Love Bites; Bullets

The Truth

The rest of the month of May was a rollercoaster ride to say the least. Dad changed completely, and got way more protective of me. Mom was leaving the house more, even when she didn't have to work. Ryan and I got extremely close, and spent almost every waking moment together. He tried to get me to skip class with him, but that didn't work. We did have sex a couple more times that month, and they were both incredible.

As much as I was happy to be with Ryan, I realized I couldn't be with anyone else when he was around. Most days when he would skip, which was not very often, I would sneakily hang out with my new friend Lisa from Theater. She would tell me all the things I missed out on, since I was no longer welcome in Theater. Lisa was my only other friend, and I could not be with her when Ryan was allowed.

Now, it's the end of June and Ryan is at School for the last two days. We spend the morning together walking around and holding hands talking, but then the bell rings and we go to our Music class. Lisa happened to be in there talking to my Music teacher about something to do with Theater production.
"What's she doing here?" Ryan snarled.
"I don't know." I said while raising my eyebrows, then I walked over to her when she was done talking to the Teacher.
"What are you doing in here!?" I whispered anxiously.
"I had to talk to the Teacher.." Then she slowly turned around to see Ryan standing there looking smug at her.
"Oh, sorry." She walks away quickly and leaves the room.
"Do you know her at all well?" Ryan seemed to be trying to test the waters, and I wouldn't let him.
"Not really." I said, and he gave me the look so I ignore and move on.

Later on, we are sitting at the table working on Music notes. I look over, and Ryan is secretly drawing something on this huge piece of paper with other writings on it. It almost mimicked a map of a building, and I peeked over to see what it was. I could not believe my eyes.

It was a map, a map of our School to be exact. He had drawn little skulls in areas of the building, and wrote the words: "Kaboom!" With them. When I looked even closer, there was a small list of steps on the side.

The Last Day of School! Literally!
Step 1: Take out the Office Staff
Step 2: Shoot the Code Blue Alarm
Step 3: Cafeteria
Step 4: Music Room
Step 5: Circle Around and Down the Hallway
Step 6: Free for All!
Step 7: Get Gasoline and Light Match
Step 8: Grab Casey Outside and Watch the Place Perish

After reading that, my vision went black. Soon enough, I was on a stretcher outside the School with Ryan trying to get me going in an ambulance. My head hurt pretty bad, but my brain was all mushy. My vision returned but it was incredibly blurry, washed out.

Eventually, I woke up back at home hours later on the same day. I was on the couch, and my Dad was sitting on the edge of it staring at me.
"You took quite a hit there." He says, I stood up with a bandage and an ice pack on my head.
"Where am I?" I asked looking around the room.
"Oh, I'm at home." I said and sighed.
"Do you want anything?" He asked.
"No, I just wanna lay down." I said as I layed back down comfortably.

I layed there for probably an hour trying to wrap around my head, no pun intended, what that map possibly could've really meant. Wait a minute. Ryan's going to become a School shooter! And tomorrow's the last day of School! I am going to be two steps ahead of his steps tomorrow, I am going to protect this School if it's the last thing I do.