YESTERDAY:
My friends Amy and Colin and I were walking to our classes from the gym and we were running late because we had stayed in the gym after chapel to talk to one of our friends and to break down the sound equipment.
We were about to walk up the stairs, but we noticed this piece of paper that was all burnt up, so we picked it up.
The handwriting was really hard to read, but we finally figured it out.
It said something like "If you think the last school shootings were bad, wait until what's coming next. You mothers f***ers have it coming. 12/3 12/4"
It was the scariest thing I had ever read.
I started shaking and my heart started racing.
We decided to bring it to our disiplinarian, Coach Robert, and when he read it all expression left his face and he went pale.
He told us to go to class, so we did.
Once Colin and I got to our math class we had a sub, so we just got to sit around and chill.
We were talking about it and our friend Rhett overheard us and he got really worried.
He could tell that I was still really shooken up over it and he was scared.
We asked our sub if we could go down to Coach Robert and he said yes.
So Colin, Rhett, and I went down to the office to suggest that they do bag checks and just to talk to Coach Robert about it.
When we got in there he shut the door to talk to us.
I started crying because I was so scared and he told us not to tell anyone because he didn't want to cause any unnecessary panic and that he had it under control.
TODAY:
Amy and I got to school at the same time because we needed to finish a project that we had to present first hour.
Our parents talked and Amy's dad told my mom that he was picking Amy up after first hour and my mom said she was going to pick me up as well because she didn't like the idea of school not being cancelled even though there was an viable shooting.
We were in the middle of our presentation when our principal came over the speaker and announced that everyone needed to go stand by there desks, empty out there bags on their desks, put their bags on the chairs of the desks and girls put their purses on the top of our desks.
It was so scary for me because nothing like this has ever happened at my school.
I started to have a panic attack, which is not good when I get them because I am slowly getting over an anxiety disorder.
Once they came in and checked our bags we were told not to leave when the bell rang because we were on lock-down.
When we were finally let out of the classrooms we were told to go straight to our next classes and not stop at our lockers because we weren't going to be doing any work.
In my second hour, we had a sub because our teacher was in a meeting.
I got called downstairs and they told me to bring my stuff so I knew that I was leaving.
When I got downstairs, my mom was talking to our headmaster Dr. Shorter and he told me that he was very proud of me and that it was a very courageous thing that I did turning the note in.
When I walked to the car, I saw my friend Courtney in the parking lot and she was leaving too.
When I got home I just wanted to go to sleep because I have never been so emotionally drained before.
Craziness.
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