Dark parallel trap

Chapter 3

The sound of the big splash that was made, created some excitement for the students. The teacher was just grinning as he was watching the whole thing from the chair next to his desk. The boy quickly swam to the surface. He kicked his feet trying to stay close to the surface. Owen felt that he should have turned off the livestream. Then he could try to figure out what was going on. The alligators that were swimming on the surface of the water felt the ripples as they come from the part of the deep end where the eighth grader was thrown in. The alligators that were swimming under the water went up to the surface. The mouths of the reptiles emerged from the water. The eighth grader looked around him and felt that the worst was going to be happening to him. Then the camera zoomed away from the boy. The crocodiles were closing on him. Some of them started to open their jaws. They started to make a circle around the eighth grader. He tried to find some way to escape. He then sucked in some air and went under water.

Owen didn't see the boy for the next three seconds of the livestream. He thought that he was trying to get past the alligators by swimming underneath them. Owen counted and saw that there were only nine alligators that had formed the circle. He then feared that the boy might get eaten by the tenth crocodile. Seven seconds later and nothing happened. Owen was thinking about the person who was behind filming this video. Suddenly the eighth grader's head and chest emerged from the water. He screamed while emerging from the water. Some of the students were surprised by the screaming boy. Others were not scared by that part. The eighth grader swam till he reached one of the alligators. The tenth alligator has emerged from the water. It emerged with an open mouth, almost as if he were going to eat the boy. The eighth grader scrambled on the back of the alligator. The tenth alligator closed its mouth and set its sights for the alligator that the boy was sitting on. The reptile slowly swam to the alligator. The reptile that the boy was seated on, was unhappy. He separated from the circle of alligators. It swam as fast as its legs could allow him. It quickly swam towards one of the walls. It even bounced into the air a few times. The alligator was trying all he can to shake the boy off its back. The eighth grader did not like riding on the reptile at all. It felt like being on an unsafe amusement park ride. The reptile tried to scrape the boy's legs while they were hanging from the sides of its belly. The eighth grader saw that the gap between his leg and the pool wall was slowly closing in. The boy had his legs resting on the scaly back of the reptile. The alligator plunged into the water. The eighth grader held onto his breath as he became submerged too. His hair disappeared from the surface of the water. Although the boy could be seen as the alligator quickly swam through the pool water. The other alligators chased the boy. They were slowly gaining on their reptile friend. The boy gasped for air whenever the alligator leaped out of the water and submerged back into the pool.

Owen felt that the fourteen-year-old would get eaten at any second. The alligators were only a hands' length away from his legs. The alligator that the boy was riding on was trying to shake him off. The boy struggled to hang on. Owen's classmates were sitting down in their chairs. And so was Owen. They were enjoying seeing the boy trying to survive from being the predators' next big meal. They cheered as the alligators chased the predator that the eighth grader was holding onto. Then the alligator tried to slam its body again the pool wall. The boy released his grip on the reptile's back. The alligator slammed its back on the hard pool wall. The boy was now trying to outswim the other alligators. They instead quickly opened their jaws and were about to bite at him. The boy swam away each time the alligators tried to snap their jaws on one of his feet. The reptiles eventually had him cornered in the pool's shallow end. The alligators had some of their mouths opened. They slowly swam up to him. The eighth grader closed his eyes and had his arms shielding his face. "Please don't eat me. I will never ever bully anybody else again." The alligators were only a millimeter away from the boy. They had their mouths wide open. The only thing that happened to the eighth grader is that he only smelled the breath of the ferocious reptiles. The alligators did not eat him. "Don't worry, the alligators have been properly fed. The boy will not be eaten. He was just given the chance of seeing how it is like when you can get picked on." A lifeguard explained as the camera slowly turned towards him. He had a small smile on his face. The lifeguards that had brought out the boy earlier went to the shallow end corner where he was trapped. There was also a lady who was dressed in a jungle explorer themed uniform. He looked at the alligators. The lady said something to the predators.

At once, the alligators backed away from the corner. The lady walked to one side of the pool and was calling them to come to the edge of the pool. The reptiles' jaws were touching the edge of the pool wall. They all climbed out of the water. They then began to follow the lady. The eighth grader was scared from being thrown into a pool full of alligators. Owen was relieved that the boy was okay. The lifeguards went with him as he went to the change room. Then the livestream ended. Owen's classmates were happy about watching the livestream. Owen pretended that he liked it. "Now then, we shall start with English grammar." The teacher said as he switched from his email and went back to the smart board. The teacher began using five different sentences for the students to correct. They all seemed like random sentences. Then the teacher asked the students to pull out a piece of lined paper. Owen pulled out a piece of lined paper from his binder. "Now write the words that I am about to say." The teacher said. Owen readied himself with his pencil and eraser as the teacher read out the first sentence. "The alligator is a reptile. It is a cold-blooded animal." The teacher said out loud. Owen wrote down the sentences. He did felt that something was not right for some reason. He did see alligators in the livestream. Owen feared that the teacher might start to talk about the time that the boy got attacked by the reptile predators. After four more sentences, the next few sentences made the hair on Owen's back stand on one end. It was just as he feared. The teacher started to talk about the livestream. He mentioned how the alligators loved to chase the boy while he tried to swim away from them. Owen felt that he should run out of the classroom once he had the chance. He also was creeped out by the fact that his classmates were excited when they saw the school bully getting attacked by reptile predators. The teacher waited until the students were nearly done with writing down the words that he had said. After that he passed around the corrected version of the sentences that he pronounced earlier. The students corrected their own work. Same with Owen. He felt that either the school he was in had changed, or he was in a different school. After the students had corrected the sentences that they have written, the teacher started to pass around the new assignment sheets for the students.

It was only forty more minutes before the students were going to gym class. Owen's favorite subject of the day. The students went to work on the new assignment sheet. Suddenly, there was the sound of the school bell. Suddenly, everything around Owen started to feel a little bit blurry. The students were slowly changing. Owen's classmate that had the glasses started to become blurrier than the rest of the classmates. The glasses that were on her face started to melt into her skin. The teacher's clothes started to change too. They turned themselves into a black shirt with buttons, and blue pants without getting all torn halfway up the leg. The words that were written on the paper that Owen had written down were changing too. Some words that he had already written down have already changed into smaller or bigger ones. Owen blinked his eyes. Then everything was coming into focus. The English teacher was watching as the students were working on the new assignments given to them. Owen looked at the classmate that was wearing glasses earlier. He couldn't believe his eyes. She was not wearing any glasses. Owen looked at the assignment given to him by the teacher. It was not the same one earlier. He went to look at the lined piece of paper that he had to write on, copying the words said by the teacher. It was not the same at all. The words on the lined piece of paper talked about ants, and the different tasks that they do around the ant hill. Owen felt that he might have slept through part of the class. He then went to concentrate on the assignment given to him by the teacher. He carefully worked on the different sentences. The final part of the assignment needed, was for him to write down information given to him by the question using proper grammar. Owen finished the assignment and decided to check it to see if he hadn't missed anything. Little did he know that someone was watching him. The person watching him was in the hallway. The other classmates hadn't noticed anybody watching him from the window to the classroom. The stranger watching him was wearing a black hoodie. When the school bell rang, Owen put the assignment in his binder. He noticed that the binder was his, because of how he remembered that he had done the assignments yesterday. Owen looked behind him and his backpack wasn't there. The preteen looked at the paper sign in front of his desk. He recognized the drawing; it was different balls used in different sports.