Rough Draft Short Story

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Rough Draft Story

I stood there just staring I could not move. Every time I moved o\n took a breath I felt him getting closer. Quickly, I had to do something but I did not know what. I feel like he has a gun or a weapon but I do not know for sure. I was 5’4 and 87lbs., and this guy had to be at least 6’9 and 250lbs.. There was no way that I would win in a fistfight so I just had to sit there and hope he would not see me hiding. I decided to run, I got shot in the leg. That is when I realized it was just a dream. Just a very bad dream.
It was 12:07AM and there was no way I was going to bed after that just happened. 1:32AM I still could not fall back asleep. I was just too scared that, that would happen again. That night I did not fall back asleep and when I went to get out of bed in the morning I realized I had been sweating all night. …show more content…

I was trying to think about what might have caused my bad dream. Could it have been the news or something I was reading in the newspaper. It must have been the news because when I was watching the news they said something about a person who just killed some kids when they were walking back from school.

I gave my mom a kiss and walked to the bus stop. At school me and my best friend Ashley were talking about the killer and how we wanted to see if we could find him. The plan was that at 11:30 we were going to sneak out at look for him during the night. Most of the school day was normal, but at 11:43 we heard a announcement over the loudspeaker saying that are school was going into a code blue and it was not a drill. A code blue is where we have to hide and turn off of of the lights because there is a intruder in the school.

“Ashley are you ok” I said quickly trying to hide somewhere safe. I ended up hiding behind a tipped over desk with papers and folders

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