Rebecca tapped her pen over her over the open pages of her notebook just as another five minutes,
minutes that have taken the leisure to last almost an hour in her brain passed carelessly in her wristwatch.
She stared around through the class at the usual cluster of bored teenagers listening blankly to the most
boring lesson of Maths she had ever attended in her whole life. Beyond the cristaline glass of the windows
gleamed a city with towering white-tiled building and ever farther, and arch of blinding light, protecting
the citizens from the lurking evil darkness.
She moved her brown eyes back at her teacher just as a deathening howl broke the tense classroom silence
and sent the kids and teacher alike in a panicked manner.The elderly maths teacher announced that she will
be leaving to check with the other teachers but beyond the window, the problem was cleary. The blinding wall
of light was now punctured by ever-widening pathesmof darkness. Rebecca slid under her desk, as if she was
preparing for an earthquake.
And it was so. As the thin sheet of light dissapeared, leaving the evil withing the glowing pristine city, another
boom shook the ground and several other sounds packed up at once, leaving the girl in total darkness. Then
a series of screeches, howls and wild sounds broke around her, along with the terrified screams of the other students.
Rebecca didn't dare look around, but she could feel as if her a red light shone below her, and she dared open her eyes,
seeing her chest was emanating the glow. She held her knees up to her and grittednher teeth to prevend herself
to break into tears of horror.
When the sounds of the dark creatures lurking in the dark silenced and her heartbeats slowed down into an
uneven beat, she called out with a trembling voice, tears now making their way on her dust covered face.
"Hello?" was the only thing she managed to mutter, then gulped down a hiccup of sorrow and crawled from under
the broken desk, whose once neatly cut wooden surface now bore deep scratches that Rebecca forced herself to
ignore when she passed her pale hand over them.
