Event #2 "Andrei's problem" [Starter thread]

[Tara Macfly]

Tara felt her chin being lifted. She then met blue eyes she could almost see clearly at this distance

“I’m Peyton. Are you near sighted or far sighted?” The girl asked Tara when flashing her eyes “Tara, I want you to find a buddy. Someone you trust. Stick with them the entire way and don’t wander off. There are black holes everywhere, and I wouldn’t want you falling into them.”

"Huuu, I'm Tara" The brunette said still a little surprised "Thank you Peyton, you're really kind" It was nice to see that everyone was ready to help eachother in this type of situation.

When Peyton said to tara that she needed to find a "buddy" she trusted to help her, she turned instinctively towards Chris. She was feeling guilty to burdain him like this, but Peyton was wright if nobody helped her she would fall in the first hole "Can you be my buddy Chris, please ?" she asked her friend "I'm sorry to ask you that. Hopefully I will find my handbag with my others glasses soon"

"I think...I think we're in the entrance hall, or some creepy version of it, anyway," The voice Tara identified as Naya answered.

"If we fell from the auditorium… how did we end up here? This is on the opposite side of the building. We should… we should be in the cafeteria right now." Misha reacted, seeming panicked.

"Weird" Tara thought, panick creeping into her too. She didn't know anything about earthtake but she was pretty sure that if they were in the auditorium they couldn't have landed in the entrance hall.

"Did someone move us here? Maybe… someone found us and carried us here because it was safer?" Proposed Misha to explain this weird situation.

"You're probably right" Tara said simply. She didn't know if she liked this option more. She really had a bad feeling about this, but she was a really paranoiac person, so she prefered to ignore this. They were more important things to worry about anyway.

"It's Naveen and... Andrei I think it is? Andrei the janitor?"
Naya said about the two others boys lying.

Wait... Andrei and Naveen ? None of the boys were Tristan and Philip ? But... where could they be ? They were next to them. They should be here. were they buried somewhere in the rubble ?
Did they fell into a hole ? Maybe someone moved them like Misha said ? But why someone would have take Misha, Peyton, Naya, Andrei, Naveen and the other girl here and take Tristan and Philip somewhere else ? Nothing here was logical and she was having an headache.

"Were Philip and Tristan with you when the earthquake happened?" Naya asked

"Huuu... well Chris and I were talking in the entrance hall and we saw Tristan and Philip on their way to leave the school. And then..." why couldn't she tell the earthtake ? Wasn't difficult "you know what happened" she finally said "I'm worried they should be near us." She sighed 

"God please, make them fine". She prayed

"Did... did anything happen out here before we all got knocked out? Because... well...Ellie's dead." Naya said, visibly affected

Tara froze. Another student was dead ? she didn't know Ellie at all, but learning her death shook Tara, and she needed all her control to not broke in tears again. She then remembered Amanda's sweet smile during their tea moment, but it was followed by her liveless smile on the porsh.

She looked at Chris unsure of what do to ? Should they tell them about Amanda or was it better to lie ? They apparently saw another person, maybe one of their friend dying knowing that Amanda was dead would bring everyone mood down. It was probably better to lie to preserve them. 

She was about to do that but she stopped. She couldn't do that. She couldn't say nothing wrong happened, dismise Amanda's death like it was nothing. She couldn't do that to the girl. She needed to tell the truth.

"We saw..." she began but stopped.

"Don't broke into tears Tara, you could say it"

"Amanda" she continued. She felt like she was throwing up every word. It hurted "She was dead" Tara nearly sobed saying this but she held on "I think she killed herself" she finished.

After saying this, all her dark thoughts came back "It's your fault. You abandonned her, when she needed you. You are the worst friend ever. You wanted to help her but you did the contrary."

Then she heard a loud noise like someone falling. She tried to forget her guilty feelings about Amanda and focused on the girl who probably needed help. She tried to come slowly toward the form of the person on the ground.

