- Paige's POV -

I wake up to my alarm like usual and jump right out of bed because today is thankfully fucking Friday. This week has been alot and I'm just ready to put it in the past.

I take a shower and put this on:

Once dressed, I grab my phone, backpack, and keys before heading down to the kitchen. The house is scarily quiet. I find that it is because Mom and Mama aren't here. They left a note.

Mom and I had to go to an early training. If you want to cook something for breakfast, just don't burn the house down haha. We love you very much! Drive safe!

Love Mom and Mama

Yeah I'mma just eat a quick bowl of cereal and be on my way.

As I'm pulling up to the school, my phone rings so I answer it without looking at the ID.

"Good Morning beautiful." My wonderful girlfriend say. "Good morning babe." I say. "What are ya doing?" I ask. "Oh nothing much. Just calling my baby and telling her I hope she has a good day." Mal says. "Well she hopes she does too." I sigh. "Have a bad week?" "Yeah." I say. "Anyways, I hope you have a god day too babe." I say. "Well I hope I do too." Then there's a knock on the window beside me and I look over to see someone in a clown mask.

"OH FUCKING SHIT!" I yell as I drop my phone and flinch so badly and punch my steering wheel. After grabbing my phone and rolling down the window. "Your such a fucking asshole." I say and glare at Kaylee. She took the mask off. I can still hear Mal asking things worriedly. I put the phone back to my ear as Kaylee is still laughing her ass off. "Paigey?" Mal asks. "Yeah Mal I'm here." I say, continuing to glare at Kaylee. "What just happened?" "Kaylee decided to be an asshole and sneak from the passenger side of my car to my driver's side and scare the hell out of me with a clown mask on." I tell her. "Put me on speaker." "Gladly." I say knowing she's about to go off. "Stop laughing Kaylee. You could've caused her a damn panic attack!" Mal yells through the phone and Kaylee's eyes widen and she gulps. "S- Sorry Ms. Pugh. And Paige." She says. "Mal and I just laugh at her. "Alright babe, I'll talk to later." I say. "Okay. Love you." She says. "Love you too." I say and end the call before getting out of my car. I grab my backpack and sling it on before we start walking towards the building. "Thankfully you're not feeling bad anymore so I can do this." I say and before she can even say anything, I slap her upside the head super hard. "Ow you asshole." She says and shoves me. "Also you missed me getting arrested again yesterday." I say. "Another drug bust?" "Yeah. Just my fucking meds showed up." She just shakes her head and we continue our way into the building. I hug Danielle as we pass her.

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While sitting in History, everyone in our class hears a weird sound and then the intercom comes on.

"LAKE NONA GO INTO LOCKDOWN, THIS IS NOT A DRILL. I REPE-" The person got cut off my a loud bang and a few seconds later there was a voice. And I know that voice. "What's up Lake Nona? Your boy is here. Yeah that's right, Caleb O'Donahugh. I'm getting my revenge on anyone who got in my fucking way. You know who you are." He says and then the intercom goes dead.

We turn off the lights in the classroom and push tables and stack chairs in front of the door. The little window already has black paper on it. We're in an inside classroom so there's no windows so it's pitch black in here. A few of us have our phone screens dimmed to where we can get into the corner. I'm sitting in between Kaylee's legs since she's trying to help calm my nerves so I don't have a panic attack. She's hugging me from behind and I'm making a group chat with my Moms and Danielle.

Me: El are you somewhere safe? Please tell me you are...

El: I'm in the science classroom. Everything will be okay, alright? Stay calm baba.

Mom🦈: Mama and I are just on the same phone. What the hell is going on?

Me: He's out of prison and here at the school.

Mom🦈: Caleb?

Me: Yes! I don't know what to do

Mom🦈: Stay calm baby. The police will take care of him.

El: Stay in your classroom and listen to your Mr. Burns, you understand me?

Me: Yes.

Me: I love you guys so much.

El: You will be fine, Paige. You're not gonna die. Not today.

