Day 16: sexualized

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Sarah woke up on the couch, she walked to the kitchen and saw Florence

"Hi Florence!"
"Hi honey, Riley wil be here in 1 hour so hurry up!" She says while handing her a plate of pancakes
They both sat down at the table
"Flo, could you help me with my Instagram account?"
"Sure, give me your phone"
And Sarah hands her the phone
"Okay first, what do you want to name it!?"
"Uhhm maybe just sarahpugh?"
"Okay sure, do you have a picture you want to use for your account?"
"I don't really have pictures of myself"
"Oh, then we are doing a photo shoot soon "
"O-okay!"
"Okay your account is made, now get dressed so I can do your hair okay?"
"Yep!" And Sarah runs off. She gets downstairs is her outfit:

 She gets downstairs is her outfit:

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And Florence does her hair:

Riley walks in and Sarah and Riley get to school

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Riley walks in and Sarah and Riley get to school.

They walk into English class, sarah hates English. Not because she hates the subject, but because the teacher.

They sit down in class, and after 10 minutes sarah gets asked to get infront of the class. Nervously she stands up and stands infront of all the kids.

"Sarah pugh, do I need to repeat the dress code for you?"

You saw a boy in you class grabbing his phone to film

"Wel actually sir, we received a letter saying the dress code was changed. I am not wearing anything inappropriate so-"
"You are disgusting, you are a distraction for not only me but your classmates"
"M-my belly button is a distraction for a 50 year old English teacher?"
"You shouldn't be this selfish, right now your just asking to be raped"

"WHAT EVEN IS THIS? I get dress coded for what? SKIN?! You know what I find distracting sir?! It's not my shoulders or my midrif, it's that these parts of my body that even remotely sexual are being sexualized. So why is it so important to point out my skin? My skin is important to you but the sexualization of 14, 15, 16, 17 year old girls is not?! How could that be -"
"THATS ENOUGH MIS PUGH, you can go now!!"
The whole class started clapping
"YOU CAN GO HOME, YOU ARE SUSPENDED, IL MAKE SURE OF THAT"

And Sarah walks out of the school. She walks home. She gets inside the house

"Hello? Who's there?" She hears Flo say
"It's me Flo" she says
"Sarah? What are you doing home from school"
"I- please don't get mad"
"Tell me"
"I got suspended"
"WHAT?"
"No flo, let me expla-"
"There is no explanation here, got to your room so I can think about this"
"But Floren-"
"GO SARAH"
Sarah walks upstairs with tears in her eyes.

She cry's in her bed and stays there for about 3 hours waiting for Flo to come and get her.

Meanwhile Florence gets a phone call

"Scarlett? Hey how are you? Is everything okay?"
"Hey Flo! Have you seen the video?"
"W-what video?"
"From sarah? Wait Let me send it to you"

Scarlett sends Flo the video of sarah sticking up for herself infront of the class.
The video has come viral. It has over 20 million views.

"Oh god I am horrible"
"What do you mean? Arnt your proud of our little feminist?"
"No I am, I just- I got mad because she got suspended. I didn't even let her explain,"
"Go talk to her Flo, call me back il wait for you"
"Okay thnx scar, bye!"
"Bye!"

Flo hangs up the phone and walks upstairs to Sarah's room. She softly knocks on the door before walking in. Sarah is sleeping in her bed, with nog red puffy eyes and tear stains on her cheeks

"Oh I am so sorry Sarah"
She softly whispers while stroking her head
Sarah doesn't wake up so Flo gets in bed next to her, after a few minutes sarah slowly wakes up while Flo is stroking her head.
Sarah slowly moved away from Flo and starts to cry again

"Hey shhh don't cry"
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry" she says
"No no, it's not your fault honey, it was mine okay? I should've let you explain. I saw the video. I saw what you did. I'm so so proud of you"
Sarah doesn't know what to say so she just cries
"Oh Sarah, I am so so sorry" she says while stroking her head
Sarah hugs into Florence's side and stays there for a while. She won't stop crying

"Sarah honey, what's wrong? Why are you stil crying? I'm not mad anymore okay?"
"It's not fair Flo" Sarah says while crying
"What is honey?"
"Everything! All these stupid rules"
"What rules?"
"Everything society decides for women or girls, everything people tell me. never walk alone at night, don't forget to cover your drink, "you can't wear that? Man have urges", "it distracts the boys", "boys will be boys", I mean seriously, at school we get teach how to dress appropriately and how to protect ourself from being sexualized, how about BOYS DONT RAPE!" Sarah says crying

Florence continues to stroke her face
"Shhh I know, this world is a weird place honey, I know"
"I want that man fired"
"Who? That teacher?"
"Uhhum"
"Get up"
Florence says
"What?"
"We are going to get that man fired"

Sarah and Florence get to the school, they get attacked with questions of the incident today. They burst into the head teachers office, when they see the teacher is already there being questioned.

"Ahh sarah, what a suprise! I would like you to join this conversation"
Sarah sits down in the chair next to the man and Florence sits down next to Sarah.

"I think we all know why we are here today, sarah would you like to start this of?"

"In my opinion this man should be fired for crossing not only rules and violations but also sexualizing not only me but tons of other girls in my class room, I stood up for myself today but in the few days I've been here I've seen the man do this to tons of other girls, I can't even imagine how long he has been doing this for"

"Alright Sarah, sir do you have anything to say to that?"

"It shouldn't be a problem to tell my students that they are dressing inappropriate, they are distracting"

"You really get distracted by the skins of 15 year old girls? Because that is sick"
Sarah respond to that

"I uhh- I don't"

"Okay I think I've heard enough for today, sir, pack your things your done here"

"You can't be serious right?!"
Sarah stand up and so does Florence. The man walk up to sarah and grabs her chin
"You little shit! You are going to regret this!" He yells at her and Florence steps in between
"That is enough!" The head teacher says and second later the man gets dragged out by security

Sarah and Flo get home and sit down at the couch, sarah gets her phone
"OMG!"
"What?"
"I've just gained around 100k followers"
Sarah says shocked
"Oh did I tell you that video of you went viral?"
"For real?"
"Yeah, I'm so proud of you honey"
"I love you Florence"
"I love you"

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