School Shooting

Date: 6/13/2022

I was in the high school that I graduated from in 2020. All I remember before the shooting started was that my graduating class and I were all in the gymnasium for some reason and I was catching up with some people I haven’t talked to since graduation. I specifically remember talking to this girl Tia. Next thing I remember is we were all about to leave and go home when we heard the first 3 gunshots. Everyone looked around at each other and you could see the fear & disbelief in everyone’s eyes. People started grabbing anyone they could find that they cared about and running. This is when I spotted my ex out of the crowd of people and we locked eyes and both yelled each others names so that we knew we both cared about each other and wanted to run away together (irl r relationship ended very badly so it kinda surprised me that she was willing to spend what could be her last moments with me). Anyway, we started running out of the gym and into this hallway. I remember running straight for like 2 minutes and then taking a left but other people were shouting not to turn left but as soon as we heard them they changed their minds and were motioning for us to ignore what they previously said and to head left like we originally planned. We continued to run and turned left and when I looked to my right I saw the shooter who was pretty far down the opposite hallway but was walking in our direction. I saw him shoot like one or two people and even more panic set in because I really didn’t want to have to see my ex get shot in front of me. We saw these two significantly heavy doors further down the direction that we were running (they looked bullet proof) so a wave of relief went through me because I knew all we had to do was make it to the other side of those doors to be safe. We got to the doors and I wanted her to run through them first but she refused for some reason so I went through and the door swung shut behind me before she could run through. I made eye contact with her through the window of the door and watched her get shot three times and fall. I felt so many emotions but absolute rage took over and the whole dynamic of the dream changed because I was now chasing down the shooter and he was running from me because he knew I was gonna kill him. I ended up catching up to him and grabbing him by the throat but this is when I woke up.