{□■Chapter Six: It's Raining■□}

I looked at my fingers; Something wet them with my blood. But it seems like I am okay, internally. I stand up and a knife is in my chest. I grabbed it quickly, threw it away, and stared back at the drawer. An eye was creeping there, glaring at me.

Shush, she can hear you.

I slowly remove my fingers from my lips and try to stand up. I looked under me. Marks of blood stained the floor. I reached for my bed and collapsed in it. Everything got dark until I closed my heavy eyes. 

           ***

Morning came, and I found myself in an unusual place.

I can smell the scent of cooking beef and rotten flesh. I rubbed my eyes and saw myself sitting on a bench, along with a crowd of so-called juniors. I was sleeping with my head on a cafeteria table at the time of breakfast hour.

"You awake, Miss Jenkins?" said some voice that came from behind my back. 

I nod.

Around me were juniors enjoying their meal, chattering and clinking their water glasses. At my back was a nurse, with blood on her skirt.

"You had sleep yesterday without knowing you were on your period." She explains. "Blood was everywhere in your room, so we tried to clean up and make you clean for tomorrow. Which is today." 

I gulped. "What were you doing in my room?" 

She maintained her calmness even my words do not show I was thanking her at all.

"Well, you see Miss." She carefully thinks out the words to reply. "Every night, we check rooms to see if the students are enjoying their sleep."

I turned my head away from her. I waited until I heard her footsteps walking away. A junior gave me a plate, a sandwich overfilled with meat. I thanked him and he asked,

"What's your full name, Miss Jenkins?" I knew they were eavesdropping on my conversation with the school nurse. I also noticed his British accent.

"Lily, Lily Jenkins," I replied.

He smiled. "My name is Theodore Davis." He says as he points another student. "And that is my best friend, William Relish." 

"Wow, you only introduced yourself and your best friend." She pouted. Everyone laughed as she munch.

"What's wrong with that, Jesse?" Theodore teased. Everyone chuckled as Jesse blushes awkwardly.

"Guys, guys." Says another girl. She smirked as she turned to me. "Lily won't feel homely if we don't introduce ourselves." 

"You have a point!" Says a geeky one, his accent messing up his words.

"Why don't you start, four eyes?" Says the girl again.

"Hey, we're all nerds here. Come on." The geeky one says.

"At least I don't have glasses." She replied. She smirked as the geeky one feels offended.

"All right, I'll start." He adjusts his glasses as he turns to me. "My name is Tobiah, Tobiah Dubois."

"French?" I asked.

"Yeh." He replied. "Why?"

"Nothing," I said.

"Okay, my turn." Says the bully like one. "The names Sophia Reagan." 

"And my name is Darcy Fernsby!" Says Darcy, as she jumps into the conversation. 

"My name is Clement Young." I turned to the guy next to me, whose name is Clement. His amber eyes locked on me.

"Clement is on his game again!" yells Jesse.

"You playboy," Protests Darcy.

I stared at everyone as I try to know why are they acting like that. I gave a face of confusion at Clement.

"Girls, stop it." Says William as he facepalms.

"William, we all know he is a playboy since we started eating breakfast!" She turns to me. "My name is Ella Edevanne," she comes closer to me and whispers, "Get away from him."

We shook hands as William gave everyone a stressed gaze.

"Come on, stop it." William protests as he gestures the girls to sit down.

"Leader, I mean President, is coming here," William says. He stands up and gestures to everyone to sit quietly.

"Geez." Sophia munches the sandwich as she glares at him in disgust.

I picked up my sandwich and eats it. 

William walks away in the entrance's direction.

"He's gone now." Sophia places his sandwich on the plate.

"Guys, I have to tell something," I say. I was a little hesitant, but I had to.

"What is it, Lily?" Jesse looks at me like she knew what is am about to say. 

"Yesterday, I saw a dead girl in my cabinet." 

Everyone burst out in laughter as they heard me spit out those words. They were dying in laughter. Sophia grins and says to me, "That's a classic joke you have there, Miss Jenkins."

"It's not a joke," I frowned at them and some of them realize I was not joking.

"Lily, you're not joking?" Jesse stares at me with a surprised face.

"Yes," I replied.

Their mouths dropped open as they heard me confirm it was true.

"Wait." Sophia gave me a face of suspicion as she continues. "Did you kill someone?" 

"No." 

William is back before Sophia could rain me more suspicions.

"Leaders here. Watching." He warns.

Everyone silenced.

In his back was the leader, James Smith. He was a tall jock looking scholar. You would not even think he is a genius kid. 

"So this is your group, William. The children of Alecto." James says.

The scholar class was splitter into three groups, carrying a logo and presenting the children of the three demon furies. My group, which carries the name of Alecto, is an eight-man group and also one of the three groups. Another group that contains the leader of the class, James, carries the name of Tisiphone. The last one, which comprises the same number as ours, is the Megaera.

"Yes, dear president," William replies.

The bell rings and everyone lined up to get out of the cafeteria to class. People ran to the direction of the entrance.I bumped into Sophia before I could catch up with the others.

She whispered to me while we were pushing ourselves in a crowd.

"Are you a psychopath?"

"No, I'm not," I replied.

The crowd dragged away her from me. I forced myself to turn around to see if every student on this campus was here. Seniors and sophomores mixed with the juniors as they rush. 

Another bell ringed, and everyone panicked.

"What's going on?!" I yelled after I saw a senior come beside me.

"We're gonna die." He simply replied.

"What do you mean?!" I asked.

And what happens next made me realize what she meant.

Students that are away from the crowd started exploding. Gunshots filled the air with smoke and the panic even got wilder. Girls and boys started screaming, telling the people away from the crowd to come to the crowd. 

A girl crawls on the floor, trying to reach her best friend, which is in the crowd. A camera turns green from far away, and by that, the girl exploded. 

Blood splattered on their faces and the screams grew louder and louder. 

Meanwhile, I, who's in the middle of the crowd, was confused by how they act. It's like what happened in the exam, but students seem to be quiet, and no one have the inky eyes. The hands of robots carried the halves of their bodies to the ceiling that looked like it has no ends. 

Silence happened.

The wind blows, and the smell of flesh, gunshots, and blood entered our noses.  Soon after that, everyone started coughing and vomiting.

Me myself, I can smell the scent of flesh that had left in the air for weeks. 

An eyeball falls into my head. I stared at it on the floor, and the pupils moves. It locked and stared into my eyes; I screamed hard as more eyeballs fell from the dark ceiling. Everyone panicked once again.

Blood rained as I hear the squishes of flesh being squeezed.

...

Blake smirked as he moves the controllers.

"Oh, what a game this is." He whispers to himself,.

On the screen, faces of the students in the campus appeared. Their sufferings power him up, make his life fun. 

"Why are you doing this to us? We serve you!" protested by some girl standing in the door of his office. On her face was anger and revulsion.

Blake turned to her. He picks up a pen and plays with it. 

"You see, Mildred." He says. "The students on this campus are part of the game, and you and the other seniors are one of them.

"But we-"

Blake interrupts Mildred.

"You are part of the game!" He screams wildly. 

He shots the pen at her forehead, and she collapses on the floor.

He turns with a bizarre gesture and then turns to the controllers.

"Let it rain Blood."

------From the Author-----

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