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day 2: school

"there's a fight in the hallway!" someone shouted while sam was at her locker.

she quickly got up and rushed to join the crowd down the hall. what she saw wasn't so much a fight as one student beating the crap out of another. the student who was winning had blood trickling from his nose and mouth. sam couldn't see the face of the student on the ground, but she figured he must look a lot worse.

"break it up, break it up!" a teacher shouted, pushing through the crowd.

he grabbed the one student, trying to end the fight. the student pulled and kept kicking the student on the ground. it took three teachers to wrestle him away.

a female teacher was attempting to help the student on the ground get up.

"get to class!" shouted the principal, coming down the hall. "go on, get to class!"

the students dispersed and went their separate ways, glancing back at the scene in morbid curiosity.

"what hell is going on?" sam caught the female teacher whispering to the principal as he kneeled down next to her. "three fights yesterday, seven today. we usually don't have this many in a month."

the principal didn't say anything, just shook his head.

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