Trying To Change The Past

Chapter One

"And today class we are gonna talk about the school shooting at Columbine, which occurred 3 months ago"

Oh great, that's something everyone wants to learn about, a day where 2 kids go into their school and kill 13 people and then kill themselves. Please, it's so depressing.

Mr. Davis get up to turn off the light and put down the projector.

Great, it's a movie. I sighed and closed my eyes.
This was the last thing i wanted to watch right now...
You see my best friend had moved to Columbine almost a year ago now, her dad was a paramedic and went from station to station a lot. But even though she moved so much, our parents still helped us stay in contact and to see each other when we could. But when she moved last year, everything got crazy. We were both entering our senior year and we had lots of things going on, but we still kept in contact.
Little did I know it would be the last time I ever saw her. The next time I saw her in person was at her funeral.
Yes, Katie was one of the 15 people that died at Columbine on that fateful day.  I had called her to tell her to have a great day at school and that I'd try to call her after work later that night. She had replied that she couldn't wait and that she was going to the library, so she had turn off her phone. That was the last time I talked to her. Little did I know that she would be gone in less than an hour.
Mr. Davis sat down and looked at his computer.
"Alright kids! Watch this short film and then we'll talk about it today and tomorrow. On Friday a paper is gonna be due about what you think could have happened to prevent it."
He then went on to play solitaire for the length of the entire film.

I didn't wanna watch the "movie" It was really just a bunch of clips from the news, and pictures of the school and the people that were injured and those that were killed. It was horrible.
I couldn't watch it, I could possibly see Katie and I just couldn't.
I put my head down on my desk and tried to block it out but it was pointless.
The second the bell rang I jumped up, grabbed my bag and ran out the door before Mr. Davis had even got out of his chair.
"Uh Miss. Jackson where do you think you're going?"
I heard him yell but I didn't care, I couldn't be there anymore. I couldn't be in school anymore.
I grabbed my keys from my purse and ran out the front door to my car.
I heard Dean my boyfriend yell at me from the schools outdoor cafeteria.
"Elizabeth!!!"
"What are you doing?"
"Elizabeth!?"

He kept calling my name as I got into my car, turned it on and drove out of the parking lot. I passed him as I drove out and I glanced at him. The look on his face, it was one that I'd never seen before. It was sadness mixed with anger and confusion.
I would have to apologize later but right now I had to get out of there.

I drove just a little bit faster than normal, parked and ran into the house.
My mom was in the kitchen and called to me but I ignored her. I ran to my room and locked the door. The second I had, I started bawling my eyes out.
I went and lay on my bed and just cried.
I honestly couldn't tell you how long I cried but after a while I fell asleep.
I woke up and it was pitch dark and the time on my clock said 4:50 a.m.

Damn, I didn't realize I had slept for so long. But there was no point in going back to bed, I was gonna have to get up in about an hour anyway. So I got up and read a bit. Picked out an outfit, took a shower. Before I knew it, it was 6:30 and I had to get to school.

I opened the front door and screamed.
Where was I? I wasn't in my neighborhood... What is going on?!

Wait a minute, I know this skyline, it had been similar to a picture that Katie had sent me about a week before she died. She had used her camera to take a beautiful picture of the sunrise and printed it out and mailed it to me.

This was that sunrise.

Wait.
Why am I in Columbine?