“Go to sleep sweetheart it’s getting late,” demanded Janessa’s mother

“Okay ma, can I ask you something?” asked Janessa.

“Yea, sure what’s going on?” asked Janessa’s mother.

“What will you do if there was a lion running towards you?” asked Janessa.

“Run of course!” exclaimed Janessa’s mother.

“Not me, I will fight it back!” exclaimed Janessa.

“Oh sweetheart, you are so much like your father,” said Janessa’s mother.

“How am I like my father?” asked Janessa.

“You both are brave, smart, and kind to others,” said Janessa.

“Thanks ma, I’m getting sleepy goodnight,” said Janessa, smiling.

“Goodnight sweetheart sleep tight,” said Janessa’s mother.

It is the next day, Janessa is late for school and a lockdown begins. Janessa walks down the hallway and spots a man dressed in black with a gun in his hand. Janessa tiptoes to the girls restroom that is right aside of her. She pulls out her phone as she gets in the restroom but an unknown number begins to call her and the phone starts to vibrate. The man in black hears her so Janessa runs to a stall, as she gets in the stall she stands on the toilet in order for the man not to spot her feet under the stall. Janessa waits in the stall and sees a shadow about 6 feet tall, looking down at each stall. After, she closes her eyes and waits for 10 minutes and realizes that the shadow is gone. She gets out of the restroom and sees the man in black get in the principal’s office; however, she begins to tiptoe to her classroom right ahead of her and gets in. Janessa finds all of her classmates and her teacher hiding in the corner.

“By the time it gets to 6:00 p.m. today, escape from the windows quietly, as I distract the man,” said Janessa, looking up at the clock besides the white board.

“It’s too dangerous, Janessa, you will get shot or hurt!” exclaimed Mrs. Gomez with her hot

looking face and with tears dripping down her cheeks.

“Don’t worry about me, now I will go tell the other nine classes the same as I said to you all,” said Janessa, heading out the door.

Janessa goes to all ten classes and repeats herself by telling each class about how she will go distract the man in black as they escape from the windows. When she finishes, she walks by the principal’s office door where the man in black is in. Janessa puts her ear close to the door and hears the man telling the principal, Mrs. Ramirez, about how he had gone to the school in 8th grade.

“Look at me!” exclaimed the man in black.

“What do you want, please don’t hurt me!” cried out Mrs. Ramirez.

“Don’t you remember me, I had been in this school in 8th grade and you expelled me just because I had brought a real knife when it was Halloween!” exclaimed the man in black.

“I still don’t remember,” cried out Mrs. Ramirez.

“Yes you do!” exclaimed the man in black.

“Okay fine I do gosh!” cried out Mrs. Ramirez.

            “Because of you no other school accepts me; since no school accepts me I can’t graduate!” exclaimed the man in black. “I have lived in a garage ever since I killed my mom because she had got mad at me for the same dumb reason; in fact, me bringing a real knife to school in Halloween is nothing to get mad at and it was just to match my costume so now I come to get you all back!”

Janessa walks in the principal’s office and sees the man in black facing the gun to Mrs. Ramirez, but as Janessa gets in, the door makes a creaking noise. The man hears the noise and turns the gun to Janessa. She gets scared and looks at Mrs. Ramirez whose face was red with drips of sweat dripping down her forehead.

“Calm down, don’t hurt me!” cried out Janessa with panic.

“So what if I did hurt you,” said the man in black.

“I’m too young to die and I got a lot ahead of me, tell me what’s your name?” asked Janessa, calming herself down.

“My name is John, you won’t understand what this school had done to me!” exclaimed John.

“What had they done?” asked Janessa with a soft tone.

John goes mad that he immediately shoots Mrs. Ramirez in the arm. Janessa is about to scream but decides not to because she has to keep it down since her duty was to rescue the others. She looks up at the clock in the principal’s office and sees that it is 2:00 p.m. Janessa repeats herself by telling John that everything will be okay.

“No it won’t!” exclaimed John, facing the gun closer to Janessa.

“Please... John I can help, just tell me what happened and why you’re deciding to do this when there about 300 students in this school?” asked Janessa, stepping closer to the gun.

“It was Halloween and I was in 8th grade, Mrs. Ramirez, the principal expelled me just because

I had brought a real knife to match my costume and no other school has accept me nor a college so I haven’t been able to graduate,” John said. ”All I had done after, was kill my mother because she had spanked me for bringing a real knife to school; therefore, I had lived in a small garage and had been renting an old truck ever since!” exclaimed John, lowering his gun with tears dripping down his pale cheeks.

“So it’s not our fault!” exclaimed Janessa.

