Darkness First

New acquaintance

I was a little dazed. Everyone were in the hallways and the amount of noise was witless. Sirens screamed and people were talking about what the hell was going on. And I can't let go of my thought what is going on.

I couldn't see anything. Everyone have dark clothing and there were almost no light at all, just the red ones that didn't help with the oppressive atmosphere. 

I followed the mass of people and covered my ears. People shoved each other and tried to get out as fast as possible. I couldn't see any teachers. Usually there would be teachers and mentors to help people keep calm and lead the mass. Now there's none. 

Even though we all have trained our whole life for a scene like this, this was different. There's a real enemy ahead, not our classmates. And again, we don't even know what's going on. 

The infantry went do defend, that's for sure. I don't know do they need air defence forces. And Frank's there.

Frank's there.

My stomach went upside down.

I know he's very good, one of the best actually. I don't know if this is what I think it is. But I also know that he's exposed for danger and might get hurt. He's exposed for death. 

Suddenly everyone stopped. 

A loud *boom*.

Another.

And then a gun. But this time from very near. 

"OKAY. EVERYONE DO WHAT I TELL YOU AND NO ONE WILL GET HURT. UNDERSTOOD?"

No one answered.

"GOOD. NOW, FOLLOW ME, AND DON'T TRY ANYTHING IF YOU DON'T WANT TO GET SHOT."

People started to move forwards. I have no idea where we are. 

We approached one of the exterior doors, but there were men in a black suits and a masks in front of them. They had guns. They definitely weren't our people. 

And they are a mark of that we won't be going out of this building.

We were led the fifth floor. There is only storagerooms to my knowledge.. However, the men in black clothing came up too and they started to sort us. I have no idea who I was standing with and it would be very nice to know what this is all about. All we can hear is muffled explosion sounds and these folks shouting threats at us. And where the hell are all the teachers?

I tried to look around. The air was starting to get very sultry. There were almost our whole school in this floor, even though the building's big and wide, the number of students isn't so small.

"FORWARDS!"

And we started to move again.

I'm in the edge of our group, about 50 people, and I can barely see that there were those men between the groups guiding us to move inside the storagerooms. The air started to bog down in my throat. I hate cramped places. 

We moved inside the storageroom and when everybody were in, the door was closed. The door has small holes in it and that's the light we get.

In the room, no one said a thing. No one told us what next. They didn't enlighten us why we're here. All we could hear was the sounds of locks, when they locked us inside.

What the hell.

"You tell me.."

"What?"  Did I really say it outloud..? Fuck me.

"You said 'what the hell'.. So I answered ,'cause that's just what I thought." a quiet voice answered.

"oh.." that's all I said.