- Paige's POV -

Mal and I just pulled away from our hug and I wipe my remaining tears.

"I should probably go talk to my moms since I haven't since that day." I say and Mal just nods with a small smile. "I love you." I say. "I love you too, Pai." She says and I grab my key card and phone before leaving to find my moms' room. I remember them telling me 686 and that's right down the hall so I walk there and knock. A few seconds later, Mom opens the door.

"Hey bubbles." Mom says and let's me in. "Hi." I say quietly. "There's that wonderful voice we all missed." Mama says. "I know and I'm sorry that I stopped talking." I say. "Don't apologise, Paige." Mom says. "I know, Mal said the same thing..." I say. "I feel like I should talk to the team about the shooting. It would get the whole story from my perspective off my chest and it might feel better." I blurt out. "Okay, we'll go ask Jill if you can call a team meeting, sweetie." Mama says as she gets off the bed. I nod slightly before following them out of the room but I walk down to the conference room. When I get there, I sit on a tall stool at the front of the room. A few minutes later, there's a text from mom in the group chat saying to get to the conference room for a meeting, even though it's not a meeting. Everyone basically files in at the same time. Jill walks up here beside me and the coaching staff goes and stands by the wall like usual.

"Alright everyone, you're probably wondering why I called a team meeting. It's not actually a team meeting, but Paige here wants to talk to you all." Jill says. "Paige." She says and steps away.

"Yes, I'm talking again. Uhm... I was thinking that if I tell you all the full story of what happened from my perspective, that I would feel better and finally put it behind me, and that's because you all are my family. Anyways, I don't want you all to feel bad for me or anything else. Just if you'd listen that will be great." I say before looking around the room and see some people nod. I take a deep breath before starting.

"So it was the third day back at school after camp and Thanksgiving and all, which I had a shitty week those three days. It's a good thing that my sister is teaching at my school now, but some people think it's messed up, and the next day which was Thursday, there was a big drug bust in my school for all drugs plus there were rumours that people were hiding drugs at school. My results came back positive for something so I got basically arrested and they searched my shit. It happened last year too but you all know I take anxiety meds, which that's what showed. And that brings us to Friday. Kaylee and I were sitting in third period, when everyone in the class heard a weird, faint sound. The intercom came on and the principal yelled once to go into lockdown, and went ro repeat himself but for cutoff when he was... Ya know... Then uh... He who I will not name because I want to throw up everytime I say his name, but my ex, came on the intercom basically saying how he's gonna get revenge on the ones who got in his way... Which I was one of them. Uhm... Before my phone died... I texted moms and Danielle and lastly texted Mal but then my phone died. A little while later when he got to the room we were in, he said how I ruined his life and he was gonna hurt me mentally instead of physically this time even though it might hurt me physically. Kaylee had moved in front of me when he walked in and I told her not to." I say and wipe some stray tears. "Uh... He pointed the gun at her and fired... After he left the room, everyone else did too, leaving us behind. I- I tried to fucking stop the bleeding. She knew she wasn't gonna make it... She made me promise to not be broken. I promised even though I was broken already. Everytime u think about her, her last words just gloat around my head. What felt like hours later, the shooting stopped and some cops, moms, and Danielle found us in the History room. Uh I hadn't spoken a single word other than I signed to my sister at school the next Wednesday. But that's because I was pissed because of what was said about me, in an assembly. Our student council president, well she's not anymore, basically said it was m- my fault that the sh- shooting happened. One of my teammates stood up for me actually which I didn't know they'd do that, and I was starting to walk down the bleachers since I was at the top when that asshole said I got my best and only friend killed and called me a pussy for walking away. I didn't stop, I just kept walking down the bleachers and out of the gym. I checked myself out and literally had to walk all the way around the building but Danielle stopped me and I just made the point to her that I was going home." I say. "And that's I guess when moms found out I was home after they got done with practice or something. But yeah that's what happened." I say and look around the room to see some of them with looks of anger, and some that are emotionless, before I look down and play with my hands. I let out a breath I didn't know I was holding and just broke down. Before I know it, I feel tons of arms wrap around me.

God I love my family.