Chapter 2 (last edited 10.31.09)

Shots rang out in the hall. I jumped to my feet immediately. “Samuel,” I thought. Shouting and screaming filled the room. I turned and ran for the nearest window grabbing a heavy dictionary from Joseph’s desk. Thrusting the book with my might I broke one of the large rectangular windows and knocked away loose glass. Turning quickly I singled out Ashley and yelled to her to escape through the window.

The classroom door bust open spraying wood splinters into the air. Teargas followed as I darted towards the door. A geared up soldier tactfully maneuvered into the room just in time to take a dictionary to the face, “Dictionary uppercut!” I called my attack as though playing a game, taking the man to the ground. I tore his gasmask from his face and put it on mine. Immediately he began yelping and screaming. A quick snap of his wrist and I had his weapon. Aiming it upon the door I fired a couple rounds as a warning. Looking back I saw Ashley and a few others had made it out only to be confronted by forces outside on the playground.

I heard radio static, “hold your fire!” Came blaring over the two-way radio the soldier beneath my carried on the man’s belt. Grabbing the radio I dashed towards the windows. Two shots rang out from my weapon clearing a second window and taking a man out in the courtyard. Snatching Tanya’s pink coat from the back of her chair I leapt up and rolled horizontally over the couboard and through the window avoiding broken glass distributed on the coubboard. Landing on my feet torso rotation brought me around instinctively aiming the standard issue M-16 accurately upon the men in the courtyard. Explosions behind me