#terror -

I dreamt that my friend and I were back to primary school (either we both became 10-or-12-year-olds again or we were just visiting). It was recess and we saw a group of boys and a group of girls several meters away talking with friends. It was somekinda discussion about “boys are violent” and “girls are weak” or whatever nonsense. When recess was over, both groups went inside and we were left behind. But as we started to making our way to the door, we see two young boys (10-year-olds I assume) smiling and having some sort of a guns or rifles. We both recognize them as the school bullies - they actually were bullies in real life and those boys have bullied both me and my friends a few times when we were children.

One of the boy said something like “We’re gonna kill them”. Both my friend and I started to panic as we realize a school shooting was going to happen! It was so unreal and yet it seemed so vivid. I pulled my mobile from my pocket with a shaky hand and dialed the emergency number. A lady operator answered in the other end and I told her about the threat and my location. She started freaking out and yelling incomprehensible cries but from what I gathered her son was apparently studying in that school and now she was worrying a lot about his safety. I partly wanted to calm her down and partly wanted to rush her to send the police already but didn’t know what to say. But eventually the police were sent and we heard sirens from like two police cars approaching.

The officers ran in through the main doors and we both just stood there outside... worrying, waiting. The anticipation was strong and we were both kinda confused that we haven’t heard any gunshots yet. But we had no idea what was going on inside, maybe the students and teachers were taken as hostages. It felt like minutes but in the dream it lasted only a few seconds until the officers came back out with both of the boys in handcuffs. The officers announced that everyone were safe and the boys haven’t fired any shots before the officers took control of them and disarmed them.

As they said this I saw one of the boys, the worst bully of them two, got bound to a wall pipe of some sorts. I don’t know why and where that wall and pipe came from (here my dream wanted to be really random) but I took it as an advantage when his hands were in handcuffs. So I grabbed his collar and shook him while yelling something at his face. I was SO angry at him both for being a sh*tty bully (I hated him irl) and that he went too far this time.

Finally I let go of him and I can’t remember if he reacted to my outrage or not; I didn’t care crap if he cried, he deserved that. Both boys were taken into one of the police cars and the officers congratulated me for my action and sent me many compliments for being the hero of the day. If I hadn’t called them there would likely be a terrible massacre. One of the officers even gave me a quick peck on the cheek, which was very weird and surprising (they never do that irl) and uncomfortable. I got overwhelmed from the shower of compliments and I started blushing as I felt kinda proud of myself, but I also felt kinda guilty that I got all the praise. I told them that not only I was in on this, but my friend were with me too - despite she wasn’t the one calling the police she was still there as a witness with me when the boys went inside with guns. I can’t remember much of my friend’s reaction: she had been pretty quiet but she was smiling now compared to when she was terrified earlier during the threat and anticipation.