People flooded the hallway as they all made their way to the girls dorm. Lauren pushed past Nathan's arms and made her way through the crowd. Her surroundings moved past in a blur as her mind was flooded with endless possible situations she would find when she reached the dorms.

The courtyard in front of the girls dorm was flooded with people. Lauren scanned the crowd, searching for her friend. She noticed people pointing towards the roof, and was able to hear bits of what they were saying.

"Did you see that?"

"Is this for real?"

"Bitch flipped out!"

"I didn't think she was that messed up..."

Lauren's gaze followed their direction of attention, there, standing on the ledge of the roof, was Kate.

She felt her chest tighten and the air escape her lungs. She knew Kate had been struggling with everything going on lately, but she had never mentioned anything as drastic as suicide to her or Max. Lauren looked around at all of the people in the courtyard and felt a different emotion inside herself. Why wasn't anyone trying to stop her? Why were they all just standing there watching the girl they tormented?

Lauren tried her best to be strong enough to do something to help her friend. She moved through the crowd, mostly having to push people out of the way as her pleas to get through were all ignored. As she tired to move past a group of students, a girl pushed her back, "Hey! Watch where you're going," she sneered. She lost her balance and fell to the ground. Looking up to the roof she noticed someone else there, but she couldn't make out who it was.

Still on the ground, Lauren felt someone grab her arm. She jumped slightly as she was pulled to her feet by Nathan. Her brows furrowed, "Why do you always show up where I am?" Before he had the chance to answer shouts and screams could be heard from the people around them. Lauren turned to see Kate falling towards the ground. Her gaze was pulled away from her friend as she buried her face in the red fabric of Nathan's jacket. It felt warm and safe there, she wanted to forget what she had seen and just stay there forever, but she couldn't. Reality would set in and she would feel just as broken and lost as Kate had felt. She pulled herself away from that safe place, knowing she couldn't hide from what had happened.

The students were quickly ushered away by teachers and other staff as the police arrived. The students were lead to the main building and were offered counseling if they felt they needed it after what had happened. Lauren sat in the back corner of one of the classrooms. Many students had come up to her and given their condolences about Kate, knowing they had been friends. She simply nodded to each one, not having spoken since what happened. Max eventually found her. The two girls hugged as they held back tears.

"Lauren, I was up there with her. I tried to talk her down but I couldn't do it, I wasn't strong enough," Max's voice shook as she told her friend what had happened. Lauren hugged her tighter, still unable to speak.

The principal's voice came over the intercom, announcing that students could return to their dorms now or to their families if they wished, "... Except for Max Caulfield and Nathan Prescott who I would like to see in my office," he finished his regards to the situation and everyone began to leave. Max looked back at her friend, "I'll talk to you later, okay?" Lauren simply nodded as Max made her way out of the room.

The campus felt cold and lifeless as Lauren exited the building and made her way to the dorms. She felt sick when she saw a shrine had already been put up for Kate, "Why do people only care when something terrible happens," she muttered to herself. She made her way through the building and to her room while trying her best not to look at Kate's door. Even though light still shown through her window, all she wanted to do was sleep.

The discussion in the principal's office had not been carried out in a civil manner by far, and had left Nathan in a worse mood than usual. Max had accused him of dosing Kate, and got him suspended. She also brought up the gun incident again. "How the hell could she have known about that stupid gun," he growled to himself.

He didn't have to worry about anyone hearing him, the campus was completely dead. Many people had gone home after the incident. Not wanting to go home to his family, Nathan headed back to his dorm room. As he neared the boy's dorm, he stopped to look at the shrine in front of the girl's dorm. He looked up to the roof where Kate had been just earlier that day, "Really fucked up this time.." He shook away those thoughts and entered the girl's dorm.

As he walked down the hall, he could hear crying coming from Victoria's room. He sighed as he opened the door and walked in. Victoria was sitting on her bed with her head in her hands. She looked up as he entered, "What are you doing here?"

"I could hear you crying from the hall," he stated simply as he leaned against the doorway.

She scoffed, "What? Have you come here to comfort me? Or did you just stop by on your way to see someone else?"

"Don't even start this shit after what happened today," she somehow always managed to bring out the anger in his voice. "I heard you crying. I came to see if you were okay, and you look fine." He let out a sigh, realizing he was being harsh considering what had happened today and no matter how annoying she could be, Victoria was his friend. "Look, I'm sorry. I did come to see if you were okay."

Victoria looked up at him and smiled, "Thank you. You know you can actually be pretty nice when you're not so angry."

"Don't get used to it," he scoffed, "I gotta go." Victoria nodded as he left her alone again.

As he closed Victoria's door he turned to see Lauren standing in the hall watching him. He stepped towards her and went to speak but before she muttered a 'sorry' and quickly entered her room. He let out a deep sigh and mumbled to himself, "Shit."