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Conn. (AP) – The nurse at Sandy Hook Elementary School says she and the school secretary stayed hidden in a supply closet for almost four hours after the Connecticut school massacre had ended, leaving 20 children and six adults dead.

Sally Cox told ABC’s “Good Morning America” on Monday that she knew “something terrible was happening” Friday morning when she heard loud popping sounds and the school secretary called out to her. She says she went under her computer desk, and the gunman entered her office. She says she could see his legs from the knees down, his boots facing her desk. He then left and closed the door.

She says the secretary raced into her office and they called 911 and hid in the closet. Cox says they were “petrified” and “didn’t know how many there could have been.” The gunman was 20-year-old Adam Lanza, who killed himself at the school.

NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) – In Newtown, Conn., and around the country, parents are trying to help their children return to school without fear today, in the aftermath of Friday’s deadly shooting at a Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown.

The mother of two children who attend a different school in Newtown says she feels like “we have to get back to normal” — but Kim Camputo adds, “I don’t know if there is normal anymore.” She says she’ll be dropping her children off and picking them up herself for a while.

The mother of 10-year-old twins in a Miami suburb, Jessica Kornfeld, says parents need to hide their own fears. She says, “For them, you need to pretend that you’re OK.” But she adds, “It’s scary.”

She sat down with her son and daughter after school Friday, and explained to them what had happened. She told them they were safe with her. Her son replied, “But it could have been us.” Kornfeld says she drove the children to their elementary school over the weekend, hoping to show them it’s still a safe place.