"Are you hurt ? Do you need help ?" she asked worried, but the girl was already taking care of her injury, and seemed to do well. She felt reassured that the girl knew first aid care. Tara knew them thanks to her doctor of a mother but she never had to apply theory to practice
.
“Um…" The girl who fall, she recognized Peyton, said suddenly "Kairi didn’t make the fall."

What ? The other girl was Kairi from drama club ? And she was... dead ? No it couldn't be, Tara couldn't accept that a third person she knew died today. It was too much.

"Are you sure ? Maybe her pulse is just low ?" She said and tried to approach slowly Kairi's body and took her wrist, hoping to feel some pulse but... nothing. Peyton was right. They couldn't do anything to help poor Kairi. 

Tara let go of Kairi's wrist. She felt empty. What was the point anymore ? They will all die here and probably no one will miss her.

"Stop Tara ! Think about your parents and youre future little brother or sister ! Think about Snooty and Chris ! Esme, Rebecca all the others students and the teachers ! Think about Roméo and Hamlet ! Don't abandon them !"

Tara take a long breath and came back carefully near Chris. They needed to do something, quick. "Think Tara, damn it"

"Guys, I'm really sorry for those who know Kairi... it's really unfair" she said almost crying "But we need to get out of here. I guess the phones are out of order
" she sighed. Somebody would have already call for help if it was the case. "Is the entrance hall the only place we have access ? Maybe we could split into two groups one to explore if there is a way to find the others and leave the school, and another to look for Naveen and Andrei ? Unless anyone has another idea" She said trying to only think logically and forget about all the deaths.

"I hope no one else died" She couldn't help thinking though. She didn't know if she would have the strength to go through all this if she learned another death.

[Naya Zafar]

"We saw... Amanda. She was dead," Naya could see Tara was close to tears, "I think she killed herself."

Amanda? Amanda was dead? Amanda killed herself? The last she'd seen of her was when she was happily signing people up for that games club, and now... Why would she want to die?

Before she could really process anything, Naya heard a sharp cry. She turned around to see Peyton lying on the floor.

"Oh my god, are you okay?" she gasped, just as Misha asked the same thing.

"I've had worse," Peyton sighed, wrapping her foot up. Something must have stabbed her, Naya deduced. She'd have to be more careful, it was pretty dangerous round here. Reaching into her blazer pocket, she was glad to see her phone was still there, the screen only slightly cracked. She pressed the home button, and was relieved when it turned on. Maybe she could call for help? Text Emery to see if she was alright?

Damn. No reception.

She sighed, putting it back in her pocket and pulling her blazer off, tying it around her waist. At least she could use the torch if needed, that was something. 

"Um... Kairi didn't make the fall."

Naya's blood ran cold.

"What?" She looked over. Peyton was knelt by Kairi, taking her pulse. Oh god. Another person dead already? First Ellie, then Amanda, and now Kairi... She could feel the walls almost close in around her. She sniffed, trying to hold back the tears that were threatening to fall. There was a dead body right in front of her. The dead body of yet another of her clubmates, and somebody she knew Emery cared for deeply. Her breathing grew shallow as she suddenly felt very claustrophobic. She needed to get out of this room, preferably with her dignity still somewhat intact, and fast.

"Okay, um... God..." Naya tried to think. What could they do? She looked around frantically. Misha seemed to be halfway out the door. The plaza, of course!

"Maybe... maybe we should keep moving... How about... Misha and I go check the plaza and see if that's safe? Anyone can join if you want but we need to be at least in pairs and somebody needs to stay with Naveen and Andrei..." Anything to get out of that cursed room.

[Something]

Tara's phone buzzed, revealing a message from an unknown number.

Reveal your crush and tell everybody about Snooty.

Before Tara could even react on the first one, the phone buzzed again, a new message flashing across the screen in all capital letters.

RIGHT NOW

[Tara Macfly]

"Maybe... maybe we should keep moving... How about... Misha and I go check the plaza and see if that's safe? Anyone can join if you want but we need to be at least in pairs and somebody needs to stay with Naveen and Andrei..." Naya said

"Alright" Tara tried to smile a little "I think I will rest here then to look after Naveen and Andrei. I would be no help with my bad sight" she let a little laugh, even if she didn't feel like it.

