Now Vampires? Part 5

    Brandon sat on the floor for another minute. He said a prayer and then he was up and heading toward the media center. It was test day now, and he'd been reminded about it every day for the last week. It was a monotonous affair, which involved a few hours of watching students take a test that they didn't want to take, and trying to threaten them into silence when they started to talk even when testing was over. State testing was no joke and even though the students seemed to do okay with it, there was still always the possibility that something could go wrong. It had happened before.

    Brandon had his materials and his room set up in only a few minutes. He was an old hand at testing now, and it wasn't a huge deal to him, but as mentioned it always left him feeling stressed. The time came and students started filing into the classroom and he signed students into the test, passed out materials and generally got everything ready and situated. 

    Students started to file down the halls, laughing, cursing, shoving each other and joking. Brandon could never tell if they took these tests seriously or not. They seemed to get stressed out, but the speed at which they finished always made him nervous. 

    "Where is everybody?" Brandon asked everyone and no one. 

    Students just shrugged their shoulders.

    "It's the vampires," one of the students said in a low whisper. 

    "What about your parents? They can't keep the vampires away," Brandon asked.

    The student only shrugged. Brandon wanted to shrug too, because there just wasn't anything to be done about it. The school never mentioned it. You couldn't mention the vampires and anyone who was a victim was a victim of teeth violence. The vampires were never mentioned. Brandon said another little prayer and then an announcement came over the intercom to begin testing. 

    Brandon watched his students silently take a test, fall asleep, then take a test then the students fell asleep again. He walked around poking and prodding them to wake up. If it were a timed test, he might not wake anyone up, but it wasn't timed and they could take as much time as they wanted. This meant sitting in silence forever. It might not really be a bad thing, but silence was also incredibly boring. 

    This vampire situation was getting radicicolous. Brandon was getting tired of it. He felt like a prisoner in his own home and at his own school, and no one seemed to be doing anything about the situation. 

    The students finished quickly. They were the first done on the hall, and now was the difficult task of trying to keep them quiet, while everyone else finished up testing. Two days of testing and it would be hard for the students to focus, or get anything done, or do anything really. They had to be quiet for too long and now their will power was all gone. They didn't have too much will power to begin with. Now Brandon felt like a prisoner in his own classroom. 

    It was getting cloudy outside, and Brandon hoped that the weather would hold out. If it was cloudy, it would get dark earlier.