The Halt in Progress by Jachin Orallo (good books for 7th graders .TXT) 📖

Mike. Neil laughed

 15 minutes

“ I forgot to ask you” said Cynthia “ How did you know that the shooter was one of Papa Muerte’s men”.

  “ Papa Muerte” Neil explained “ Is a leader of a drug cartel that calls themselves: The Skull’s Cigar.” Neil looked at a park nearby that was covered in a thick layer of fog. “ Each member of The Skull’ Cigar gets a tattoo on their ankle to prove themselves committed. Our shooter had tattoo on his right ankle when we were doing the autopsy”

  “What does the tattoo look like?” asked Cynthia

  “ A skull caught amongst a flame smoking a cigar” answered Neil

10 minutes

Zboralski looked at how much fuel they had left. There was ten minutes worth of fuel left. Zboralski looked around for a safe place to land and saw an area with no accidents and no smoke. He drove the chopper there. He saw a school, that’s fenced in. the school was two stories high. And the roof was flat and looked strong. He descended and with his eagle eyes he saw letters on the entrance of the school. The letters spelled out Senator O’Connor.

5 minutes

As they slowly descended they made out four figures on top of the school. At first they were scared because they thought the four figure were zombies. But as they descended the  four figures waved their arms at them.

1 minute

MRS. LANTIS

Mrs. Lanitis is a 9th grade science teacher at Senator O’Connor. It’s 1:36 so it’s her 3rd period class. Her 3rd period class consists of 22 students, 14 boys and 8 girls. The classroom was on the second floor.

“ A limiting factor” explained Mrs. Lantis “ Is a factor that limits the size of a population”

  “ Can anybody here tell me the three main limiting factors.” asked the teacher. Five hands went up.

  “Sharon” said Mrs. Lantis

  “ Availability” answered Sharon.

  “Excellent” exclaimed the teacher “Now can you tell us why”

  “If there was only enough food for 10 rabbits but the population was 20, there is not enough food available for the whole population this can cause competition and other things. And this will limit the size of the rabbits population” explained Sharon.

  “ Very good” said Mrs. Lantis.

  “Predation is the second one” answered Sharon “ If there are 20 rabbits but there is a hawk that wants to consume them. It will limit the size of their population”

  “ Correct” said Mrs. Lantis

  “ And disease” said Sharon “ If a water source is infected with chlamydia. It will also limit the size of the population”

  “Excellent Sharon” exclaimed Mrs. Lantis

  “ I have a question Miss” asked one of her students. The student is a boy who has a mole on his left cheek under his eye. He wore the same thing all the students in the class and school wore: a uniform. A navy blue collared shirt with the school’s logo placed upon the heart, grey pants, and completely black shoes. “If you see a man having a seizure and you go to him and give him CPR but he bites you is that considered predation” said the boy jokingly. He was the class clown. The class laughed.

  “No, Jachin” answered Mrs Lantis

At that moment a heavy knock came from the door. Mrs. Lantis went to the grey metal door and opened it. One of the school security was there.

  “ Miss there is an urgent meeting in the staff room you are to go immediately ” explained The security

“ What about the students” asked the teacher

“ tell them it’s like their break and tell them not to go outside” ordered the the security as he left to go to another classroom.She went back in the classroom and said “ You’ve been dismissed, but don’t leave the school” ordered the teacher as she grabbed her purse. She opened the door and let students walk before her.She was the last one to leave. As she walked towards the staircase a voice said “ Miss” she turned around to see Jachin jogging towards her “ Not now” she said back and walked towards the staircase.

JACHIN

“ I have a question Miss” asked Jachin “If you see a man having a seizure and you go to him and give him CPR but he bites you is that considered predation” he said jokingly.

  “ No” said Mrs Lantis a knock came from the door. She headed towards the door and Jachin pulled his phone out. Yo there’s a break read a message from Patrick. Mrs. Lantis got back inside the classroom and explained how they’ve been dismissed but can’t leave school. She held open the door for everyone to leave. Jachin grabbed his neon-green backpack and walked out of the classroom while texting Patrick Meet me in Narnia. Mrs Lantis walked towards the main staircase but as she walked she dropped something. It sounded like a jingle. Jachin went over to pick up what his teacher dropped. It was her keys. He picked it up and jogged to Mrs Lantis.

  “Miss.” Jachin said. She turned around and said “Not now.” as she walked towards the hallway

Jachin walked to Narnia ( Narnia the area where his locker is. One day he went inside and said “ Meet you guys in Narnia to everyone there). When he arrived there Patrick was there standing beside his locker talking to another guy. That guy’s name is JT short for John Thomas.

  “ Wanna go to Tim hortons” Patrick to Jachin

  “ We can’t leave” Jachin explained

  “ Who said” asked Patrick

  “ My teacher”

  “ Screw that. Let’s go”. The three of them walked to the school’s front entrance but there were two security standing there. They went to open the door but it was locked. One of the security went to them and said. “ You can’t leave.” The three of them then left and went to another entrance again they were denied. As they headed towards the third exit they met three more of their friends: Narge Chuson, Rean Marucio, and Nethan Milanes.

  “ Wanna come to Mcdonald's with us” asked Nethan.

