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She Told Me to Jump First – I Didn't Know She Meant It
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Jun 5, 2025
She Told Me to Jump First – I Didn't Know She Meant It “Why did I survive?” Piper is just fifteen. She survived a school shooting—but survival comes with unbearable guilt. When four classmates ran to the roof to escape the horror below, two jumped. Kelsie asked Piper to jump too… but something unexpected happened. This is not just a story of trauma—it's about the weight of living when others couldn’t. A heart-wrenching tale of friendship, grief, and the silent battle after the chaos. 🔔 Subscribe for more emotional and powerful animated stories. #emotionalstory #mentalhealth #piperstory #animationdrama #storytime #teentrauma
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it's like flying," she said as I peered
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down at the two dead bodies laying on
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the ground below me i was one of the
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four who decided to jump instead the
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unlucky four who didn't
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escape you're asking me to jump off a
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building together i ask no you
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go first what does that mean is she
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really going to chicken out she was the
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one who so readily agreed to the idea
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what you go first no why what do you
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mean why i can feel the anger inside of
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me boiling up to the lid like Rice does
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when you forget about it she so
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willingly wanted to jump when I didn't
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now she refuses you want me to jump off
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a building you want me to end my own
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life i can now feel tears pooling in my
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eyes as I realize what the last sentence
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meant just plea no I scream finally
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losing my cool you piece of i don't
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want to jump first for sake I
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don't want to jump at all at this point
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I'm sobbing a full fit like a 2-year-old
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i crumble to the ground and hide my face
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in my hands gunshots ring under me in
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the building on which I sit i now
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realize we were not the only unlucky
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four who didn't escape that's why we
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came up here in the first place to die
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peacefully or as peacefully as we could
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i sit on the concrete balling until my
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head is throbbing with pain i realize
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Kelsey the poor girl I just screamed at
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doesn't feel any different than I do my
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conscience punishes me by bombarding my
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mind with scoldings from all different
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corners of my head she didn't deserve
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that we're all losing our don't
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blame her you're so selfish what is
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wrong with you you deserve to be laying
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down there with the others i pull myself
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together enough to stand up and
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apologize i'm sorry i truly am you
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didn't deserve that I say while wiping
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the tears and snot onto my navy blue
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sleeve i finally turn my head up to look
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her in the eye but I am met with nothing
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but with a blue sky filled with clouds
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kelsey's not there through my tantrum I
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didn't hear the clap of her body hitting
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the black top parking lot that lay three
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stories below me she was dead i was the
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only one left my head is spinning my
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legs feel numb like they do after
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getting off a roller coaster finally
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after standing in the same spot for what
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feels like an eternity my mind switches
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to what you could call flight mode i
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sprint over to the giant vent and rip
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the grate off i squeeze in the best I
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can and replace the grate completely
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unconscious of what I'm doing tears are
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streaming down my face as I pull myself
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further and further back into the
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worring metal box the sound of gunshots
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echo in my ears that moment from no
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longer than 45 minutes ago plays on
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repeat in my head kids scurrying through
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the hallways with looks of terror on
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their faces the moment when we all
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realized this was it this was the end of
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our lives everything ended in the
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hallways of a shitty high school not me
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i survived my eyes flutter open i fell
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asleep i take a breath letting the cool
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air of a Michigan night fill my lungs i
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can hear the chatter of people not far
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off i take the vent cover off and wiggle
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my way out my entire body cracking as I
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sit up on the cold concrete i sit there
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for who knows how long listening to the
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chattering people they're talking about
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something terrible 42 were killed four
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are missing they're all dead i stand up
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and walk over to the edge of the roof
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where I can hear the people and look
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down the people go quiet and look back
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at me suddenly the group breaks apart
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some heading towards their red and blue
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flashing cars while others rush into the
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school about 30 seconds later I hear
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thump thump thump thump people running
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up a staircase then the door to the roof
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bursts open hey keep your hands where I
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can see them a man yells i assume at me
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however I don't move at all i can't i'm
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too exhausted three other men follow him
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through the door and start to surround
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me with their guns pointed at the ground
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i look up at them and they relax seeing
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I have nothing but my ripped zip-up
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hoodie two of the men put their guns in
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their holsters and start to move in
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closer no no no no no no no no
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unintentionally I jump back away from
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the men pulling my sweatshirt tight
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around my waist it's all right we're
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here to help says the man who first came
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barreling through the door i quickly
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take another step back not letting him
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get any closer i promise you we are here
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to help says the man again he extends
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his hand towards me so I can take it i
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look at it and my lungs start to feel
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like they're shrinking they feel so
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small I can barely breathe i sit down
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gasping for air when suddenly my hand is
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in someone else's hey hey hey deep
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breaths deep breaths ready watch me i
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don't look up instead I stare at a tiny
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piece of rock embedded in the concrete
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he starts taking exaggerated breaths in
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through his nose and out through his
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mouth just like every yoga instructor
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I've ever met the sound of my heart in
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my ears is fading my breathing is
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slowing down all the men have left
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leaving just the first man and me better
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says the man i nod still refusing to
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look at him can I ask what your name is
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i take a deep breath and answer him
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trying my best not to let my voice crack
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piper I say quietly hi Piper i'm Cedar
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how old are you 15 what grade are you in
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10th 10th grade very good piper are you
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hurt anywhere i think I hurt my ankle i
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hadn't even noticed as we continue to
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talk my confidence builds little by
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little are you able to walk i think so
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great if you can I would like to ask you
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to come down to the parking lot with me
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we want to ask you some questions who's
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we the police your school was attacked
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today and we're trying to figure out why
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it happened ask me why it happened jesus
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Christ what the hell is wrong with these
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people what happened was another high
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school in America got screwed over again
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but first do you have a family mom dad
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grandma grandpa anyone who you feel
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comfortable contacting
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no one no i wonder where mom is right
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now if she would have given a if
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her only kid died you idiot of course
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she wouldn't have she left me left me to
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figure out my life on my own a
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15-year-old to fend for herself okay
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then you're going to stick with us until
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we can figure something out for you all
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right all right says Cedar leading the
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way to the rooftop store instead of
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following I stand in one place with my
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feet glued to the ground why didn't I
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die why did I survive the person who has
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nothing to live for is living so many
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people died people with a life people
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who had someone who cared about them i
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robbed them of that i don't deserve to
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live i refuse i burst into tears cedar
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turns back around i look at him and he
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seems to know what I'm thinking he
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starts running toward me but is too slow
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i reach the edge of the building and
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turn around he stops and looks me dead
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in the eye piper stop please Piper don't
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do anything he speaks to his chest
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requesting backup but it won't help him
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look away please i ask for his sake he
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lunges at me but it's too late i fall
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back i always did want to