Growing up in a neighborhood where everyone knew everyone, life had a certain rhythm.Churches stood on every corner. The grocery store and chicken house were just a block away. And let's not forget, the village had their eyes on you. Teachers didn't just stay in the classroom; they sat at your dinner table and worshiped beside you on Sundays. It was normal to see neighbors sitting on their front porches, waving as you drove by. Even though school shootings have been happening for decades, they were rarely talked about back then, there was no social media, no instant headlines. It felt like that kind of tragedy only happened somewhere else, to someone else. But this book tells a true story, one about a young girl whose life was changed forever by something she never thought would happen to her.