  “ Dude, we can’t leave” answered J.t

  “Says who” asked Nethan

  “ The security” answered J.T

  “ Wanna go to the maintenance room” asked Rean

  “ It’s locked, retard” answered Patrick. Jachin pulled out the keys that Mrs Lantis had dropped and said “ no it’s not”

  “Who’s coming” aked Rean

  “ I’ll go” said Jachin

  “ Me too” said Nethan

  “ screw it. I’ll come” said Patrick. Rean turned to J.T and Narge and asked them “ what about you two”

  “ Nah” said Narge “ I don’t wanna come”

  “ I’d come but the cameras” said J.T

  “ The cameras don’t work. They’re just there to control our behaviour”

  “ They work”

  “No they don’t, it’s too expensive to have that many cameras in the school” explained Jachin “ Plus when was the last time you got in trouble because of a security camera”

  “ I’m still not going”

  “ Just come and stay outside the maintenance room and call us when someone is going in”

  “ How did you even know that the cameras are fake”

  “ I heard people talking about it”

The six students walked to Jachin’s, Patrick’s, Rean’s, and Nethan’s lockers to put their bag inside. After that they headed to the maintenance room. When they got there they waited until no one was in sight. Jachin inserted the key and the grey door slowly opened. Darkness swallowed the room. Jachin, Patrick, Rean, and Nethan entered the dark room and stood there staring into the darkness. Narge closed the door until the last beam of light disappeared. Jachin felt the wall blindly until he touched something. It was a lightswitch. He flicked it on and one by one the overhead lights turned on.

OUTSIDE THE MAINTENANCE ROOM

Jachin unlocked the door. He, Patrick, Rean, and Nethan walked inside. Narge slowly closed the door. It closed and Narge shook the lever to make sure it was locked. It was. Narge and JT stared at the grey door when a beam of light came out of the doors cracks. The two of them removed their bags from their backs and placed it in front of the maintenance room door. They sat beside each other on the opposite side of the hallway. There they sat while on their phones looking at each other's phone to look at the occasional meme when another student in the same grade as them walked up to them and sat beside them. His name is Yasr Zakko.

  “Wanna come with me and George to Tim Hortons” asked Yasr

  “Oh my God!” Yelled Jt “We can’t go!”

  “Said who” asked Yasr

  “The Security Guards!” Yelled JT even louder.

  “ Ok, chill, you don’t have to yell” said Yasr “So where’s everyone else”

  “ Who?”

  “Like Rean and Nethan and etcetera”

  “ What about George?” asked Narge

  “Huh?” said Yasr confusingly

  “George, where is he”

  “He’s in the washroom” answered Yasr. He opened his bag and took out his binder, he placed it on the ground near Narge and JT, and opened it to the sheet that his gym teacher, Mr Tunzi gave him. He did his work beside Narge and JT waiting for his friend.

  “Do any of you have gym this semester” asked Yasr

  “ Yeah” answered Narge

  “ What are the four main food groups again”

  “ Meat, fruits and vegetables, dairy, and uhh…”

  “Grains” interrupted JT

  “Yeah its Grains” Corrected Narge

  “Are these your bags” said a demanding voice. The three students looked up and saw the janitor standing in front of the maintenance room. JT stared at the janitor stunned not fearing for himself but for his four friends inside the maintenance room. This was a bad idea, a bad idea, a very bad idea JT thought in his mind. JT stared blankly at the janitors eyes and the janitor stared at him back.

  “Yes” Narge answered breaking the silence. JT felt better, and in his mind he was thanking Narge. The janitor with a partially opened mouth and eyes wide open looking like they were gonna pop out looked at Narge and the bags back and forth slowly.

  “Can you move them” asked the janitor impatiently

  “Yeah” answered Narge. He got up, walked over to the grey door, and picked up his and JT’s bag. As he walked back to JT and Yasr he heard the janitor whisper “ I swear I turned off the lights”. Narge gave JT’s bag to him and sat back down. The janitor unlocked the maintenance door and entered. The janitor pulled the door closing it as he walked in. The three of them sat outside the maintenance room when suddenly Narge and JT got up looking panicked. Narge took out his phone and scrolled down his contacts (which was in alphabetical order) to see who’s name pops up first. it was Jachin’s and he called him.

  “Why are you guys looking panicked” asked Yasr

  “ Because Rean, Nethan, Patrick and JT are in there” Answered JT

No answer. Narge called him again

   “What, why, why didn't you tell me?” said Yasr

  “Why would we tell you?” Answered JT

  “ Fair point”

The phone stopped ringing and a voice answered “Yeah”. It was Jachin who seems to have no clue what’s going on.Then Narge dropped the bomb on him. “ The janitor’s inside get out now!”

INSIDE THE MAINTENANCE ROOM

The four students walked along the maintenance room; wires ran along the wall and ceiling, pipes ran along the ceiling. The four of them walked along the narrow hallway. As they walked along the hallway they came across a tool box table.

  “Let’s check what’s inside” said Rean

  “Quickly, before we get caught” Said Patrick. Rean and Nethan walked to the tool box table and opened its drawers looking for stuff inside.

  “Patrick wanna go on ahead” asked Jachin

  “ Sure” answered Patrick. They went on ahead while Rean and Nethan searched the drawers. As the searched the drawers Nethan pulled out a red screwdriver.

  “Rean look at this, it looks so sick” said Nethan

  “What do you mean it looks sick it's just a screwdriver”

  “But OCS is stamped on it”

  “You can just buy a screwdriver in Dollarama and stamp OCS on it”

  “I’m keeping it”

  “Don’t keep it” said Rean as Nethan put the red screwdriver in his