Back to school-break was over and the filled shiny halls were now always filled with a mysterious whisper. I was being consumed by the everlasting dread of the gated campus that had a little to no safety aspect. It didn't matter how many closed doors were locked here-Danny's parents wouldn't give up without some sort of living trophy.

The sun was luminescent over the whist full blossoming trees.

Bees were hovering near flowers, squirrels from tree trunks now frolicking about. Spring now encountered what revolved around me-and as happy as it should be-I felt no joy. All that paced through my mind was how scared I was of the undying truth, that maybe Danny and I would never escape this.

My black curls were coiled and bounced as I walked through the halls. kids had backpacks swung low or hitched up high. But mine was just in between. In fact, my backpack had more pull of strength then I had gathered myself. 

The bell hollered through the school, some kids staggered behind to talk and most went away, I got into class and everyone was still full of a breaks chatter. The teacher was gulping down coffee to hide his inpatients, and he even took a brief moment to roll his eyes at the abundance of talkative teens and young adults.  

I had sat down not saying a word. 

The only thing loud about me, was the sense of fear one could smell from yards about. 

Everyone began to settle down and slip into their seats, the teacher smiled acting like he hadn't already endured the loud annoyance.

"hello class, I hope you all had a nice break. But now we all must collectively come back to this space and get used to it as quick as possible. You guys have finals coming up in just a few short months here." 

The class groaned while a few others were still whispering with the stupid idea they were inaudible as they gossiped about something that most likely wasn't even relevant. I let out a sigh already trying to figure out how long we had till' class would let out. I had no idea why I had been wondering when we had just all sat down. 

The teacher took another swig of his coffee and then sat at his desk, "I'm assigning you all a pre final rubric and pretest. It's only half the questions so you will use this hour to answer 65 questions-and it is graded but only a small portion of your grade is affected." The class roared with anger and curiosity. 

I had to admit-what kind of a floozy jerk of a teacher has people do all this work after a break for a test they still have two and a half moths for? It didn't matter though, he was already having his favorite student pass out papers. He had a smile on his face as his black rimmed glasses slid slowly down his pale greasy nose.  The student slammed the paper on my desk and continued to joyfully give everyone their one way ticket straight to hell. 

I grabbed a pencil from my bag as I somehow tried to answer these questions-it was already bad enough that Danny's insane grandparents were voyaging through my mind. But oh no-now I have to take some dumb pre-test for a final I don't care too much about at this point. 

Only half of this made sence-and the other half was something I did not even wanna try to figure out. I circled what I knew and what I didn't know-I randomly guessed. After a long and very dry thirty minutes I wanted out. I raised my hand.

"Meagan what is it?"

"I need to use the restroom-may I go?"

He nodded and I got up and left the classroom as the door softly closed behind me. 

I walked down the empty halls as my eyes wondered mysteriously. A chill ran down my spine and suddenly I felt someone in the room. But I knew I shouldn't look back-because if your smart you know with shit like this you don't look behind you. So I kept walking and tried searching for somewhere. I wasn't going to the bathroom-just needed to roam the halls. But now I had to hide somewhere.

I went down a hall and saw a little sign with a woman on it-my steps quickened as I approached it more and more-I opened the door and let it close. 

No-one was here-and it was small enough that if someone was here I could see them. The light flickered- causing my anxiety to spike. Then It went again-now I knew that things where about to go down. I went in the stall, locked it, and pulled out my phone. 

"No service, how is that even possible. It's not like I'm in the mountains." I went to unlock the stall door but it didn't budge. This wasn't the type of stall door with a free opening under-it was a stall that completely touched the floor like a door. I tried again but to no surprise it still wouldn't bare to move. 

"Leave me alone! This is the worst place you could come for me. There are a lot of people you know! You can try to kill me but it isn't gonna work. Do you hear me!" I slammed the stall door out of anger-then I backed up and as hard as I could kicked it with my flexed foot. But not even that did anything.

I spun around and faced the toilet-carefully stepping onto the seat, then put a foot on the tissue dispenser and lunged myself halfway over the stall. Carefully I dropped a leg on the other tissue dispenser and then carefully climbed my way down from there to the toilet and then the floor. 

This stall door was open.

I walked out of the cramped enclosure and into the openness of the rest of the bathroom-I headed for the door and swung it open. The halls were completely dark. Lights off and only a few bits of light peering from corners of the unknown. "Crap." I exclaimed, and Danny was nowhere. In fact he probably didn't know what was happening, he was probably smart unlike me and stayed in class doing whatever it is he was instructed to do. 

The door to my class was in view now-which meant my safety, there wasn't a point to hurry now that it was there. Just before I could turn the knob I heard a plop-my eyes darted down the hall-there stood a girl who just dropped her phone and now her body plummeted too. She was bleeding.

In this moment I could either scream and be left responsible and she could be saved or go in class and let it be the next big campus mystery. 

I knew I had to think right.

"welcome back Meagan, please take your seat and continue if so needed."