Excerpt: Rocks of Opportunity

Dragan led the group back over to the stairs and they headed down the two floors. Right before they reached the door to outside, Dragan jerked his head over to the inside of the building. “Do you mind if I go see my teacher for a minute?”

“Sure, we can wait outside,” Carolyn answered.

Fane once again latched onto Desmond to drag him along with them and make sure that he couldn’t escape. He rolled his eyes and sighed, more due to the fact of Fane’s overly suspicious nature than due to the fact that he wanted to go see his girlfriend.

They followed Dragan into the building, but stopped at the corner before the teacher’s office, allowing him to head on without them. ***They waited there for a while, talking amongst themselves while they waited for Dragan to get back to them. The topic refocused on to what they would do if zombie cows started attacking the college, after concluding that zombie attack kittens would totally zombify everyone. Zombie cows were deemed scary and a potential threat, but not as deadly by the time that Dragan was seen coming toward them down the hall.

Fane had just leaped up from the floor to enthusiastically greet Dragan when they heard a low rumbling from above them. Everyone stopped what they were doing and looked up at the ceiling. There was another loud rumbling noise and then the unthinkable happened: cracks started to spread across the ceiling. Fane, Flore, and Carolyn exclaimed at that and Desmond started shoving people to get them to move toward the exit.

Frost turned around and started to run back to the exit of the building, Stove right behind her. There was another loud rumble and she turned to look at Stove. As she did so, she could see the cracks start to cave in. Suddenly what used to be cracks in the ceiling were now large rocks falling on top of them. Frost locked eyes with Stove just when there was a flash of light. She didn’t even remember the rocks crushing her body; killing her instantly.

Day 1

Stove shot up in bed, breathing hard. He sat there panting for a while before he could finally drag his hand over his face. “What a dream,” he said to himself, just to break the silence. “It was fine until whatever happened in the science building, there is no way that the ceiling could fall, though. Sure, it’s the oldest building on campus, but they wouldn’t allow people in it if it was dangerous.”

Stove sighed as he finally relaxed down onto his bed. He frowned, not really sure why he had that dream. Yes, Dragan was finally showing them his super secret and cool project, but that really didn’t translate into the science building collapsing. All in all, it was horrifying dream and he was glad that it was just a dream.