Still reeling from the shock, max staggered home but on his way he met Adrian and Darren who were coming back from the basketball field both reeking of sweat.
He made his way past them and went straight home, they tried calling him but he was too weak to respond
"what's wrong with him" Darren asked but Adrian just shrugged "maybe he broke up with his girlfriend who knows "
"bro, immediately I gets home, I'm jumping into the shower"
" me too" Darren replied drinking a water from Adrian water.
It's been three weeks already and this morning the final year students will be going for their trip today.
While others were busy vibing inside the bus to the designated venue, max recalled what starr had said that day.
"it's about time someone gets buried in an excation site... Don't you think". The way she said it, her voice carrying a strange weight like it belongs to someone else entirely,
He had tried to laugh it off but the sound got caught on his throat.
Why would someone say something like that , something out of point from what he was asking. Even when he had tried asking her what she meant by that, she just laughed it off saying " I was just messing with you, scaredy cat " he just wanted to ask for her guidance in his project nothing else.
What even creeped him out was that she even concluded " some things are better left buried, but sometimes they choose to dig themselves up" what an absolute physco !!!
No wonder they say "never judge a book by its cover" or is this the aftermath of too much reading, ughh whatever. But even as she laughed, max couldn't shake the feeling that for a second she hasn't been joking at all. She had said if they came back from the school trip, she would guide him with his project.
Lifting his head up, they have already arrived at the tour center. They were a total of 57 students that came for the trip, students were aligning from the bus, their first place to visit was the excavation site .
Seeing the place alone was already giving someone the creeps, it was quiet, dusty , eerie and remote.
The silence was very loud , they were dry winds, exposed bones, Everyone came with their makeshift tents which will be sitted at the side of an abandoned building that looks like an ancient ruins.
But everyone was very happy, saying this is going to be so much fun, I searched for starr in the crowd and saw her discussing with one of her friend Lillian. Our course representative and Mrs Joan our department staff came and addressed everyone.
After the addressing we were told to rest a little, by 5pm we'll start what we came here for. I turned to see starr staring straight at me with that smirk she gave me when she was saying those creepy stuff, I just avoided her gaze and went to set up my tent with my friends Lucas, Darren and Adrian.
While everyone was resting, it was six in the evening already, I guess we're all just tired , then Mr Festus our departmental staff and assistant course rep came to hurry everyone up that we will soon start going, the next thing Becky came running and shouting that her friend Vivian was convulsing, we all rushed to her tent and find her missing only a drop of blood stain was on the floor, Vivian gave out a hysterical scream and fell to the ground blood flowing out of her mouth, another scream sounded at another tent.
On getting there we saw three people dead on the floor with blood on their mouth.
By now the whole place was in chaos, darkness was starting to cover everywhere.
Suddenly the light flickered, our cell phone dead, I turned to see starr behind me, her eyes narrowing and suddenly shouting "EVERYONE DON'T MOVE, STAY WHERE YOU ARE, SOMETHING IS COMING"
A distant thud reverbrated through the yard, with an eerie voice following, whispering faintly "THE HUNT HAS BEGUN".