Part One.

GIRLS!

1. Jennilyn Adefuin
2. Mina Amin
3. Monica Banaag
4. Cassandra Boquiren–Garcia
5. Caroline Bognot
6. Cherry Camonayan
7. Jan Conducto
8. Marjorie Cruz
9. Michelle Del Rosario
10. Rosan Derayunan
11. Michelle Iem
12. Darlene Paez
13. Alyssa Ribas
14. Marian Sanchez
15. Jemima Santiago
16. Raven Sevilleja
17. Courtney Sulzberger
18. Phuong Thai
19. Angelica Vega
20. Leanne Zabala

BOYS!

1. Ralph Cansicio
2. Dillon Dupuy
3. Peter Escartin
4. Allan Escuro
5. Andrew Farestzeit
6. Mason Holland
7. Jayson Jaoquin
8. Juan Carlo Leonardo
9. Stefan Loo
10. Arnel Manalo
11. Paolo Morato
12. David Olano
13. Kristian Paez
14. Alejandro Parra
15. Ryan Peters
16. Joshua Ramirez
17. Michael Reyes
18. Richard Salazar
19. Dean Sanchez
20. Krisman Santos

It was a warm June afternoon as the 40 seniors from Eagle Rock High Schoolpiled into their school bus. They were on their way to a retreat up in BigBear. The trip was highly anticipated and surprisingly everyone in theclass was there, even students who were constantly ditching. Half an hourhad passed since the bus drove away from the campus on Yosemite Drive. Mr.Wenderoff, the class chaperone sat in the front reading Harry Potter andthe Deathly Hallows while the students on the bus did their own thing.Nikki Ribas [Girl # 13] sat alone at the back of the bus. Her iPod was onfull blast as she stared enviously at Jan Conducto [Girl # 7]. Jan’s headrested on Carol Bognot’s [Girl # 5] shoulder. The whole class knew howmuch Nikki still loved Carol and so it wasn’t a surprise that she hatedJan. Ironically their song “I’m yours” started playing flooding Nikki’smind with memories of her and Carol. As she reminisced about all the goodtimes they shared, tears started welling up in her eyes. Just thenMichelle Iem [Girl # 11] jumped into the seat next to her. Michelle wasNikki’s best friend. They knew each other since the 7th grade, and hadbeen through a lot together. Every time something was wrong Michelle washer go-to-girl. Michelle’s friendship meant a lot to Nikki, and it waslikewise for Michelle, so it was a good thing they had each other. Nikkitook the head phones out of her ears and hastily wiped her eyes.
“Are you okay?” Michelle asked
“What? Oh yeah… I just yawned,” Nikki replied “I’m so tired dude, I didn’tget to sleep till like 2!”
“Well that’s your dumbass fault, you knew we were leaving early forretreat today!”
“Psh sorry my family threw me a surprise going away party! I can’t believeyou didn’t tell me!”
“Well I wasn’t gonna be the one to ruin it! I was gonna let Arnel do that.”
“Whatever it was fun, where is Manalo anyways?”
“Oh he’s sleeping next to Kristian right now. You see them? Sitting behindJenny and JC.”
“Yeah, I see him. I wish I could fall asleep right now, but the road is sofucking bumpy!”
“Haha yeah it’s making me dry heave, I think I’m gonna throw up!”
A loud obnoxious laughter suddenly erupted from the front of the bus. Thesound was coming from Dillon Dupuy [Boy # 2], Pete Escartin [Boy # 3], andRyan Peters [Boy # 15]. Those boys were the jocks of their class, allbeing captains of certain teams in the school. Judging by the smell thatwas spreading throughout the bus, one of them had just farted. CourtneySulzberger [Girl # 17] and Mina Amin [Girl # 2] turned around and yelledat the boys.
“Eww you guys that is so gross!” Courtney screamed
“Ugh yeah I know, open a freaking window or something!” Mina said agreeingwith Courtney
“Get over it guys, farting is a natural thing.” Dillon said as he casuallyput his arm around his girlfriend, Cherry Camonayan [Girl # 6].
“I’ve already tried opening a window, it’s like stuck or something.”Cherry said.
The three guys chuckled as the three girls groaned.
The bus hit a big pothole, which caused Arnel Manalo [Boy # 10] to banghis head against the window and wake up. “OWW MOTHER FUCK!” Arnel yelledas he rubbed his forehead.JC Leonardo [Boy # 8], Jenny Adefuin [Girl # 1], and Kristian Paez [Boy #13] all began to laugh.
