Minneapolis, Minnesota (CNN) — For a few hours, as she slept with her parents in their bed, Chloe Francoual’s mind told her that the bullets, the screams and the terror at Annunciation Catholic Church weren’t real, and she was able to sleep.

But when she woke Thursday, two of her schoolmates were still dead, with more in the hospital, after a shooter targeted the first Mass of her school year in Minneapolis.

“I’m trying to stay really happy to get my mind off stuff, because it was really hard yesterday,” she told CNN. “My mind just keeps on replaying it.”

She spoke to a counselor, and that helped, her father Vincent Francoual said. And later she asked if she could speak to us too.

Chloe, a smart and eloquent 11-year-old with bouncy blonde hair, has a very clear memory of where she

See Full Page