Is OTHER wrong in the post ? POST : A bit of context: in high school, which I'll call LC, I got incredibly sick and basically had to drop out my sophomore and junior year. To be able to graduate on time, I needed to go to a special high school along with my old high school. The "special" high school is called OTA. It's filled with students who either were sick and missed a bunch of school, students with learning abilities, and students who skipped school frequently or got expelled from their old school.

There, I met this kid who I'll call Jake. He was perfectly pleasant, respectful, and earnest. We found out that we shared an interest in writing and talked about potential story ideas every day. He seemed like a great person, and we got along really well.

At one point, the topic of why we were in OTA came up. I explained that I missed a ton of school, so I needed to make up credits. It turned out that we had both attended LC. I still attended it, but Jake remarked that his ex-girlfriend ratted on him and he got expelled, so he had to come here. I asked him why he got expelled. His response?

"Well, she told them about my plan to shoot up the school."

It all came back. I didn't know his ex, but I'd met her once, since she was friends with one of my friends and sat down with our group during lunch. I remember how she'd told us that Jake wasn't doing well, and that he was going to kill some students and teachers, and then himself. And keep in mind: in Jake's own words, he PLANNED this. Not threatened, PLANNED. 

I was completely dumbfounded. He confessed this to me like he was reading off of a grocery list. I don't remember what happened after that, but I stayed away from him, only speaking to Jake when he spoke to me first. He'd given me his email and asked me to hang out once school was over. When we graduated, I never responded to his emails. I never spoke to him again.

Still, I feel pretty bad. He was such a nice kid. Maybe he was just in a terrible place a few years ago and had a psychotic break or something... I'm sure that he probably still suffered from depression at OTA, and that being ghosted by a supposed friend hurt a lot. 

But in my senior year at high school, there was a shooting at a high school in my city. One person was killed. Hearing one of my college classmate talk about his dead friend was both heartbreaking and horrifying. I couldn't imagine losing people at LC to a shooter. Now, I've seen Jake a few times at community college, and that scares me. I don't think he recognizes me (at least, he's never come up to me). I don't think I'd ever speak to him; not after seeing that poor classmate struggle not to cry as he talked about the shooting. Do you think Jake has changed? Was I wrong to abandon him?