“Are you okay Arnel?” Jenny asked between laughs
“Shut up you bitches! That really hurt! This bus driver sucks!” Arnel said
“You’re just mad because you hit your head” JC said still laughing
“Besides it’s not the drivers fault the road is messed up.” Kristian said
“Whatever, I’m a better driver than this guy, I should just drive thisbus!” Arnel said, he thought for a moment and then added, “I bet even youthree losers can drive better!”
“HEY SHUT UP!” all three of them yelled as they bomb barded Arnel withpillows.
Monica Banaag [Girl # 3] and Mike Reyes [Boy # 17] were giggling as theylooked at each other and embraced. They were the coolest and most intimatecouple in the senior class. There was no need for P.D.A with them. Theycould be sitting the way they were now or even just hanging out having agood laugh, but anyone could tell by their facial expressions just howmuch they loved each other.
Right at the center of the bus a jam session was going on. Emjay Cruz[Girl # 8] and her boyfriend Dean Sanchez [Boy # 19] were strumming theirguitars as Allan Escuro [Boy # 4] and Marian Sanchez [Girl # 14] made uptheir own lyrics to the beat.
Jemima Santiago [Girl # 15], Phuong Thai [Girl # 18], and Leanne Zabala[Girl # 20] sat munching on their jumbo bag of Doritos Cool Ranch andlistened to the jam session going on right in front of them. “So how muchlonger is this bus ride?” said Phuong.
“Be patient Phuong, let’s enjoy this ride and watch Horton Hears A Who”Jemima replied as she popped the disc into her portable DVD player.
“Should I ask Andrew if he wants to watch with us?” Leanne asked as shelooked over at her boyfriend Andrew Farestzeit [Boy #5], he was sittingnext to his good friend Mason Holland [Boy # 6] “Oh and Nikki wanted towatch it too!”
“Well they look a little busy” Jem said glancing at her two classmates
“Can we just please start the movie already?” Phuong said.
Jayson Joaquin [Boy # 7] sat next to Darlene Paez [Girl # 12] casuallytalking about volleyball. He put his arm around her shoulder, but saw herolder brother Kristian look at him threateningly and quickly withdrew it.“So I guess your brother is really protective of you huh?” Jayson asked
“Well yeah, he is my kuya.” Darlene said in response “He’s always lookingout I guess, he just doesn’t want me to get hurt.”
“Yeah, I get it, I’m like that with my little sister too” Jayson said andthey continued to talk about their volleyball season and how they werealmost undefeated in their league.
“OH MY GOD! I’M SO HUNGRY!” Stefan Loo [Boy # 9] yelled “How much longeris this gonna take?!”
“We should have just driven there instead of taking this stupid bus,” saidRicky Salazar [Boy # 18]
“Yeah right would you have given me and Kris gas money?” asked RalphCansicio [Boy # 1]
“Not to mention all that mileage!” Krisman Santos [Boy # 20] said
“Hey guys,” Stefan said
“What?” all three of them asked in unison
“I’M STILL SO HUNGRY! I want some PHO!” Stefan yelled
“DUDE SHUT UP!” all three yelled back
Cassie BG [Girl # 4] sat in her seat laughing as her boyfriend Alex Parra[Boy # 14] was in the middle of a story. “OH! Can you grade my test?”Cassie said interrupting Alex’s story. They both started to laughuncontrollably.
Raven Sevilleja [Girl # 16] looked around the bus. All 40 kids in herclass actually came. She looked at her boyfriend sitting next to her.David Olano [Boy # 12] was sleeping on a pillow he pressed against thewindow. They had been fighting the night before and were not speaking, butRaven got to school late and since Nikki had all her stuff on the emptyseat next to her, the only other open seat was next to him. She had a lotgoing through her mind at the moment, so she decided to sleep too. Despitethe fact that they were fighting at the moment she leaned against Davidand quickly fell asleep. As if by some natural reaction, David moved toput his arm around Raven.
Paolo Morato [Boy # 11] and Michelle Del Rosario [Girl # 9] had their eyestransfixed on their gameboy DS’s. They were having a bet to see who couldwin in Mario Kart. Angelica Vega [Girl # 19], Rosan Derayunan [Girl # 10],and Joshua Ramirez [Boy # 16] were watching them race when Michellesuddenly yelled “YES I WON!” as Paolo looked down disappointed.
