Dreams & Nightmares

Nightmare Seven - The Targeted Class

There was a shady, rickety, classroom built into a garage. It was re-designed inside to function as a classroom for high school students, usually having some of the classes outside the garage on the driveway. In that class, we were all aware that we were supposed to be playing an odd game. A death game. All the orange school seats were nunbered. I was in seat #18, and depending on random numbers, you may be the next target to 'the game.' I remember a handful of the classmates in it who originaply went to my old highschool. Edward, Paolina, Justin,and Tony. Being in the class, I dont recall other faces, as I've always been bad with names. We went to visit this little park that had a teeny versin of a ferris wheel, all near the beach. It was part of the Game's trip locations we had to mandetory attend to. Otherwise you would just make yourself a reason to be targeted next. The class decided to ride the farris wheel, to try to loosen the tension in the air. As the moon rose on the red little box I was in, a deafining CRACK flows through the silent night. The ferris wheel goes out of control, killing 3 students as they are crushed under the weight, but the wheel stops after crushing them. Everyone else managed to jump out, leaving 3 students unharmed from the scene who were in the wheel. It was him,the man killing the class, everyone thought. Obvious dents were in the frame where the wheel rested for support, as if somebody pounded a hammer against it multiple times. Everyone heads into the bus to get back the garage class, when in a few moments, 3 more students are killed in the bus as it parks, their severed heads lay outside the enterance, not far from the people trailing out the bus after them. The blood is splattered on the classroom garage walls outside and on the bus. Someone has the idea to light up the black light that was left on the floor. Prints on the garage door say;"Three by three,people will die,but which three wil remain standing?" Some of the students go back to the bus including Paolina and her boyfriend, hiding in the back. Others are figuring out what to do frantically. I manage to find the list of students,those who will be crossed out soon, and those who already lost. The list has blue ink splotches on it and blood.I see my number next along with #1 and #5, noticing the pattern in the numbers, as apparently, it wasn't random. I leave the clipboard back to the drawer it hid in where the bus driver kept it, and backed away. I take #16's seat next and manage to survive, as I see the fake #18 die from food poisoning along with #1 and #5 in the caffeteria. Then,I nervously laugh,sweating and think,What was I going to do to survive this game? I can't switch numbers forever, or else everyone will catch on to my tricks. I brainstormed through scenarios and thought what I could do. The rules said only 3 will remain and kids will die three at a time, but so far its meant by method from what Ive seen as 6 died today. Does that mean that I can kill kids three at a time too? This way the numbers will deplete faster and I can be one of the three left, the chances will be greater for me to survive. I nodded to myself and soon enough, began plotting the death of my classmates. Three by three by three by three by three by three by three. Until only me and two others were left, that day and night was a blood bath, a night full of screams, shaking the air.