She was about to ask Chris if he would like to rest with her or wanted to explore with the girls when heard a notification with her phone.

"Guys, I think I have a message, maybe there is connection and we could call some help" She almost shout, her mood suddenly up, the first good new since the earthtake. 

She looked at her phone hopefull "Everything will go fine, now". She put her phone close to her face trying to see better. But disappointment crushed her. No connection. False hope. She wanted to cry. But then how did she had a message ?

She tapped on the message and tried to decipher what was there marked. Without her glasses it was hard but she suceeds

Unknown : Reveal your crush and tell everybody about Snooty.

"What the hell" She thought but before Tara could even react on the first one, the phone buzzed again, a new message flashing across the screen in all capital letters.

Unknown : RIGHT NOW

"Holy shit" was Tara first thought. But she didn't have time to think more, she needed to be fast.

"Sorry guys, false hope no connection. Just a weird message who want me to tell you that I have a crush on a girl on internet who's name is Snooty, since almost two years." She said laughing nervously. 

"Freacking scarry" She murmured to herself.

She felt terrified, What was that ? A joke ? Anyway the message was very threatening and she didn't want to take the risk. In another situation telling about her internet crush to someone else would have scared her, afraid of judgement, disgust, or other things. But now she didn't care and was more scared of this creepy message and this unknown number.

Nobody knew about Snooty, she didn't even tell her parents or Chris. How could this unknown person know ? And how could they have send her a message when there was no network ? And the message was very threatening.  What did they wanted her to do that ? Could they have done something if she didn't do it ? What would they have done ? Was she right telling the others about this message ? Was it related with the fact that Naya, Misha, Peyton, Naveen and Andrei were in the entrance when they shouldn't ? 

"Stop being paranoiac Tara it was probably just a stupid joke and you were an idiot to tell that to the others" she told herself but without effect she felt mortified.

"I hope I didn't do anything wrong"

[Something]

After a short pause, the phone buzzed with a third and final message.

You got away with it. This time.

[Misha Charisse Quinn]

Misha tried to follow Peyton’s eyes despite the darkness, but despite her best tries, she couldn’t see anything where her attention was directed. Was she imagining something due to the hit, or could Misha just not perceive it from this distance due to the lack of light?

What she could perceive, however, was her limping.

 – … Maybe you should find yourself a walking buddy too. – she suggested, looking straight into her eyes, with a hint of worry. Their situation was really bad.

It didn’t get any better when Naya brought the death of someone called “Ellie”. That name didn’t ring much of a bell; but the memory of brain matter painting the floor did, and she suppressed a shiver. She didn’t want to have to think about that again.

Except she was going to have to; or at least, she’ll have to think about the girl who’d apparently decided to kill herself right in the building.

 – Wait… When did that happen? – she surprised herself asking. She should know better than to pry on such matters but… someone had put an end to their lives. In the school. And it was taking all of her willpower not to ask if this was directly due to the earthquake or if it had happened before. What was the odd of someone committing suicide right before a natural incident? – could it… have something to do with the earthquake? Maybe it was an accident? – It was hard to tell without having the details of the death, but she truly wanted to believe it…

How is it better though? At least she would have killed herself on purpose. If she died because of all this, what does that mean for us? Misha shook her head. This wasn’t getting better.
“Um…Kairi didn’t make the fall."

And then it got worse.

 – What…? – Misha looked down towards the rebel’s body. – But I just… – she’d just checked on her, and she was fine, she was breathing. She wasn’t a doctor, but she hadn’t seen any blood or anything at a weird angle. She’d thought she was just… unconscious. Like they’d been before her. Yet she was…?

