Alan.I piled up all my textbooks and shoved them into my yellow backpack. The alarm system went off just in time: 2 pm, school was over, time to head back home. I hurriedly followed my friends toward the exit, but I lagged and tripped over my untied shoelace. I fell face-first onto the hard marble floor, blood immediately trickling from my nose. I pushed myself up with effort, reaching to remove my glasses so I could clean them, but suddenly, a hand snatched them out of my grasp.I ran my arm across my nose, wiping away blood as I sniffled, narrowing my eyes at the blurry silhouette in front of me that smelled weird, I had pretty bad eyesight but my nose worked like a detector... And right now I just knew the group of people surrounding me included Eric, a popular senior.I did a 360 turn and to my surprise, the broad hallway that was buzzing with students my age, had already emptied, not even my friends, Gina and Luca were in sight, everyone was gone except these seniors who now sur
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