A/N : Thank you to everyone who is reading this story and especially thank you for those who reviewed, means a lot. Reviews always make me update faster. Well, I'll let you read now, hope to hear what your thoughts are.
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Chapter 2
She couldn't run anymore, she just had to stop for a second. She leaned against the wall, her breathing heavy, watching students run by, not paying any attention to her at all. She looked at her arm and saw it was bleeding pretty bad.
Now Brooke knew what that pinch she had felt was, she had been shot. She started to feel the pain of the injury more as she leaned against the wall. Gunshots were being fired, not far from her. But she was soo tired, she couldn't run anymore.
Even if she did run, there were students with guns everywhere. Where would she run ? Where would she hide ? They would find her anyways.
Right there and then, she gave up. It was never like her to give up that easily, but she just didn't see any escape from the situation, none. She slowly slid down the wall, sitting herself down on the floor, waiting untill someone with a gun came to finish her of.
She was about to bow her head down and start crying when she heard her name being called out.
"Brooke!" She heard, the voice sounded very familiar, but mids of all the confusion, she had trouble picking it out.
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Haley and Peyton were running from one direction to another while many students, some friends, fell down as another shot was fired.
They were holding each others hand very firmly, almost as if it were a deathgrip, determined to hold on. To survive.
They ran into another hall of the school, trying to avoid the bullets as well as trying to avoid to step on any of the bodies lying on the floor. Haley noticed some of the students didn't even bother, they just stepped over the bodies of the dead or maybe simply injured people.
Suddenly, Haley noticed Peyton had stopped running. She was staring at a part of the wall a little further from them.
"Brooke!" She yelled, as she saw Brooke slidding down the wall, sitting down on the ground. Haley saw her now too, she was looking around, trying to find who had called her.
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Lucas and Nathan were running one way, then another way and again, another way. They couldn't reach any of the exits, the shooters were everywhere. All they could do was run around the school, hoping they would not get shot.
"We gotta find somewhere to hide." Lucas said, almost out of breath. He realized that it would be impossible for them to keep this pace for very much longer.
"I get ya man, but where ? And what about Haley and the others ?" Nathan asked, as much out of breath as Lucas.
"I don't know. But we're no good to them dead. Which is exactly what we'll be if we don't find somwhere to catch our breath." Lucas said. It took him a lot of effort to breath, let alone talk.
"Okay, we'll find something, maybe a closset or somethin'." Nathan replied as he looked around him very closely.
"There!" Nathan pointed out a storage closset just a few feet from them. Him and Lucas raced towards it, in the hope they'd be safe there untill they catch their breath, ready to look for Haley, Brooke and Peyton.
It was very dark in the closset, which was to be expected, but still, in times like these, very scary too. Lucas could hear someones heavy breathing, not his, but he just thought it was Nathan's. He reached out his arm in search for the light, after a few seconds, he found it.
Once the light had turned on, both Lucas and Nathan saw the source of the heavy breathing they both thought was from their brother.
"Jake." Lucas said in shock at the sight of his friend...
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Peyton dragged Haley allong to where Brooke was sitting, bowed down, took Brooke's hand and helped her up. They both noticed the blood on her arm, but there was nothing they could do there, they needed to get to safety first.
"We gotta get to the tutor-center. It's one of the lockdown area's." Haley said, blaming herself for not remembering sooner. Peyton nodded as she took Brooke's hand in her free hand.
"Can you make it ?" Peyton asked Brooke as she knew the tutor-center was still 5 minutes away, even when they ran.
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More students had reached the exits and ran outside as fast as they could. Some bleeding in different places, some in shock. They were relieved when they saw the police, the FBI, the SWAT team and the ambulances.
The paramedics rushed to the 5 students, 4 girl and 1 boy, who had made it out. They were the lucky ones, they had gotten out alive because people next to them, behind them, and before them had been shot instead of them. Even those that were hurt and had made it out, owed their lives to several of their classmates.
All the students that were physically fine, were send to an old, closed sportsgym about 15 minutes from the school.
As the paramedics checked the students, the SWAT-team, FBI and police were discussing what they could do in this situation. If they just barged in, chances were, several more students would die, if they did nothing, even more students would die. They lost either way. For now, they had decided to stay outside.
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"Jake." Lucas said in shock as he saw a wounded, bleeding Jake on the floor of the small storage closset.
"The door, close it." Jake managed to say, he hadn't closed it yet, because he had fallen down once he had reached the closset and could no longer get up. He was shot in his stomach.
