ENDS

4- Time

Iris's p.o.v.
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  Exhausted? Yes, you got that right.

  It took a total of thirty minutes to get washed up and tucked into bed.

  Louie was already asleep by the time I got home, so that made the job of resting a whole lot easier.

  I had just turned out the lights in the room and tried to get comfortable when I had an itchy feeling in my throat and realized that I was thirsty.

Trust your body to bring up needs at the wrong moment.

I tried to ignore the feeling for a while, thinking I could sleep. But after a few minutes, the itching grew worse.

  With an annoyed groan, I switched on the lights and dragged myself off my bed before heading for the door.

   Making sure to turn around and check on Louisa once again, I opened the door a tad bit too slowly to avoid waking anyone who was already asleep or alerting someone who isn't.

  After the knob was turned and the door pulled inwards, I peered down the hallway to make sure the coast was clear and to my luck, it was.

  A silent sigh escaped me and with a careful mind, I found my way out of the room to the living area.

  As usual, the lights were all dimmed and the only sounds you could hear was the tick tocking of the clock.

  Well that was the only sound I was hearing but I'm pretty sure I could detect something else beneath it.

  I used my eyes to scan the place but nothing looked or seemed out of the ordinary, so I began thinking the foreign sounds was all in my head.

  Getting into the kitchen, I firstly found my way to the cabinet to get myself a glass before stepping to the refrigerator for some water.

  As I opened it, the cool breeze of the metallic cooler hit my face so hard that I felt the goosebumps growing on my forearms and my hairs stand erect.

   I swallowed a gulp of my own saliva in anticipation of the chill I'd face from drinking such a cold liquid afterwards.

  Then again, I was having an awkward feeling.

  The foreign sounds I had been hearing had gotten louder and this time all to real to be called imagination.

  Right now, it is a lot clearer and easier to hear.

  It was a beeping sound, carefully beeping to a steady rhythm.

Beep. Beep. Beep. Beep.

  And it was continuous. I stood still and waited for it to end, rather it didn't. If anything, I felt it was becoming faster.

  My blood pressure was slowly rising but I didn't want to give myself a panic attack by over reacting, so I decided to go put on the lights.

  And right there beneath the switch, I saw the source of the sound.

  In the prominent darkness, the figures were counting down in red.

3:55:08

  It was a timer. A beeping timer. And I bloody know beeping timers are always attached to one thing.

It was a bomb!!

" Jesus!! Everyone!! Wake up! It's a bomb!! There's a bomb! Everyone!!!!" I screamed at the top of my voice as I ran out of the kitchen.

  My heartbeat was faster than any normal rate as it was beating franctically.

" Wake up!! Wa-" I continued to yell when Mr McConnell and Hunter came running down the stairs.