I tapped my fingertips on the desk impatiently. Periodically glancing at my watch. Ten minutes till the end. Only, this wasn't the end I was expecting. The fire alarm screamed, causing me to jump in my seat. I looked around to study the others reactions. Panic. We weren't scheduled to have a practice alarm today, so everyone must have assumed there was something really wrong. I remained in my seat as the students who entered the hallway began screaming. My knuckles turned white as I gripped the sides of my desk. "Get up!" The teacher shouted. My gaze remained on the wall in front of me. "Are you deaf!? Get up!" She continued. With the piercing alarms echoing throughout the hallways, the mass of screams, and this lady shouting in my ear, I might as well be. I blinked. The sounds mixed together and pounded through my head. Before I could realize, the woman had fled the room. I looked around as I sat alone between four walls. There was still four minutes of school left. I pinched myself, hoping I had fallen asleep in class as I normally did. Realizing that this was the unfortunate truth, I stood up and weaved through the desks, exiting the room. I froze. Red. Red covered everything. Red was splattered on the walls, oozing between the tile spaces, dripping from their mouths. Oh god. They looked up at me. Kids I knew. Kids I had been friends with. Except these were not my friends. These were mindless cannibals whose only goal was to rip every living thing apart.

I turned around, heading for the nearest exit, only to find there was more of them behind me. "Eric!" I leapt at the sound of my name. Half of me was relieved I wasn't the only one alive in this hell hole. "Eric!" A familiar voice repeated. I turned to find those things interested in who was making the noise. Jack.

No weapons, no way out. Just me, Jack, and a crowd of dead people between us. 

Think, think!

You know what? Screw it. What do we have to lose at this point? Just as I began to run, I was stopped and forcefully yanked back.

"Are you dense?" Short brunette hair surrounded an angry freckled face.

“You’re going to get yourself killed!” she protested. I’d never been so happy in my life. For a second I had forgotten there were a bunch of flesh eating zombies behind me. I snapped back into reality. Something about Emily being there pulled my shit together.

I spun on my heels, facing Jack once again. I snatched my keys out of my pocket and chucked them to Jack.

“What the hell am I supposed to do with these?!” He questioned as he began to back up.

“My car is parked in lot B! You know what it looks like!” I shouted as the distance between us grew. He nodded, implying he knew what I meant, and took off in a sprint in the opposite direction. Emily and I did the same.

The alarms had finally stopped, but they still echoed in the back of my head. We exited the building only to stop in our tracks. Lifeless corpses aimlessly dragged their feet across the pavement. hundreds of these things scattered around the school. Eight minutes. It took eight minutes for whatever the hell this thing was to take over an entire school. The shit storm hit and I forgot an umbrella.