After Lucas had closed the door, he sat down next to Jake, who looked like death. No, Jake couldn't die, he was too strong for this.
Meanwhile, Nathan stared at the door, trying to block out the screams coming from the hallway. He avoided looking at Jake, if he looked at Jake, all he would be able to think was that Haley was lying in a closset somewhere too, wounded, just like Jake.
"Nathan, give me a hand here." Lucas demanded, bringing his little brother back to the reality of the situation. Nathan nodded and bowed down next to Lucas and Jake, trying not to think of Haley.
"Give me your shirt." Lucas said to Nathan as he took of his own jersey, his basketball jersey he had been wearing during Gym. Nathan did as Lucas said and gave his jersey to him. Lucas placed it on Jake's wound and put pressure on it.
"What happened, man ?" Nathan asked, the first thing he was able to say since they reached the closset.
"I was in my Economic's class, when he came in. Don't know who. He shot everyone, me included. I played dead. When he left the class, I ran out as fast as I could and hid in the best place possible. Here." Jake said, speaking was very hard for him, even harder now that Lucas was putting so much pressure on his wound.
"You're bleeding pretty bad, Jake. We've gotta get you out of here." Lucas said, as he looked at all the blood still coming from the man.
"We get that Luke, but how ? And what about Hales ?" Nathan asked, Lucas sighed.
"I don't know Nate. But we've gotta try. Jake needs our help, we can't do anything for Haley, Brooke or Peyton, we don't know where they are. We can't just let Jake die." Lucas said, Nathan understood and nodded. He wanted to find Haley so bad, but Jake needed their help right now.
"We've just gotta figure out a way." Lucas said, but the truth was, he had no idea how he would get Jake out of there.
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The old, smelly gym was filled with about 90 students, which wasn't much at all, since there were about 700 to 900 students in Tree Hill High. There weren't so many teenagers in Tree Hill, but people from different districts went to that school. That was one of the reasons why it was so big.
At least half of the students in the gym had blood from other people on their clothes, while the other half was crying non stop.
There were parents in the gym too, shouting out names of their children. Most would never be found again, while others had found their son or daughter, thankfully.
There was only one teacher who had gotten out so far, a female one, about 30 years old. She had gone for some papers for her English class when she heard the first gunshots, scared to death, she had run out of the gym, not looking back. Eversince that moment, she had been overwhelmed with guilt, she should have stayed to protect her students, but she had been too busy thinking about herself.
She knew that was no way to think, she did the logic thing, she ran. If she had turned back, she would probably be dead right now. Even the police told her that, still, she couldn't help but feel what she felt.
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"Can you make it ?" Brooke heard Peyton ask. She had felt so scared and alone before they had come, but now that her very best friend and one of her closest friends had come to the rescue, she felt strong, as if somehow, their coming had changed everything for her.
"You bet I am." Brooke said, nodding and holding Peyton's hand tighter in her own hand. Peyton was also still holding Haley's hand, Brooke noticed. She looked determaned to make it out alive and bring her friends with her.
Seeing Peyton like that gave Brooke newfound strength. She was ready. Ready to run for her life, ready to make it out of there alive.
They heard another gunshot behind them, startling them, so they began running as fast as they could.
Right before they reached the tutor-center, they heard a familiar voice yell for help. Scared, they looked behind in time to see their cheerleader friend Bevin Mirskey getting shot in the head, falling to the ground.
They froze as they saw the female shooter being joined by a male shooter as they headed their way. There was no way to turn, no way to run. This was the end for them, they all thought, they would die.
All Haley, Peyton and Brooke could do was watch in fear as they came closer to them, raising their guns.
Bang! Bang!
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A/N : So, that was it for chapter 2, who do you think got shot ? Who survived ? Tell me what you think.
I'll also be posting some of the reviews I'll get each chapter, if there are a lot of them, I'll pick out my faves, but since chapter 1 only had 3 reviews, I'll post those all.
RICE : Awesome start:) Can't wait for the next chapter. Update Soon!
NaleyIsLove23 : Wow! That was amazing. I know it is a difficult topic, but you wrote it so well. Great Job. I can't wait to see what happens in the next chapter! ud soon!
Autor's response : Thank you, I'm so glad you thought it was amazing. I'm glad you also think I wrote the 1st chapter well, considering the toppic.
laj33 : I liked this chapter a lot and I think this is going to be a great story. Can't wait for the next update.
A/N : Again, I thank every for reading and I hope you review, because it means a lot and makes me update on a daily bases.