The panic alarm blares, piercing through the hall like a tsunami, I watch as students drop to the floor while Dave abandons the class and hauls himself across the hall and through the door.
I'm in a panic until Max strolls through the door like nothing has happened. I rise from where I am then scurry down the stairs to get to him, max pulls me into his chest, rubbing my back and kissing the top of my head gently.
'You okay princess?'
'I thought you got caught' max chuckles lightly.
'Come then, or we will, that decoy will not hold them for long'.
Max pulls me with him into the hall, my eyes scan for the mop of ginger hair.
'Morgan hurry up! Get your ass here' Max calls out, beating me to it.
I watch as Morgan climbs to his feet and jogs over
'Why... why are you here?' Morgan asks, I reach over and whack him over the head.
'You didn't wipe the fucking cameras!' I shout
'Why would I need to?' Morgan chuckles.
'Fuck man! I said the same thing but unless you want to do those fucking laps you best go wipe them, before John has finished cleaning'. Max explains.
We don't need to say or do anything else as Morgan barges straight through us and is sprinting off, his footsteps echoing in the hallway.
'Wipe the footage from the art room too' Max shouts after him, I glance up at him in confusion.
Max pulls me back to him then we walk and talk.
'How is Morgan going to get to the security office? And what the fuck did you do in the art room?' I ask quickly, my mind is going a mile a minute with possible decoy.
Max pulls me back up the stairs and through the door on the landing, we start making our way through the dark hallway in single file as max explains. 'Morgan will get to the security office easily, John is probably still cleaning up, Morgan made a right mess in the toilets' 'hmm' I hum
'I trashed the art room, there's paint everywhere, security will be there for quite some time'
Max chuckles at his actions. I sigh but carry on walking.
When we get to the end I push hard against the door, Max pushes as well until the door opens. I slip through then max pulls himself through too.
Max grabs my hand and pulls me up the stairs then we jog across the rooftop.
'How are we getting back?' I ask worriedly
'There's more stairs around the back of the school, security use them but they're busy so it's unlikely we'll get caught on them'. We're at the end of the roof now, I watch as Max climbs down a rickety black drain pipe.
'Just copy what I did' Max calls up to me.
I sit down then lower myself onto the drain pipe, I grip tightly, holding on for dear life as I start to slide down. I'm much slower than Max was, but I don't care.
When I get to the bottom Max grabs my hand then pulls me along, we run across the grass until we get to a black gate.
I watch as Max grabs the bin and drags it over to the gate then jumps up, he holds his hand out to me, I grab his outstretched hand and he helps me up. We continue by climbing over the gate to land on the stairs on the outside of the building.
'We have to go to the top floor then go down the stairwell indoors, we don't have long, Mr Tiz would have been called by now'
'What's he going to do when he see's you mess?' I ask rather skeptically.
'He will send the officers on a sweep to find out who's not in class, we have to be back by then'
'Do you think we will make it?' I question
'We better get a wriggle on, John will be finished with the toilets by now, he will be on the sweep, trust me. Lets go.
We both run up the steps, 3 flights of stairs. There's no security out here though so we're kind of lucky, I'm a panting a mess by the second floor, climbing steps with little legs is tiring. Max drags me up the last flight.
As soon as we're at the top there's an electronic metal door, a keypad sits beside the door on the wall. 'How do we get..' I start asking as Max punches in the code. 'How do you know what the code is?' I ask incredulously.
'The short story, I've been taken through here multiple times, now come on' Max says dragging me through the door then into the stairwell.
I watch as Max leans over the railings then he drags me down. We get to the bottom floor when we can hear Mr Tiz speaking, we listen from here
'I want a head count in each and every class, if anyone is missing radio through' then the lockdown activation is initiated, the activation being broadcasted loudly through the tannoy system. We are so fucking screwed!