trembled. Her words were shaky. “The weapons was their teeth…” “ What?” “ The kids were eating each other. Alive.” “ Good God.” Mrs. Westwood could not believe what she was hearing. This had to be a horrible nightmare but the sounds outside her classroom door proved otherwise. “ I’m guessing your next question is…. How could this be? Right?” Mrs. Kissing swallowed hard shaking her plump neck. “I have no idea. My guess is that those kids back there have some form of a rabid disease and it’s highly contagious.” “ Why would you say that?” “ The kids who were being eaten alive by the other kids would die. I mean literally expire. Moments later they reanimated and started repeating the horrid process of eating whoever had not been attacked or were trying to get away.” “ This is all crazy. I don’t believe it. There is no such thing as someone dying and then coming back to… to life!” Mrs. Westwood shook her head. A large stick swirling in the strong winds knocked up against the outside window causing the class along with the teachers to jump. “ Believe what you want too. But if you want to outlive what is going on out there,” Mrs. Kissing leaned her head towards the classroom door, “You better put on your thinking cap and help me figure out how to get these kids out of here all in one piece. I think we are the only survivors left here. I think.” Josefina sniffled as she confirmed Mrs. Kissing’s comment. “It is true, Senora Westwood. I wouldn’t have believe it myself either. It looked like something out of a scary pelicula. I think we are all going to die, if we don’t get out of here soon,” Josefina slowly said with tear filled eyes. She wiped at her dried, blood smeared face. “ The weather is getting worse. Dr. Bradford mentioned commotion earlier. That must be it, the weather.” Mrs. Westwood grabbed her face as if she was trying to sort things out. “This is absurd.” She refused to believe what was going on outside her classroom walls. “ My suggestion is we all try to make a go for it to the chorus building. There are no windows and we should be safe their until help—“ Before Mrs. Kissing could finish her sentence more screams occurred followed by the disconnection of the power. The lights went out. A combination of shrieks and gasps escaped from the mouths of the students. The light from outside of the classroom window dimly illuminated the tiny space. The dark gray skies roared and rumbled. Hurricane Angel, which was downgraded to a category one, was going to announce its arrival. Mrs. Westwood tried to calm down the frantic students. “ Calm down class! Calm down! The generator will come on momentarily and then we will have light. This is all a part of the hurricane drill that we have practiced since the beginning of the school year,” Mrs. Westwood reassuringly said as she groped for her cell phone on the desk. Drew adjusted his eyes in the dim light. He did not know if the disconnected power was in relation to the weather or what was going on outside in the hallway. “ What are you doing?” Mrs. Kissing shrieked. “We need to be getting out of here before those, those… things come here and eat us!” “ I am going to call the front office again.” Mrs. Westwood dialed the front office only to receive a busy signal. She tried again. Busy. She hung up the cell phone in frustration and then dialed 911. Busy. Mrs. Westwood looked up from her cell phone straining her eyes in the dim light. She tried to locate Mrs. Kissing. 911 was never busy… She tried 911 again. Busy. “ Can you try 911 on your cell phone?” Mrs. Westwood asked Mrs. Kissing. “The line is busy.” “ Oh my God. Something is seriously wrong here. 911 is never busy. Not even during or after Hurricane Katrina do I recall 911 being busy. I remember it taking a few rings for an operator to pick up but the line was never busy.” Mrs. Kissing’s lips