Chapter 7 BreakDown

Chapter 7 BreakDown

"George, are you okay?" Lacheya asked kneeling down next to the old man, blood was spewing from his mouth and he was gasping for breath. Until he wheezed one last time and fell to the floor lifeless. Lacheya dug into his pockets and pulled the keys for the school out, sliding them into her own pair of jeans. She kissed her hand and placed it on his forehead. Standing up she looked around, "Where's Bomani?" she asked.

"Over here." He said coming out from behind the cafeteria kitchen area, which had kept him hidden.

"You okay?" Lacheya asked. He nodded and I walked over to Scotty. He still holding his mother down to the floor.

Warren held Mallory tightly, "Where is Iyari?" I heard Isabella shriek.

"She's with Parker and Kevin." I said, placing my hand on Scott's shoulder. He started to cry. I pulled his hands from her body, and he clung to me. "I'm sorry." I whispered as he began to sob his face was buried into my gut. I slid my hands through my hair, and I could feel his sadness leaking into me. He screamed, one of those screams you never think you'll hear in real life. A scream that just can't come from an actual human, but it came from him. I started to cry. I sank to my knees embracing him. He grabbed my face roughly and shouted, as if he was trying to tell me his pain. I squeezed him, on some level I was trying to squeeze the pain away. Rid him of it, even try and let it seep from him and into me. I saw Mallory was holding Warren, but my eyes went back to Scotty.

"Fuck!" he cried out. He pushed himself from me then. He banged the floor with his hand weakly. "Fuck!" He screamed again. He was still on his knees and then Mallory was by my side and I stood up as Warren knelt beside his brother. Mallory hugged me, while Warren held onto his brother.

"Give us a minute." Warren muttered. I nodded as Mallory and I turned to leave the cafeteria. We reached the doors opened them slowly and thier was Lacheya and Bomani who had already taken there leave.

"How's it goin' in there?" she asked.

"Not good." I whispered brushing my tears away. "Where are the Badias" I asked.

"I think with their daughter." Bomani answered, "How did those people get in?" he asked.

"They aren't people any more they're something else." Mallory said, and started toward the nurses office.

"What?" Bomani asked as I followed Mallory. When I got to the Nurse's station Iyari was filling her parents in on what had happened.

"Then I slammed the door shut and locked it so he couldn't get us." Isabella held her daughter, and Alessandro was thanking Parker for keeping her safe.

"How did they get in?" Mallory asked, looking directly at Isabella.

"I don't know." she answered.

"Really." Mallory asked, Isabella put Iyari down on the floor and she walked over to her dad.

"What are you saying to me?" Isabella asked walking up to Mallory getting in her face.

"I'm not saying anything, I am asking however if you maybe freaked out and tried to go outside after seeing what was happening in to Mrs. Depkin." Mallory put her hands on her hips not backing down from Isabella's stare.

"That is crazy talk and I am not answering-" Isabella started and Mallory lunged forward pressing her forearm onto Isabella's neck pinning her to the wall behind her. Alessandro moved forward and I threw my elbow out smashing it against his cheek. He crashed to the floor. Iyari yelped and Parker took the little girl out of the room.

"What are you doing?" Bomani asked.

"Did you try and leave the school? Did you let them in?" Mallory yelled.

"Yes! I let them in, I was suffocating. I needed to breathe. I am sorry." Mallory moved back letting Isabella go. I offered to help Alessandro up but he refused. I stared at him a moment, raised my eyebrow slightly and turned to stand next to Kevin who had propped himself up on the counter but was still laying there. Alessandro went to his wife's side.

"George died because of you." Bomani said, his eyes were filled with anger.

"I'd keep quiet I was you." Lacheya spat.

"Excuse me, What's that supposed to mean?" he questioned.

"It means you could have helped George but instead you were busy... what cowering in the kitchen. There is plenty of blame for you too ass hole." Lacheya cast him an angry look. As he looked down to the floor. "We can't afford to have people like you with us. You can get us killed."

"Like your Parker friend." Alessandro interjected.

"You mean the girl that just saved your daughter. Yeah lets throw her in the same category as Bomani." I hissed.

"Not to sound offensively but this is the first she has interacted in a struggle." Isabella added.

"Said the woman I had to save twice tonight and almost got her own daughter killed." I fired back.

"You son of a bitch." Isabella snapped.

I sneered at her, "Wow, damsel in distress and emotionally unstable." she moved forward trying to swing at me but Alessandro was holding her back. "I'm so scared." I taunted.

"Stop." I turned to the door way and Warren stood there.

"Where's Scott?" I asked.

"He'll be here in a minute." Parker and Iyari were standing behind him. "Look," he said and took a deep breath, "People are gonna die here, painfully, by accident. Things are gonna happen that we can't control, but we can control how we treat each other. I don't wanna hear this crap about damsels in distress or how some people are a liability, because at the end of the day were people. More importantly were sane people, and I am starting to think that that's what's separates us from them. The people outside these walls., they're psychotic and that's what I am calling them the psychotics. So from this point on we all pull our own weight. We watch out for one another. Tonight was hard, but its almost over and it may take us a while to get our barrings here but we will. We all have different strengths and we're gonna use them, cause if we don't stand together, you are gonna be damned sure we'll fall one by one like flies." I saw Scotty appear behind his brother and I wanted to push past him and wrap my arms around him, but he walked over to Warren whispered something in his ear and walked away. "So did any one grab the keys off George?" Lacheya pulled the keys from her pocket.

"Do me a favor go with Alessandro and check to see if you can find out where they came from." Warren said.

"Isabella let them in from a door." Mallory said.

"Fine." Warren said quickly, "Were you with her Alessandro?" he nodded his head, "Good show Lacheya the door and she can double check to make sure its locked." Lacheya walked out of the room with Alessandro following her. "Kevin can you walk?"

"Yeah." Kevin went and swung his feet off the counter and slid off the table slowly, Parker pushed past Warren and he put his arm around her for support.
"Everyone pick a classroom and bunk in twos. Okay?" Warren demanded. We all nodded.