“I know it’s not but it’s unfair for you kids to have the opportunity of graduating and not me!” exclaimed John.

It is 4:30 p.m., Janessa tells John that she will help him but he will need to calm down. Janessa knows she has to lie in order for her duty to be accomplished.

“My dad is a lawyer, he can offer you a job, I will do my best to tell him,” said Janessa.

“What if you don’t do your best? I will have to live the same!” exclaimed John.

“I will do what it takes in order to give you a job, a house, and your own car,” said Janessa.

One of the 7th grade teachers from the school calls the police and John hears sirens; in addition, he yells at janessa as he bangs the door with his fist.

“Who called the police? Was it you! Now I will kill every human in this school! Everyone will die!” exclaimed John, raising his gun.

“Calm down, John the police might just be here to help you get away from this,” said Janessa, patting John’s back.

“Don’t touch me you little girl!” demanded John.

“Okay then, but the police officers won’t hurt you I promise,” said Janessa.

“Yes they will, I know they will!” exclaimed John, raising his gun even higher to Janessa.

“I have a plan listen to me, I know you had been through so much in your life and I know you may not have had the best place to live or the best car to travel with, but I can help you on that I know I can,” said Janessa. “The same happened to my cousin but since I’m so smart I helped him get a job, a car, and I also helped him graduate I was able to do this all because of my dad, the lawyer who makes it all possible,” said Janessa.

“Do you think your dad might help me graduate and have a better life?” asked John.

“Of course!” exclaimed Janessa.

“Okay then,” said John.

“But only in one condition,” said Janessa.

“What is it?” asked John.

“You have to do as I say!” exclaimed Janessa.

“No! How am I supposed to get ordered around by a little girl like you!” exclaimed John.

“Well then I guess, have fun living the same sad life,” said Janessa, heading out the door.

John changes his mind and agrees with the fact of Janessa being able to demand him. It is 5:30

p.m., many police cars are outside of the school and each of the police officers wore blue coats with navy blue hats.

“What’s your plan, Janessa?” asked John, putting his gun in his pocket.

“We have to get out from the front door of the school and...” said Janessa as she got interrupted.

“I will get shot or arrested right away, don’t you see all those police cars outside?” asked John, taking a peek out the window.

“Yes, I know there is a lot of police officers outside, but do you want a job or not?” asked Janessa.

“Of course I do! Well keep going with your plan!” exclaimed John.

“When we get out from the front door, you hold the gun behind you and warn the police officers that if they arrest or kill you, you will need to kill me. After you tell them to put their guns down, I will yell out to you to not shoot me in order for the police officers to believe that you really are going to shoot me and I will explain to them about the whole costume incident,” said Janessa, looking at the clock and at John.

It is 6:00 p.m., John and Janessa go out of the principal’s office and walk down the hallway. They go besides the door and Janessa hears noises down the hallway, but she realizes that it’s everyone escaping from the windows. Janessa and John get out from the front school door and they begin to look at all the police officers ahead of them. Janessa pushes John but as he was about to shoot at Janessa

there were two police officers behind John and they both use the taser on him. As John tries to fight back, he punches Janessa who falls on the cement and cracks open her head. One of the police officers who saw the incident, is Janessa’s father, he runs towards John and shoots him two times as he sees Janessa on the floor. He drops himself to his knees and holds Janessa who had blood dripping down her head and her father’s hand. He cries out “Janessa, my child!” and all of the others walk down to Adrian, Janessa’s father, and do their best to support him. Two police officers hear a lady’s voice in the school building, yelling out “Help me!” they both get in and hear the voice in the principal’s office  and they head in and see Mrs. Ramirez dropped on the floor hidden behind her desk with blood all over her arm. Immediately they help her up and one of them calls the ambulance, they carry her out the front door of the school, as Mrs. Ramirez is being carried in the ambulance she cries out, “Poor Janessa, just to save us, God bless this young girl!”

All of the others who had escaped from the windows walk to the front of the school where Janessa is at and all the police officers are at as well. They walk closer but the police officers are in the way backing them up. Maria, Janessa’s best friend, gets through and runs to Janessa, she sees her in Adrian’s arms and she begins to cry out loud, “My best friend is dead!” and she runs to hug her. Janessa knew she had to die somehow, she knew she wasn’t going to survive with a man like John carrying a gun in his hand. Janessa just did what was best for the others in the school, but she had a choice in the beginning to run out of the school as she walked in the building and had seen John with the gun and to save herself or to save the others. Janessa chose to save each human in the school because she knew it was the right thing to do. As a result, Janessa was known as the young hero all around the world especially the ones who she saved.