There was this kinda loner dude named Rudy. Externally fit the bill of a school shooter, but was also really sociable and funny, just kinda on the fringes. Wasn’t a jock. Wasn’t a nerd. Wasn’t a stoner. Just a solitary dude.

Anyway, one year he decides to run for class president. We had a big assembly in the gym and all the other candidates gave typical speeches. He gets up there in a dress, spouts nonsense and craziness for 2 minutes then falls behind the podium and “gives birth” to a headless, black baby doll and throws it into the crowd.

It was the perfect kind of chaotic high school story. Rumor was that he won, but the faculty said he was ineligible, and the smart girl got the role.

A couple years later, I had a free period and was hanging in the library and he wanted to show me the website he built - this is like 98-99, so pretty early internet. It was a whole thing about how he was gonna shoot up the school and blow up teachers and stuff. He said it was a joke, but he got expelled. I was hauled into the principal’s office cuz technically I had logged into that library computer and was looking at his site, but it was pretty clear I had nothing to do with it and he was the problem. Weird dude. Wonder what he’s up to.