Sheila's POV
Jack taped the line down the middle of the room.
I'm sitting in the corner, I feel sick.
"Y'know if we charge you all at once, there's no way you'd shoot us all." Marcus said.
"Yeah, but who's first." Kyle said.
Our phone's started to ring like crazy.
We heard ' Hey it's your mom, pick up the phone, it's your mom, just called to say hi.'
"Who's phone is THAT!?" Kyle asked.
"It's mine." Tyler said.
He picked up Tyler's phone and said "Open your eyes, your son's a dick."
He then kept picking up other people's phones and said "Open your eyes!"
Tyler then ran over there, but stopped, when Kyle pointed the gun at him.
"He's not going to do it." He said.
"Don't push me." Kyle said.
"He's not going to DO IT!"
"Hey Tyler!" I said.
"What?!"
Then I kneed him in the stomach
"Does that help you out?" I asked.
"Just get back over the line." He said.
I sat in the corner.
Everyone had shocked faces.
We then heard the helicopters.
"Looks like the SWAT team is here." Tyler said.
"See any red dots on your forehead, I suggest you duck." He said.
"It's just the reporters; we are a part of the circus now." Blake said.
"What do you want to happen Kyle?" Jack asked.
"What do I want, uh I don't know I want to crap a million dollars and a plane ticket to Bolivia." He said.
"Why don't you just give up?" Hannah asked.
"Yeah, I'll just call a do-over." Kyle replied.
"Why not? You didn't hurt anybody, did you?" she asked.
"Did you shoot anyone, Kyle?" Blake asked.
"I don't know." He said.
"You don't have a record, and, and a good student, besides you're a minor." Kim said.
"Yeah, and maybe this isn't as bad as you think." Jack said.
"Are you kidding me, he shot up a school," He said.
"Would you shut up?" Blake said.
"You shut up; I'm not lying for him. He pointed a gun to my head, and threatened to shoot me, I hope they fry his ass." Tyler said.
"What's wrong with you? He's just a kid, we're all just kids, and we just have this life, and the things you say and do, we feel that. How can you have so much hate in your heart? How can you act like it doesn't matter? It does matter. What happened to us? We're just kids. We can't be like this. It's not possible." I said.
"Whatever, if he doesn't shoot us, you'll die anyway." Tyler said.
"Tyler..." Blake said.
"W-what is he talking about?" Kim asked.
"I have leukemia, and I stopped responding to treatment." I explained.
"So, even if I just walk out, I'll eventually faint, and have to be rushed to the hospital."
"700 days, high school, out of 20, or 30 thousand, can't you see past that?" Hannah asked
"It's only 700 days."
"Yeah and how many of these days do I get back?" Kyle asked.
"Do I get back the days, I get spit on, or the days I learned to look at the floor, when I walk the halls of this school." He said.
"How about the day my dad came to pick me up, and saw me getting my ass kicked on the quad, and realized his son was a loser, do you ever see the look in your father's eyes when he realizes that? Do I get that day back? Cause I saw the exact same look, the day he left me and my mom." he said.
"It sucks man, I'm sorry." Jack said.
"Oh, that's great, you're sorry." He replied.
"Well you can forget it, because this isn't breakfast club, we're not all going to fire up a joint and be pals, I mean let's face it, this is the most any of us have talked in four years, because if I didn't have this gun it never happens."
"Look people suck okay? It's just high school man." Tyler said
"Yeah, there's always college right?" Kyle asked.
"MIT, remember Kyle?" Blake asked.
"They rejected me, you know why, not enough activities, I guess Seaford Fight Club doesn't count." Kyle replied.
"You know one school is not the end of the world." Jack said.
"It is for me, it's the end of my world."
"So, what? All this because you didn't get into college, all this because you're not popular?" Tyler asked.
"No, all this because I'm tired of it." He replied.
Kelsey's POV
I sighed. "I'm tired Jerry, are you tired?" I asked.
"Yeah, but we have to stay awake, um tell me about a good day." He replied.
"We had a snow day. Sixth grade, do you remember? It was like this whole other world just came in overnight, and took ours away. Kim, she came over, and we made a snow fort…with a tunnel, and we stayed in there all day. It seemed so safe, like everything was okay. Like everything our world was about to become, maybe we could just stop it, and stay little kids for one more day. But then it got cold, kind of like now. They're gonna come now." I said.
"Who?" Jerry asked.
"All of them. The reporters, and the psychologists, and the analysts, and the so- called experts, and they're going to try to make sense of this, but they're not going to be able to, and even if we do make it out of here, we're always going to carry it with us, it's never going to be the same." I replied
"It's not glass is it? In my leg." I said.
"no." Jerry replied.
"It's a bullet." He said
"Now, I may have to get you out of here, okay?" he said.
"But nothing will happen to you, I promise." He said.
"You're always saving me." I said.
"Somebody's got to." He replied.
"If I say, I love you right now, will you hold it against me, because I've lost a lot of blood." I said.
He sort of smiled at me.
"C-come here." I say.
He leaned in, and I kissed him.
"Just in case, you can't keep your promise." I said.