Maple didn't want to assume what she was hearing was real, she could feel her body tensing up. She heard steps where the noise of the clicking sound had been start moving closer and closer.
The classroom she in was the closest to the exit door, the one the intruder came in from, but they must have a motive, they wouldn't waste their time checking this room, Maple thought, trying to calm herself down a bit.
Then the footsteps stop, and from what Maple could tell from what she heard, the intruder was stopped right at the front of the classroom door. While all the other students in her class were talking to each other about what was happening. Maple started sweating and getting anxious.
"What the fuck, they're right outside, are they going to come in, what's going to happen when they do"
All these thoughts were running through Maples mind, but she had to make a decision quick when the handle of the door started shaking, getting more aggressive as time went on.
Maple frantically looked around, she had to hide, somewhere, anywhere where the intruder wouldn't be able to see her. She didn't say anything to her other classmates about what was going on, even if she did, it would be too late. She was just concerned about how she can make it out of there, alive.
There was a locker in the back of the class that was used to keep old projects and test papers stored. But since it was a week before school had ended, it was emptied out. It wasn't big, but it was big enough to fit a small petite girl like Maple.
Maple ran across the class, as the intruder started banging on the door, her classmates losing their mind wondering what was going on. She pushed aside a few students as she hurryingly opens the locker, squeezes inside and shuts it.
BANG***
Glass from the door shattered all over the ground, Maple couldn't see a thing besides the slimmer of light shining in through the slivers of the locker. She slowly shimmied herself lower so whoever just came in wouldn't be able to see her if they looked inside.
The sound of the door could be heard, admis the panic of the classroom and the yelling of the teacher. As the door squeaks open the teacher yells out to the class.
"S-stay calm everyone, grab something to defend yourself and hide under cove-"
BANG***
There was silence from the teacher and the class, just the sound of heavy breathing can be heard under everyone's breath.
BANG BANG BANG***
The loud bangs were hurting Maples ears to the point that she believed they were going to start bleeding out of her head. And admis all those loud bangs were the sound of metal swimming through flex, like the sound of someone stirring a pan of mac n' cheese.
A loud roar of screaming and crying and absolute silence from others started spreading across the room. Though Maple couldn't see, from the sounds and where they were coming from. The bullets only sounded like they hit one person. And the lack of a certain authorize voice, she could only assume the teacher was no longer alive.
Maple was shivering, her chest was tightening, her breathing was getting heavier, she felt trapped inside the locker she was in and all she wanted to do was cry, she was scared, she was scared of getting caught, she was scared of dying.
"Shhhhh~"
A long, loud, sadistic voice spread throughout the class, slithering its way through each and every student, making everyone tense up and the whole room going silent.
Maple was covering her mouth trying the make as little noise as possible as her eyes start to become blurry, tears forming. The voice she heard was different from the other worried and scared voices. She could tell that it was coming from the intruder.
The voice was a little low, a little raspy, like an aggressive cat hissing at you, ready to pounce at you any second.
"Good, good, let's not cause to much of a commotion right now"
The intruder says, slowing pacing around the room. Tapping what she assumed was the gun they were using against each and every one of the tables in the classroom. Before suddenly stopping.
"When was your birthday?"
The intruder asked a question, and in response, a girl's voice can be heard, quiet, scared, cracking every word she was speaking, tears enveloping her eyes and flowing down her cheek.
"Y-y-y-yes-t-t-t-er-d-d-ay"
"Happy late birthday"
BANG***
Gasp was heard all across the room, girls started crying, guys started freaking out. It became total chaos as the voice of the girl whose birthday just yesterday, cease.
"shh-"
Screaming
"Shhh-"
Crying
"SHHH!"
BANG***
"I'M TELLING ALL YOU MOTHERFUCKERS TO SHUT"
BANG***
"THE FUCK"
BANG BANG***
"Up~"
The intruder started chuckling to himself as three voices across the classroom go out like a candle losing its flame. The rest of the class also went quiet, with only heavy breathing, and muffled cries could be heard.
Maple was also sobbing, snot running down her nose, cheeks red, eyes swollen, she was scared, so so scared, and she couldn't do anything but hear the sound of random questions, loud bangs, and the absolute silence of ones existent throughout the class.
"Last, one, left~~"
The intruder giggles, while a small boy looks down the barrel of the gun pointed right to his head.
"P-p-ple-lease, I-I wa-n-n-t to-o g-g-go h-h-h-h-"
BANG***
Absolute silence, the sound of a once lively classroom has met its final act, and there will never be an encore for these students ever again.
"Bravo, bravo, what a marvelous performance~~"
The intruder claps as he baths in his accomplishment of his cruel actions.
hiccup*
Maple hurryingly tightens her hand around her mouth as the sudden maniacal laughing stops. Steps, upon steps, start approaching the locker till it stops right in front of it.
I'm sorry. Maple sobs quietly.