“Wait how about double or nothing?” Paolo asked
“No way!” Michelle replied, “You owe me five bucks!”
“Whatever I let you win anyways,” Paolo said
“Hey let’s all race now that you guys are done.” Angelica said pulling outher own DS
“It’s on! All of you already lost!” Rosan said with her DS already inhand, “I’m hosting so hurry up and join!”
“Okay I’m down too then,” Josh said as he rummaged through his backpack
“BEST! WE’RE RACING! YOU IN?” Michelle yelled across the bus to Nikki Ribas
“HELL YEAH I AM! YOU GUYS ARE GONNA LOSE!” Nikki yelled back, “MANALO AREYOU DOWN TOO?!” she turned to Arnel who was staring at her already waitingto be asked
“COME ON IS THAT EVEN A QUESTION?” he yelled in response
“HEY I WANNA RACE TOO,” Dean said as he stopped playing his guitar
“ HURRY UP AND JOIN MY GAME BEFORE I CUT YOU BITCHES OUT!” Rosan yelled,she was obviously getting impatient.
After some intense racing the kids playing DS were getting tired anddecided to end their battle. Nikki looked at her classmates, almost all ofthem were already asleep. Nikki noticed the seven other racers starteddrifting to sleep. Nikki’s eyelids got heavier as she struggled to stayawake. Then something caught her attention. What was that thing on thedrivers face? Her vision was already getting blurry, but it seemed to besome sort of mask. A gas mask perhaps? But why would the driver be wearinga gas mask? And with that last thought she closed her eyes and fell into adeep slumber…

Nikki’s head felt numb, her eyes twitched as she awoke in the dark on thecold floor. A Musky smell hit her nose. She coughed violently as herglazed eyes searched for someone. People were slowly getting up to theirknees and many were still asleep. Her hands immediately went to her neck;a huge metal collar was around it. A hand grabbed onto her shoulder.
"Nikki where are we?” The dazed voice of Michelle Iem muttered
There was a crackle and the lights above them sprung to life lighting theroom. The room reminded her of their classroom back at school, but moreprison like, there were bars on the windows and everything. The Small doornot too far from the black board had an obvious multi-lock on it. Nikkigot to her feet with Michelle at her side. Arnel walked towards themfollowed by Emjay.
"What’s going on?!" Emjay asked her voice breaking as she felt her ownneck that had a collar just like everyone else
"I don’t know, but it doesn’t look good." Nikki managed to say as her headspun
“Umm, guys… Maybe this is the field trip…” Michelle said as more studentsbehind her started to wake up
“No, I doubt it how could 40 students all fall asleep at the same time,it’s not normal…” Arnel said
“Come to think of it, before I fell asleep I think I saw the bus driverwearing a gas mask,” Nikki said, “But I thought I was just imagining it…”
“You mean like we were drugged?” Emjay asked in horror.
“Calm down. Where are Carol, Monica, JC, and Jenny?" Nikki said coolly,even though her heart had never beaten so fast in her life.
Her Eyes Darted around the room. There were groups of girls who werefrantically rambling to each other, boys who were yelling that they wantedto be let out. Few were still on the floor. Among them she caught sight ofCarol who was curled up in a ball near Monica, while Jenny was asleep atthe front.
"Where’s JC?" Nikki asked
The four of them looked around and saw him standing on top of a desklooking out of the windowsill. Arnel angrily walked over to him andyelled, "WHAT ARE YOU DOING?"
JC looked at him and then back at the window.
“WHAT THE HELL JC?! WHAT’S OUT THERE?”
JC jumped off the desk and looked at Arnel with a blank stare.
“JC put me on your back I want to see what’s fucking out there” Nikki said
As JC lifted her onto his back and climbed up the desk she saw that it wasbright outside. She glanced out the window and what she saw took her bysurprise. Beyond the window there were a lot of searchlights, off roadvehicles, and hundreds of armed military personnel. As she got off JC’sback she turned to the other three and said “Guys, I think we’re introuble.”
“Nikki what was out there?” Michelle asked
The lock on the door shook and the door swung open.
A dozen army men marched in, wielding guns. The room seemed smaller asthey walked in and secured the door again. All of the students werepetrified in fear, as they stood frozen. A tall serious looking man walkedin the front of the room.What the hell is Mr. Oswald doing Nikki wondered. By the look on everyoneelse’s faces she could tell they were all wondering the same thing.
