Project GM (on hold)

Chapter 2. Zoe

Chapter 2 (Zoe)

‘What happened? One minute, it was normal, the next minute, there was a blinding light and Miss Berk disappeared!’ Rosa said, half jogged to keep up with my pace.

‘I know, I know Rosa, I was there remember? Look, I just need to check something to confirm if my suspicion is correct.’ I hurried down the stairs, trying to reach the entrance hall as quickly as possible.

‘And what is your suspicion?’ Rosa asked.

I ignored that question mainly because I did’t know how to answer it. I was half hoping that my suspicion is incorrect but at the same time I know I was right. It is not that hard to figure out what is happening in Beckley Hills once you had that detention. I nearly fell down the stairs until I heard a shout behind me, by the time I realised this, my feet were nearly in the air. I grabbed the banister and flanged myself back onto the floor.

‘Ow. That hurts.’ I touched my head not mentioning that it nearly hit the wall, okay, I admit it, I nearly killed myself.

‘Hey guys! Wait!’ The voice that stopped me killing myself shouted again, I half turned around only to see Luanna running towards us. I rolled my eyes; I knew that she would never listen to me even in the most dangerous/weird situations such as now.

‘Luanna Kirkland! Just what do you think you are doing! I told you not to leave the form room; we needed to just check on something!’ I shouted at her and punched the wall hard with my fist; my hands seem to have a very good relationship with walls recently.

Luanna smiled at me and was showing her puppy eyes, I tried to tell her several times that her puppy eyes don’t work and it will only make me confirm that my decision was right.

‘But I am your friend, friends help each other right?’ Luanna asked, for a second I almost reconsidered my decision but no, to let Luanna come with us is just a waste of time and anyway, who would keep the class quiet while we are gone?

'Look, please, I just wanted you to keep the class calm, just let them listen to you until Rosa and I come back.’ I begged, trying very hard to act composed but failing. No one, just no one can feel calm when the whole city is being destroyed.

‘Nobody would listen to me; tell me the truth, who would listen to me right now?’ Luanna’s smile dropped, for once, I was actually surprised by the seriousness and the sadness of her tone. Okay, I am normally a very optimistically pessimistic person, if that makes sense. But I am not cruel, I looked over and met Rosa’s eyes, for a few seconds we seemed to be having a soundless conversation but trust me, it just felt like looking at her. She seemed to understand what I meant, Rosa nodded and went back quietly to our form room again, the seconds between she opened the door and walking into the form room, I could hear the panic rising in our class, I hate this, I hate whoever had done whatever this is.

I walked silently with Luanna down the first few steps of the stairs, peace is not usual in this school but now I can hear it, I can hear the silence, but the silence also gives me the solution to my question, the answer to my suspicion.

‘Hey dudes!’ The shout stopped me in my tracks but it probably also made Luanna panic because the next thing I know, I was being pushed and landed on the floor about one metre below where I stood one second ago, trust me, it hurts.

‘Seriously? Can people stop assassinating me today?’  I complained, standing up while nursing my poor little hand but at least I didn’t hit my head or anything. I am a freak when it comes to wasting my brain cells.

‘Sorry, Zoe.’ Luanna apologised. I rolled my eyes, no matter how sadistic people describe me to be, I am usually very forgiving. I meant Usually with a capital U.

 ‘Hey dudes!’ Whoever it was repeated again,  I looked up to see Ellen-L running towards us or however you describe it when somebody ran down the stairs as quickly as possible.

‘Hey Mello! Why are you here?’ Luanna greeted Ellen-L, another nerd of our age, trust me, a girls’ grammar school contains a lot of nerds, geeks and weird people, and I, the wonderful fairy of annoyingness, fit into all of the categories.

‘It was so weird, one minute it was normal, the next minute Miss Oak just simply disappeared. I went to check on other forms; apparently the teachers in their forms had suddenly dissolved out into the thin air as well. I am not the form captain but Merryn is currently freaking out with the rest of our form so I had to check if teachers from other forms had gone as well.’ Ellen-L said without taking a breath.

‘Well. Yes, Miss Berk had disappeared as well; care to join us to see if any other teachers had disappeared?’ I asked, at least Ellen-L will share the same torture as me when it comes to talking and explaining things to other people.

Avoiding any further injuries, we hurried down the stairs as quickly as we can, which in fact is not very quick considering that the last time I tried to run down the stairs two steps at a time, I ended on landing very hard at the bottom of the staircase, not fun.

Pushing through the heavy door, we finally found ourselves in the entrance hall of our school, sure enough, there were no adults. Scared by the consequence, I walked past the entrance hall into the staff room, it is usually loud with teachers conversing with each other and others having meetings but right now, all there were was the smell of coffee lingering through the air. It was true. They were all gone…

‘Right, okay.’ I said, trying very hard to calm myself, I walked back to the entrance hall, where Luanna and Ellen-L were standing waiting for me; their faces clearly fell when they saw me. To say the truth, I felt sorry for them. None of them knew what is going on and everybody had just been dragged into this mess.

‘No?’ Ellen-L asked.

I nodded; this was not how I expected my birthday to be. First, I thought that my first ever detention was going to be the worst thing that was going to happen on my birthday, but now, it seemed that the detention was only a small part of the whole plan. Well… I must say that I was impressed by the swift job of the GMgroup, only at lunchtime was Mrs Citria threatening me to join the group and less than two hours later the disease had already spread.

My brain was working almost too hard, but through all that mess in my head, I can only think of one solution.

‘Alright, peeps .Brace yourselves.’ I said, trying at least to sound calmer, which, didn’t really work. I walked into the receptionists’ area, I looked down on the table in front of me, and sure enough it was the speaker system. Okay, I saw that thing that looked a little like a microphone to me and assumed that it was the speaker. I stared down at the speaker, half expecting it to speak by itself, when I finally realised that it is not doing that, I took a deep breath. I was never a confident girl, I am always scared to speak in public, and now what am I trying to do? I am trying to order the entire school to do what I what them to, no pressure to me then.

‘Okay.’ I heard my voice echoing throughout the school, ‘Can everybody in the whole school come to the hall please and queue in your form groups.’ By the time I finished speaking that one little sentence, I was half shaking. Sure, I am a very outgoing girl but when it comes to situations like this, I would prefer for somebody to come to my rescue.

Ten seconds after my little inspirational speech, I heard footsteps storming down the stairs and sure enough, a group of girls ran through the entrance hall into the hall. I doubted that they even saw us standing there staring at them. Only when I saw Rosa in the crowd, trying hard to calm everybody did I realise that those were my classmates, the ones that loved me, the ones that bullied me and the ones that admired me, yet even in this circumstance they still won’t work as a team. I saw friends pushing each other, eager to go into the hall first and ask what the hell is going on, if friends did that to each other, I would hate to imagine what would happen to those that are strangers.

‘Guys,’ I said to Ellen-L and Luanna. ‘This is just about to get messy.’

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Oh gods. This chapter is sooooo bad. I am sooo sorry but my brain is officially dying..... This is dedicated to Noodletiger because she is too awsome...