Don't play dead..

Charlie Mccoffin

The next morning Charlie sits at his desk tapping his pencil on a stack of books glaring at the board through his lashes, zoning out he gets called on.

"Mcoffin, the answer?" The teacher crosses her arms shifting her weight to her other leg staring bullets to him. Charlie snaps out of his trance and looks up at her

"I'm so sorry ma'am i wasn't listening." He says in a monotone voice indicating he didn't care near enough to listen, the teacher picks up on it and sends him to the office.

Meanwhile Ben is half asleep in the same class before a friend, Hailey, throws a book at him. Hard cover or not he wakes up and curses her out, quietly so the teacher wouldn't hear.

Their friend, Kori, turns to the two with wide eyes in a glare while mouthing 'Pay attention' before turning her head back to the teacher with a smile, causing Hailey to roll her eyes and Ben to put his head in his hand looking out a window.

As Charlie makes his way to the office he sits near a window and looks out to a near by super market that recently got shut down, he strains and squints his eyes to a shadowy figure hunched over in the window, moving rapidly like it was feasting, whatever it was. He immediately averts his eyes as the thing turns towards his gaze.

As class ends Ben, Kori, and Hailey wait outside the office doors for Charlie to be released. Few moments of waiting pass and he leaves the office with a wave to the front desk and motions for the group to follow him, as they do an anxious boy runs up to them talking in more of a whisper than a voice, "Why was Charlie in the office?! Did something happen?!"

Hailey sticks her head between the boys resting her hands on both of their shoulders "No, your boyfriend here thought it was a good idea to sass Mrs. Snagglback" she says with a laugh looking over to Charlie as he rolls his eyes. "Everything's fine Axel no need to worry" Ben pats the frazzled looking boy on the back and yanks Hailey away from them.

"I did see something weird in the office though, let's go to Axel's." Charlie says while resting his thumb on his bottom lip and furrowing his eyebrows trying to figure out what he actually saw as the group walks out of the school.