on the day of the incident , nicole was inside the school & almost went to the library to practice for an ELA class reading lines from macbeth, but had ended up not going, while chris morris was off campus skipping & playing video games at a friend's house. when morris heard about the tragedy, he attempted to return to CHS to find her, and called 911 to report his suspicion that H&K might be responsible.

nicole and chris morris were close enough that she submitted a couple's dedication in the columbine 1999 yearbook about him. the two later married though they eventually divorced.

according to nicole's own account, she didn't know eric and dylan well until they began working at blackjack pizza with her then boyfriend chris morris. it was during christmas break of december 1998 that the group started spending time together playing video games, listening to music, and midnight bowling. she recalled eric and dylan receiving their iconic trench coats as christmas gifts that year and beginning to wear them to school the following january. the two were close enough with the friend group that they attended nicole's 17th birthday party before the tragedy.

nicole described the relationship as ordinary teenage friendship. she remembered the boys as "goofballs" and "everyday, average teenage outcasts," not as people she had any reason to fear. one memory she shared was watching eric and dylan film a video behind the pizza parlor for their video productions class the two were pretending to be protectors of a kid being bullied, wearing their black clothing and sunglasses and posing in an exaggerated, macho way. to nicole, it was just normal teenage behavior for the era, the video being filmed was hit men for hire.

much of the group's time was spent at nicole's house, and she explained this was intentional. she did not trust her mother's husband at the time as he would threaten and hurt her mother, and felt that keeping her friends around was a way to protect her mom. as a result, eric, dylan, and others were regular fixtures in her home. she still has photos she took of dylan at prom.

she also noted a dynamic between the two: dylan tended to follow eric's lead, and the two always rode together. eric, she recalled, was a “hot head” though in her experience he rarely showed it openly.

one moment that stood out in terms of eric's emotional state in the weeks before the tragedy was his attempt to find a prom date. about a week and a half to two weeks before the 1999 prom, eric asked classmate mollie weksler to go ask brandi tinklenberg to go to prom with him while he stood watching. brandi looked over at eric and shook her head no. eric saw the rejection happen in real time and was visibly upset.

he stopped speaking to brandi entirely afterward and later told mollie he couldn't believe she had turned him down. he then asked another girl, sabrina cooley, who also declined him publicly in front of class due to the fact she had a boyfriend.

nate dykeman also recalled that eric had asked out multiple girls and been turned down by all of them in the lead up to prom, including a sophomore or junior named katie, (presumably katie thompson) and possibly susan dewitt though dykeman noted eric did end up spending part of prom night with dewitt before showing up at the after-prom party.

Jennifer and Eric's senior portraits in the 1999 yearbook.

I just realized that Jennifer Harmon is next to Eric in the 1999 yearbook. She's the girl who had creative writing with the boys and said that Dylan liked giving out Chips Ahoy cookies to students as a way of making friends in class.

In an article published by The Denver Post just twelve days after the shooting, Jennifer stated that, "Dylan wasn’t a bad guy. I never thought he would do something like (the rampage). But they said Eric's name on TV and I automatically knew Dylan was going to be there. Eric had a persuasion. I think Eric would always tell Dylan that people never liked him, and he was his only true friend.” In her opinion, she thought Dylan was nice, while Eric had a mean streak.

dylan in rampart range

u be takin a lil break, come back then BOOM

SCENE ONE: long haired Rachel holds an fruit longingly while Token Goth Girl in a Christian Movie twaddles her fingers. They all have apples and nothing else. Just apples at this table. And everyone looks miserable.

OwO what’s this? She looks to the side and sees Rat Boy, Dildo Ebola, eating an orange. That’s the orange table, Rachel. We’re the apple table. We don’t associate with them. Why are they eating so much fruit? Why is he looking at her like that? Why is he looking at her at all? Why does he care?

dude

fLUSTERED dylan suddenly turns to his orange

Yes… orange, very peely and orange. he is looking for anything to distract him from his boring red-shirted friend, who is staring lustfully at an apple, a probable symbolism of the girls at the Apple Table . 

“get rid of all the fat ugly retarted gross stupid weird nerd star wars fans old people nickelback fans bronies twihards people that arent i eric har” wAIT, this red shirted, hairy-armed chap must be Eric Hairless! Wonderful. He has a glass of apple juice, and an apple. What a rebellious choice from someone outside the Apple Table. Must symbolize what will happen to the people at the Apple Table. Eric you cruel monster….. you devil…. I cant even look at him and his ham sandwich. 

