CAAAARL!

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⚠️⚠️TW: THIS STORY CONTAINS MENTIONS OF SCHOOL SHOOTINGS. PLEASE CLICK AWAY OF YOU CANNOT HANDLE TOPICS CORRELATING TO MASS SHOOTINGS️⚠️⚠️

It was October 14th, 2021, 12:30 PM. Lunch time. Normally, students love the lunch period. You get away from lousy teachers, you can hang out with friends, plan the next time you skip class, and catch up with work; it’s a perfect 30 minutes with mediocre food. Except one kid didn’t particularly enjoy it. No one knew this kid but his name was Carl. Well, except one kid knew him. His name was Paul. Anyways, Carl was… a troubled student. He wouldn’t talk to anyone but Paul and he’d have a sour attitude towards anything school related. He spent most of his days browsing tumblr and playing video games. He’d get relentlessly bullied by the other kids for not fitting in and being an anti-social prick. Well due to the bullying he’d get into fights… lots of them. But one day… it just… clicked. He had a plan. 

    October 15th, 2021, 12:30 PM. Lunch time. Carl was sitting in the courtyard, looking down at his Nintendo Switch which had a Super Smash Bros game loaded onto it. Just then, Paul approached him.

    “Hey Carl. What’re you doing?” Paul asked, inquisitively. 

    “Nothing much…” Carl mumbed back. 

Paul had sensed that something was wrong so he sat next to the boy. “Well it looks like you’re playing Smash… can I watch?”

“Go home, Paul.”

“What?”

“Go. Home.” Carl snapped, finally looking up at Paul.

Confused and angry that Carl had snapped at him, Paul stormed off towards his next class. He didn’t understand why Carl had told him to go home. Was he going to do something? Paul had a sneaking suspicion that Carl didn’t have the best intentions that day, so he stayed.

1:00 PM. Math class. Everyone in that class hated Carl including the teacher and Carl himself. 

“Today we’ll be going over…” At this point Carl had muffled out the sounds of his teacher. He was going over his plan in his head until a girl next to him shrieked.

“Mrs. Dorris! Carl isn’t paying attention!”

Mrs. Dorris snapped her head towards the then spaced out and now pissed boy. “Carl? What’s the meaning of this?”

Carl just mumbled incoherent words.

“Whaaaat?” The girl next to him shrieked.

 “When is it going to get into your thick skull that you need this class? You need to be paying attention!” Mrs. Dorris yelled. Everyone snickered.

“Oh… you won’t be laughing for long…” He then reached into his clear backpack and took out his rolled up gym shirt.

“Haha, what’re you gonna do? Suffocate us all with the grungy smell of your gym clothes?” A boy on the other side of the classroom asked which caused others to laugh.

“No…” Carl then unrolled his gym shirt. Right on time the music played. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDTZ7iX4vTQ 

It was 1:05 PM. Paul was sitting in English when a strange song started playing. But he knew exactly what the song was. Carl would turn it on frequently on car rides to school. Then he heard them…

 BANG

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BANG

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          BANG

Silence. By now everyone has retreated into the corner of the classroom, cowering in fear. 

One minute… silence.

Two…

Three…

By now Paul has grown restless and stormed out of the classroom, looking for Carl. He knows that Carl was behind this he just knew. But then his stomach dropped.

 BANG

                                                    BANG 

                                                                                                           BANG

BANG

                               BANG

                                                                    BANG

                                                                                                     BANG

          BANG

He ran, looking for Carl. He had to stop this! Paul turned a corner and saw Carl. Carl turned around with a crazed look in his eyes.

Silence.

“CAAAAAAARL THAT KILLS PEOPLE!”

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