Before anyone could react, Misha sprinted towards Andrei, and almost threw herself to the ground, before pushing her fingers towards his throat, her hand shaking slightly. He was breathing, and his heart was beating. Good. Gently, she lowered one hand on Naveen’s back. He was breathing too.
They needed attention, something to get them to feel better. Yet, Misha got back on her feet, and took a couple steps away. She wanted to stay as far away from Kairi as possible. She’d just checked on her, and yet, even she could see she was no longer breathing. Misha lowered her eyes to the floor. What COULD they even do for them right now, if they still wouldn’t wake up, and nothing they did seemed to work? She couldn’t let Andrei die here, Alex would kill her… and he was her friend too. Yet, she felt so incredibly… useless.
And it was pissing her off.

She needed to get out of here right now.

Misha gave a look to the outside door. Peyton had tried it enough with no results, so she wasn’t even going to bother. No, their only way out right now was to try and see if they could access another way out through the plaza, and possibly find any other survivors. Or help. Or just some reception to call someone.
Determined, she quickly walked towards the door. If she had been decided to leave before, she was even more decided now. Yet, before she could leave (AGAIN, jesus Christ), she heard Naya’s voice offering to form groups to go explore. She was about to tell her to stay, but she bite her tongue in time. She didn’t want the girl to get hurt, but it wasn’t smart to end up with a collapsed wall on her somewhere all alone with no one to help or ask the others for help either. Having company was probably for the best… despite how much she just wanted to kick something right now.
Yet again, the girl she now knew as Tara was interrupting her, though for an actual good reason: she had received a message, and this immediately gave her hope. Faster than ever before, Misha grabbed onto her phone and pulled it out of her pocket, eyes glued on the screen; but alas, still no signal. Feeling her frustration grow, she eyes Tara again… just in time for her to admit it had just been a mistake for some weird joke that had probably been sent before this all even started. It was a good thing the woman couldn’t see how hard she was glaring at her right now.

Misha sighed. She was tired of this.

 – Come on Naya… let’s go. We need to find another way out. See you guys. – and with that, she had left the room.

[Naya Zafar]

Misha suddenly surprised Naya by rushing over to Andrei's side, checking his pulse frantically. She did the same with Naveen, and Naya could easily sense that she was not feeling good at all.

Same here, she thought, Absolutely same here.

She followed Misha as she walked back to the door, hoping Misha would take her suggestion and they could leave. Before she could suggest it again, however, she heard a buzz coming from Tara, followed by another in quick succession.

"Was that your phone?" she asked hopefully. If one of them had connection, then maybe they could call someone to help them find a way out of there! Her hopes were dashed, however, when Tara replied.

"Sorry guys, false hope, no connection. Just a weird message who wanted me to tell you that I have a crush on a girl on the internet whose name is Snooty, since almost two years."

Naya's face fell. Of course there was still no connection, the earthquake must have messed with it or something. Still, it was weird that Tara could receive texts yet none of them could send them... It felt like something strange was going on, but then again, it had all day. Whatever it was, Naya hoped it wouldn't affect her even more than it had done. She was barely holding it together as it was.

"Come on Naya… let’s go. We need to find another way out. See you guys," Misha sighed, before leaving. Naya watched her go for a second, before nodding and following after, grateful to be getting out of there.

"See you guys. Stay safe, alright?"

[Christopher Kresh]

Chris was lost in his thoughts. Where the hell were they. Why did this happen?! They weren't in an area where earthquakes were common! How even did this happen?! Even if this whole mess was caused by an earthquake it didn't explain how they all got here. Even people who weren't in the hall when all of this happened.
He snapped back to reality hearing tara introduce him.
“huh..? Oh yes.. my name is chris..! Sorry we had to meet in these circumstances “ he said as he gave them a sad smile. It was true. He listened to the others but if he had to be completely honest, nothing really landed. Everything went past him. Amanda's death. The earthquake. These strange circumstances. It didn't make sense..! He vaguely heard everyone's names and tried to remember them. His brain was working extra hours.

The redhead blinked as tara spoke to him about her glasses and needing a buddy. ‘yes of course.” he said. He had to stay focussed. If tara wasn't able to see well and could possibly get hurt he had to keep his mind in the game and focus. The news about ellie came as a shock. He had not been close with ellie or knew her like he had known amanda but every live lost was a tragedy. “jezus..” he mumbled as he looked away.
Then tara told them about amanda. He took a deep breath and gently placed a hand on tara’s shoulder as support.

