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Arden walked into the computer lab. “Hi, miss,” he mumbled. No one ever called the teachers by their proper names. Everyone waltzed around campus calling every teacher they see “miss” or “mister”. This bothered Arden, but the only reason he called this lady “miss,” is because he didn’t know her name.
“Why, hello Arden!” The lady blurted. “How are your grades?”
“A’s like always, miss.”
“How wonderful! You know Arden, I have a gorgeous daughter, and I’m dying for you to meet her.”
“No thanks miss, I have enough problems already.”
The lady started to laugh, and booted up Arden’s computer.
Arden didn’t like school. After a few hours of thinking, however, he concluded school is the only point to his life right now. Friends once crossed his mind as having a point, but after realizing they would be lost after high school, he decided not to get any. “They would be distractions anyway,” he concluded, “I’ll get along fine without them.”
If Arden were to be close to anything, it would be technology. He visits the computer lab daily, yet, never bothered to learn the name of the monitoring lady. It was early when Arden arrived in the computer lab. He was there for an hour when the announcements began. Arden expected the same voice to speak over the speaker, saying the same things, save for lunch and other miscellaneous items. Today, however, a foreign sound rang on the speakers. Foreign, like a scream in a meadow, thunder on a sunny day, perhaps, a gunshot in a school. A fire alarm was pulled, and the ear piercing ring filled the entire school. Screams are heard. More gunshots pop. The speakers go static. Then silence.
Someone picks up the announcement phone, and begins to speak.
“Good morning, everyone….my name is Malloy,” he continued, “please remain in the classroom you are currently in. If you are seen in the hallways, you will be disabled. Students currently in the hallway will report to the nearest possible classroom, now. My hall monitors will watch the hallways. Good day.” Malloy hung up the phone.
Arden was callous to the situation at hand. He unemotionally heard the gunshots over the speaker, and stood still when four students ran into the lab. He was too busy thinking about “Malloy’s” voice. It was too calm. The voice was intelligent, and seemed to plan this whole situation out as if it wasn’t a big deal. The voice bothered Arden. It indirectly belittled him, using him as a helpless victim in his plan, with its arrogant tone being projected throughout the whole school for all to hear. Arden saw a man clad in black armed with a rifle walking down the hall through the window in the door. It was one of Malloy’s hall monitors. Arden started to think. Considering the confident voice, Arden assumed Malloy had a plan. Arden also assumed there was about twenty-five “hall monitors”, for five had already passed by the door periodically, and this was a large school. Also, Arden now knew the exact position of Malloy: the main office, where the announcement phone is. Arden started to click away at his computer, and somehow got the security cameras around the school to display on his screen. The four students who had ran in were now behind Arden, amazed at what he had done on the computer.
Malloy was rubbing the muzzle of his pistol against his temple. His eyes were closed. He was thinking of all the things that could possibly happen, and was already finding solutions to them. He paced down the halls, gun in hand. Malloy sported a brown blazer, wide open, showing his white undershirt, and wore a red tie. He had light brown, wavy hair reaching the top of his neck. He had a white, symmetrical face with defined cheekbones. He is 25 years old. He peeked through the front entrance. The police and the crew had surrounded the building already.
Arden was observing the displays. Arden discovered that he was completely wrong about the hall monitors. There were only ten. They were circling around the school very fast, so they gave the false impression that there were many. A smart technique on Malloy’s part. Arden deducted the new facts at his disposal and prepared a plan. He realized he will be conducting everything from the lab. First of all, the cameras were a huge advantage. Malloy had a similar advantage, with his hall monitors being his eyes and ears. Malloy had a larger area to watch, and Arden had to use this to his advantage. Arden had obtained all the information available, and decided to take action. He hacked the elevator system, and made the elevator ring. This caught the attention of one of the hall monitors. The door opened, as if without a prompt, and the hall monitor walked in, bewildered. The doors then quickly shut, moved down to the basement floor, and then Arden disabled the elevator.
Malloy went into a panic state when he discovered one of his monitors was trapped. It was a setback in his plan, and it struck Malloy like a hammer strikes an anvil. He had to find a solution to t
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(I cheated, and I actually wrote this on microsoft word, then c/p. )

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