I'm Fine

Prologue

This isn't real. It can't be. The blood, the tears, the pain. I can't understand it all, so I won't. I won't try and piece together why it happened. I know it did. The journey it took to get here was more than I could imagine. Longer than I imagined.

The pain they were in. The pain they dwelled in for so long until they snapped, and they dragged everyone else to their pain level. Their level of grief. But for what?

They are locked away. Constantly reminded of what they did. The screams, the terror, the gore. That is forever with them and with us. Everyday.

I would never; I could never forget that day. For the fallen, for the survived, I never want to forget it. Because that was a day that tore us apart and yet somehow brought us closer.

Many were lost, many will be missed, but many will stay strong and move on from this tragedy and prove that this selfish act did not ruin our lives forever.

You never would expect them to do it. You would never see them purposely hurting others. But that's just it, isn't it? It's the people we least expect actually to destroy us. The people we hold closest are the ones we are blind to.

I didn't see any red flags. But looking back, they're there, all of them. They were screaming out about their pain, but we couldn't hear it. We were too convinced that everything was fine.

I wish I would have known; I wish I could have seen the red flags. Then maybe, just maybe, I could have saved them, and in the end, saved everyone else.