MSD-"It was NOT Gunshots-It was Blanks" - Eden Hebron

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Music Music Music Music Music February 14, 2018 was Valentine's Day and me and my friend, my very good friend Alyssa, we have English so that day we sit down and it's actually the one day that we were able to sit together because I think she's just like from the previous class so we all sat together, me, my friend Victoria and Alyssa and you know we're writing an essay and we hear gunshots coming from the hallway and at that moment I kind of like everyone started running and I was kind of like guys like gunshots, guys like gunshots, guys like gunshots, guys like gunshots, I mean it's like a lot of fun. I mean I was probably blanks or balloons like something, I mean I was probably blanks. I thought it was a drill because they told us we would have these officers who were going to be firing blanks like scare us get us like you know training for this. Guys like it's not gunshots I mean I was probably blank. I thought it was a drill because they told us we would have these officers who were going to be firing blanks like scare us get us like you know training for this. I don't have an ambulance say that I'll do nothing. Oh my girl, I only get you every time. So everyone starts running all different places so some people run to the walls, some people run to the desk. I go on to the teacher assistant table, Alyssa comes with me and then she moves to the teacher's desk where everyone is and then I'm kind of waiting there for like 30 seconds and before we knew it our door was shot through and there's glass all over and there's glass in front of me I look over it all over the entire room and he starts shooting my classmates. He shoots like Justin, cool tin, Alex Shafter, bunch of kids and then he kind of makes his way like he shoots in like a kind of going clockwise and then he goes to Alyssa who's my best friend. He shoots her, she kind of falls back and she's there's blood everywhere and then you know like they're going to catch him, they're going to catch whoever this is. I was kind of like convincing myself that it wasn't actually happening and then he comes back to our room. He goes to the room next door which is AP Psych and the Holocaust class and then he comes back to our room and he shoots a few more kids and then after that I'm brought kind of there like very in shock, my mind kind of just like shot down and then you know we keep hearing gunshots it's like they literally like will not stop I heard them go up and up because the story that building is three stories and you know it kind of felt like it was never going to stop it felt like he was just going to shoot the entire school. He's going to come back to us he's going to shoot me he's going to unlock the door and you know we kept hearing gunshots I look over and you know there's bodies on the floor of my classroom and it was very very surreal and then I hear some yelling and 10 minutes later from when it came to our room the SWAT team comes in and they kind of go like if you're able to walk if you're able to move like run and we all run to the other side of the street and as I'm getting out of my classroom I kind of like look around it what's happening and I see like like classmate who I shot 12 minutes ago they're dead. Are you serious? I see like a lifestyle just my best friend I'm sorry dad and I saw you know it's it's very surreal this whole moment it's just kind of like this is not happening like everyone in my class thought it was a dream everyone in my class thought it was a dream everyone in my class thought it was a dream please welcome to the stage the gorgeous incredible gift and even everyone sending her to my Christina Valera we're in our heart you heard it's welcome to the stage I close my eyes and wait for my teacher to say it's a drill but before I knew it our door was shot through and I saw his first kill freshman Eden hebron reads as a poem she wrote to help her process what she saw people I'm looking at who I looked at every day they bullets through them she was in classroom 1216 sitting next to her best friend Alyssa Alhadef they hear the shots and run for cover and I hear our door that shot through you know I see glass right in front of me hebron says she couldn't comprehend what was going on until she saw Alyssa collapse and at that moment I was like I'm next the class right next door from us he shoots through the wall and that's when he shot Alex Shaqter rest in peace I see blood next to me and about 10 minutes later the SWAT team comes in breaks our door breaks our door a Las Vegas concert and now Stomen Douglas High School can't our government see the patterns without an assault rifle Nicholas Cruz want to been able to shoot our door and knock over all the glass to get to my class meets without an assault rifle Nicholas Cruz want to be able to fire 180 bullets in my school without high capacity magazines Nicholas Cruz want to be able to murder 17 people I stand here today with pride and determination so no one else has to go through my classmate tonight went through on February 14th our nation will keep fighting marching and advocating for what every human being deserves to live in a safe environment and we don't have to worry and today will be our last I think each and every one of you for being