Kairos

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WOODY POV

the sounds of the alarms rang heavily throughout the school, as the automated voice system kept repeating "THIS IS NOT A DRILL".

The lights had been shut down, and everyone was demanded to stay either in their dorms or inside the school. Anyone roaming around campus was forced into the admissions building by school officials.

Thurgood Marshall Magnet High School was on lock down.

It was terrifying but also exhilarating. I was inside the gymnasium, sitting on the bleachers with about 100 other kids waiting for this to end. The teachers kept us locked inside and tried to calm us down, but it was too loud for anybody to pay attention to them.

I was actually pretty calm. I had seen these kind of things before. I rested my arms on my knees, waiting for this to blow over. I could see someone walking towards me from my peripheral vision and turned my see Keith walking my way. He sat down next to me, and dapped me down.

"Bro this is crazy" Keith sighed

"yeah, what's going on?" I asked

"Nah I'm not talking about this, I'm talking about me, man I'm fucked" Keith rubbed his hand over his face, anxious.

"Wait what? What do you mean?"

"Coach is making us take drug tests now. Bro, I'm not passing that shit!"

"Ok you smoke weed, what's the problem?"

Keith pulled out an orange container full of pills from his pocket discreetly, to show his friend. He looked around, making sure nobody had been looking at them.

"Steroi-...Nigga what the fuck are you doing with these!? Who gave them to you!?" Woody silently yelled at Keith as he put them back into his pocket

"Doctor said I might have to sit out the rest of the season. This is senior year...if I don't get scholarship, it's done for me. You don't understand, I can't afford to not get into college..." Keith said, still looking around.

"Keith Bro, but this isn't the way to go" woody responded

"I'm fine, I just need you to help me out with this urine sample"

"Nah, I'm not getting involved"

"Wood, you know how much playing football means to me. You know where this could get me. Come on..." Keith insisted

"Keith do you not understand the position you're putting me in?" Woody began "you're making me choose between you and potentially getting expelled. We're bros, but you know how much money my parents put into enrolling me here? If you and I get caught, then we both go down and it doesn't look for either one of us"

Keith sat silently, letting Woody's words sink in. Keith simply looked at him, then looked down. Woody felt a bit of remorse in his heart, and sighed, shaking his head.

"Fine, I'll do it. Only if you get off those damn steroids AND if my name isn't mentioned" Woody reluctantly said

"Never even thought about ever ratting you out bro" Keith smiled dapping him down.

Bryshere walked up towards them, dapping the both of them, also looking around.

"Y'all okay?" He asked, sitting down next to Keith.

"We good, you?" Woody answered

"Yeah, I heard there's a gunman on campus" bryshere explained "nobody knows where he is though"

Keith and Woody sat up, shaken a bit, raising their eyebrows.

"Yo I hope everyone else is straight" Keith said.

"Luke is in the admissions office, and Mia is in her dorm with Lisa Elijah and Algee, I texted them as soon as the alarms rang, " Woody responded.

"Wait, but what about Paris?" Bryshere squinted his eyes, concerned.

Woody looked up, in thought, opening his eyes wide, crossing his arms. Keith looked around the gymnasium, spotting a familiar face across the large room.

Bryshere sighed as he pulled out his phone, going through his contacts for her number.

"Yo y'all recognize him?"  Keith said, judging his head in the direction if the familiar face.

Woody squinted his eyes, having a hard time seeing.

From across the room, a ringtone could be heard, Paris's ringtone to be exact. Bryshere, Keith and Woody looked toward where the sound had been coming from, spotting the same guy pulling something out of his pocket.

They could spot him pulling out an iPhone 6, with a pink rhinestoned case and a crown in the headphone jack. The man looked at the contact name, knowing exactly who had been calling the phone.

"Yo, that's him!" Bryshere, pointed towards him, nudging Keith and Woody.

"HE'S GOT A GUN!" A student yelled, pointing at the same guy, and in an instant people were fleeing from his presence.

Students were swarming back and forth trying to escape the gym, but all the door had been locked, and there was nowhere to go.

However instead of running, Bryshere jumped down from the bleachers towards him, with Keith and Woody chasing after him to stop him, yet had difficulty getting through the student running frantically around the gym.

"YO WHERE THE HELL IS SHE!?" Bryshere yelled angrily storming towards him.

...Within seconds a bang could be heard from the gymnasium into the dorms and into the admissions office.