Stories of the Central Lockdown

It wasn’t a special morning, just a regular ole day. First period was over with and I couldn’t wait for the other three periods to be over and done with. I was already in the classroom when all of this was going on. I turn to my left and I see everyone outside the classroom door running for his or her lives. I thought Ms. O’Dell was messing around with them because she was standing in the doorway exclaiming to “hurry up,” with a big ole smile on her face. I had no idea that we were in a lockdown because I was too busy chit-chatting with others in the classroom. I saw Mr. Sheehy shut the door very quickly. He takes his keys out of his pocket and locks the door. Immediately after that, the lights shut off. He walks to the front of the classroom quietly, and tells everyone in a whisper tone, to quiet down. He said that we were in a lockdown, and there was a possible gunman in the school. I was confident that if I had to pick any other classroom, this would be it. So just because of that and Jesus Christ, I had no fear what so ever during this whole situation. No knots, butterflies or Goosebumps.

Another thing that calmed us down a lot was we being able to use our cell phones, watch T.V. (no sound at all until the news showed us), and listen to the radio through headphones. When you are in a dark room in a corner with every other student and nothing to do but think, that scares a lot of people. When you have things to occupy you, this stuff gets taken off your mind, you breeze through it with no fear. We got moved to the civic center and had the story repeated to us by Mr. Jones. He told us that about 30 min. ago the student had admitted to the story being false. Sad but true, and actually it is kind of good it was false, you know what I mean?

- Kitric