I always where the tape is in the main office. I had a lot of work to do around the school and I wanted to give myself a soundtrack. After all I had already been at the school for hours so I had earned some fun. I found the tape in Mrs. Bennett's office and locked the intercom in the on position, and blasted some Journey through the halls. I got in a rhythm: cleaning bathrooms, sweeping halls, and vacuuming rooms. I got through a room per song. Somewhere through Escape I walked into Ms. Leach's room in the freshman hall to a frigid gust of wind that nearly took me off my feet. The back window had been thrown wide open. It was pitch black, I had been getting so much done that I hadn't realized how late it had gotten. The only break in the sea of black was the constant parade of snow through the night sky. It was beautiful.
I got back to work on the room and slipped back into my trance. Room after room, hall after hall, by the time I was done those halls were spotless. Every single floor shining and clean, I could eat off of them, that is if I hadn't forgotten my dinner, again. At this point I was starving and decided I would call in some takeout and pick it up on the way home.
I dialed up Alice's. The phone rang for a few minutes until an automated Alice answered the phone, "Alice's! Sorry, we're closed." That's odd. It's called a 24-hour diner for a reason. I didn't think much of it and settled for a microwave dinner. I grabbed my stuff from the closet and locked the door on the way out. I raced towards the door, stomach roaring. I got to the front door and was met with an eight-foot wall of snow. A white barrier blocking my way to a late night snack. "Goddamit!" the only other door I had keys to was the back and that was at the basement level, no way it wasn't buried six-feet under the snow. I accepted my defeat and slunked back to my closet. Stupid snow ruining my snacking. I reached into my pocket for the key, and nothing. I had left the stupid key staring me in the eye. I was too tired to complian, my exhaustion hit be like a punch and before I knew it I was out cold on the floor.
