The Silence of Day

Time

Time is funny, isn't it? time can make a day feel like an hour and an hour feel like a day Time can make something so brief or can allow you to remember everything that happened in a moment 

Such was the case of my sixth-period art class.

 It started normally, of course, what else would we be expecting right? I was sitting next to Kyle Martinez who, like everyone, was looking to go home for the weekend so that meant that a lot of my classmates were not really being overly enthusiastic or active instead everyone was dragging there feet and walking slowly.

 if this was different, maybe it could have prevented the damage that was done by what happened next.

Maybe.

 Everyone was working on the project that our teacher Mrs. LeBlanc had assigned which was landscapes, that was until the first gunshot rang out, startling everyone but not into fear instead of confusion. 

This moment distracted us from realizing that there was a person at the door. 

 Mrs. LeBlanc asked who tripped, innocently mistaking the shot for a stumble that knocked over a chair, but the only response she got was of the first body falling to the ground.

  The first was Kaylee, Kaylee Jhonson. Shot three times if what the detective informed me was right. I really liked her, we were in the same classes since kindergarten but I wouldn't say we were best friends, more like just friends, she was really popular and I could see why. She was a nice person who was part of the Drama Club and the Science club, she totally demolished the popular mean girl stereotype, everyone loved her.

  The second was Dakota Michaels who I knew vaguely only because he was in a few of my classes. He was shot in the chest 2 times which I saw from behind my desk still confused what was going on ears ringing in the sea of screams that were going on. 

Then the time came for Lila Hajjar.

 I just started to get to know since she was the new kid but from what I could tell she was a really cool person that was also really good at art. I didn't see her get shot personally but I learned later on that she was killed when she was shot in the head. It was at that point when people started to get scared and realized that there was a gunman at the door.

 This realization made Thomas McDonald who was just one of my classmates that was on the soccer team, run towards him and try to tackle his AR-15 out of his hand 

He ended up dead

All of this was done before the shooter had even come into the class. But then he stepped into the class walking slowly towards the desk that me, Kyle and another girl named Lilian were hiding. 

This was the moment that I saw the gunman face and realized that it was Taylor Knight.

My boyfriend. 

My heart stopped seeing the cold look on his face because that's when I realized that he was prepared to shoot me. 

"Damnit Gemma what the hell are you doing here?" he asked slowly with no emotion"You shouldn't be here" he explained "Its a death sentence

"I'm sorry"

His voice sent shivers down my spine as I realized that it didn't matter to him if I lived or died. Thoughts swirled around my head, why could he do this to me, how did he do this

WHY?

I heard the click of his trigger before there was a bunch of yelling and screaming and one more gunshot. I looked up to see Taylor with a shocked look on his face before slumping down and collapsing to the ground. Behind him, there were 5 police officers who must have came when one smart student called the police. I felt a mixture of shock fear 

Then I passed out. 

The police said that it was over, but deep down I knew that It had just started.

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