Trudy's picture at the side! x

It was more than fate that five seconds after everyone agreed, a loud banging came from the door. We all jumped and stared at it, the door practically shaking from its hinges. Who or what was doing that?

"Everyone keep quiet!" Niall whispered harshly and everyone instantly went silent. I knew he only said what we were all thinking, but it was nice to know we were all on the same wavelength.

"Why would someone be banging like that?" Louis asked quizzically although his question remained unanswered as the banging got heavier and louder. Whoever or whatever it was wanted to get in here urgently.

"Please, please let me in, she's after me!" A timid and very frightened female voice came from the other side of the door. "I know people are in there! Please!" she let out a small sob and i instantly felt guilty. We all looked at each other before Louis went to the door and opened the small curtain covering a little box window in the centre of the door.

"Who's after you?" Louis demanded, pretending he wasn't scared but underneath him his legs were shaking, barely holding his weight.

"A girl, i don't know! She's crazy! She bit my friend and then chased after me!" Louis shut the curtain instantly and, looking back towards me, mouthed 'fucking hell'. I would have moaned about his language but right now we were all anxious and scared and had a right to use foul language.

"Now she's either in on the prank or Yasmin here wasn't lying!" Harry offered his more than helpful thoughts to us. I simply rolled my eyes and kept my gaze on Louis. What do we do?

"Shall we let her in?" Liam questioned, his eyes scanning the room for our answers.

"Well i think not, if that thing is after her why let it come to us, you know what i mean?" Anthony finally said after the prolonged silence that begun after he found out about his girlfriend Emma. His eyes were glazed over, but the look of revenge was etched on his face.

"Anthony! You can’t just leave her out there!" I exclaimed, pointing furiously at the door. "She's just another girl, like me!"

"You can go and join her if you want." He hissed and looked away from me as if to end the conversation.

"Guys, come on. This is serious! If that weird girl is on her way, we should save this girl! Let’s not lose people for the sake of an eye for an eye, Anthony!" Conor said truthfully, looking at me as if to say he agreed with me.

"Settled!" Liam said, gesturing for Louis to open the door. Without wasting a second, the girl dived into the room and Louis slammed the door shut again.

"Thank you so much!" She sobbed, while still lying on the floor. It was only then, taking a long hard look at her, I realised it was Trudy, the head of the spokespeople for our year. Her normal pristine, smart look had gone; her clothes now dirty and ripped and her brown hair out of the perfect bun I'd seen it in before.

"What the hell is going on here?" Harry was finally showing his nerves, his leg twitching as he sat on the bench. "What did you see?" he asked Trudy in an angered tone, as if it was all her fault.

"I was walking down the hall with Pam and this girl just ran up behind us and pushed us both to the floor, I managed to quickly move myself away from her, she was crazy! She kept trying to hit us and then she just bit Pam in the neck! As soon as I got up and ran, the girl followed me!" Trudy's voice quivered and cracked as she relayed the story to us. I couldn't help but admire that she was more held together than i was seeing Emma get bitten and that was her best friend!

"You left your best friend?" Anthony was trying to make her feel guilty. He just wanted everyone to feel the pain he felt after hearing about Emma.

"Well the crazy girl was going to bite me!" Trudy said defensively, her eyebrows narrowing into a frown.

"You saved yourself and left your friend, how noble!" Anthony teased.

"Oh shut up will you?" Liam whinged. "We've got a story we didn't believe constantly being proven right in front of our eyes and you think it’s appropriate to tease someone who has experienced something traumatic?" Anthony simply shrugged as a response and went back to looking out of the window, where the bright weather was no reflection of how we all felt inside. Another banging at the door caused us all to jump back again and Louis opened the curtain, this time revealing the one person i wished never to see again; the girl from the field. Instantly Louis shut the curtain and gasped, but the image of her face was already ingrained in my mind. Her tangled, bloodied blonde hair, her pale complexion, her grimace and growl were all fresh in my mind. I turned away from the door and put my hands up to my face, desperate to hold back the tears.

"That’s her!" I whispered. "The one from the field!" Anthony's head shot up and glared at me.

"The one that got Emma?" He snarled, his fists clenching before I'd even answered. I nodded slowly, still trying to calm myself down before I ended up in another fit of tears. Without a second thought, Anthony launched towards the door, trying to open it. He pulled it ajar but Conor and Niall pushed it closed again. Harry ran over and pulled Anthony back, holding his arms behind him.

"What the hell is wrong with you?" Trudy suddenly shouted, everyone suddenly looking at her in surprise.

"That girl bit my girlfriend!" Anthony hissed, still trying to get free from Harry's grip.

"So you want us to all get bitten?" Trudy said, her arms folded across her chest. It went silent and Anthony finally stopped struggling. He sat back down and sighed heavily, running his fingers through his hair. 

“Of course not! That’s not what I meant!” Anthony said in a whisper, he looked defeated and I felt so bad for him.

“So what was your genius plan then?” Trudy hissed, obviously upset at Anthony’s lack of thinking.

“I was going to go out there and have a fight with her, shut the door behind me and hope I won!” Anthony’s gaze didn’t move from the floor but all our gazes shifted to his sorry state.

“Look, Anthony…” I began. “I can’t begin to imagine how bad this has been for you, I know I just ran in and blurted it out and I’m sorry for that but you can’t just give up hope on yourself! You can’t be reckless and endanger your life just because you don’t want to put the thought of her behind you to save yourself. We need to stick together, we can come up with a plan and get the hell out of here and I want you to be there. Now you need to live for her and come out of this unscathed to tell her story and keep her memories alive!” I mentally high-fived myself for that awesome speech but Anthony simply glared at me.

“Her memory?” He shouted. “Who said she was dead? You saw her get bitten not die! I don’t need your fucking sympathy speech!”

“Well…” Trudy looked over to me and then to Anthony. “If it was anything like what I saw that girl do to Pam, I don’t think she’s getting out of it. I watched that crazy girl take a chunk out of my friend’s neck, you think you’re going to get up and walk away from that?”

“Shut up!” Anthony shouted, covering his ears with his hands like a child. “Shut up, shut up, shut up!” His voice got quieter and trembled with emotion. I walked over to him and put my hand on his shoulder.

“Anthony, honestly, I’m so sorry. I wish this was all a prank and we could just hug and laugh and go back to normal but it’s not. This is serious.” Anthony let out a frustrated scream and stood up, shoving me backwards with the palms of his hands. I stumbled backwards into Conor, Niall and Louis. Liam stood up and strode over to Anthony, grabbing his shoulders and scrunching Anthony’s clothes in his fists.

“Look, whether you like this or not, we’re all stuck in this room with a crazy girl going around biting people. I know you’ve heard some bad news but, mate, you need to push that aside and get along with all of us because at the moment Yasmin and Trudy are helping us, giving us an advantage that most other people don’t have!” Liam whispered harshly to him, although it was loud enough for us all to hear.

“Oh wow! Great! My girlfriend has been bitten but I need to bow down to two stupid girls because they happened to be there when it happened? Now if you don’t mind, I’m going out there to find my girlfriend!”