The Secret Behind the Closed Door

Chapter Seven: "Friend"?

*Grammatical errors up ahead! (I think)
Enjoy! :D

{Day 5, Friday}

Tash looked around the infirmary, she was there all alone and no one was inside, not even the nurses. Something was odd, Tash knew it, where did the nurses go? They didn't leave the infirmary when there's a student lying down on one of the beds, it was against the rules of the school. She stood up and looked at the clock, "It's already 5:30 P.M! I slept for too long that I literally skipped class!"

She went outside, the hallway was empty, Tash thought to herself "Where's all the students? Did they all leave the building?"and decided to go back to her classroom.

When she was walking up the stairs, she could hear her footsteps echoing. Then, she saw a random student walking with a stagger. Tash got concerned about him staggering around, so she approached the student's back and held his shoulder.

"Hey, are you.."

Tash was cut off when the student turned around, he was bleeding and his face was pale. The girl jumped and covered her mouth in shock.

"H..Help...Me..." the student fell down and desperately reached out his hand to her while blood drips to the floor. Tash tried to help him, she helped him get up and take him to the infirmary. But it was no use after all, the student lost a huge amount of blood and died.

Tash yelled, "No...NO! Don't die on me!!" she felt her heart aches while placing the dead body down. That's the moment when Tash just realized that the student was not the only one who's dead. She saw countless of dead bodies on the hallway right before her eyes.

"What happened?! Am I still in my dreaming?! How could this b-be?!?"

Tash didn't know how to react, she was filled with so many mixed emotions. It felt like her nightmare from before was coming true before she even knew it. She hurried to the classroom to check if her friends were still there. She ran and made her way through the dead bodies of students and teachers.

When the girl finally reached her classroom, she opened the door and saw no one inside. The classroom was already empty, the lights were off and there was blood on the walls. Tash searched for her bag and took out her phone from the inside. 

Tash attempted to contact the police first, so she dialed the number. The phone rang for a while and she heard a voice expecting it was from a police officer.

"Hello? This is the police speaking, what can I help you with?"

"H-hello?! Police! You have to help me, please go here in our school! There are dead bodies around here and I don't know who killed them!"

"What school are you in, kid? I'll...Help...Send....."

Tash couldn't hear the police clearly because there was too much static on her phone. Then, the police suddenly hung up. "Damn it!" she cursed.

She also tried to call her friends, Victoria and Julia. Unfortunately, they were not picking up.

"What am I gonna do?! What if the killer is coming for me next?!" Tash asked herself in confusion.

The girl hesitated to go outside, she wanted to hide inside the classroom until the police arrives, but she doubt it since she failed contacting them.

"I have to get out of here before the killer sees me!"

Tash went out of the classroom with her backpack on her back. She sneaked around the hallways full of dead bodies with cautious. When she was about to go down the stairs, she heard someone calling out her name.

"Tash!"

Tash turned around nervously, and saw Julia approaching her from a distance. She was relieved to see her friend instead of a killer, but it seemed that she's hiding something from her back.

"Tash! Glad to see you're okay!" Julia said to her as she smiles widely.

"Julia! Finally! I get to see you again!" Tash replied, but she knew something was wrong. She could feel the strange ambience and tension getting stronger as Julia slowly walked towards her.

As Julia was getting closer to her, the other slowly stepped backwards making her friend curious.

Her friend asked in a menacing tone, "Why are you backing away from me? What's the matter? I'm here, why are you scared?"

Tash felt very uneasy and kept backing away until her back touched the wall behind her. She wanted to run away from her friend but it was too late, Julia was already in front of her and there's no chance that she could possibly escape.

"W-why are you so close to me, J-Julia?" she stammered.

Julia stared at her with an intimidating look in her eyes and spoke, "I'm sorry, Tash but I have to end this mess, after all, you started it."

Tash felt her body trembling and her heart pounding, she was very anxious and didn't know what to do nor say.

"W-what?! What do you m-mean by that?...Are you..."

"Sorry, it's my father's orders. Besides, you're the chosen one." Julia responded as she took out a knife that was hiding from her back all along.

She also added while smiling at Tash, "I'm just following orders, so you're still my friend, don't worry! You're my friend 'till the very end, Tash."