FACE YOUR FEARS

PRESENT DAY – NEW PRIME

This is the other quarter of the original prime city. This place is no where like the ruins in fact it is the opposite. Light illuminated every part of the city due to the presence of streetlights and advertising boards almost everywhere. The cars in this city were either modern or futuristic and everyone was dressed well. It was as if there was no poor person in this part of the city. Everyone was always busy working and not much people roamed the city due to its low population.

1:30 PM – NEW PRIME HIGH

New prime high, the only high school in new prime. Every teenager in this part of the city attends this school and even teenagers from other parts of prime city.

In "Biology Lab A" of new prime high a young teenage boy stood over a lab bench his eyes widely open and shaking. As if he had seen something which wasn't natural.

"Sir I would like to visit the washroom"

The teenage made his way to the washroom. He kept on staring in the mirror.

"I can't do this" He muttered to himself.

"This is the third time man, the third time out of three biology practical's you have gotten out to spend the rest of the class in the washroom" a voice coming from behind said.

Two reflections appeared in the mirror the teenage boy Senam was staring at. It was his two closest friends, Kwame and Sedem.

Senam turned on the tap and rinsed his face with it.

"You know its not too late to switch to I.T" Kwame continued.

Senam picked up some tissues and wiped his face with it. "I just can't, I need to do what he did"

"Well, it seems like whatever "he" did isn't working out for you" Kwame said with a teasing tone.

"You always say this, but we don't know this guy you always talk about or what he even did" Sedem added.

Senam sighs and walks to the door "I'm going back to class "

Turns out during that biology class the students were asked to dissect a dead frog. But senam suffers from hemophobia so he couldn't dare to bisect the frog given to him.

Back in class, Senam stood over the lab bench staring at the dead frog Infront of him. He looked to his left and saw Kwame and Sedem staring at him. They had already dissected their frog.

He picked up a scalpel and moved his hand slowly towards the frog. An expression of disgust grew on his face as the scalpel got closer to the frog.

"Hey let me help you"

Senams bench partner requested. He looked to his left and saw her hand stretched out requesting for his scalpel. This was her first time ever speaking to him since they became bench partners.

He stared at her for a while, He didn't know what to say or do. He barely spoke to girls so he became nervous.

"Don't worry the teacher won't see" she assured him.

After hearing this he handed her his scalpel and she switched their dissecting tray. She quickly began dissecting Senams frog.

"I'm Maddie"

Senam looked at her with a confused expression and the other two boys looked his way in surprise. "Why would a girl want to speak to a guy like me" He thought to himself.

"Don't bother I know your name already, Senam"

"All right our period is over I hope you were all able to finish up" The teacher informed the class.

"All done here" Maddie said whiles exchanging their dissecting trays back.

"Thanks, I hope I can return the favor one day" Senam said whiles looking away and covering the tray with a piece of cloth.

Thud!

His bag fell from the table and his stuff pouring out.

"I'm sorry I'll pick it up" Maddie said while heading for the bag.

She got his belongings back into the bag and handed it over to him.

The other two boys were looking at them. Their eyes lit with surprise.

"Dude, she definitely likes you" Kwame said while they walked out of the school.

"Don't mistake kindness for admiration" Senam said to Kwame.

"Offering to dissect your frog, telling you her name and picking up your bag doesn't sound like sheer kindness to me dude" Sedem contributed to the conversation.

 "I think you've got yourself a girlfriend my brother" Kwame said whiles throwing his arm over senams shoulder.

"You two are out of your minds" Senam said, speeding ahead of them whiles they laughed at him.

These three where first year students of new prime high. The were all sixteen years old and had been friends for seven years. Kwame and senam knew each other long before those seven years because their parents were friends. They both became friends with Kwame when they all met back in primary school.

It was five thirty pm and senam stood by his rooms window looking at the neighborhood. His neighborhood looked like a peaceful one with every building looking extremely fancy and big. He then looked at the main road of the neighborhood, cars rarely came to pass by as if it was a ghost town. From where he stood, he could see the ruins it looked like complete darkness had engulfed that place. The dark sky met with the city and it looked like the sky at descended down to earth. There was no form of luminance in the sky no sun no moon or even stars it was just darkness.

"Hey it's your turn"

Senam turns around "Don't tell me you lost already Kwame"

Kwame dropped the game pad and stood up "Not my fault I suck at this game just haven't spent enough time with it yet"

"Even with enough time you still wouldn't beat me" Sedem said whiles looking at the television with a smirk.

"Oh, we will see about that "Kwame replied.

Most of the time, the boys would hang out at Senams place after school. Senam was basically the man of the house. He had two little siblings and an older sister who was their bread winner. You would think this would cause them to live in poverty but with the money they inherited from their parents and a working sister they lived a life of luxury. 

A few moments later Kwame is sitting on a sofa reading a book. He takes out his phone and looks at it.

"Its time guys" The time on his phone reads Eight pm.

"Well, its about time" Sedem removes a ticket from his bag and it reads; "BIKE NIGHT 24-NEON CITY 8:30 PM"

"Ummmm guys I'm not sure I can make it" Senam said with a worried expression on his face.

"What's wrong?" Kwame said whiles approaching him.

My tickets not here, I might have left it in the biology lab when my bag fell" Senam replied.

"Yo what? That's bad" Sedem exclaimed.

"Sedem's right, Blaze won't be happy if we all didn't make it besides, he got us these tickets" Kwame added.

There was silence for some few seconds as they sat down thinking of what to do now.

"What if we checked the biology lab?" Kwame broke the silence.

