"Oh. Okay, that's…interesting," Nyir said with a frown. "Sounds like you've led an exciting life." She wanted to press for details, but she backed off. She didn't want to make her only protector pissed off at her before she'd even made it to the nurse's office.
The two of them continued down the hallways. It was oddly quiet. Most students had vacated the area, and the ones remaining were in a hurry to do so. It was haunting. Their footsteps echoed ominously down the corridor.
The nurse's office was empty, as well. Nyir shook away any feelings of fear and headed into the room, rummaging through the first aid.
“Here’s some hydrogen peroxide,” Handing it to Nyir, Ben took out a few other bottles and stuffed them into a bag, “We should bring some of these things with us.” He blurted as he took down a few other First Aid things.
Nyir nodded in agreement. She treated her wounds with the hydrogen peroxide and then wrapped them in gauze. They were bleeding pretty heavily. She hoped that they didn't need stitches but at this point she didn't care. Shoving the supplies into the bag, she searched the room for other items that might be of use later on.
“Come to think about it,” Ben said thoughtfully, “We are stuck in a school building surrounded by zombies and we don’t even know if we have enough food to sustain us and the other no-zombie students… If the zombies don’t kill us, starvation might.” Its was a sad thought, but it was true as well.
Trinity walks by the group, "What happened? Are you ok Mrs. Heol? "
"I'm fine, Trinity," she replied with a wan smile. "Have you seen my son? Tasper? He's probably in the cafeteria."
"Um.. No I'm sorry, it was all such a rush." She looks worried. "We can go look, you should arm yourself though. Just remember they aren't your students anymore. Be prepared to defend yourself."
Nyir gave a brusque nod. "Right. Do you know how to get back into the cafeteria? The door is locked."
"Do you want me to bring this fire extinguisher?" Ben asked, it was a very odd question to ask, but his arm was getting tired.
"I may have 'borrowed' some keys from the office," she turns to Ben, "and Ben you can set that down if you'd like."
"I'll take it." Nyir accepted the extinguisher from him. It was heavy, but nothing she couldn't handle. She felt safer with it in her hands.
“Well,” Ben smirked as he cleaned the tip of his spear, “Ladies first.”
Trinity smirked, and lead the way. Once they came to the doors, she unlocked them with a key on a ring of many. "Voila…"
Nyir thanked her quickly and dashed into the cafeteria, her eyes scanning the crowds for her son. She hurried from table to table, greeting terrified kids and letting them know that an adult was here. She didn't spend too much time on it. She had to find her son.
Watching Nyir dash off, Ben managed to spot his friend at the far corner of the room. ‘My poor little Joan.’ Well, she wasn’t that little, she was only one year younger then him, but still she acted like a little loving county girl that he could not resist.
Trinity tried to look for any of her friends, any cheerleaders. There were none. They were all at a practice that she was late for. She sat down on the floor in the corner, tears ran down her cheeks. She has never felt this vulnerable.
Nyir felt as though the floor had been pulled from underneath her. Tasper was no where to be found. What if he'd been outside? What if…what if… Pulling herself together, she forced herself to calm down.
Trinity walked over to Nyir. "I-is he here?" Her face was red from the tears.
“Joan!” Ben said quickly, “Where’s Eli? Did you see him anywhere? Did you see Helmer? Any of them? Are they here?” The questions came spilling out like a waterfall full of fish, “Where’s my brother?” He had only seen his brother Carson at the beginning of class, and the scary thing was that Carson was an outdoorsy person, always trying to find a way outside.
“Elis somewhere in this group, I don’t know where Helmer is, and the last time I saw Carson- he was running outside with Tasper to some secret fort they have been working on for a few years now.” The blonde looked up at Ben, her beautiful hazel eyes looked like the stars, stars that were drenched in water.
"Have you seen their fort? If it safe?"
"I don't know! I don't bother them!" Tears ran down her face. Embracing her, Ben held her tight, 'There is no way I'm going to lose her, I have to keep her safe'
Nyir shook her head helplessly. "Tasper isn't…he isn't here." She swallowed past the lump in her throat. She wouldn't break down. Not yet. Not when there was so much going on.
Trinity's eyes start to water, "We will find him." She grabbed your hand comfortingly. "Do you have any other idea on where he could be? His locker, his last class?"
Leaving Joan to her friends, Ben scanned the area from Nyir. Barely spotting her in the crowd, he darted towards her. Skipping around the people, he stood in front of her, “Ok, good news and bad news…. The bad news is- Your son is most likely outside, the good news- He is properly in a fort my brother made, and my brother is a master tree house fort builder, including in high trees- and this place is surrounded by high growing trees.”
"And what does that mean? Do you think that others may have gone up there?" Trinity said, trying to hold onto a shred of hope that her friends aren't zombies. "Are they safe up there?"
“Most likely… uh… There have been a few incidences when I found my brother bringing a few knives and a small BB gun to school, he most likely he brought them up in his tree fort, and if he wasn't bringing weapons up there, it would be his friends.” The chances of his brother and Tasper up in his tree fort were oddly high, Carson liked climbing, and to have a friend with him or even a group with him! Oh, he would bring them or force them to the top.
Nyir sighed, running her hand through her hair. "What can we do to get out there? There are definitely gas masks in the bio lab."
