Chapter 2

Three days earlier

Homecoming Dance

Ron Reiger sat alone at a table while the music was playing overhead, the most recent Oh Boyz song, and kids were on the dance floor having a great time. Meanwhile, he was having yet another shitty week. Last Friday, the girl he had always harbored feelings for, ever since he saw her in middle school, actually came up to him and wanted his help. Of course he would help her rig the Homecoming Queen vote, just the chance of getting to spend that time with her was music to his ears.

She gave him the go ahead at halftime and he used an algorithm he wrote himself that immediately switched every vote for Kim Possible to Bonnie and as Barkin pulled out the paper and called her name, the smile on Bonnie's face was worth every penny.

And then nothing. Radio silence from Bonnie every day since then. He had gone back into his usual rutt where no one paid attention to him or even gave him any mind. The jocks still shoved him in the hallways and even though he texted Bonnie at least three times every day, she didn't respond. He heard through the random group gossip chains that she tried to put the moves on Stoppable and Possible had almost put her through a wall. She gave a sob story about Brick Flagg dumping her and she was just looking for the next guy.

This gave him a glimmer of hope as the dance rolled around. She would be alone there and it would finally be his chance. He got his finest suit and tie and showed up to the dance, even going as far to get flowers for her. He saw her by herself by the punch bowl and made his way over.

"Hi Bonnie," Reiger said.

Bonnie turned around and he could already see the look of annoyance on her face and he knew that this wasn't going to turn out the way he wanted.

"My god," Bonnie said. "Can't you take a fucking hint?"

"But," Reiger stammered. "We spent that time together. I thought you were happy with me. And you aren't with Brick…"

Bonnie started laughing at that point. "Oh my god," she said. "Did you actually think that I would go out with you? Listen, the only reason I even spoke to you was to get the crown away from Possible. After that you should know to just go back to your place in the background, loser."

At that moment, a very large man walked over and smiled at Bonnie.

"Bonnie," he said. "Is everything okay?"

"Of course Junior," Bonnie said. "Let's go dance."

"Very well," Junior said and led her away, leaving Reiger just standing there, tears threatening to fall from his eyes.

Sitting back at the table and replaying the conversation in his head over and over, he felt a different emotion boil up inside of him. It wasn't sadness or his depression, it was the rage that was always there. Rage at Bonnie, at this school, at the world for not knowing him.

He stood up and yanked off his tie and walked out the door, throwing both his tie and the flowers in the garbage can as he walked out. The cool October air hit him in the face as he looked over the parking lot and saw Stoppable and Possible leaving and driving away in Possible's new car, probably heading to be the power couple that they were.

Reiger went over to his old junker car that he managed to save for through various prize money from tech contests he entered that no one showed up for, and drove to the public park where his few friends hung out. He started blasting some heavy metal music as he drove, not letting the rage dissipate this time and letting it bubble and come up.

He got to the park and could already see his three friends on a picnic table, smoking and passing around a bottle. He stopped his car and slammed the door, heading over to them.

"Hey Reiger," Jess said, a fellow senior who attended class just enough to keep her from going to juvenile detention for truancy. "So I take it that the Queen Bitch was her usual self."

"Yeah," Reiger said, sitting down and putting his head on the table.

"Don't worry about it Ron," Lance said, a junior that was big into trap shooting and had a long line of military history in his family, and was pretty much expected to enlist the second he graduated. "It was worth trying."

"She wouldn't have given you the time of day," Maddie, Jess' little sister who was a freshman, continued on. "Just listening to her stupid fucking voice talk in the locker room, I could tell she could give a fuck about anyone but herself."

"It was stupid of me to think that I had a chance," Reiger said, grabbing the bottle of what turned out to be whiskey. "But I won't make that mistake anymore."

Reiger looked over to Lance at that point. "Hey Lance, remember that thing we talked about last month, can you get those guns for us?"

"Yeah," Lance said. "You mean you want to do this?"

"Yeah," Ron said, eyes hard. "I do."

The idea for the assault on the school had been talked about for the longest time within the group. They only had each other, their families basically pretended they didn't exist. Jess and Maddie's dad had started abusing both of them since they had their first period each and their mother was always too high to care. Lance's parents were always so strict on him to be a military kid that he was so stifled at home and going to school was his only escape and it was hell then. And Ron's own mother was either out working or sleeping with any guy she could pick up from a bar, leaving Ron alone in their dump of a house.

School didn't get much better. Jess was always harped on by the teachers and never given a break, skipping school a lot in the process. Lance was always bullied by the jocks of the school, switching every sports season who would take the lead. And the cheerleaders and popular girls were merciless to Maddie, and didn't seem to think that Jess' threats were that serious when she was around to stand up for her sister. And Reiger, he had enough people that just didn't pay enough attention to him to justify everything for him, but his main target was Bonnie.

The plan was easy enough, the school had installed a door locking system that was ran by a program in the main office that was able to seal and lock the doors with no way of opening for enhanced security measures, and that would be their downfall. Reiger could easily hack that system and seal everyone inside, to where it would even take the police a couple of hours to get in, and that was all the time they needed.

The only kink in the plan was Possible and Stoppable. Reiger had nothing against the two, they were both pretty nice, and aside from them not really talking or paying attention to any of them, no one had any ill feelings towards them, but they would most definitely stop them, so they had to be put out of commission. They all agreed to disable them if possible, but if not, then things had to be done. They would enter at four different points. Reiger would enter the gym with Maddie coming from the girl's locker room so they could take down Possible and the school security officer. Lance would enter on the other end of the school where the Monday football film meeting would happen and put down Stoppable. Jess would come in the front door and go into the office to put the flash drive with the script Reiger had written to override the security system and then meet them in the gym, where they would be rounding up the students to make sure that no one got away to end things earlier than they wanted.

Lance secured them all the guns they would need on sunday and they went over the plan one last time, planting cell phones around the city of Middleton to make different distress calls at various times to keep the police and fire personnel busy while any signal from the school was being blocked by the script Reiger would be putting in the security system.

Monday morning came and Reiger got up, for the first time in a long time not dreading going to school. He got dressed and walked out to the kitchen, and made himself breakfast, most likely the last meal he would ever eat. He started getting all of his gear together when his mom stumbled in drunk with another man from the bar she was probably bringing back to bang.

"Ron," she called out. "Make us some food, we're going to need our energy."

Her words were slurred and he just ignored her and brushed past both of them, heading out.

"Where do you think you're going, young man," his mother said. "You get over here right no-."

Reiger turned and pulled out the pistol he had with a silencer on it and put a bullet right in his mother's forehead as well as one in the forehead of the man she was with. Both crumpled to the ground and Reiger just stared at their bodies for a solid five minutes before leaving the house and locking the door, heading to the school.

A/N

Disclaimer that I do not condone or glorify any of the events in this story. If you or anyone you know have these feelings in any situation, you're not alone. Talk to someone, call a help line, speak to a therapist. You're not alone and people do care.