Mom🦈: Me and Mama are telling you right now along with Danielle, you are not leaving this world. If he hurts you, so what, you'll fight as hard as you can and make it through while he's gonna either die or rot in a cell. It's going to be okay babygirl.

Me: My phone's about to die😭

Before my phone dies, I'm texting Mal.

Me: Baby my phone's about to die and I might go with it. I'm so sorry that I'm probably scaring you but I'm scared myself right now. I don't know if I'm gonna make it out of this situation. I love you so, so, so, so much. If I don't make it, I want you to move on. I know you'll want to stop doing everything. But you move on. Find someone worth more than I am. Always know I'll be with you and I love you.

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Then my phone died. "Damn it." I say before putting my phone back into my back pocket and Kaylee just holds me tighter. "We'll be okay. It'll be okay. It'll be over soon." She whispers as she runs a hand through my hair trying to keep me calm. We can hear the metallic banging of the gun off in the distance. It was quickly getting closer and we could make out screams now. Suddenly there's a shot right outside the room and the door opens. Caleb pushes the tables and chairs out of the way and Kaylee moves to where she's in front of me. "No, Kaylee!" I whisper yell. "Well if it isn't Me. Burns. I never hsd anything against you. You're a good man. Great teacher too. But you." He says and points the gun at me since he turned the lights on. "Your sorry ass ruined my life." "Don't you even think about hurting her again." Kaylee says. "Kaylee what do you think you're doing?!" "Shhh. I'm doing this to protect you." She says. "Ohh it's Paige's only friend. I'm surprised that you two aren't more than that. You dykes. Anyways, I'm not going to shoot you to hurt you for ruining my life, Pai. I'm going to hurt you mentally. This might hurt you physically too but I don't know, why don't we see?" He says and points the gun at Kaylee an pulls the trigger. "NO!" I yell and some of the other kids let out screams. "My work in this room is done. Have fun!" He says with an evil smirk and leaves. I immediately take off my jacket and move to where I'm beside Kaylee.

"Kaylee, no, no, no." I ramble and push my jacket to her wound, trying to stop the bleeding. The other kids run out of the room, even though they shouldn't and I know they're trying to get out. "Kaylee please no." I say and she's just looking at me. "Paigey, it's okay." She says. "No it's not okay. I can't lose you." I say, sobbing. "Paige, I protected you from him this time." "I can't lose you from my stupid mistake." I say. "Nah he's the stupid one." She says and I give a soft laugh. "Hey, you keep doing you girl. Make soccer history. Make your family proud." She groggily says so I look at her. "No no KK stay awake." I say. "Paige, keep Mal. She's a good one." "Kaylee, you're not leaving me." I say. "I'm not gonna make it Pai. Maybe this is what I get for causing my family problems." She says. "What do you mean?" I say. "It doesn't matter. You make me proud, Paige. You're the best and only friend I've ever had. Promise me you won't be broken. Promise you'll move on. I love you." She barely lets out. "I promise and I love you." I say and grab her hand. I hear one long breath come out and her body goes stiff. "No, no, no. Goddamnit!" I say and sit back against the wall, still holding her hand to see that the room is empty. Just us. Well, me.

I sob for a good thirty minutes, still hearing the banging in the distance of Caleb's gun. After what feels like hours, all the banging stops and I feel alot of footsteps coming towards the room. I'm still sitting against the wall but I'm holding Kaylee's lifeless body up against me and I closed her eyes.

"Paige Harris?!" A cop says as he and a few other people walk into the room and I see my sister and moms. Mama sees me first and I see tears streaming down her face. "She's right here." Mama says. Then everyone turns to face me. "She's gone. Kaylee's gone." I cry out. Two paramedics take Kaylee out of my arms, which I couldn't even keep them from doing so because I'm in shock still. I then feel someone pick me up and I know it's Mom so I cuddle into her as she carries me somewhere but I end up quickly crying myself to sleep.