Sam often loved going to school, but the skies were dark and dreary awaiting for rainfall soon. He got on the bus dreading the tests and what was to come throughout the day. Every day walking into school there are always people smiling and talking cheerfully around the halls before class. But today, there was a shadow in the school. The halls were not as loud as always and there was a weight on everyone's shoulders.

“Is there something that I am missing?” Sam asks his friend Kyle “why are the halls so quiet.” 

“Yeah this is weird no one is eating breakfast and something feels off today.” Kyle provides.

Their other friend Alex adds, “It must just be the weather. Rainy days like this always get to me.”  

But today wasn't any other day. With the darkness of the thunderfilled skies lies something no one could expect. 

James was always thrown in lockers and getting in fights he just could not win. This led him down in a path everyone fears. He was plotting for weeks and this was the day that he was counting on: gloom, drowsy students, and the absence of care in the school. Everyone had their guard down and anything can be hidden in a backpack. James walked in and no one thought a thing about it. All was normal and Sam went to his first hour class. Close to the middle of the school day Sam was at lunch with both Kyle and Alex. They all went to dump out their garbage and go wash their hands in the bathroom. While in the bathroom one big bang covers the school. Silence after shot. Panic, and it is coming from the lunch room. The three of them leave the bathroom and in the chaos of the gunfire lose each other. It was everyone for themselves, fire alarms went off, people went to protection mode. Sam ended up hidden in a different bathroom waiting for his demise. Alex and Kyle both were safe inside of a classroom that was open and they then closed.

Police were now outside of the school fighting the downpour. Sam was waiting in the bathroom ready. James was roaming the school, he had already shot 40 people and was walking the halls waiting for people to start trying to run out of the school. He was also checking bathrooms and there was a glow around one. Sam hears footsteps coming closer to the bathroom. Heart racing and terrified Sam sat behind where the door would open to get a surprise attack on James. James opened the door expecting people to be hiding in the stalls. Soon he figured out he was far from right. Sam had pulled the plastic face of the toilet paper holder to use as a weapon. With a quick back of the head blow to James, the battle for life and death was on. Police heard the gunshots blasting and started to rush into the school from the other end to ensure their safety. With James pinpointed down into the bathroom the police had two choices, wait him out or go inside and attack. Sam grabbed the gun pushing it away from his center mass and at the wall. James was already dazed and his assault rifle burst with fire. Many blows to the head that Sam was laying down gave him some hope of survival in the situation he was in. But James got Sam off and created space by hitting him in the head with his gun. Blood covered Sam's face and splashed on the walls. James pointed the gun at Sam and gave no second thought but to shoot. The lifeless body gave James a satisfactory feeling. Unknowingly, he walked out to continue his patrolling of the halls and search for more blood. BANG! The last gunshot in the school. A police officer took the shot on James to end the threat once and for all. The rain ended, the skies cleared, and the school was still shining in the tragedy of a school shooting.