Attack on the Hiawassee band room

### Result

-Shoshanna goes back to hating Chase-Kimberly leaves the Video Club-Chase is suspended from the Video Club-Chase effectively rejoins the Hiawassee Hurricanes-Brendan Espinoza, and Joel Weber are both injured, though Joel's were much more severe than Brendan's

### Affilations

Hiawassee Hurricanes (partially), Video Club (most students involved)

The attack on the Hiawassee Band Room was an attack conducted by Aaron Hakimian and Bear Bratsky, in order to frame chase, and retarget the video club, particularly Brendan Espinoza and Joel Weber. It resulted in relations between Chase Ambrose and the two attackers deteriorate even further, although, Chase effectively rejoined the Hiawassee Hurricanes after leaving, partially to be in a group. Shoshanna and the rest of the video club except for Brendan Espinoza would hate chase and sever all ties.

## Background

Chase Ambrose, Aaron Hakimian, and Bear Bratsky had been best friends since 2nd grade. In middle school, they began to target Joel Weber and the other video club kids, which would eventually result in Joel leaving for a musical school in Connecticut. However, Chase would suffer from Amnesia after falling from his roof, in which he forgot that he was a jerk. Though him and the two attackers were initially friends again, things between the 3 went downhill fast, especially after Chase joined the Video Club and distanced himself from the two. Both of them were mad at Chase and the video club kids. Joel Weber had returned to school after Shoshanna convinced her parents it would be safe.

Though Chase didn't bully Joel, Aaron and Bear still did, and Chase had basically completely broken ties. They wanted to "jog his memory" and "help him realize who his true friends are." As a result, they wanted to frame Chase to distance him from the video club kids. On Thursday, during after school hours, Brendan Espinoza began shooting a video known as One man band, in which he used instruments to play "For he's a jolly good fellow." The video was mostly to impress Kimberly Tooley, whom he had a crush on, and was present in the room. Joel was also present in the room helping Brendan set up instruments. Chase was also taking a test in a different room.

## Attack

The attack started towards the end of the filming of the video, when Aaron and Bear burst into the band room with fire extinguishers and began spraying both Brendan and Joel, with Brendan falling down because of the sousaphone wrapped around him, and Joel falling down. They did not attack Kimberly, however. They taunted Joel and Brendan to get Chase, which they sent Kimberly to do. After they found out that Joel was responsible for the instruments in the room, they began to carry out another phase in the attack.

They began destroying the band room, knocking over stands, hurling instruments, and upending drums, while still spraying Brendan and Joel. They had destroyed most of the music room when Chase entered the room, being confused at Aaron and Bear. Both tried to play it out like it was Chase's idea, but when they tried to give Chase the fire extinguisher, he didn't take it. Bear tried to take it back, but Chase resisted, eventually yanking the fire extinguisher out of Bear's hands, but inadvertently hitting Joel in the head with it, which gave him severe eye injuries. The teachers were notified, and came into the room shortly after. Joel and Brendan were taken out of the room, Kimberly left the school, and Chase, Aaron, and Bear were sent to the principal's office.

## Aftermath

The attack shocked both the teachers and the video club kids, both who blamed Chase, though it was mostly video club kids. Aaron, Bear, and Chase would be sent to the principal's office, in which Aaron and Bear lied about it, and Chase would back them up, feeling under pressure from both Aaron and Bear and the principal. Shoshanna especially would begin to hate Chase again, with Joel not being present at school and Brendan admitting to not knowing Chase's role. Chase would be kicked out of the video club, and Kimberly would leave shortly after for reasons related to Chase.