Waking up

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«Sayaka Maizono's perspective»

"A killing game?!"
Fear grips me, buzzing in my ears, drowning out the rest of the room. A killing game, real
death, real blood, real execution-

"Sayaka!" Makoto grips my arm, dragging me back to reality. "We should split up- search the school. There could be way out!"
Looking at Makoto's watery smile, I feel something burn inside me, fighting away the grips of despair.

The others arrange into groups of five, and two others join us: a muscular boy with a shock of fiery hair, and a girl with a brown hair in a ponytail and glinting turquoise eyes, like a lagoon. Or blood.
"Can Sakura join our group as well?" She asks in a clear, sweet voice. "We go to the same gym!"
"Yeah! No problem!" Smiles Makoto.
"The more the merrier!" Grins the boy, rubbing the back of his head. "I'm Leon by the way- baseball player."
"I'm Aoi Asihina! Ultimate swimmer!" Aoi smiles at him.
"I'm Sakura Ogami." I hear from behind me. I turn around and the strongest person I've ever seen greets me. Muscular arms, flashes of white hair, arms and legs like trees- she could crush my head like a coke can.

I don't think I'm going to survive this.
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«Aoi Asihina's perspective»
"Anything back there?" Yells Makoto from another room.
"No!" I reply, slamming back the drawers and kneeling , brushing off dust and grime from my shorts. Strong arms pull me up from the ground. I almost freeze, but realise who it is.
"Thanks, Leon." I mutter watching him adopt his regular pose of scratching the back of his head.
" No problem." He grins, and walks off to help Sayaka with lifting the beds.
Once he's left, I allow myself to relax. It's not that I hate him, it's just... the way his eyes always scan my body instead of my eyes when I talk, how he always stands a bit to close...
cut it out, Aoi! I prise a painting of the wall, almost growling with frustration when it reveals only wallpaper. We've been searching for 2 hours and found nothing, not even a scrap of evidence.
"Aoi?" I look around, glad to not see Leon.
"We're going to meet the others now!" Sayaka beams.
I plaster on a fake smile and lead the way.
"Great! Let's go!"
Each step my smile falters.

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