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A blaring alarm pulls me from my slumber

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like a drowning man breaking the water's

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surface. I sit up from my

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desk, a string of saliva

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stretching from my cheek to the pool

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of drool currently soaking into my papers.

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Looking around like a newborn baby and

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just as scared, I try to pull

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myself together. I try

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to will my sluggish synapses into firing

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at their regular speed as screams

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come from the hallway. -"Containment

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breach?" I whisper to myself, still

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unable to believe it. Reaching

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up and wiping a paperclip off my saliva-soaked

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cheek, I say it