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I was in math class. It was about 11:15 and we were joking that it would be nice to get out of this hard test we were getting ready to take. Then we heard sounds like fire crackers. Someone said, " Oh man, someone must really not wanna take a test!" We were all laughing and joking. Then someone ran down the hall screaming that there were people with guns and bombs. We freaked. We looked like crazy people. Finally, my teacher was smart enough to lock the door. We heard screams and laughing and gun shots and explosions. We hid in the back of the room and prayed. Some of us cried and some wrote letters to their families. One guy had a cell phone and he called the police and then his family. We all wanted to call our families but we were afraid that the gunmen would hear us. We silently turned the TV on with no sound and watched the events unfold. We stayed in there for about three hours before we were freed. We saw bloody bodies on the way. Some were alive, some you couldn't tell. Turned out later they were all alive. When we got outside we ran to the police area and were checked out. I had to step over a dead kid on the sidewalk. We then were bussed to the Leawood school. I told my parents I wanted to wait for my friends. It was terrible, both the wait and the eventual news that some were dead. Kristen- 16 Jr.