“Sit down you guys,” Oswald said
Everyone looked at each other blankly, but stayed as they were.
“I SAID SIT DOWN!” Oswald yelled, and this time everyone moved.
“As most of you know, I am Mr. Oswald,” He said as he turned to theblackboard and began writing.
Slowly the student body president Jemima Santiago asked, “Mr. Oswaldwhat’s going on? What’s happening?”
“Do not interrupt Jemima, sit down and pay attention while I explaineverything.” Oswald said fiercely
He continued to write on the board. When he finished he looked back at theclass. Students were trying to look past him to see what he had written.
“Battle Royale.” He said calmly, “Your lesson for today… is to kill eachother off until only one remains…”
"You can't be serious!" Marian cried out getting to her feet.
"Mr. Wenderoff wouldn’t let this happen to us!" Angelica added.
"Yeah, Mr. Wenderoff did protest, but just like everyone else whoresisted, he had an accident…” Oswald said snapping his fingers and twomen went outside.They returned with a silver gurney with a white cloth over it Oswaldpulled off the cloth and showed their teacher. His face was bloody and hisglasses were cracked. The cowboy hat he always wore was no longer there.It looked like he had been shot multiple times all over his body.
The room screamed in terror as students scattered, running towards thedoor in sheer hysteria. Everyone was clawing at each other to get out.There was a shot in the air and everything shut up.
Oswald held a smoking pistol in his hands.
"Sit. I said SIT!" he yelled firing another shot.
Everyone cowered as they walked to their friends and sat on their chairs.Michelle had grabbed onto Josh’s hand. Tears were running down Courtney’sface where she huddled with Raven as Carol sat beside Jan, who showedlittle or no emotion on her face. Mike held Monica in his armsprotectively.
"Now. We're going to watch a little informative video, so pay attention."Oswald said, putting the video into the player as the gurney was rolledaway.
"You don’t expect us to watch a video after what we just saw, you bitch!”Krisman argued at him.
"Shut up and watch." He said turning it on.
The screen lit up with bright colors and a girl not much older than themwith long curly hair appeared.
"Hi senior class of Eagle Rock High School! My name is Lucia Cordisco! AndI'm here to make sure you understand what’s going on here!" Lucia cheered.
The screen wiped to a sentence saying, what is Battle Royale? Luciaappeared again.
"Battle Royale was a survival program used many years ago to enforcediscipline in for the students who misbehaved and boycotted school, whichcaused people to fear for the future of the world, due to lack ofeducation. But ten years ago it was disbanded due to a short rebellion andpeople thinking it was too harsh, but now you’re part of the lucky classesto be a part of the remade Battle Royale, and if everything goes well theProgram will be reinstated and everything will be much safer!" She chimedgrinning a happy smile.
"You Bastards!" A brave voice yelled. It was Dean.
"Shut up and pay attention,” Oswald hissed
"So what is it all about you ask? Well, in this game your closest friendsare your enemies! 40 compete until 1 is left standing. You have three daysto kill all of the people in this room with you, or else! But I'll explainthe or else part in a minute,” Lucia giggled, “You guys are on an islandthat has been evacuated! You will be given a map, some food and water, andother such things in your Survival Packs, but the most important part isyour weapon; you will each be given a weapon at random."
She held up a sub machine gun. "This person is super lucky!"
Lucia put it down and smiled again.
"I almost forgot! You know those funny necklaces you are wearing? Wellhere’s the catch, every now and then a part of the island will be markedoff as a danger zone as called out in an announcement by your teacher orsubstitute, but, Uh-Oh, What if your in a danger zone? Well the necklaceswill explode! AND if you all fail to kill each other within the timelimit, all of your necklaces will explode. Plus don’t even think abouttaking it off or, that’s right IT EXPLODES!"
The room stayed quiet, many were too shocked and scared to say anything.
"Now I'll give you a few tips! First, keep your food rationed, secondly,sometimes not even your friends can be trusted so try and not divide intogroups, and lastly when you are called out run as far as you can and tryto get a head start! Good Luck and let the games BEGIN! In a moment, Iwill call out the names of everyone here, who will take a bag, you canalso bring your personal items and proceed to the exit. But first yourteacher will allow questions to be answered."
