It is lunchtime at High Sierra High, everyone is going to where they eat lunch except one class, grade 8, we are in trouble and the guidance  counselor have to come and discipline us.

 This is when it started, this is when horror came to Barbados, this is when the whole island went on a national shut down, this is when everyone had to stay where they are and don't move are die. This bright Monday evening all hell broke loss , no warning it just happen, everyone knew it would happen but not this way, not this day, this day the island people are afraid for their lives and their children, people may say it was a life or death situation but it happen so fast no one was ready for it.

My name is Briann, I am sitting  in my seat talking in a whisper to my friends: Joshua, Denysha , Adrico and Jhadaviah, when a commotion started outside, then they were gunshots, lots of them. This is how it started, this is The Shut Down.