Chapter Three: The Discovery

    It has already been one day since they were all trapped. Everyone began to slowly loose faith in ever getting out of the room. But not Sam she still had hope. Hope that she will see her family and friends again. A loud bang on the door startled Sam and her classmates. They all shrieked in terror, when they heard a couple of manly voices screaming. Mr. Hopkins yelled at the class to be quiet and everyone went silent. 

"Everybody try to calm down, we are trying to open the door. Please try to remain silent." Deep voice yelled. All the classmates went back to their own seats, sat down and patiently hoped the door would open. Sam heard loud thumps on the door. The noises where so loud everyone had to cover their ears. With the last huge bang the door flew open. There were many excited voices around the room. There were five men who opened the door, they all came in and told the kids to go outside. Sam and the others quickly got up to see what was in the hallway. It wasn't a hallway anymore. All of the lockers crumpled down to the floor, there were no doors in most of the classes and the walls along with the ceiling fell apart. Almost no one could speak, the shock and terror was to big.

"Where is everyone else?" Aries shouted across the room.

"That's what we all wanted to talk to you kids bout. W don't want to alarm you but only your class and two other classes made it." One of the men said. Many alarmed voices started panicking across the room.

"Unfortunately the people in the other classes were crushed when the "earthquake" happened."

That was the moment the world stopped for Sam. What if her friends didn't make it. She felt tears pouring down her face but she quickly wiped them.

"You guys can go outside and try to find people you know." Mr. Hopkins sadly said. Sam heard someone shout her name. It was Aries.

"Sam , hey do you want me to come with you? It would be easier if we went together, please."

She could hear the desperation in his voice, and she knew he was afraid. Sam gently nodded and they both slowly walked through the empty school. It was crumpled to pieces.

   They both finally got to the front door. The whole school was so empty and sad. But at least they made it. Sam did not know what to expect on the outside but what she saw outside the front door made her heart beat fast. All of the tall Manhattan building were either all crumpled down or broken in half. Most of the roads had huge cracks in them. Other roads were completely broken. All of the trees had fallen to the ground or they were ripped from their core. The cars were completely smashed. But the saddest thing she saw were the people. They were all rushing around, scared looking for someone they knew. They had a look of despair on their faces. Many of them were on the side of the road and they looked like they gave up searching. Sam had never seen so much disaster, not even in movies. She tried to shut her eyes, maybe this was just a dream. Maybe she could make herself wake up. That's when reality hit her. This wasn't just a dream, sadly it was reality.