She ended quickly and the video went onto stand-by.
"Are there any questions?" Oswald asked.
Three people raised their hand.
"Yes Rosan." He said pointing directly at her
"Why were we chosen?" She asked.
"Well mainly because you're the only school with more Police records thanattendance records, even though normally freshmen are chosen, you are allmore intelligent than by normal test standards. You were put in a rafflewith other schools like yours and you were chosen. Yes Paolo?" He repliedto her question and pointed at him sitting at the back of the class
"Do our parents know?" He asked
“Yes, shortly after your buses departure, marines were sent to each ofyour houses to inform your family members, those who resisted were eitherkilled or arrested.”
The final hand was of Jemima’s.
"Jemima?" Oswald asked
"Why was this program created? So many people killed! Why are you bringingit back?!" She screamed at him.
Oswald gave a short smirk and a sharp laugh.
"Why? To make you understand the pain the teachers, your parents, PEOPLEOFF THE STREET feel! Everyday, one of you puts yourself or someone indanger, your teachers worry about other people’s safety, your parentsworry about your safety and people off the street worry when you'll turnand hurt them. Times are getting worse everyday. Warfare and murder on thestreets, with this program back everything will be better." He answeredhis voice thick with venom. The video came back on.
"Boy Number 1: Ralph Cansicio." Ralph stood up and walked to the front.The guards threw a daypack into his arms.
"Girl Number 1: Jennilyn Adefuin" Jenny struggled to get to the front, butAllan grabbed onto her hand
"Don't go!" He cried out.
"I-I don’t wanna go!" She choked.
"You have no choice." Oswald said as a guard grabbed Jenny’s shoulders,forced the bag into her hands and pushed her out of the door before shecould say anything more.
"Boy Number 2: Dillon Dupuy" He quickly took a glance at his friends thengrabbed his stuff and left
"Girl Number 2: Mina Amin"
“Boy Number 3: Peter Escartin.”
"Girl Number 3: Monica Banaag."
Mike held her tighter, not wanting to let her go.
"Let her go Michael." Oswald muttered to him.
He shook his head no.
"Let her go or I blow her throat up." Oswald threatened, and the wholeclass held their breath.
For a few moments nothing happened, but his arms seized up and she got toher feet, got her own bag and proceeded with the daypack the guards threwat her.
The list continued for a while, each of them holding onto each otherpraying that this was some mistake and that their names would never becalled.
"Boy Number 10: Arnel Manalo." Nikki and Michelle gripped his hand tighterand pulled him back as he tried to get up.
"I have to go. I'll wait for you guys outside." He whispered to them.
They let go unwillingly and watched as their best friend shuffled to thefront, had his bag thrown at him and ran out of the room.
“Girl Number 11: Michelle Iem.” She looked at Nikki and asked “Should wewait for you outside?”
“No it’s too dangerous, just meet me at the northern part of the island,”Nikki replied
“Okay…”
“You guys just be careful yeah? I’ll see you in a bit.”
Nikki watched Michelle walk out the door. She looked around the room atthe tense faces of her classmates. “Girl # 13: Alyssa Ribas.”
Nikki stood up and walked to the front to grab her daypack, but suddenlyturned around and looked at the remaining students, “Well guys, this is aload of BS,” Nikki said, “But I guess I’ll see you out there right?Peace…”As she walked out the door she turned and spit on Oswald shoes. “You’re abitch for letting us go through this…” and with that she ran out towardsthe open door that awaited her at the end of the hall.

Game start: 03:24am / Day 1.
Nikki walked out of the double doors and a cool breeze hit her face. Shelooked across the dirt path and through the tropical trees. The Islanditself was quite beautiful even at night. If it wasn’t for the terriblestory behind the place, it could have been a beautiful getaway. The placewas silent apart from a shuffling through the plants and trees and therush of water from some unknown place.
"Hey Nikki!" a voice called from a hill, almost covered in Bushes.
She turned. She saw the figure move up from the bushes slightly, his armsunseen. It was the captain of the track team Peter Escartin [Boy # 3].Nikki suddenly noticed a red dot move from the ground onto her chest."Nothing personal right?" he said
"Get down!" Someone suddenly yelled and tackled Nikki to the ground.The ground moved up dust as the bullet hit the ground. Monica Banaag [Girl# 3] rolled off Nikki and loaded her Walther PPK 9mm. She fired instantlytowards were Pete's bullet came from. There was a rustle through thebushes and everything went quiet again apart from the eerie chirp of thecrickets."Are you okay, Nikki?" She asked as she got to her feet."WHAT THE FUCK?!" She exclaimed, “Fucking Pete… Are you okay Mon?”"I’m okay… I can’t believe this is really happening… I can’t believe Petetried to kill you!”
