Paiges Point of View There was a moment of total silence as my brain tried to protect me from what my eyes had just witnessed. And then all hell broke loose. The gunman was stumbling over racks of dresses, frantically trying to leave the scene of the crime. I could have stopped him, killed him. But I couldn't move. My beautiful little boy was staring at a man, who was so obviously his father, as he was bleeding out on the floor. And then there was the screaming. Screaming so loud and so desperate it was impossible to believe it was coming from any creature that was born onto this earth. It took a few seconds to realize that the screams were coming from me. There was no howl that Maddison could give out that was more terrifying than the sound that I was making. I might have been