"In other words, we are breaking into the school" Sedem added.

"I really didn't want it to come to this" Senam muttered while putting his palm over his face.

"Sneaking into the school at this time is absurd, there are too many risks to take. What if we came in contact with those skin walkers everyone's talking about?"

"You all should go without me don't worry"

"Skinwalkers?" Sedem said with a jovial tone and began laughing soon after Kwame joined him.

"You actually believe those rumors?" Kwame asked

"Well after what happened Five years ago anything is believable at this point" Senam replied.

"It's settled then we are going to the school" Kwame said whiles picking up his bag.

"Hey I didn't agree to any of this" Senam tried pointing out but was cut off by Kwame leaving the room.

Soon after Sedem also left the room leaving Senam with no choice but to follow them.

Its eight ten pm and the boys are at the back of the school. Using the front gate would be a bad idea due to the presence of security guards. After skidding the wall, they were finally in the school compound.

The compound was really large with multiple blocks. They had to get to the biology lab which was located on the second floor of block C.

Moments later after evading multiple security guards they where finally at block C. They climbed to the second floor and found themselves Infront of the biology lab.

Kwame tried opening the door but something was wrong.

"Damn the door is locked" Kwame looked back annoyed.

"Then we have to go to the administration for the keys" Sedem said.

Luckily for them the administration block was just behind block C. They made it to the administration block but they just stood there looking at it. It looked different from the other blocks.

Sure, it was night time but every other block had a form of illumination. But this one was just dark no light present. This urged the boys to take out their phones as a source of light.

The administration block had three floors and none of them knew where the biology office actually was. So, they decided to split up and each cover one floor.

Sedem took the top floor, Kwame took second floor and Senam took the ground floor. After some time of searching Sedem had found the office.

He texted the others to meet him on the top floor where he had found the office. Luckily for him the office wasn't locked so he easily opened it. Right after opening it he heard a sound from the distance.

To him it sounded like something had fallen down and he began wondering that was. Soon after he heard footsteps approaching him. They got louder and faster by the second and it sounded like someone was running towards him.

At this moment he was scared he didn't know what was approaching him and it felt like it was too late to do anything at all. All he could do was to direct his phone in the direction of whatever was approaching him hoping to catch a glimpse of what it was.

Soon after that something bumped into him and whatever bumped into him was now on top of him. He was now on the ground after that collision and was struggling to open his eyes. But soon after he did his eyes met with whoever was on top of him.

The person immediately got off him and said "Run" Before running herself.

"I've seen her somewhere before but I don't remember where" Sedem thought to himself.

But there was no time for trying to recollect memories. Something was telling him to run after whoever that was because she could be running away from anything.

He grabbed his phone and took to his heels.

Sedem tried his best to keep up with the girl Infront of him, His surrounding was dark but as long as he could hear her footsteps he knew where to go, after some time he saw what looked Infront of him light.

It soon came to his realization, that might be Kwame and Senam.

"Run!" The girl exclaimed as she approached them.

The boys just stood there looking at her approach them confused at what was just happening.

"Just Run!" Sedem shouted.

Soon after they heard this, they knew it was Sedem and began running.

They made it to the staircase and began descending it as fast as they could but something bizarre began to occur the top floor suddenly turned all dark and it seemed this darkness began descending the stairs too. This darkness engulfed everything it came in contact with such that nothing was seen as it approached.

Kwame was the first to realize this as he looked back whiles running. This terrified him and forced him to increase his speed his life was basically on the line here.

The others after seeing Kwame look back also did same and fear flooded their whole being. They run as fast as they could and finally made it to the ground floor.

But they didn't stop there they all thought the same thing, as if something had told them all the same thing.

"We have to make it to the light "

In a far distance from the block there it was, a Lamp pole it felt like their only chance of survival.

They all run towards the lamp pole with all the energy they had left.

THUD!

Someone had fallen but who was it? There were no signs of those who were running also slowing down.

But something stopped them it was a loud scream, a feminine one as a matter of fact. They where almost to the lamp pole but they couldn't ignore that scream.

They looked back and realized; the worst had happened. The person who had told them to run had now been caught by whatever was chasing them. She had submerged in the darkness with only her face and part of her torso sticking out.

This was a face the three boys were familiar with

"Maddie?" Senam said

"Oh no" Sedem said under his breath 

At this moment only one thought run through Senams mind

"I NEED TO DO WHAT HE DID"

"I need to face my fears"

Without even a second thought he run towards Maddie. It happened so fast the others didn't realize it until after some time.

"What is he doing" Kwame asked himself

"Oh no he is going to get himself killed" Senam thought to himself

"SENAM!" Sedem screamed on top of his lungs.

Right after that a lamp pole that wasn't working which was right Infront of the entrance of the block began to spark and give off intense light just for a split moment.

The darkness which covered Maddie suddenly became faint and backed off her. At the same time senam run towards her grabbed her hand and began running.

Soon after that the intense light disappeared. It looked like the lamp pole had stopped working again. Right after that the other two began running towards Madie and senam.

"RUN!" They both screamed.

The darkness began to form back and they had all felt it. At a fast rate it moved towards Maddie and senam.

They knew what was happening it was trying to engulf them.

Maddie felt a push, someone had pushed her she looked back and saw Senam slowly drifting away.

The darkness also grew closer to senam.

"SENAM!" Kwame exclaimed

It was too late there was no way he could be saved. They watched as the darkness grew around him gradually and finally engulfed him.

All they saw was darkness. Their friend was gone, they were in disbelief.

They watched as the once pitch-black color covering the whole block slowly disappeared.

Where was senam now.