Cerpen: Loud

"enough with your chit chat" I took out my history book, and Ajax smiled widely as he snatched the book. 

I looked at the back row and saw Anthon sitting on the right side. He was looking at me. I slightly waved my hand at him, just for him to ignore me. 

"You don't need to pay attention to him you know" I could hear Ajax loud enough for Anthon to hear him. "you knew he's always been like that. 

I pinched his right arm, "he can hear you." Ajax shrugged, "that's the point."

"Something happened between you two, right? and I'm 99% sure it's on him." Just when I was about to complain about his words, Mr. Ragnvindr was already in class. I didn't realize the bell has rung. 

.... 

It was quiet during Mr. Ragnvindr's class. The students already knew the characteristics of every teacher. Mr. Ragnvindr won't tolerate any disturbance during his class, one time a classmate of mine was talking with her friend and Mr. Ragnvindr didn't hesitate to give a punishment to clean the school toilets. 

30 minutes passed, Mr. Ragnvindr gave us 5 minutes break and I chose to go to the restroom. I was washing my hands when I saw Anthon out of the stall. "Sorry for this morning," he said as he washed his hands. He actually surprised me a bit. I didn't expect him to talk to me. "okay, it's partially my fault too." I was about to get out of the restroom when I heard a loud bang outside. Once. Twice. Thrice. I looked at Anthon, he didn't look that surprised but I could feel he tensed up a bit. We both knew what sound that was. I reach my phone and an alert message confirmed my fear.

ALERT!! There is a report of an ARMED person throughout the school, shelter in place while police investigate.

I felt my heart drop for a moment. Then I heard another bang and it became closer and closer to the restroom. "we need to get out here" Anthon said as he checked on the surrounding. He locked the door to slow down the moment the shooter broke in. There were small windows on the right of the wastrels. The windows were small but big enough for people to go through it. "quick" Anthon calmly said to me. He still looked calm, but I knew how terrifying this situation was. 

My hands went cold. I walked to the window, tried to reach it but the window position just has to be higher than mine. Sometimes I hated my small figure. It put me on disadvantages. Anthon quickly squatted down, without further thinking I went up to his shoulders. When he stand up, we heard another bang. I quickly reached the window and jump off it. Anthon followed in a second. The moment we were out of the building, we heard a bang inside the restroom.