A DAY FILLED WITH TORMENT-1

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"Woah!... Look! Sky's so dark…"

"Ya... I think it'll rain today. Well, did you bring an umbrella with you?"

"Na didn't pay much attention to it, you?"

"Nope!"

"Too bad… if it rained all day, how are we supposed to go back?" The sky rumbles and a dusty wind blows past them.

"Well, we should hurry. It might start raining any moment now!"

"Ya, let's race to the school gate. The loser will do homework for the winner for an entire week!"

"Oka-Hey! Wait, why'd you start running all alone? Hey! You didn't even count to three, stop!"

The Two friends ran past a boy wearing the same school uniform. But the way he was walking lazily along the roadside, it didn't seem he was much concerned about the stormy weather.

He glances at the running pair and clicks his tongue, "Tch... "

Suddenly the boy felt like coughing, and he kept at it for a good minute. After a while, his throat started rasping hard, which turned into wheezing. Tears formed in the creaks of his eyes as he opened his bag.

His hand worked to find something inside, but after struggling inside the bag for a minute, he realized that thing was not there.

Lungs itching, he felt no air around... he had forgotten something important. His hands, losing any reason, and thinking it might still be there, emptied the bag upside down. His hazy eyes searched everything his bag vomited out; they scanned each object countless times...but that piece of plastic was still not there.

Gasping for air, his weak gaze wandered around for somebody.... anybody...but those fazing eyes found nothing alive around him. He falls back, no strength in his legs.

His hand goes to his pocket for any chance for that object to be there, and luckily for him...it was there... his eyes, before tense, were now relieved, relieved that now everything would be fine. He pumped that piece of plastic into his mouth a few times... many times. The previously thick surrounding instantly melted and flowed inside his lungs gently again.

His breathing was fast-paced, but not rough anymore. After laying still on the ground for a few minutes and exhaling an enormous sigh, he grabs his bag, fills everything back, and stands up.

The sky rumbles again.

Coughing lightly, he proceeds on his path again.

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'I halt my steps, still thinking about what happened earlier. I am alive now.....but what if i also had a friend.....maybe he would have helped me…. maybe…but at least what happened before must not have been as much scary. Haha, come on now, I'm pathetic.'

'Looking up at my school, I felt worse. "Now why the heck is school looking so fu*ked up?" Well, I feel miserable every day thinking about school and stuff, but… something's odd…school looks kinda...how should I phrase it.…. More dull or something? Nothing I can do about it …. Hah! My life sucks!'

Anyhow…. I reached my class a bit late, our home room teacher was also late perhaps? Just after entering the classroom, a familiar voice welcomed me;

"Hey! Kurt. Why are you so late? I thought you wouldn't come today."

"Ah Morning Ren", 'Oh girl, why are you so beautiful? You're going to make me fall for you again'

"Ahh yes!, I woke up late so…." I replied, obviously lying.

"Oh, is that so?...."

'Her lovely round eyes were staring, straight at my face and I couldn't handle it, her eyes seem to Peirce right through me, so I averted my eyes away from her.'

"...…..."

"...…..."

'Sh*t! it became awkward again. Should I ask her something? I-I don't know what to say? But I have to somehow break the silence. Argh! Why does it always become like this?'

"...", still staring at me, she was going to say something, when my Anxiety-Filled Subconscious Mind abruptly blurted out;

"W-Well, I have some work to do, so…", 'Wait, what? Wait a sec, I didn't mean to say that!'

"Ah! o-okay then….. later…", And she went back to her seat, while Kurt was still wondering if there were any limits to his retardiness?

' Fu*k me and fu*k my life! '

I took my seat, placed my stuff on the desk, opened a notebook, and pretended as if I was studying. Everybody was chattering and laughing in their groups, while here I was sitting alone in the classroom's corner.'

'Yeah-yeah, I'm the same loner MC guy type, hehe. Well, I'm not saying I'm MC kinda stuff…..but I'm not too bad, decent, you can say. BUT even with those decent looks, I don't have any friends. Nobody even talks to me other than Rena (Ren), maybe `cause I'm not that sociable? Did I do something? hmm…... ARGH! Whatever!'

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'We reached the assembly hall where some info on upcoming events was going to be announced before which, they made us listen to our principal's speech, against our wills.'

...…

Time passed and announcements were just about finished, when suddenly;

"BANG!…"

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"Hey, did you hear that? "

"What happened?"