Dildo and random guy who i’m assuming is some sort of Brooks Brown character look at ranting child Eric with distaste. Is he done? Will he ever be done? Seems, upon closer inspection, Dylan is the only one eating an orange. Is every table the Apple Table? Does this symbolize how Dildo Memaw had no sense of belonging in the world? What the everloving fuck is Brooks Brown Guy wearing? 1950′s Grandpa pajamas? That’s not grunge at all. We have our first glance at the pristine white hats in the background. Our eric finishes his rant and looks at Dildo for validation. W-Was it cool, Dylan-senpai? OwO?

“y-yeah.” He stutters. Oh god. I can just smell Dave Cullen. What the fuck is he wearing??? Is that some kind of bondage harness? Or it could be just a keycard or something but to what? Weird design to it also.

Eric, finding validation in the y-yeah, continues on with his rant, looking up from his beloved apple to his gay lover. “Nobody is deserving of this planet,” he says “just me and who i chose.” FUNNY because I think i remember the quote being “Give the world back to the animals, they deserve it more than we do,” but of course they had to satan it up so people hated him more.

“send them all up to space”

“dude we can’t send them to space”

TWO trenchcoated figures appear in the background! We weren’t looking at Dylan and Eric the entire time! These inaccuracies weren’t actually inaccuracies. Thank you Dave. But they are. 

“look at these F AR T K N O CK ERS!!!”

alright, i’ll admit i lost my s h i t when he said that. Whhhhat? is that a slang for gay… because like, anal? Probably not. Probably a Christian censored version of ‘fag’ or something. So… it could be? I don’t know. It’s easier not to think about it….. they never said it…………………………………… they never said it….

“what’s up? F O U R E YE S” he pushes the trenchcoated chap into a table. 

He kinda just nudges him into the table, but he flies across the table, knocking everything over, breaking his spine and rendering him immobile for the rest of his life. Not really. But i’m sure Dave asked. By the way, yes, I’m sure Dave Cullen is involved with this movie. He can call me a dirtbag, but I know.

he gets up?

and falls to the ground, his trenchcoat goth friends dragging him away as Jock Stud over there kicks him. He has been rendered immobile for some reason. Everyone watches, amused. This always happens at 12:00. Same time every morning. It’s a spectacle.

come on bro, we gotta be gay somewhere else…. these heterosexuals don’t accept us.”

“YEAH GOOD JOB HELPING YOUR BUDDY OUT GUYS, GOOD TEAMWORK”

thanks, jock? is that even an insult? thanks for the motivation,

The jocks laugh in triumph, they have belittled another Goth. They’re so fucking cool, and they know it. There are many ways to wear a white hat, but they’re all wearing it at a 90 degree angle, pristine white like they soak them in bleach before they go to school, and backwards. 

they have this really long pan on this black kid. Eric’s face is wrinkled in distaste. I think this is the moment trying to signify that Eric is racist because he’s looking at the black bully distastefully. Alright, Christian Movie. Thanks for that.

Rachel giving the Lanza Stare™ to the Jocks. 

Who is this and why are him and Rachel making intimate eye contact? He looks like Dennis the Menace. Like who the fuck is this supposed to be. Also what shampoo does that other jock guy use? Damn

*wink*

What I’m assuming is he’s one of Rachel’s friends that is trying to relapse and recover from his Jock Asshole ways but he can’t seem to quit. Rachel reminds him and he feels shame.

Back to the Sin Table, Dylan looks expectantly at Eric as he continues peeling his fucking orange. He expects him to be like I DONT CARE WHAT YOU SAY IF YOU EVER TOUCH HIM AGAIN ILL FRICKIN KILL YOU ILL PULL OUT A GODDAMN SHOTGUN AND BLOW YOUR DAMN HEAD OFF DO YOU UNDERSTAND YOU LITTLE WORTHLESS PIECE OF CRAAAAHP but no, sadly, because that is not Eric’s true colors. That is his mobster alter-ego, Reb.

He looks like a thirty year old christian youth leader that’s newly married with a baby on the way. But he looks angry also… i guess?? I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt.

he violently bangs his apple on the table. Damn, does he want to bang someone from the Apple Table on the table?/?/????? Where does his violence end

ooh dam, it got a broose. Also he’s fucking shredded. Why.

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