Lia slowly turned around, only to find herself in the way of a moving blur.
"MOVE IT GEEK!" said the voice belonging to the blur.
But Lia could not react accordingly. After a thud, the blonde nerd was on the floor, a cracked-open suitcase next to her on the ground. She was covered in some weird, almost translucent-blue ooze that had come from a broken test tube that had been carelessly placed within the suitcase.
"Darn it!"
A man in a black suit with sunglasses cursed, rubbing his head in pain. Apparently he had crashed into poor Lia by accident. It was then that a scruffy-looking boy, who appeared to have received quite a beating, came out rushing from the laboratory's doors a couple lockers away from Lia's.
"Thief! He's a thief!" the young boy yelled.
Lia instinctively stood up and started inching away, forgetting about being coated in the disgusting slime. Cursing again, the man in black stood up as fast as Lia. He ran towards the northern exit as he was chased by the boy and some of his friends. One of them stayed behind to call the police from his cell phone.
"Tim! Who was that guy? What's going on?" one of the bystanders asked as the boy finished his call to the cops.