She didn’t know how to the respond. As soon as he made that comment, she dropped her hand from his arm. How could someone be so… so insensitive?! She saw immediately on his face as soon as he had realized what he just said and he began to apologize and stammer. She didn’t make a comment. Instead, she just glared at the ground, forcing herself to calm down and not to punch the bastard right in the nose. Right then Braden walked over and she stepped away from Jack, still looking toward the ground. She couldn’t believe him. After all of that, after all that she had been through, he would have the nerve to make that comment?! 

Jack and Braden begin walking into the auditorium. She followed, much to her resentment, but she stayed farther back. She hung out back by the entrance and listened as he calmed people down. He described the eclipse and then described the shriek. He then also began to describe a humanoid monster. That must have been the monster that those students running passed her had been talking about. He then began to talk about structure. Robyn stood up. They couldn’t leave the school, especially with those things out there. Robyn shifted slightly, walking forward a little bit to hear better. Jack began describing Maze Runner and began giving rules before starting to talk about building a community. 

He then told people to find her and she stood up straighter. She put two fingers in her mouth and whistled, yelling, “Yo! Over here you non-nerds!” People began to swarm about her and she noticed that Jack was talking to the Nerds. People began chattering around her and she snapped, “Everyone shut up!” This surprised everyone because normally she was very nice. But this was a time of crisis and there was not time to be nice. “Alright, listen up you weaklings. There is no [i]fucking[/i] way that we will be able to leave the school. So, we need to set up a camp inside the school.” Some student asked if that was the same as living here. “Yes!” she snapped. “We will be living here. Now be quiet.” Robyn saw Jack walk over and he just repeated what she just said. She stared at the ground, glaring at it again. He told them to go repurpose the gym hallways and use them as a camp, which was a great idea, even if Jack said it. 

Once he was done, she began herding people toward the door. Jack grabbed her arm quickly and she whipped around, looking at him carefully. [i]“Look, Robyn, I really am sorry. I really really am. I don't know what it was, but I wasn't thinking straight. Everything was fuzzy, like it was a dream, like I wasn't awake. It's the shock and exhaustion,”[/i] he stated, looking at her sorrowfully. She frowned and looked away from him. She knew he was lying. She could tell something was up, but that comment… It just hurt. She shrugged her arm out of his shoulder.

“Whatever,” she said uncaringly and began herding people out the door again. She got all of her helpers out into the main area and called out, “Alright! I want twenty of you guys to run around and grab whatever materials you can find. Clothing, drapes, blankets, anything. Meet us back at the gym. We can use those for warmth during the night.” Twenty people took off toward the classrooms. “I want another ten of you to scavenge for medical supplies. Raid classrooms, the trainer’s office, anywhere you can get any.” Ten of the students nodded and ran off. “The rest of you, we need to find a sustainable food source and some drinkable water.”

“How are we going to live here if we don’t have good food?!” one of the students cried. Robyn paused, thinking for a minute. She then looked back up.

“The greenhouse. We can probably use the green house to grow some food if we need it. The cafeteria is still stocked and I’m sure the teachers have stashes of food around here somewhere. I want at least fifty of you looking.” Another fifty took off. “The rest of you, come with me down to the gym. We need to start setting up camp.” She took off down the hallway, listening to the sound of the pounding feet back behind her. They entered the gym hallway and immediately, students separated, getting into lockers for extra clothing, towels, anything that could be used to survive. 

“Break apart some of the wood tables,” she yelled. “We can use the wood for fires in the gym if necessary.” The students nodded and a bunch of boys began jumping on the tables, splintering them to fragments of wood. This was surprising how many of them were taking her orders. Honestly, she liked the feeling. She smiled calmly, looking around at everyone. She liked being in charge. She turned back toward the doors and looked out them, looking out at the darkness. Something was… off. She tipped her head to the side and she noticed a fuzzy, humanoid shape take place. Suddenly, it flashed into her parents’ killer and a voice shouted in her mind, [i]You’ll be mine! You have always been mine![/i] 

She gasped and jerked back away from the windows, her head slamming against the wall. She saw stares and immediately felt dizzy, falling to the ground. She braced herself against the ground as a few of the students ran over to help her. She kept getting asked if she was alright. She nodded, shoving them off. “I’m fine,” she snapped. “Get back to work.” They all nodded and took off for jobs, right as the people with the cloths were coming back. They had found a surprising amount of cloths, though she later learned that they managed to break into the theatre department and shredded a bunch of the capes. She looked back toward the windows. As long as those [i]things[/i] stayed out, they would be fine…

But what if they got in?