Nikki’s head was spinning. So many questions were running through herhead. How did Monica learn how to fire a gun? Why did everyone turn oneach other so fast?
“It’s dangerous to linger around the school, what are you still doing here?”
“I’m just waiting for Mike…”
“You could get killed waiting”
“I can’t just run off, I mean what if I don’t get to see him again…”
“Mon I’m sure we’ll meet up with him, we have to go…”
“Nikki I’m sorry I just can’t… You go, maybe we can just meet up later orsomething…”
“Yeah if we’re lucky… okay give me your map, when Mike comes out, meet meat the northern part of the island okay?”
“Okay, Courtney comes out right after Mike, if we’re lucky all three of uswill meet you there.”
“Yeah I’ll try and see if I run into anyone else we can trust, be carefulplease Monica?”
“Don’t worry I’m sure we’ll see each other again.”
“I’ll see you Mon, love you…”
With those parting words Nikki set off towards the northern part of theisland, as Monica crouched behind the bushes waiting for them to come out.
40 students remaining
Allan Escuro [Boy # 4] sat crouching in the dark corner of a house. Itprobably wasn’t a good idea going into the first house he saw, but it wasbetter than sitting out in the open where you could just get attackedwithout any warning. He felt like he was sitting there for days, but onlyan hour had passed since he left the school. When he first walked out hehad no idea what he was going to do. His first thought was to meet up withfriends, but could they be trusted?He ran a good couple of miles before he actually stumbled upon this house.He still hadn’t looked into the bag he got before he left the room. He dugthrough his bag and saw a shiny metallic object. He pulled it out andrealized it was a small hatchet.“What the hell am I going to do with this?” Allan thought aloud. He wasslightly disappointed with his weapon, but he might be able defendhimself. He was sure people were out to get him; after all he wasn’t thenicest person in their class. What would he do if someone tried to killhim? Did he even have the strength to take him on? A loud noise outsidethe house interrupted his thoughts. Someone was trying to get into thesame house he was in.Allan started to panic. Damn of all the places why here? He crawled undera bed that was in the house. His grip on his axe tightened. He knew he hadto get out as soon as possible. Whoever was out there was already at thedoor. Allan had never felt so scared in his life. From under the bed hecould see that it was a girl who came into the house. I think I could killher, Allan thought. “Thank God no one’s here,” The voice came from PhuongThai [Girl # 18]. Allan sighed, a wave of relief had come over him. Heslowly crawled out from under the bed.
“Hey Phuong,” Allan said coming up behind her
“Oh my God, Allan you scared me,” Phuong said
“Sorry, I didn’t know it was you coming,”
“Well obviously, you were under the bed and didn’t see my face”
“Yeah, I’ve been so scared, I’m glad of all people to show up here it wasyou.”
“Yeah me too… Jemima left before me so I have no idea where she’s at… andI was too scared to wait for Leanne.”
“It’s okay we can just stay with each other until we figure things outright?”
“Allan can I see your weapon?”
“I got this axe, its pretty useless huh?” Allan said as he handed it Phuong
“No not really, you could have used it to defend yourself…” Her voicetrailed off as she examined the weapon
“Yeah, that’s what I thought,”
Wait a minute Allan thought, why was Phuong suddenly talking in pasttense? His eyes suddenly moved to her hand that was concealed behind herback.
“Phuong what’s your weapon? Can I see it?”
“You can’t hold it, but I got this gun.” She said revealing her automaticpistol; it was a Beretta M92F. The gun looked huge in her little hands. Adevious grin suddenly spread across her face.
“Allan you’ve been a good friend, but in this game, it’s kill or bekilled, sorry.”
“Phuong NO!”
And with those parting words Phuong Thai pulled the trigger on her gun. Agigantic hole had appeared in the middle of Allan’s torso. He dropped tohis knees as Phuong fired one more shot directly at his forehead. Phuongstepped over Allan’s bloody corpse and grabbed his daypack as she headedback out into the forest.
Boy # 4, Allan Escuro dead.
39 students remaining