He looked up hearing peyton. The others asked her how she was and she said she ‘had worse’ he didn't know what to think of that. “uhm.. well please do watch yourself.. with all the debris and such you wouldn't want it to get infected. “ he said in a worried way. He didn't know her but two deaths were already too much. He didn't want her to die or lose her foot due to a possible infection. “kairi didn't make the fall" chris went silent. He just stared at her. All he could do was stare. Three of them.. three of them were already dead..! He suddenly got extremely worried. Alejandra, ryan, esme, riley, alexander and everyone else..! Were they all right..?! “oh my god..” he mumbled as he felt nauseous.

"Maybe... maybe we should keep moving... How about... Misha and I go check the plaza and see if that's safe? Anyone can join if you want but we need to be at least in pairs and somebody needs to stay with Naveen and Andrei..." he looked at naya and misha. Naya had a point there. That was a good plan. “.. allright.. “ he mumbled. "I think I will rest here then to look after Naveen and Andrei. I would be no help with my bad sight" tara said. He looked at her. “right.. that might be smart.. “ He said.

He looked up as tara got a weird text. “thats.. odd.” he said. “how about you check for a signal while staying here..” he said.

Misha and naya both seemed extremely eager to leave. “Come on Naya… let’s go. We need to find another way out. See you guys.” misha said. Naya seemed glad about this
"See you guys. Stay safe, alright?" She said.
Chris nodded. “you too..! Both of you!” he added.

He looked at peyton. “are you.. well enough to check the other rooms?” he asked looking at her foot. He didn't her to get hurt even more so maybe it was a good idea peyton stayed with tara for a bit while he checked out some more of the area. He was used to lifting heavy stuff so lifting debris would come in handy. He then moved his gaze to her face. Her expression was.. pained. “peyton..?” he asked.
Out of nowhere the girl stormed off. “PEYTON..!!” he yelled after her. What the hell was she doing?! It wasn't safe!! She could fall in some kind of hole by running off like that!!
He looked at the tara “I-I gotta make sure she didn't fall in a hole..! “ he said. He was shocked and slightly panicked. He looked around him. Shit. The others had already left. He quickly got to tara as he gently got her arm. “I’m gonna leave you close to naveen and andrei alright..? If they wake up you will notice and you can explain without walking and possibly hurting yourself..!” he explained while taking her there. “i will be back i promise!” he had to be quick. If peyton did get in trouble there was no time to lose..! He got his phone and tried to use the flashlight to guide him since it was really dark. Maybe he could find something on the way that could help calm peyton down or help her injured foot?

(Chris made a perception check)

[Administrator]

Dice result: 1D10 => 3
Failure; you didn't find anything useful.

[Tara Macfly]

After Tara revealed that the message was only some kind of weird joke, she could feel everybody's letdown, and she had the feeling that someone was glaring at her. She felt guilty to have give them false hope. Even if it really wasn't her fault, she thought looking at her phone.

"Sorry for that. I didn't thought it would be only... this" she excused herself 

Luckily the others did not seem more worried about it just disapointed. So they dismissed this easily to focus on the plan about going to others rooms. But Tara didn't really listen, she was still silently freacking out about this message.

However she already received messages like this who wanted to bully her for being gay. She had a bad memory of one of her old friends, flirting with her by text and then she showed the texts to all the class. Some dares to humiliate her.  And so much others things that Tara prefered to forget. People were very imaginative when it was about to put someone lower than the ground.

So really it could really have been some idiot who maybe saw her texting snooty on her phone and wanted to humiliate her. And the message was probably sent before the earthtake. Maybe during drama club so that she tell it in front of all their clubmates. But she received it only now because of the network. And it was only the context, with all these deaths, and also maybe the too many horror movies she watched, who made this text creepy.

But tara had the presentiment it was not like the others texts. When she read it, she really felt bad vibes from it. Could she only blame her anxiety for that or where there really something more ?

