[Matt & Kate]
Matt gently shakes Kate awake. "C'mon sleepy, it's 10 o'clock." He says with a nudge.
"Uuuuuuugh nuuuu...." Kate squirms in her seat before grimacing. "Augh my back... wait, 10?! Why didn't you wake me up sooner?!" She exclaims.
"So you could sleep haha. I'm used to little sleep, it's fine." Matt hands Kate a bottle of water and a granola bar. "Enjoy." He says jokingly, unwrapping the bar and biting into it, then washing it down with a swig of water. He actually liked granola bars, so this wasn't too bad. Kate does the same.
"Ready to move out now?" He asks her.
"Give me a moment to stretch first, that chair is terrible to sleep in." She replies, stretching. Once ready, they open the door and re enter the kitchen, which was just as they'd left it. Matt points out that they need to at least ration food, and it'll only become more and more likely that people will fight over what food is remaining, forgoing rationing at all., so to prevent that he wants to hide the cart of food somewhere else in the school. Kate reluctantly agrees so they set off for a janitors closet, Kate pushing the cart with Matt as vanguard.
Come morning, plenty of zombies had filled the halls again, apparently pouring in from the MST wing or humanities wing. Five zombies awaited in the area in front of Guidance, while three more were standing in a cluster by the water fountains. "What are you waiting for?" Kate asks with a grin as she charges in, spearing one zombie through the head with ease. Not one to be shown up, Matt kills two with a lunging stab followed by a downward chop through the skull. Kate slices the back of the neck of a zombie that had turned toward Matt. As it falls, Matt kicks the body backwards, knocking down another zombie, which he kills as it gets up. Kate stabs an oncoming zombie through the throat, but it doesn't die, snarling helplessly as it waved its arms at Kate. Matt slams his blade into the side of it's head, finishing it. The preoccupied zombies near the water fountain turn and begin shambling towards the two. Matt kills the three on his own, cleaving a zombie's skull open one at a time, backing away slowly to give him time to pull his blade free.
The wheels of the cart squeak rhythmically, drawing two more zombies from a dark corner as Matt and Kate pass the vending machine. They needed access to the janitor's closet, and Matt's arms weren't tired yet. He thrusts his spear forward to pierce the first through the eye, then raises the blade high above his head and let it fall forward almost on it's own, allowing gravity to do the work. The area was clear for now, but the closet was situated in an unfortunately exposed position by the stairs and between 4 hallways. "We'll have to clear the entire area around us if we want to do this safely." Matt mutters. Leaving the cart by the door, Matt takes the left hallway of MST while Kate takes the right hallway. They double back once they reach the end, Matt encountering and killing one more zombie and Kate two. They both heard curious pounding from the other side of classroom doors as they traversed the hallway, but they avoided looking in. What did they have to share that they didn't already know?
The lanyard held quite a few keys, and Matt couldn't remember which one would open the closet, if any of them would. Kate watches his back with a sigh, spear held at the ready to fend off the hungry dead. From behind him he hears Kate grunt in exertion. "What's taking so long?" Kate asks impatiently, wiping her spearblade on a fallen corpse. "I can't seem to get the right-ahh there we go." Matt exhales triumphantly, swinging the door open. As he pulls the door back, he momentarily panics, realizing that if there was a zombie inside the closet he would be dead.
Thankfully the closet was empty. Matt and Kate push the cart into the closet and cover it in a clean enough dirty white canvas tarp thing. After making sure the cart looked perfectly nondescript, they leave and relock the door, then hurry back to the cafeteria to rest and rehydrate.