The scene opens from the perspective of a high-school boy sitting in his seventh period class on a Friday, just before the start of spring break. He describes his teacher as being "pretty laid-back" as he plays computer games with the students to pass the time instead of giving a test.
Suddenly, the principal's frantic voice blasts through the intercom, instructing teachers to lock their doors and follow lockdown procedures. The principal emphasizes that "this is not a drill." The student's teacher, usually calm and casual, begins frantically turning off the lights and urging the students into the corner of the room furthest from sight of the door. The student narrating the story notes that the school has cut the power from the whole building, which only made him more anxious.
After a couple minutes of silent waiting, the students begin to hear a man loudly banging a metal object onto the lockers while screaming, "I'll kill all of you!" A couple of the girls in the class begin to cry, making the rest of the students even more panicked. The narrator says it was at that moment he started to fear for his life.The banging sound moves further down the hallway until the crazed man begins to bang on their classroom door. One of the girls who had been crying screams, "No!" through her sobs. The banging on the door then intensifies as the man yells, "Let me in! Eventually, the man gives up and continues down the hallway, "screaming like a mentally insane person" until he could no longer be heard. Ten minutes later, the principal's voice rings through the loudspeaker. He explains what happened, saying a mentally unstable person had entered the building and assaulted the woman sitting at the front desk, causing her to flee from the building screaming. The principal says that the staff had done a sweep of all the hallways and classrooms and could not find the man, so he instructed the teachers to continue teaching but to keep all the doors locked and to not let any student leave for any reason.
The student ends the story by saying that the creepiest part of this entire situation, however, is that a janitor had soon after found the man sleeping in a supply closet with a gun sticking out of his pocket. By the time the police got to the school, he had vanished
