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Silenced With A Shot

            I wish I had known what was going to happen at school today.  If I did, maybe I could have at least said goodbye and I love you to my mom.  But I didn't know.  No one did.  Well, 1 guy did.  But he was the one who did it. 

            It started out as a normal day, I went to school, slept through first period, the usual.  Then, during second period history, everything changed.  When we started the test, one of my friends was missing.  I figured they were just sick and I'd see them tomorrow.

            If I had only known how wrong I was.

            About halfway through, a gunshot went off down the hall.  Everyone got scared.  The teacher went out, didn't come back.  I looked over at Matt.  He looked as if everything had become clear, as if he understood what was going on.

            The gunshots came closer and I could hear people crying.  I tensed as I watched Matt slowly stand, and walk out of the room.  I wanted to yell after him.  To tell him not to go. To tell him that I loved him.

            I heard Matt yelling and another gunshot.  Then, I realized I was the only one in the room.  Everyone else had run out.  I should have.  It might have saved me.  Then, the shooter walked in.  I wanted to cry when I saw that it was one of my best friends, Tai Kamiya.

            I stood slowly, got ready to run.  I never had a chance, though.  As soon as I stood he fired the gun twice.  Both the bullets embedded themselves in my chest.  Pain as I had never felt before racked my body.  Blood flowed from the wound, through my shirt, dripped onto the floor.  I looked down, then up at Tai one last time.  He showed no remorse, no grief, no regret.

            If I could cry then, I would have, but I simply fell to floor dead.

            I later learned that Matt had been killed when he went out to try and reason with Tai.  Also, that Tai killed himself after shooting me and one other kid.  Maybe he realized what he had done.  Or maybe he knew the cops were on their way.

            Total, Tai killed 15 people that day.  13 kids, 2 teachers.  Among them, was me, Matt, and another of my best friends, Mimi.  All she had done was try to stop him.  Yelled at him after shooting me, tried to bring him to his senses.  He just brought the gun to her head, shot her between the eyes.  Then, he used the last bullet to take his own life.

            TK and Kari are doing best to recover.  They were still in middle school when this happened, and safe.  I can tell, every day, that Kari is getting closer and closer to suicide.  No matter how TK tries to help her.  I think the shock of her brother's and my own death is eating her away inside.  

            Apparently, Tai had been thinking about this for a while.  He had been kicked off the soccer team during sophomore year because his grades were too low.  They never picked back up.  I could see he was depressed, but never wanted to talk about it.  From there, he went further and further downhill, Matt was the only one who could really tell.  He knew Tai better than any of us.  Even me.  Maybe it was the guy-to-guy bond.  What is really was though, I'll never know.

            All I know for sure, is that I never got to say goodbye. My voice had been silenced with a shot.

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A/n- This fic was inspired by the P.O.D. song, "Youth Of The Nation".  Also, this was really supposed to be from Sora's P.O.V.

Dedication- To all the victims of school shootings, especially Columbine.