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Fawn's POV

"Fawn? Fawn!" Kira sings, clicking her fingers in front of my face. I snap out of my daze and look at her.

"Yeah?" I say, forgetting where I am. I scan the room. I am in my food technology class, with Mrs. James.

"We have to add the flour now," She tells me, handing over the bag of flour. I start to measure the right amount. Why does grade 11 have to be so boring? Everyday it's the same routine. Wake up. Go to school. Go home. Do homework. Go to sleep. Then repeat it over and over again. Even the weekends are school-orientated. My mum makes me study, whereas Kira can do whatever she wants. But mainly all she does is play her xbox and watch television. On the few days I can actually do something fun, most of it is spent forcing Kira to get off her couch.

I start to pour the flour through the sieve into the bowl. I stop in my tracks. I hear a rattle. I look around the classroom. Nobody is rattling anything that could make that much noise. Nobody seems to hear it either. I look over at the window, there is a man rattling at the school fence. His clothes are ripped and he is very, very pale. He's either sick or he should really get some sun. My english teacher, Mr. Martino, walks up to him from outside the fence, where the other man is. He starts to talk to him. The pale man grabs him by the shoulders and bites into his neck, blood spilling everywhere. I gasp.

My head goes dizzy and I nearly fall off my stool. I point and try to yell for someone to help him, but only a strangled sound escapes my throat.

"What is it, Miss Coxon?" Mrs, James says, looking my way and tapping her foot. I choke at first but I eventually manage to get the words out.

"A man just bit into Mr. Martino's neck!" I yelp. The class rushes over to the window, I look at them scurry to see someone dead and when I look back, the man and Mr. Martino are gone.

"Don't talk rubbish, Miss Coxon." Mrs. James scoffs. I look at her in disbelief as she walks back to her personal cooking counter. Kira looks at me with a worry in her eyes. I grab her wrist and pull her out of the door. I can hear Mrs. James yelling after me.

"What are you doing?" Kira spits and pulls her arm free of my grip.

"We have to run! I wasn't lying Kira!" I say, my voice sounds choked, thanks to the sobs that threaten to escape my throat.

"Yes you were - " I then see Mr. Martino, but not as he was before, at the end of the hallway. The pale man and other pale men follow.

"Run!" I scream. She doesn't object. I hear the screams of our class members as we escape out of the front gate of the school. We run faster, my hand squeezing Kira's. This is not a normal day.

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- Anna xx