Im reading the book "Hate List" its about a school shooting and the main character's boyfriend, Nick, shot several people on their Hate List, and later commited suicide. Today I read what had really happened during the shooting in the eyes of the main character. She walked into school with Nick and into the commons and she thought he was not acting himself, he had a weird smile on his face and was not acting normal. Later on before first period Nick goes to find a girl who was irritating Valerie, the main character, earlier in the week. Valerie thinks that he is just going to stand up for her, but instead he pulls a gun out of his jacket and shoots her. Valerie, along with everone else in the commons, goes into shock and start screaming. After Nick shot several other students on the List, Valerie steps in fronot of the next victim and gets shot in the theigh, Nick then turns the gun on himself.
I thought this was very sad and thought how confused and lost a person would have to be to do such a thing.
I remember thinking the same thing after I heard about the Columbine shootings. "Lost" is such a good word, too -- alienated from all hope, caught in some twisted reality that never allows you to feel the simple joys and peace that make life worth living...it's really sad. And the fact that they always end with killing themselves, too -- as if those other dead will ease your passage out of this world. It makes me weep.
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