But her thoughts were interrupted by Misha's voice.

"Come on Naya… let’s go. We need to find another way out. See you guys."

"See you guys. Stay safe, alright?" Said Naya's gentle voice.

"We will" Tara tried to assure with false self confidence, the text had really ruined the little she had "You two stay safe, too".

"I really hope nothing bad will happen to them", she thought. Of course they needed to do something and couldn't rest in the hall eternaly but who knew what could happen in the others rooms.

Then suddenly she heard more than saw Peyton ran outside the room.

“PEYTON..!!” She heard Chris yell, but Tara was too surprised to even react. Peyton seemed the more calm and collected of all of them. She was still impressed how almost professionally she dealt with her injury. Why did she storm out suddenly ?

“I-I gotta make sure she didn't fall in a hole..! “ She heard Chris said, he was in total panick.

"Oh right" Tara reacted, and felt instantly worried for Peyton. She didn't seem in a good mind state and with her injured foot, it could really go wrong. "Yeah you need to go, make sure she's safe, don't worry I'll be fine by myself".

“I’m gonna leave you close to naveen and andrei alright..? If they wake up you will notice and you can explain without walking and possibly hurting yourself..!” he explained while taking her there. “i will be back i promise!" He said after delicately placing her near the two uncounscious boys. And the he left the room too.

Okay. Now she was totally alone. Well not really there were two fainted boys and a dead clubmate. This didn't reassure her more. She was really regretting to have said to Chris she will do fine.

"Come on Tara don't be so egoist, Peyton need him more than you right now".

She decided to focus entierly her attention on Naveen and Andrei until Peyton and Chris came back safe. She wanted to react as fast as she can if one of them, if one of them had signs of heart attacks. She will do anything to prevent any other death. She really hoped they will wake up soon.

And also she wanted to forget about this damn text.

But it was too much asking because soon she heard her phone's notification. Her heart stopped to beat for a second and she held her breath.

"No, no, no, no, no"

She glared at her phone, not daring to touch it like it could give her some illness. If she listened to her paranoiac self she would throw her phone at the other end of the room. But her rational self thought that this time it could be her parents, others students, rescue, etc. She needed to check.

"Please don't let it be the weird number, please" She pray a little before opening a text.

But of course her prayers weren't listened like so others many times/

Unknown : You got away with it. This time.

And she had thought that the first message was scarry and threatening. What a joke. This text scared her five times more. "You got away with it ? This time ? What do you mean by this? What would have happened if she had dismiss the text ? Will they send new dares ? What will happen if she doesn't do it ?" She nearly wanted to ran full speed where Chris and Peyton went but thought better of it. Best way to die like an idiot just because of a weird text.

Okay now she was almost sure that it couldn't only be a stupid joke. The text was clear. This person saw that Tara had accepted the dare to tell everyone about Snooty. How ?

She wanted to answer the text and ask questions but of course there were no more connection. How could they control the network ?

She wanted to prevent the others about it. But trying to join them she would only hurt herself and she couldn't abandon Naveen and Andrei, at the mercy of anything. And the others would probably just dismise it anyway, thinking the situation was getting on her nerves. And who could blame them ? Tara was also starting to think she was becoming crazy. After the earthtake, Amanda's death, Kairi's. It wouldn't be surprising. And she slightly prefered this option rather than the other :
Someone, something was watching them and it didn't have good intentions.

Anyway she could do nothing but wait for one of the others to come back, or for Naveen or Andrei to wake up.

She never felt this weak, this worthless in her life, and she hated this feeling. She needed to gain composure. Whoever it was, joke or not, she refused to let them play with her.


"Not sure if you will suceed in that" she couldn't help but thought

[Dawn "Dee Dee" Dreemurr]

A girl entered the room. Messy haircut, dirty clothes. Seems like she had a rough morning. Squinting her eyes, she looked around, perplexed, like she had never seen an entrance hall before. Next thing she noticed was the girl with the long brown hair.