"yeah, it sounded like a gunshot"

"Maybe people are running in the hallway?"

"BANG!, BANG!, BANG!..." [3 shots]

'We all looked curiously in the direction that sound came from, but the scene we all witnessed was enough to make some scream and to get others silent from fear. Two students and our fat-ass principal were lying DEAD on the red floor. Everybody was struggling to grasp what had just happened, but then again';

"BANG!!"

"Get down!, Everybody on the ground!...".

"On the ground, everybody! I said, ON. THE. GROUND!"

"GET down! get down!"

'Some men with their face covered and only eyes showing came out of the back door, yelling to get down on the ground. Getting straight to the point, it will be better to call them terrorists or criminals of the sort. How do I know about it? Because it's fu*kin clear as day!, they have guns and 3 people are dead and of course they are taking us hostage or else why would they come to a school with guns?'

I get down as fast as I can, I am not stupid to get confused in this kind of situation.

Everybody gets down on the floor, some quickly like me and some confused asses still thinking about what's happening and in turn receiving a head-knock by the terrorists.

"They are terrorists and taking this school hostage, you confused di*khe*ds!", I screamed at them in my mind… as the fellow students around, all looked at me…. Maybe I thought aloud?

"We'll be taking this school hostage," a terrorist announced.

"I don't want anyone getting up or trying something funny,", he turns and then glances toward the 3 corpses and then smiles saying;

"or else, you already know what will happen, right?"

"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

'It sends chills down everybody's spine, mine too of course.'

'Well I don't know what's going to happen to us…, I knew! Something was off today, I should have gone back after what happened earlier but... ahhhh!!, why am I making excuses with my own self? It's no use crying over spilled milk now!. So yeah… let's pray I don't get killed at the very least.'

"Hey Aslam, call the police and tell them we have taken hostages here and will kill 1 person every one hour as the time passes. You know the demands, right?" A terrorist with brown eyes spoke, perhaps he was the Boss. His gruff voice held no emotions, like he was bored?

"Yeah, 500 million and release of our brethren from jail plus a safe escape route." a relatively short Terrorist answered him.

"Good, hehehahaha its going to fun, boss will be happy!." he spoke, maybe he also had a boss above him....

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[The short statured one- Aslam, calls the police HQ and tells them the situation and their demands, with other 5 terrorists surrounding the hall.]

"so they are going to kill 1 person every hour Han?..., well that's some really bad news right there!", 'All of us were already scared shitless, and now it looked like our souls have left their bodies.

The circumstances were dire, we all felt how fast time was passing, we understood importance of time, more than anybody in the world right now, something needed to be done, quickly!'

'Well, I'm myself shaking. I shouldn't have come to school today. Man! I'm still a virgin, and certainly I don't wish to die either way, but.... man, I'm going crazy! '.

'As everyone was thinking about nonsense stuff, 50 minutes passed in a blink of an eye for us, but it can't be said true for terrorists. They were whistling, moving carelessly like they had nothing to worry about in the world. It was clear they wouldn't spare a single thought to the poor victim who's going to die in 10 minutes.....'

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'Ten minutes are also over now, everyone's heart is going 'thump, thump ', we know one of us is going to die any moment now '

"Hmm, there's police, media and people outside the school parameters, but they are still not giving us any satisfactory news, hmm...do they think we will kill no one? … oh fu*k! Aslam, don't tell me you forgot to tell them we already killed 3 people? (Aslam nods affirmatively) … Well, too bad for them then, haha, Let's just kill another one and push the bodies down the hall, hehe.…" (Terrorist-1).

The other 2 terrorists pick up the 3 corpses and pushed them down the windows, one by one right in front of live news recording cameras. People start screaming and chattering, two dead students and our principal's body lie there, splattered on the ground.

'As I was listening and seeing what is happening, I couldn't help but think of those two dead students. I'm sure they don't have any relatives and have quite a poor reputation at school. Oh yeah, now that I remember it, I recall that they also bullied me and others. Well, don't say I'm cold for saying I don't feel a tinge of sadness for their death.

And that good-for-nothing pervert principal, can't even tell what things he has done so far. As I was thinking about them, the feeling of fear I was feeling till now was easily overtaken by a new dread, as the terrorists were deciding who to kill now, I don't know why, but it felt like one of them was looking at me and suddenly one thought flooded my mind.

I couldn't see clearly, my vision was blurred, my heart was beating so hard it felt like it can go blast any second.

"Am-Am I going to die?!"