Carrie's voice tugged at Ralph's heartstrings.

"Save me, Ralph."

Scared stiff, Carrie wailed silently. Her teardrops broke Ralph's heart.

He wanted to comfort her, but the assurance to the hostage would trigger the perpetrator, putting the hostage in further danger.

Ralph took one long, hard look at Carrie before shifting his gaze to the man with bloodshot eyes.

"Easy there, Brian. The girl is innocent. She doesn't know about you. She doesn't know the five students. She's just an innocent bystander.

"Take me as your hostage. I'll take her place. Just let her go."

Carrie watched tearfully as Ralph inched closer to the perpetrator cautiously. Guilt washed over her.

She blamed her foolishness.

not so clumsy, she could have escaped. But it was

to replace the hostage and take me down. You're

jumping out of his chest. "I understand where you are coming from. I don't have a daughter, but if my sister is a victim of abuse, I won't put up with

drawing a deeper cut into

daughter is a student here. The five students assaulted your daughter.

widened as her painful past

are you in school? Do you

of us. She should be in a mental

psycho. Maybe her

haunts Carrie to

eyes in agony, and her trembling legs gave

really hope to help you. You've taken two lives, but you can stop yourself from making more mistakes. Your daughter is still in the emergency room. You should be with her

be haunted by the abuse, but she would also be shouldering

officers in the back looked

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