Star Pupil

Chapter eleven

Without thinking, I got up off my desk, ran out of the detention room into the reception area and turned left to run down past the toilets into the corridor that took me to the primary/nursery school section. Keep in mind as I'm supposed to be in detention, I cannot be spotted by other teachers while I'm in the corridors.

Bursted through the double doors, I saw a tutor walking by, so luckily, I managed to hid behind one of the three doors to my left and waited for a few moments until there was nobody else there.

OK, better keep on running! I went to my left, into the primary classes' corridors, where the hell's the exit doors to the back?! Upwards!! I sprinted up the corridors and ran through the first set of back doors past the technology and design room before getting outside the school.

The back of the school has this massive football field with a small forest near it. Also standing outside is a wee "soft play" area for the primary classes to play about. It hasn't been opened or touched for a lot of years.

Back to the story, seeing the School Pupil killer walking up to where the caretaker's "chill-out" hub is, I ran past the car park towards the hub, finding Mr. Seville sitting on the ground and against the wall outside.

Looks like somebody's there helping him up, is that Zara there? Looks like Seville must have collapsed of a heart attack and Zara's helping him out with first aid! Good on her for doing that!

Better go save them before it's too late! Oh my god the killer's only a few inches away from them with his big knife! "Zara! Mr. Seville!!" I called out to them, running up the hill. "Look out!!!" Zara, seeing the killer from behind, tumbled to her right and the killer struck his knife at Mr. Seville's neck!!! Oh god, another day, another caretaker dead!!!

Zara, only seeing this shit for the first time, screams as we both saw Mr. Seville getting hacked several times! "Over here!" I shouted, running over to her, getting her out of the scene.

"Run!" I shouted, as we began sprinting away from the school pupil killer, who only just us turned his attention to us now! We ran up towards the school's second playfield far away from the PE hall.

"Where do we go?!" Zara asked, while sprinting with me. "Over there!" I said, pointing out to a line of trees to my left. As we kept sprinting on, I glared back and could see this psycho with his big bloody hands – the knife on his righty – coming towards us!

"Quick!" I said to Zara, as we dove right into the old wet bushes, before getting up off the ground to run further into the woods. This forest is nothing compared to the Trail of Lights, except its like left alone and the ground is like covered by old and new autumn leaves!

We ran a little further before we hid behind this big tree with this small bush that's covered by sharp thorns and twigs. Out of breath and scared shitless, we ducked down behind the bush and peered through a wee hole to see if our psychopath is coming.

"Jake, who THE HELL is that guy?!" Zara asked me, while getting a grip on herself." "I don't know, but he's just some fucker with a knife." I replied, while getting my breath back and peering through the hole quietly.

"Yeah, in a fucking school uniform!!! Why is he here?" Zara said. Right, time to get honest with yourself and tell your girl why have you freaked out this morning and what happened to the caretakers this week.

"Last Tuesday..Mr. Harris was killed right in front of me by him...Day after that, Mr. Pauley and Dixon were also killed, I don't know how but...but I called the police...told Mr. Gallagher...but they won't listen to me. They think I'm making all this up!"

"Remember I said to you this morning that I thought I saw a fox outside? I lied. I saw that guy out there in my back garden." I said. "Day before that, he watched and followed me as I walked to school through Worsley Village."

I peered through the hole again to see the killer lurking around the trees, looking up at them as well, to see where we are hiding! "Stay down and keep quiet." I whispered to Zara, as we cuddled each other up like wee balls.

As we cuddled up to each other, our hearts are pounding like fuck because we're scared. Next thing I know, my bladder is like I wanna piss in my pants. THAT would be very embarrassing for a 16-year-old like me.

We stayed hidden and kept our heavy breaths down for a while until I looked through the bush-hole again—! OH SHIT!!! He's coming towards us! Looks like he must have followed our footprints on the leaves!!! Wait, you don't leave footprints or do you?

"What? What is it?" Zara whispered to me. "He's coming towards us!" I whispered back to her, tension's higher than I thought! "He's fucking coming!!!" Knowing that we're not safe behind the bush for long, we got up off our feet and started to run to the other side of the forest.

I held onto Zara's hand as we started running again. Moments later, I tripped onto something hard like a log or a stone brick. Because I'm holding her hand, she tripped as well. These leaves are a nightmare!

"Are you alright?" I asked her, getting up while helping her up also. "Yeah, oh god!" she said, as she looked back to see who's lurking towards us. We both looked to where we're running from to find nobody there. We slowly sneaked backwards, holding to each other's hands and keeping our cool until we--!! AGH! HE'S RIGHT FUCKING BEHIND US!!!

We turned around to see--! Oh, what do you know? It's Mr. Gallagher. I'm wondering what he's doing here. He's just standing there, huffing and puffing. Did I do something wrong, I thought to myself. Yeah, I did something wrong: skipping detention.

"Office, now!" he ordered. Crikey, we're in trouble now!