School Shooting

chapter 8

Mark looks around the room and when he sees me he quickly looks somewhere else.

That means he doesn't want to kill me. You need to do something then! What do you have to lose if he does shoot you?

"Pl-please don't kill u-us." A girl sobs and I notice that it's the same girl who was touching me in the cafeteria.

Oh god, just shut up or else you'll be the first to die!  I think to myself when I see the look on Marks face.

"Oh, why would I kill you?" He sarcastically said while raising his gun. "It's not like you don't deserve it."

"I-i never done anything bad. I wouldn't h-hurt no one." She pleaded.

"Yeah!?" Now he is mad. "Then why don't you tell that to her?" He said and pointed the gun to me this time.

Alex probably saw this as a threat and was stupid to speak up. "Hey, don't point that thing at my sister!"

Stupid!! I look at him and tell him to shut up with my eyes.

"So what? So you want me to point this thing to you then?" And he did so.

Wait, if he shoots my brother then I won't be able to look at my parents ever again.

So without thinking I stood up and blocked my brother from the gun.

Everyone in the room was shocked. But I kept my gaze on him. "What- are y-you doing?" Mark asked.

"If you're going to kill someone then it better be me." I said with fierce in my tone.

"Why are you helping them! You should be helping me. You're the one that gets bullied all the time, yet you protect them!" He yelled.

"That's true. I get verbally abused and on occasion I get abused physically. But that doesn't mean that I can take my anger out on them." I gently say.

"Why not? They finally realize how I feel and that right there is satisfaction for me!" By now he has tears in his eyes. And I know that he doesn't want to kill anyone. He just wants to fight back and end it.

"Hey, listen to me Mark." I take a few steps closer. Alex doesn't seem to like the idea but it's not his decision. "I know how you feel. I know that you think there is no way out."

I pause and chuckled. He looked at me and I continued, "Hell, I think that... For example, today, I had this plan that will make all of this stop."

He was curious and so were the others. They were probably thinking what my plan was. And the fact I got Mark to listen to me so easily.

"How?" He asked. Lowering the gun a little. Not much but enough that it's making progress.

"I was going to end my life." I bluntly said. I can literally hear Alex's heart stop.

"Really?"

"Yeah, everyone at school seemed to give me a hard time because I like simply like books. How I'm a little different from everyone. And the reason I like music in a different language. So I guess that's a little weird." I chuckled and moved a little closer to him.

He chuckled as well but still had the gun up. If I get him to lower his gun then I can help him more.

So I kept talking. "Yes it gets hard sometimes, and I know that no one seems to think we matter. But we do matter. Because we are not alone in this world."

He finally lowered his gun.

But I knew it was to good to be true because an asshole decided to say something really stupid. "Yeah lower your gun you fuckin' psycho."

Fuck.