Ivy

Who is he?

My feet slapped against the tile floor as I ran down the hallway. My heart pounded happily in my chest as the AC blew fresh air on me. I skidded across the floor and stopped in front of a doorway, panting I held my hands up to the sky and shouted “I’m back!” Everyone turned my way and smiled “girl you late” Tia got up and hugged me “not as late as Josh” Riley pointed at the table in the corner which was empty. I went around he room and gave everyone a hug and then I took my place at the front table “I see everyone made their promise to come early on the first day back” they all smiled and agreed. “Well...” I take a container out of my backpack, open it, and give everyone an apple slice “here’s to a new year” I hold up my apple slice and so does everyone else “apples?” Tia looks at me “hey nothing to exciting now”. When the bell rang Josh came sliding in and plopped himself down at the table. “What up everybody” he put his feet on the other chair “we’ve been waiting for you” Reilly punched his arm “well I had to get this ready” he gestured at his hair which had been put up in a pompadour style, we all rolled our eyes. One minute later the teacher walked into the room “welcome back to another wonderful year kids” Josh quickly takes his feet off of the chair “morning Lisa” he points to fingers her way and she rolls her eyes. Miss L, as we like to call her sat down at her desk “well I’m glad you all made it for another school year” she wrote her name on the board and turned back to us “your last school years here” she pretended to wipe away a tear and we all laughed.

Lunchtime time came quicker then usual that day and I was more than happy to sit down and eat. I found my friends sitting at the normal table we usually sit at “hey guys have room for one more“ they all scooted over and I sat down in between Tia and Josh. “Hey nerd!” A seventh grader wearing a green jacket yelled at Benjamin while he walked by our table our table, I sat up quickly but Josh pushed me back down “don’t mess with that dude” Ben said taking a bite of his sandwich “I’d rather be a nerd and be stupid like him” I clench my fist around my fork and continue eating. After lunch and free time we all went back to our home room so we could eat or traditional back to school pie. “I bet we’re the only homeroom that has back to school pie” Carlos took a huge bite of the Apple cinnamon pie “Terry said in her class that they have back to school games” I took another huge bite of my pie “games are good but pie is better“ Miss L sat down next to me and took a bite of her pie “I figured pie would make me the cool teacher“ Ben held his fork in the air “I agree with that“. We all washed our dishes in a small sink at the back of the classroom and right as I was about to put my dish in the drying rack there was a chime from the speaker in the ceiling “Hello everyone I would just like to remind you that hallway A-B will be off-limits for the rest of the day” I looked up at the speaker and raise my eyebrow “we don’t have any A-B hallway” I look at Miss L and her mouth is hanging slightly open and her face is pale. “What’s going on?“ We all turn to our teacher who is staring at the speaker “kids block the door” nobody moves “get that table and block the door!” We all scurry and push the table in front of the door “they always warn us but you don’t think it happens” Miss L mumbles this to her self “what the hell is happening?” Josh looks at the teacher “I said what the HELL is happening!” Miss L bites her finger nail and then turns to us quickly “we have a code that we use to tell other teachers if something dangerous is happening” I look at my teacher who has a panic in her eyes “Last year we decided that we would use hallway A-B if we needed to warn each other that there was an armed person on the premises” she holds her hands to her mouth and I hear a squeak from Tia who’s looking out the window. “Tia get away from there” Miss L leaps for Tia but she dodges “come see this“ she points her finger towards the parking lot of our school. Theres a big black SUV in one of the teachers parking spots and standing next to it is a man holding a g*n… A big g*n. We all stumble back from the window and we all say the exact thing at the exact time “who is he?”