We crouched down and walked through the hallway.

      “Shouldn’t we start walking normally?” I whispered.

      “I think we should.” She replied.

      We halted as we heard rapid footsteps going down the 1st floor stairs. We continued to crouch down and snuck inside a dark classroom close to the stairs as the footsteps faded to the 3rd floor.

          I reached out my left hand behind me. I felt Layna’s hand grabbed my hand firmly. We slowly snuck out the room and went down stairs. Peering through every corner we could see, to make sure that no aliens were going to abduct us. We saw the opened hallway entrance doorway. We heard the host call the survivors. I slowly stood up while holding her hand. She followed and stood up. She removed her grip on my hand. “You ready to go out?” No longer whispering. I saw her faint silhouette nod in response. She walked beside me as we gradually approached the hallway door.

          We heard the host notice us approaching. “Is it my eyes? Or is it our survivor?” The crowd cheered. “Oh wait? It’s Survivors! We have two survivors!” Their cheer got louder as we slowly came to light. The light was blinding. I squinte