Thursday, February 15, 2007

my friend rory chapter three
chapter three: almost eleven: terror kills quickly

the rest of first hour past by relitivly normally and slowly as did second and third hour. ellie and i did our work peacefully just living yet another day at school. it was now the beginning of fourth hour and i decided to tell ellie about the somewhat cryptic message left on rory's myspace. "yeah that's a weird post" ellie said while scribbling down notes from the blackboard. while she did that i watched some of the other students in the class. a group of kids in the corner ecspecially a boy named danny was listening to his c.d. player while taking pictures of himself with his camera phone. his two friends girl's named danielle and cassie were talking and laughing at things that no one else would find funny. other students were listening half heartedly to the teacher as he droned on about something that no one really cared about. i raised my hand to go to the bathroom and left the classroom glancing back at the class just once before heading to the out the door. as i pushed the bathroom door opened and entered i heard the front doors of the school bang opened and closed again i thought nothing of it and kept on my way.

i was only in the bathroom for about a minute and i was about to exit the stall to wash my hands when i heard a loud ringing echo throughout the school after my intial shock i quickly realized that it was just the fire alarm. i heard the bathroom door open and a womans voice call out "any students in here need to exit immedently we're having a fire drill"
i didn't say anything as i was tempted to just hide out in the bathroom until the drill was over. from the bathroom i could hear all the noises coming from the hallway. i could hear everyone talking the same old normal chatter between students until something not so normal cut in to the mundane mix. "he's got a gun!" i heard someone yell, i froze unsure if this was a joke or not but it had to be a joke! there was no way that anything like that would happen at my school i thought franticly. i placed my hand on the handle of the stall perpairing to exit until i heard another yell "everyone run!" it was then that i heard a mass of yelling and the most bonechilling sound i've ever heard gunshots.

"oh god he just shot mark!" someone yelled, i knew who mark was it was the humble security guard that worked at the school. a panic broke out in the school and i felt my heart drop to my feet and i realized that other girls were in the bathroom with me. i heard one of them ask: "is this for real?" i heard her ask "yeah i think so" another answered. i wanted to answer too i wanted to tell the girls not to say anything lest we be caught and shot like the students unlucky enough to be out in the hall. it was then in my greed for my own safety that i remembered that my brother and ellie were still out there! still in danger but i couldn't bring myself to move. more gunshots rang out and still more screaming followed, i recoiled against the back wall of the stall. tears leaking from my eyes. "who-who would bring a gun to school?" i wondered desperately was it some crazed man that broke into the school? or a more terrifying thought was it a student? and if it was then who?

before my thoughts could continue i heard the bathroom door fly open and i froze my heart stopped beating at least that's what it felt like. it more so felt like a new terror unlike anything i had ever felt before. hysterical crying was heard inside the bathroom and i knew it was a student "help me! for the love of god someone help me!" she screamed at the top of her lungs. i heard her try to pull open the stall next to mine but to no evail. "let me in please! please i don't wanna die!" she cried "no" the girl in the stall said "you'll get us all killed!" she screamed at the hysterical girl "please! how can you do that?!? please! i don't wanna die in the bathroom!" she was pleading i couldn't take it i couldn't hear someone beg for their life like that. in a moment of bravery i pulled open my stall and peaked out; i saw the girl standing there her face a wreck make up ran down her eyes and she was shaking uncontrollably; i also noticed something i wish i hadn't her shirt was covered in blood. i reconized the girl as a junior named julie "get in here!" i yelled at her she raced to my stall and squeezed herself inside with me "thank you! oh god thank you!" she cried clutching on to me as if i had done something more remarkable then open a door.

i quieted her down a bit "what's going on out there?" i asked feeling no more braver then before i had let her in my stall. "my boyfriend got shot he's dead!" she sobbed out. "but who? who has the gun?" i asked franticly, before i could hear her answer the bathroom door opened again and this time i was sure it wasn't another survivor. it was far too quiet to be anyone who had just escaped being shot. i heard the hollowed footsteps walking in a even tone, as i heard those steps i thought about everything i had ever seen or heard about school shootings, i was trying to remember what those survivors did to live through the experience but i could almost garuntee that none of them were cornered in a bathroom by the shooter. the steps grew closer and my heart beat faster so fast i was sure everyone could hear it, i was sure we'd be caught. just as suddenly as the footsteps had started they stopped and i sick silence filled the echous bathroom.

"it's no use in hiding i know you girls are in here" the shooter said right away i knew the shooter was a boy but i couldn't tell who it was. was it a student that went to our school? "girls don't be afraid i'll make it nice and quick" the voice said, as the words left his mouth a sick sense of realization struck me. i knew who the shooter was, words echoed into my head "don't go to school tomorrow alright?" suddenly the stall door julie and i had been residing in was swiftly kicked. in all truthfulness i had expected the shooter to just shoot up the door thus killing us for sure. i found my self praying as the door was kicked again this time forcing it off it's hinges. julie started to cry hard and to be honest i wanted to but couldn't no tears would come to me as i saw the face of the shooter. it all sunk in the shooter standing before us holding his weapon proudly was none other then my friend rory.

"this is it" i thought "i'm going to die here at school in the girls bathroom killed by my friend who went on a murderous rampage" i waited for the sound, the last sound i would ever hear the shot of the gun that would blow me away, but that shot never came.
"layla?" i heard my name being said i opened my eyes slowly looking up at rory from the floor where julie and i had huddled. i saw rory truly now his face shown a true surprise at my being there and i was sure if i wasn't so scared my face would show the same. "why are you here today?!?" rory yelled at me "i-i-don't know!" i said honestly afraid. even though rory was my friend there was still no certanity that he wouldn't shoot me. "i told you not to come to school today! i told you!" he said "i know i'm sorry i didn't know you'd kill people, i-i never thought you'd kill people!" i found myself cowering in fear from him. "relax layla" he began "i'm not going to kill you, your my friend" rory said calmly "but everyone else here is dead" he told me glaring at julie. "what he's going to keep killing?" i thought "no rory please don't kill anyone else!" i begged "sorry layla, i have to keep going" julie screamed and before i could do or say anything a shot was fired.

my eyes widened i felt a warm stickyness on my face and hands. i turned to look at julie who was right next to me, to my horror julie was dead a bullet hole adorned her neck and a sicking feeling hit me as i realized that it was julie's blood that now covered my face and hands. i screamed and the tears that had had refused to come before now were rushing down my face. rory turned away from me "it had to be done" he said in a somber tone "now for the others" he whispered "no rory!" i yelled still crying. i got over my shock and crawled away from julies body trying my best not to touch her corpse. "please rory don't do it don't!" i yelled with all my might; rory looked back at me smiling. in the light of the bathroom i could see the gun he was holding it was a small pistol he also had other guns strapped to him along with loads of amunition. "the guns are nothing fancy just enough to get the job done" rory told me as he caught me staring at them.

"i better hurry, layla get out of here" he said "rory stop" was all i could manage to say and even that barely came out as more then a whisper. "did your brother and ellie come to school too?" he asked "yes" i whispered, "how could i have forgotten them?" i wondered. "i can't promise that their alive" rory told me "you better go look for them. i wanted to stay, i wanted to help those girls still trapped in the bathroom but the urge to look for my brother was far greater, i was still undecided until rory whispered these words to me "if you don't go i'll shoot you layla" with those words i left the bathroom cying. i was out in the hall when i heard the screams and the echoing sound of gunfire.


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