How to feel/react now? Are you kidding?! HUG Z AND KEEP HER CLOSE!! She's one of the BEST kinds of friends to have. Sounds like she took a bullet for you. Be grateful to her every day and make it your mission in life to make sure she knows how grateful you are.

Then pay it forward by putting the story out to school girls as an example of what can happen if they're not careful and to boys as an example of HOW NOT TO LIVE THEIR LIVES.