"Oh my gosh!" she flung her arms up and run towards Tara, hugging her tightly. Maybe even too tightly. "I thought I was actually all alone! How long you've been here?! Do you know what that earthquake was?! Did you find anybody else?!"

Dee Dee's mind was racing and she couldn't stop talking until she has finally spotted the bodies of two young men laying down on the floor. Her eyes winded and she hugged the brunette even closer, pressing her against her soft chest. "Oh MY GOSH! ARE THEY ACTUALLY DEAD?!"

"Oh, thank god,.. they are breathing!"

"Oh, sorry," she has finally released the girl from her mightly grip and held out her hand to properly greet her new friend.

"My name is Dawn, but you can call me Dee Dee! What's yours?"

[Peyton Cross]

Peyton slide into the entrance hall. She grunted as she hit her body against the door, a sharp sense of pain coming from her foot. But when she peered into the darkness, Tara wasn’t alone. At first, Peyton assumed one of the people passed out had finally woken up, but as she flashed her light toward’s Tara direction that wasn’t the case. This person was of the female gender and had messy blonde hair, not fitting the description of her fellow passed out group members. It took the raven haired girl a few moments to register who she was exactly looking at. It was-

“Dawn?!”

Dee Dee was currently squeezing the life out of Tara. Peyton was one of her tutors and one of Emery’s many friends. She started helping her in school a few months ago and the two started to become friendly towards each other. Peyton never really had a full on conversation with her, but she was cute and bubbly. Dee Dee was a generally sweet person, but how did she end up here? Peyton doesn’t really remember seeing her today, nor does she recall seeing her in these past few moments with the group. Then again, it was so dark that it definitely seemed possible to miss someone.

“What are you doing here? Where did you come from?” Peyton asked the blonde.

[Tara Macfly]

Tara tried exercices breathing to calm down and to think about everything anything but the weirds texts (wich was rather difficult) and counted the minutes until someone came back.

Then Tara heard noise, someone was coming in the hall.

"Chris ? Peyton ?" Tara asked hopefull. But when she turned towards the entrance she vaguely saw blond hair.

What ? blond ? No one in their group was blond. Who was that ? She froze afraid of the stranger entering the room. Was it the person who send her those creepy texts ? What could she do ?

She didn't have the time to think about a plan, the stranger, a girl, hugged her tightly. Tara's brain froze she wasn't expecting that AT ALL.

"Oh my gosh! I thought I was actually all alone! How long you've been here?! Do you know what that earthquake was?! Did you find anybody else?!"

When Tara processed what was happening she relaxed a little at this. It was just another scared student taken in all this craziness. And apprently the poor girl had been alone for a moment. Tara felt bad for her, and couldn't imagine all the feelings of desperation she had been through. So she tighten little her hug to try to calm her. Calming others people when she wasn't herself calm was tara's speciality.

She should probably be more wary of this stranger but it was nice too see some kindness after the texts.

"I don't really remember how long I have woken here, twenty minutes ? Longer ? I lost a little the notion of time. For the earthtake, i don't know anything at all, it'd just weird. And there is four others person awoken but they went to explore the other rooms. They should come back soon and there is..."

"Oh MY GOSH! ARE THEY ACTUALLY DEAD?!" Tara jumped a little when the blond shouted she had probably seen Naveen, Andrei and kairi.

"Oh, thank god,.. they are breathing!" the girl said after looking a little.

Well kairi was dead but she didn't really want to learn that to the girl.

"Oh, sorry," she has finally released Tara from her mightly grip and Tara saw the blond held out her hand to Tara. "My name is Dawn, but you can call me Dee Dee! What's yours?"

Dawn, the name was definitly familiar to Tara. Wasn't she one of Emery's friends ? Tara accepted the hand, and smiled a little to the girl.

"Don't worry for the hug I don't mind at all. Hugs help to feel better during situations like that" she said and indeed Tara felt a little better now. "I'm Tara, happy to meet you dee dee, even if I would have prefered in another circumstances". She laughed nervously.

Should she tell the girl about the situation, the deaths, the texts or she sould just profit of some friendly moments in this hopeless situation ?

