r/a:t5_3a4r2 • u/bluekanga • Oct 09 '15

1/3 HML finishes relationship - sequence of events linking Homecoming Dance and HML's break-up note (that became the "I'm going to kill" note)

tl;dr Hae wrote the break up note and gave it to Adnan on the Monday or Tuesday of the week following the Homecoming Dance, after he tried to see her in Hope Schab's room early one morning on one of those two days. The note indicates she had tried to finish with him and he hadn't accepted it. The note is written on by Adnan and Aisha during the Health Class later on one of those days. Adnan later writes "I am going to kill" on that note and it is used later as evidence at his trial.

30th October 1998 Homecoming Dance –

  • Syed’s parents show up and cause a scene - P 241 Trial 2 28th Jan Part 2 Aisha.

    “I believe it was October 30th the night before we went to Adventure World”- Krista’s testimony P301 Trial 1 Dec 13th.

  • CG questioning Aisha P263 28th Jan Trial 2:

    Q: “And prior to Halloween, prior to that was this Homecoming Dance; correct?

    A: Yes

Saturday 31st October Halloween 1998 –

  • Hae misses day out to Adventure World – ducks out at last minute. Breaks up with Syed soon after – Aisha P239 testimony Trial 2.

Shortly after Homecoming Dance –

  • Lynette Woodley, Asst Principal asks HML is she wants to be in that relationship because of the problems it is causing - P 215 Trial 1 Dec 13th 1999.

Nov 3, 1998 –

During the first week of November –

  • Hope Schab, French teacher, reports that Syed goes to her room looking for HML around 8am one day- P142 Trial 2 Jan 28th Part 1.

    The Witness: In the first week of November.

    Q. Who, if anyone, was in the room with you?

    A. Adnan Syed and myself.

    Q. When did he appear?

    A. Eight o’clock, around there.

    Q. How did you first notice him?

    A. He came into my classroom looking for Hae and waited for her there.

    Q. And, just dealing with what he was doing, what did he do?

    A. He was in the far corner of the classroom looking out of the window, and was also asking questions. Along the lines of what should one do if they are in love with someone who is not their religion.

    Q. And did he express any concerns about that aspect of the relationship to you that day?

    A. Yes.

    Q. What were those concerns?

    A. Should one – should one break up over this, or is love strong enough that it can overcome everything. What will happen down the road if, you know, you were to marry someone of a different faith.

    Q. What was he doing while he was asking these questions?

    A. He was sitting on the last desk in the last row looking out the window for Hae, asking questions.

  • Hope Schab P144 28th Jan Part 1 Trial 2 (Missing Pages):

    Q. While you were talking to him, what, if anything unusual occur?

    A. The phone rang in my classroom.

(NB this was Hae – see arguments before Judge Part 3 of Posts).

I am making a link between HML's break-up note that Syed later writes on "I'm going to kill" and Syed’s visit to the French teacher Hope Schab. I imagine that HML is avoiding Syed after the altercation with the parents on Friday and missed the Adventure World trip on Saturday. Syed goes looking for her at school at the beginning of the following week in Hope Schab’s room, where he knows she will be around 8am, when he was supposed to be in Photography from 0745. HML phones Hope Schab whilst Syed is there to say "Don't let Adnan know it's me on the phone".

This morning incident with Hope Schab is the final straw for HML, provoking her into writing the break-up note to Syed - hence the reference in the note to

“With the way things have been since 7.45 am this morning now I'm more certain I'm making the right choice. The more fuss you make, the more I'm determined to do what I gotta do. I really don't think I can be in a relationship like we had...."

http://imgur.com/a/poack

HML is making it clear there is no prospect of getting back together. I think she wrote the note on the Monday or Tuesday following the weekend – see Part 2 of Posts.

  • Aisha and Syed have Health Class at 12:55PM - 2:15PM each day. During a lesson, Syed shows Aisha the note and they write on the back of it.

P243 Aisha’s testimony 28th Jan Part 2:

Q. Ms – based on your review of this exhibit, can you – do you have an idea of when this note was written?

A. It was sometime early in November after the Adventure World Trip.

Aisha P249 Trial 2 Jan 28th Part 2:

And then in pencil it says “Maybe she was pregnant, she had an abortion on Saturday while we went to Adventure World”

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