The Johns

Waiting Game pt. 2

After the incident on the rooftop, we went down to the courtyard. Trying to know what just happend.

"I told you guys it would kill them!" Sangster shouted to the little ones as he try to nag at them.

"Sangster, it's not like they know what would happend." I said and it became quiet. I sat at the bench as The Johns started to walk around.

"Let's just do our job. What could possibly go wrong?" Henry said then we split up to cover more ground.

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I looked at the tropies near the bulletin board. They all look so shiny, like can I drink to one of them?

Suddenly, a basketball came out of nowhere. Bouncing near me then stopped when it hit my foot.

I went down to pick it up but, there was a note attached to it.

'4 o'clock in the morning,
4 o'clock in dusk,
What can you do when its dark?'

"What's this?" I muttered. I took the note then kept it inside my pocket and started dribbling the ball.

I walked through the halls, first time seeing the labratories and classrooms be empty without the noise of what this school's students usually do.

I looked ahead and saw the intersection of pathways. Ahead its the gym, left is the courtyard, right is the swimming gym, and behind me is tha hallways of classes.

I walk, supposed to go the gym. I looked at my left and saw the flowerbeds and when I looked at my right. Just when I passed by the glass doors of the swimming gym.

I saw someone masked, holding a rifle at me far from the door but closed enough to the pools.

"Move!" Someone yelled at me from the left. I didn't know what happened next, just a loud sound can be heard going next to me.

We went tumbling to the gym's door, opening it and we landed there. Someone embraced me as he patted my head.

"You okay?" I looked up and saw Khyle, I didn't know he can look this worried in his life.

"I'm good." I looked at him and saw that his right foot's skin has been slightly removed due to the gun fire a moment ago. "How about you?"

He looked where I was staring and just laughed. How can he laugh at times like this.

"Guess my legs are too long." He said as he stood up and looking to where the culprit can be.

"How did you know someone might shot me?" I said as I stood up as well.

"Henry was the one who found the culprit, he might've got shot if he didn't know how to remove his stage presence." Khyle said as he moved closer to the gym's door which we vame tumbling to.

"What was he doing there?" I asked. He slowly looked through the mini glass windows on the door to look outside.

"He was guarding and was in the swimming gym when he saw someone setting his rifle in the men's dressing room." He looked at me. "He found me near the courtyard and said it to me. He's searching for the others."

"Why is someone like that here?" I muttered.

"Probably to kill one of us." He half laughed. "Probably to assasinate on of us for reasons to be told later on." He whispered most of what he said but I can still hear it.

Assasinate?

'If you don't want any of them to kill you first.'

The principal's words are still ringing on my mind. Also, assasinate. Why does it feels like that's my mission?