"I looked around the room, nothing seemed unusual; Just my average fourth period class. Maybe it was because I was still exhausted from my mission the night before, but when the announcements came on echoing through the halls with those fateful words, I froze. Four years of training, training that gave me the fastest reaction time of the whole agency. But this wasn’t a mission, this was school, normal high school.
“There is an active shooter in the building, we are in ALICE lockdown”
I remember the exact words and the look on everyone of my peers faces as it was processed. Even if I was slower than usual, I was still the fastest, and the most prepared, but they didn’t know, they weren’t allowed to, no one was. Twenty seconds, twenty-five seconds, time was ticking, save my life and job or everyone elses. I can’t imagine why it took so long, the answer was clear the whole time, it was my duty to not only this school, but everyone in it."
Every teenager has secrets, but Zoey rides the line of normal life and serious danger everyday. But sometimes,
you have to step foot into the light to do what's right.
