School Of Death

#13

" Mr. Hail, Kesh. " Ray says as he gently opens the gym door," Mr. Hail! " It takes him a second but then he realizes that its actually Mr. Hail and he survived. Harvey leans over Ray's shoulder to see if the librarian was actually there, and he was. 

" Mr. H, " Harvey says in shock, " Your, your alive. " Mr. Hail was always Harvey's favorite teacher and Mr. Hail loved to see him. If only he could have stayed with Harvey when his mom got remarried to his abusive stepdad, he would have kept him out of so much trouble. But what's done is done you can't change the past, you can only change how you will react to the future.

Mr. Hail goes over and gives Harvey a hug, pulling him aside to talk to him privately. " Ray. " I drag him over to the corner of the room, " Where were you two! I was waiting for you guys to find us, so we could go get some stuff for us to spend the night! " I whisper angerly throw my teeth.

" We where up in the office. " He hands me a small thin file, then turns around to go over to the kids.

" Ray. " I holler after him and he stops, " What is this? " I wave the file in the air.

" I don't know, that's why I thought you might want to take a look at it. You know just in case its something important. " He turns back around and continues to go talk to the children.

I turn around and set the file a on a rectangular table I assumed is where the teachers would sit to watch the kids play. Then I get an idea, " Mr. Hail, Ray, Harvey! Over here. " I wave them all over to the corner and explain to them my plan, " I think that our best bet would be to spend the night in here, but to do that we're going to need somethings. " pausing to look around the small little circle I take a breath, and a sign everyone a job, " Okay Harvey, can you move around things in the closet for us to be able to sleep in there? And Ray, go out and check the northwest side of the school for food, blankets, and anything else that could be useful. Mr. Hail if you wouldn't mind to help get the kids settled once Harvey's done? " When I'm done everyone nods and we all go to where we need to be.

I set off to the south side of the school, where the main doors and the office are. Standing and staring out the broken glass windows at a storm that's rolling in. I quick like rush out into the rain, going around to each car to see if I can find anything useful.  

Thunder booms in the distance and then I see lighting strike down only a few miles away. Hurrying to grab car keys and books and shove them in some backpack I found someone yells, " KESHA! " Instead of a call out to me it sounded more like a call for help, a call for anyone. " HURRY! " I look back over at the school following the noise with my eyes and see Ray waving his arms like a maniac. I zip up the bag and throw it over my shoulders as I jump out of a tall Jeep and bolt towards the school. A loud spine shaking crack covers over the moment as lighting strikes the ground again and again, rain pouring down so hard its turning my skin red. 

Once I get over inside the school Ray puts his hand on my back and we start walking to the gym, " The kids are terrified, and I have no idea what to do neither does Harvey or Mr. Hail. " He pauses in front of the gym door and takes my bag, " We got everything set up for the night and Harvey even set you up a little desk in the corner of the closet. " I open the door and start over to the closet that's pushed open by Mr. Hail. I nod my head and walk into a room with crying and shaking kids, and I don't blame them for being scared after the day they had. 

I reach out my hands to Ray and he tosses me the bag of stuff from the cars, " Okay lets see what's in here, " I reach all the way to the bottom of the bag and all the kids look at me, " Oh, what is this. Hm, it looks like ' The Three Little Birds. '" I say pulling out a small kids book I just happened to find in one of the cars. I gather the kids around in a circle and sit down cris-cros in front of them. Opening the book I make my mouth very wide, just trying to be dramatic and funny, " A yellow bird? " the kids look up at me like I don't know my colors.

" That bird isn't yellow, its blue. " one of the kids says with a little chuckle at my intentional mistake. 

" Oh! You're right the bird is blue, silly me. " I can see Ray and Harvey curled into each other laughing at me in the corner of the closet. I smile big and laugh a little as well, this has been a weird day for everyone and to see these kids smiling and laughing makes it easier to deal with. Looking back down at the childish little book I continue to read until all the kids fall asleep, which didn't take long. 

" They where so bored of you they all just feel asleep. " Harvey laughed as he tucked a little girl in with one of the blankets we found. I throw a pillow at him and he laughs harder, throwing the pillow back and hitting Ray instead of me. " I'm sorry Ray! " he says bent over in laughter. 

I calm my self and tell them good night, walking out into the actual gym. I take in a deep breath and think about all the things that happened today, then took out my phone. " 743-608-9163, " I whisper as I put in the number and hit call, " Please, please pick up. "

" Hello? "