Pictures from a Haunted Past
On the warped bookshelf, gradually collecting dust, sat an old high school yearbook from 1997. It bothered him. He always kept it open to a specific page, a specific picture. That picture had haunted him for the past ten years. His entire life had been ruined because of it.
He could have been amazing. He could have achieved worldwide fame. He could have made the greatest discoveries and changed the lives of millions. Had it not been for that picture—and who was in it.
Disgruntled, he climbed out of bed and walked over to the shelf. He stared down at the picture, and every feeling he possessed quickly transformed into pure hatred. They would pay for how they had treated him, how they had humiliated him. They would know all the hurt and pain they had caused him those four long, unbearable years together. Those condescending know-it-alls would no longer be his superiors once he was through with them.
There were three others who surrounded him in the picture. Grinding his teeth with intense anger, he grabbed a pencil and scrawled the numbers 1, 2, and 3 on each of them in a specific order until the dull point of the lead pencil snapped. It was his plan.
It was his hit list.