TW: mention of g^ns, of su!cide, of cops, and of sexual assult

a bang fills the air.

screams threaten to overtake you

overwhelm you as you

run away from an unseen threat.

you don't know what's happening,

where you're going or

what you should do or

why you're even running.

all you know is the feel

of your friend's hand in yours

your feet hitting the pavement

your breaths echoing in your chest.

what to do, what to do

keep running or

call your mom or

hide in your friend's car.

You see people calling their moms and

running away and

getting in their cars and

yelling at each other.

what happened, you don't even know.

someone yelled gun and

everyone ran and

the cops showed up with rifles.

they say someone had a gun or

someone threatened to

kill themselves or

someone was sexually assaulted.

you can never be sure, not until the

news broadcasts that

some kid made up the rumor

or that it was for real and 

someone really did have a gun.

this world isnt right, this shouldn't

work like this, i shouldn't

be scared like this

nothing should have happened in the first place.

it was supposed to be a normal day

a normal football game

a normal cheer and chant

a normal happy night, but no.

things can never turn out well you

knew you had a bad feeling you

knew you shouldn't have gone

in the first place but you did and here we are

now after the great commotion

after the calls and texts and

running and driving

and the many "are you ok"'s

you're laying in your bed on your phone

like nothing even happened

like you don't still have a lump

sitting in your throat as if you're waiting 

for something to happen.

maybe something will happen

maybe something did happen

maybe something didn't happen

i dont think anything actually happened,

what if all this panic was for no reason?

what if our fear was a lie and

the hyperventilating and running

was for no good because nothing happened.

i guess someone yelled gun and

we believed them so we ran

everything's too believable so

maybe we should be more skeptical.

i think i should go to sleep before

my thoughts of what could've been

overtake me and make me

panic all over again.

even though all of the danger's over

though nothing really happened

and im safe and ok and

no one got hurt at all,

im still scared it might happen again.

maybe, it

might happen

for real 

this time.

AN:

yes, this was based on a true event. yes, im okay. yes, nobody died. a kid got hurt (they got beat up by some high-schoolers).