as skeptical. Was it a ploy, another instance of playing at something? Slowly her parents became convinced that their child had changed. This happened two years before her murder, and she never veered off the new path. Her parents agreed to her request to return to a public school, as she found the Christian school "stuffy."( Cassie started school at Columbine High School her freshman year. Little did she know that in two years she would be dead.It was a Tuesday morning, right after their first-hour photography class. "I can't believe I wore this shirt," she told Amanda. "It looks terrible on me." Amanda reassured her, told her she looked beautiful, told her she loved her, and told her she'd see her later, probably during lunch, when they usually studied together in the library. (Krigiss 2) Amanda Meyer was Cassie’s best friend. She was lucky. She decided to go out for lunch for the first and only time she has ever gone for lunch. By Tuesday afternoon, everything was tragically different. Cassie was studying in the library like she and Amanda normally did. Only that day, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold walked into the library and started to kill students. And then at last they reached a bright––eyed Cox 4seventeen––year––old named Cassie Bernall. Either Harris or Klebold (none of the cowering students could see which it was) put a gun to her head and asked, "Do you believe in God?" She paused for a second, according to her classmates. And then she answered, "Yes." "She was scared, but she sounded strong," said her Bible––study friend Joshua Lapp, a sophomore who was hiding nearby, "like she knew what she was going to answer." Staring at her, the gunman asked, "Why?" Before she could reply, he pulled the trigger and shot her through the temple, killing her instantly. (Bottum 1) That single act of faith caught the whole nation’s attention. Cassie took a stand for what sh...
