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Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold were like soul mates, each was the other's backbone during the most deadly school shooting in history. Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold met sometime in junior high school, exactly when is unknown. In junior high school, Dylan was a little awkward but loved sports. Dylan was the bright kid who impressed everyone with his intelligence. Eric was sort of a dork who always tried to fit in. The one thing for sure that Dylan and Eric both had in common during their junior high schools years was that they both enjoyed the game of baseball. This interest in baseball may have been the catalyst for their friendship. .
In a newly remodeled high school, Eric and Dylan started to hang out with another fellow by the name of Brookes Brown. The three buddies began isolating themselves from others and indulging in video games for hours on end. They made fun of their peers who weren't as clever as they were. The boys were "lazy and uninterested" and didn't care about school activities and would rather play games such as Doom. Their freshman year in high school seemed to be enjoyable to them, at least from a distance. A classmate told a Columbine newspaper, "That's back when they were just like everybody else, they dressed normal, I"d even say preppie." During this year, Dylan joined theater and had a lot more friends than Eric did. No one would have suspected that Dylan would ever commit the crime that he did. Dylan talked about drinking a lot, but friends say they never really saw him drink and maybe he was saying he did to look "cool". This could surface another possible motive for Eric and Dylan: fame. Or maybe the boys were just bored and tired of sitting at home on the computer, so they began to plan something to shock the nation.
During Eric and Dylan's tenth grade year at Columbine they began to feel like the outcasts and didn't really fit in with any group.