Chapter 1

  The shooting

  It's a normal Wednesday for Julian and Jack or well so they thought…

  Ugh i hate english class, i thought as i moved my pen in a smooth motion in between my fingers half sleeping.

  “JULIAN” Miss Abbott screamed at me with her British, annoying accent. “Are you even listening to me?” she said as she strutted in her heels over to me. On the other side Jack's gang grinned and mocked me. I wanted to throw a book in his face for all the shit he's made me go through. Especially that time he toilet dunked me. This was so not a good day for me.

  “Yes miss, I am in fact listening” I said with a tired expression.

  God Julian is such a loser I thought at the other end of the class room with my gang around me. I mean he had always hated me, everyone else loves me, I mean I am Jack, the best of the best as we all know, so why wouldn’t he like me… I walked over to his bench and leaned on it.

  “What do you want Jack?” He said, still just looking at the pen in his fingers.

  “Oh come on Julian, don't be such a buzzkill i just wanted to have a chat” I said with a grin, happy i annoyed him.

  “Ugh i'm really not in the mood” Julian said with a clenched jaw.

  “What can’t two friends have-” I started but a gunshot sound was made. Everyone turned their heads towards the door. The room was dead silent. Then another shot was heard.

  Everything went so quickly. As Miss Abbott hid under her table in fear I ran to the door to lock it. As soon as the door was locked someone harshly grabbed my arm and pulled me to a cabinet, it was Jack. He pulled out the cabinet just a bit so we would fit in between the cabinet and the wall then he grabbed my wrist and pulled me in between with him. We heard how someone rattled the door handle and I stopped breathing, Jack's grip around my wrist tightened and he said don’t make a sound right before the door was kicked in. The world stopped spinning and everything went to slow motion for a few seconds as the gunshot sounded. Then the screaming and crying started, my ears were ringing and tears were falling down my face as more shots sound, the screaming stopped… they were dead. I heard footsteps leaving the room but I still couldn't breath. The ringing was slowly disappearing bit for bit as my pulse did too. More gunshots were heard but after a few minutes police sirens came closer. Jack was the first one to move. He slowly pulled out the cabinet so he could step out, but as he was slowly pushing it the sound of a dead body being pushed with it started. He stopped and broke down in tears. I moved my hand down to his and I squeezed it a bit before our fingers intertwined. He kept pushing and stepped out, me following him as our hands were intertwined. There was blood and bodies everywhere all we could do was stare. Two minutes later three policemen came in. They grabbed us and started asking if we had any injuries and what our parents' numbers were. I couldn’t speak so after Jack had answered his questions he looked over at me then slowly closed in. He started asking the questions for me. I just looked at him. They said my dad wasn’t answering so Jack looked at me and asked about my mom. All i could get out was “dead” Jack just said sorry, the police women asked where I lived and there i just kinda snapped to life again. I met her eyes and said motel or street. She looked at me worried and then said

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  “sir i'm sorry but i have to report that if you're not staying at a safe space”. Jack looked worried then quickly answered

  “He’ll be at my place, do you need my address?”. I looked at him confused, then I just looked down again.

  “Eee yes please, are you able to get home safe, we’ll contact you if we need another interview, maybe after this has… sunk in a bit” the police officer said then she walked off to her coworkers. Jack just said

  “Come on, let’s go” in a soft tone before he started walking out of the school with me after him.