But she didn't have time to decide, another person came in the room.

"Dawn? " Tara recognized Peyton's voice and apparently she knew the blond girl.

"Peyton" Tara exclaimee happy that the girl was back "Are you alright ?"

But then peyton asked the new girl a question that Tara was also wondering but didn't thought of asking sooner.

"What are you doing here? Where did you come from?” Peyton asked the blonde.

[Dawn "Dee Dee" Dreemurr]

"Don't worry for the hug I don't mind at all. Hugs help to feel better during situations like that!" the girl responded back and made Dawn smile from ear to ear. Dawh, she was cute! "I like you!" the blond thought and nodded in approvement. "I'm Tara, happy to meet you Dee Dee, even if I would have preferred in another circumstance," her new friend introduced herself and Dawn rolled her eyes, chuckling. "Couldn't agree more!" she looked around the room - first n the lying on the floor sleeping bodies, then on the holes in the floor. "Though... Could be worse!" she shrugged and gave Tara a gentle pat on the back.

The blond was shortly distracted once again by a new voice interrupting their conversation! "Peyton!" Dee Dee greeted her old friend and run towards her to give the gal a proper greeting hug! Meanwhile, Tara asked about Peyton's state of being... Good! That meant they already know each other! "Pffft, that's Peyton! How can she actually be not alright?" she joked and released the girl from her warm mighty hug-trap.

"What are you doing here? Where did you come from?” now it was time for the raven-haired to ask some questions... As always! She always asked her TONS of questions when she was tutoring her the last time!! "Oh, you would not BELIEVE what happened!" she's started her monologue, "I actually was sitting with the detention guy because... eh, well, actually that doesn't matter! SO! I was sitting in the classroom 2-3 and all of a sudden fucking floor just was BOOM! Gone! And I woke up in I think the bathroom? I couldn't see anything, all of the light were off, so I simply just brought myself up as best I could, left the bathroom and BOOM, I'm here!"

The girl rolled her eyes and clapped her hands together, "So, yeah... I don't think I have how do ya' call it... amnesia or anything, but I actually have no idea why did I get here and not in the corridor or anything!"

[Peyton Cross]

“Peyton!”

Dee Dee ran towards Peyton, causing the raven haired to brace herself for impact. The blonde crashed into her and wrapped her arms around the injured girl. Peyton cried out in pain, her wounded foot pressing against the dirty ground.

“Careful,” Peyton cried, “Injured foot.”

“Are you alright?” Tara asked her, walking up to the two of them.

“Pffft, that’s Peyton! How can she actually be not alright?” Dee Dee joked.

“Hardy har har,” Peyton rolled her eyes with a sly smile.

The blonde finally let go of her and she stumbled around a bit, regaining her balance as she grabbed the edge of the door, trying not to strain her foot nor fall backwards.

Dee Dee finally arranged herself and began to answer Peyton’s question.

“Oh, you would not BELIEVE what happened!”

Here we go. Dee Dee always did have the habit of answering questions with monologues and focusing on certain details. Though the raven haired assumed that was the attitude of most perky people. Dee Dee began by talking about how she was stuck in detention, to which Peyton slightly chuckled.

Why am I not surprised?

She then talks about the whole thing they went through. The floor cracking, her ending up in a place that didn’t seem logical, the broken lights. Everything they’ve been through.

Dee Dee clapped her hands, “So yeah…I don’t think I have, how do ya call it…amnesia or anything, but I actually have no idea why did I get here and not in the corridor or anything!”

“Your guess is as good as ours,” Peyton said, “We just woke up here. Uh, we meaning Tara, Chris, Misha, Naya, Naveen, and Andrei. Last two not haven’t woken up yet.”

Peyton bit her bottom lip. She didn’t want to spoil the cheery girl’s mood, but someone had to tell her. No point in sheltering the poor girl.

“Dawn…uh…three people died today from the earthquake.” Technically two, but she didn’t dare say suicide without choking on her words, “As for everyone else…they’re all missing. Separated from the fall from what we assume. We need to know, did you see anyone on your way here?"