33 Chapter 33

I found myself hanging in the air. Someone was holding me from my back. My feet was a few centimeters in air. Almost all of the students on the roof were looking at me. I was the second one to climb on the roof (if you can call that 'climbing'), so Idil was still below the ladder. I tried to warn her by shouting.

"Run awa-"

Someone shut my mouth with his hands. I tried to move my head to look around for Melis, but I couldn't. I was strongly held in place. I finally managed to swing my legs around to kick people away. I kicked whoever it was behind me, and he had to let me go. I fell down, but quickly got up. I attempted to flee by going back down, but my some students blocked my path. Apparently, everyone up there was my enemy.

I had to make a choice, so I ran past the panel on the top of the ladder, towards the far edge of the roof. I reached the other edge rather quickly, but obviously, there was nowhere I could further run. In the heat of the moment, I hadn't thought of it too much.

I turned around to have a look. The students were slowly approaching me in a line, leaving no gaps for me to run through. The uniforms and faces of some students were covered in blood. Two of them had knives in their hands. I had no idea what they were trying to accomplish; the only thing I knew was I was cornered and I was in immediate danger.

"Wait!" I said. "What are you doing?"

Of course I knew I wouldn't get a reply, but I had no idea what I could do to save myself.

"Ata, why!?" I cried.

I looked at where the panel was. I still couldn't see Melis around, so I assumed the worst. I could only hope that Idil had heard my warning and ran away. If I couldn't do the same soon enough, that could be the end of me.

I looked down from the edge of the roof, and back to the panel again. The only way out was that ladder below the panel. I had to get past that line of students somehow, and reach that panel.

I thought of sprinting towards and charging the line. It wasn't a good idea, but it was the only idea I had, apart from jumping down the roof to my almost certain death.

I was preparing to sprint through the roof when I heard something. Someone was yelling, but I couldn't make out what it was at first. I looked down from the edge of the roof again.

It was Idil. She was yelling at me from the window, one floor below the roof level.

"Down here!" she shouted.

"Down WHERE!?" I replied.

She had already went inside when I said that. Just a second after that, a ladder appeared. It was the ladder that was supposed to be just below the roof's enterance panel.

"Hurry, idiot!" she cried.

I looked back up to the roof. There was very little distance between me and the students. I jumped down the roof on to the ladder. I hit the ladder relatively slowly, since I wasn't so high up from the window. But I couldn't keep my balance, and I rolled down from the ladder with my excess momentum. I raised my hand at the last second and grabbed the ladder. I managed to pull myself back up on the ladder quickly, and I could enter the building from the window.

"Idiot, you scared me! You were about to fall down!" she said.

"And whose bright idea was that?" I replied.

"You were going to die up there if I didn't do that." she said. She was right.

At that moment, we heard a sound, and the ladder was shaken. One of the students had jumped on the ladder, trying to follow me in. Idil released the edge of the ladder from where she had stabilised it. Before he could reach the window and enter the building, the ladder slided out of the window. He slided away from the building and fell down to the ground with the ladder. I rushed to the window to take a look.

It was horrible. He had fell on the top of the ladder, and his body was broken apart to many pieces. His blood was splashed everywhere. Some of his organs were coming out of his stomach, which was drilled into by the ladder. I didn't look for too long.

"Come on, they will come after us from inside the building." Idil said.

We got out of the classroom we were in, and ran out into the hallway, towards the stairway.

"Thank goodness you heard me in time and ran away." I said.

"I wasn't exactly 'running away'." she said.

"I didn't mean it that way..." I said.

"Where is Melis?" she asked.

"I couldn't see her up there." I replied.

"Mr. Kenan? Was he up there?" she said.

"No, he wasn't." I answered.

"Things are getting more complex every minute." she said.

"Yes... and now that we are only two people..." I murmured.

"Oh, yes, I forgot about that." she said. "Is there any way we could get Melis out of there?"

"I don't know. I don't even know where she is, exactly. I couldn't see what happened to her." I replied.

"In that case... the only thing we can do is finding Mr. Kenan." she said.

We had reached the stairway, and we got downstairs to the floor below.

While we were running, I heard a funny sound nearby.

"I'm starving." she said.

"Don't think about it." I replied. "I am hungry as well."

"It isn't as easy as I thought it would be." she said.

"You know there is nothing we can do about it right now." I said.

Suddenly, she stopped running in the middle of the hallway. I turned to look at her. She dropped to her knees and looked down. A few seconds later, she started crying.

"I can't... stand it..." she said.

I approached her, trying to calm her down.

"It is just a few hours until sunrise." I said. "Hold it together."

She didn't reply.

"Come on, the only thing we can do right now is finding Mr. Kenan." I said.

All of a sudden, she stopped crying.

"I have a better idea." she said, and looked up to me.

"What do you mean?" I asked.

She didn't reply immediately, and got back up on her feet.

"What is it?" I asked again.

She slapped me in the face.