Silence! Complete and utter silence...
The gunshots had stopped and I almost sighed in relief when the banging echoing through the hallways had stopped too. I wished I could heave a real sigh of relief but the tension, the calmness and the silence surrounding us was so immense that you could have heard a pin drop.
Fortunately, a familiar banging from downstairs broke the silence between us and Connor cleared his throat to break the weird tension. However, we all went stiff when we recognized that the familiar banging was in fact the main door swinging open harshly and closing back with a bang that echoed in the whole school since the compound was empty.
Well, it wasn't really that fortunate.
"We need to get moving!" Max deadpanned while seizing my left hand in a hurry and interlaced ou
