The Know 5

I touched the hand scanner for the elevator, and waited for it to turn green signaling that I could put my hand down. About two minutes passed and still it didn’t recognize me. I stood there with my left hand on the scanner now leaning into it to keep my arm from falling. Slowly the muscle in my arm started cramping up. It normally only took 30 seconds for it to turn green I wonder what’s wrong? It couldn’t be another GSS malfunction. Could it? I dropped my arm and the hand scanner turned red.

“What’s going on?” I mumbled to myself confused.

“Hello I exist!” I said hitting the wall next to the scanner with my hand.

I put my hand on the scanner again, and again, and every time I did it would turn red. I let my hand fall down to my side, and at that moment I realized something was seriously wrong. The time popped up on my glasses. 7:38. I started to jog back out to the lobby and noticed that the worker I had talked to before was gone and the student that should have came was gone already too. Fear rose inside me when I realized that I hadn’t seen anyone else try to get on the elevator which meant they never got off of work or school. The last person I saw was the one person who walked into the hotel at 6:37, that must have been the intern.

“The auto-electric trolley!” I yelled aloud.

Without hesitation I ran out the door, and saw the trolley sitting there with people still inside. It should have left… the time popped back on the glasses screen. 6:40. It should have left 3 minutes ago! I could see the people’s worried faces along with the employee that I had spoke with earlier. I began to run across the street to the door on the right side of the trolley. The employee from the hotel saw me coming and met me at the closed door. He grabbed it and pulled on the handle it didn’t budge.

“Its locked!” He yelled to me through the glass.

As soon as the words touched air you could hear some people start talking and within seconds people began to scream. A large man suddenly ran up to the front shoved the employee aside and began to push frantically on the door. I didn’t like the look in his eyes, it was a look I had seen to many times. When the man realized he couldn’t open it he turned around and began to choke the employee.

“OPEN… OPEN… AHHHRG!” The large man screamed as he choked him.

“Quick… ge… get… help.” The employee managed to choke out as he was smashed up against the glass of the door.

My mind raced to think of what I could do to get the door open. I looked up and down the street hoping to see at least one soul, but there was no one. Without thinking I ran back into the hotel hoping to find something to break the door. I ran in and looked around, adrenalin pumping. Bell… chair… sofa… picture frame… PICTURE FRAME. I jumped up onto the couch and tore the picture from the wall. Examine! I telepathically screamed. My glasses scanned the frame slowly.

“Now Process! Hurry!” I yelled aloud this time.

It showed the list of materials, diamond, platinum, and silver. I ran back out to the bus and stopped quickly causing me to stumble, but I quickly caught myself. Everyone on the bus was fighting now screams of pain and terror filled the empty city street. I waved to the hotel employee to move away from the door. He nodded and somehow managed to push back the crowd. Blood was pouring down from a cut across his forehead. I backed up a couple of feet, and then threw the frame as hard as I could, the glass shattered and the hotel employee jumped out and collapsed onto the ground. People began to run off the bus luckily no one stepped on him. These aren’t people… they don’t deserve to hold a title like that…