still going through his phone while talking, they sat on the lawn under a tress and began to eat. James was half way into his lunch when he received a test message from his sister.
'Most of the teachers are out so school got cancelled, I'm back home heading inside now'
Before James could reply to the message he heard a loud scream as a boy was fighting off girl who had him pinned to the floor. The commotion gathered a small crowd as students wanted to see what was happening.
" She's a freaky one isn't she" one of the boy's friend chuckled.
" No she's biting me" the boy said with strain
" Woman are like that sometimes, but it's best you get a room" his friend laughed again oblivious by the situation. James and Alex looked over at the crowd
" A freak show" Alex laughed and James joined in.
The girl who was pinning the boy down then lift up her head and revealed her bloody face, the boy turned in pain and clutched his stomach as it was bleeding. Everyone gasped in shock as they saw what happened. James and Alex noticed too as they stood to there feet. The girl face was bloody with her eyes read and purble-black veins danced above her skin. The girl screamed and lounged at one of the students close by and she screamed as the bystanders tried to help. Soon all around multiple screams of horror could be heard. Alex and James stood there looking around trying to make sense of the situation. Soon a voice spoke through the intercom telling all students to report to their classes and closes the door and wait for further instructions.
A few students were in class having there lunch oblivious by what was happening outside. They heard the message over the speaker but hardly payed attention to it. The boy who was preoccupied by his books earlier Felix heard the message but something felt amist to him. He walked over to the windows and open one looking out and there he saw students running around franticly, they were punching on one another and fighting, it was like an all out brawl. Felix was focused on the outside when suddenly he heard a bang at the door.
"It's open" one of his classmates said, but the banging continued. The girl kept repeating it was open but the banging only got louder.
" Micheal can you open the door for the idiot, the banging is interrupting our video" the girl asked a boy who was playing games on his phone.
"Can't, it's not like I can pause the game" the boy explained not even lifting his head from his phone and three other boys said same as they were playing the game together. The girl hopped from the table frustrated and marched over to the door slamming it open from anger. She saw there classmate who was sent to the nurses office earlier, but now he was covered in blood and his eyes were so red, the girl was so scared she staggered back and screamed only to be punched at. Everyone who heard her scream looked up shock at the sight, they all backed into the table on chairs as the tables scraped across the floor the creature that was once there classmate looked up ripping the flesh the flesh from the girl's cheek as blood spilled and revealed he bones and the remaining flesh wetly hang from her face.
The creature then leaped at one of the students who clumsily dodged. Felix move away to the far back of the class as the students got to the window. The creature manage to hold onto one of the boy's pressing him at the window. The boy's struggles could be heard as he and a arm under the creatures neck trying to keep it away and the other hand at the waist.
The creature was gashing it teeth's at the boy. Everyone stood frozen as the didn't know how to react as the watched there classmate struggle, Felix then rushed over and held the creatures leg and told the others to help his throw it out. One of the boy's friend finally snapped from his daze and rushed over immediately. Felix then shouted to cover the creatures mouth and one of the girl took up her scarf but was too scared to approach so she gave it to the next boy who tied it over the creatures mouth. Because the creature was forcing it's self, the boy dropped himself to the floor and the other two lifted its leg successfully throwing the creature out. The didn't even hear it fell as there was too much commotion outside that drowned out the impact. The boys were breathing heavily as they tried to process everything.