She had the whole cheerleader image and had a star basketball player for her boyfriend. This star was named Jeff Garret. He was the all American boy next door, good family, active social life, nice guy.
All five of these various types of teenagers were very different in many ways but also were very alike in the way of having to all share the same experience that they did. They all had the same English class, along with the same teacher, Mr. Griffin. Mr. Griffin was in his early forties and was married with a child on the way. Brian Griffin was brought up as a child who needed and wanted to succeed. He graduated from Stanford University and pursued a high school teaching career. Brian expected perfection and demanded it from his students, he would not stop the criticism or demands until he receive exactly that, perfection. His students were definitely not a big fan of him whatsoever. Especially by one student in particular, Mark Kinney. The year before he was caught cheating by Mr. Griffin, he had copied a paper from his former girlfriend who was a sophomore in college. Mr. Griffin had made Mark publicly humiliate himself in front of his entire class by begging to let him come back in. That humiliation took home with Mark, it made him seek revenge. .
One day in English class, the students had a paper due and some of the kids did not complete their assignment, willingly or not willingly, Mr. Griffin was not accepting any late papers and no excused were accepted either. The kids were all seniors and needed this class to graduate. The kids became very angry and started chatting about how much they despised their teacher one day after school. That's when Mark Kinney came up with a very revengeful idea. Jeff had joked about if only he were dead, but Mark was the one who planned everything to make that a reality. Mark's plan was to set up a situation to kidnap Mr. Griffin and threaten to kill him as a joke and try to make him beg for forgiveness of treating his students like crap.
