People never know how they would react in life threatening situations. They would like to think that they would be brave and sort everything out themselves but they know deep down that they would probably be too scared to react.

I was like that too. I believed that i was a normal senior student, ready to study hard to make up for all the slacking that i did in the years prior, like all senior students.

I never expected to witness a stabbing when i entered roll call in the morning. It was the last day of the first week back at school. We heard the bell ring and as usual went to our roll call classroom. It was different this year because the room changes every year.

Entering a science classroom, which would have been my roll call classroom for the rest of the year if not for the incident, i sat in the back row with the rest of my friends.

As my classmates were entering the classroom and getting to their seats, our teacher was right behind me doing the blinds. I was getting my phone out to read something when a student that i knew, but not too well, ran into the classroom.

While running through the door, his arm went to the back of one of the students entering the class. After that he rushed to the teacher who was putting up the blinds not a meter away from me and put his hand to the back of the teacher as well. After that he ran outside and did the same thing to another student then disappeared.

I heard my friend who knew the student better than i do say:

" Hey was that -----? His face looked so serious. "

Thats when i heard the teacher grunt and fall down to the floor. I guess that everyone in the class heard it as they all stood up to see what happened. She looked in pain but this has never happened before so we thought i might've been a prank. After 5 seconds, she was still on the floor and she was silent except for some small groans of pain. Since i was the closest to the teacher and no one around me was doing anything i went up to her and asked if she was alright.

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From the moment the teacher fell down i didn't feel anything. My mind blanked out and i think that all my classmates were the same. Its similar to the feeling of doing a speech in class. I feel nervous before it is my turn and when i get called it just goes away. Its the same feeling except there was no nervousness at the beginning.

After i asked if she was alright, she answered to call somebody in a pained voice. Thats when i realized that everything was not a prank but somehow i didn't feel that shocked. I might have already known that it was real. So after she said to call someone i shouted to the others in the classroom to call someone. When no one did anything i ran out the door and turned right and went to the science staffroom. Since the staffroom was only two classrooms away, i found a teacher right away and called out to her. When she asked me what happened i froze. It was because i didnt know exactly what happened. I just knew that the teacher was hurt. Maybe I already knew what happened and was just more panicked than i thought. Luckily someone from the classroom followed me out and shouted

" I think our teacher got STABBED! " she said in a voice that was anything but calm.

The teacher looked confused but went to check inside the room. More teachers came and we were told to leave the room.

I was too focused on the teacher but two other students were hurt as well.

Right outside the room we did roll call normally. I looked around and was surprised that everyone 'looked' normal. I was expected someone to burst into tears. When the teacher asked if any of us needed counselling because of what we witnessed, a majority of us declined.

The day ended with the police catching the attempted murderer and the ambulance arriving in time to take the teacher and the two students to the hospital. Their injuries were non-threatening and everything was alright.

I just found it weird that everyone who witnessed the event seemed emotionally fine, including me. I might be wrong because i dont interact with my roll call class much so I wouldn't know, but I didn't hear of anything particular.

The feeling of blankness stayed for the whole day and I didn't really feel scared or traumatised.

Maybe we all were calm because the event seemed like something out of a movie and at the same time, so out of the blue and casual. The student just ran in and ran out.

I don't know if i am really stressed or anxious deep down but I don't really think much of the incident. Well i have been getting random neck pains that i heard may be realated to stress so.. Maybe i was not as okay as i thought. But i am surprised at how I handled the situation. I would've surely thought i would be like the other kids and stood there for minutes without knowing what to do. Or i would have sat there crying.

I wonder how i would handle another situation.