Short Stories I Made in Class

August 31, 2022

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This talks about fighting, bullying, drama, and talking behind one's back. If this isn't something you are comfortable with, then please don't read. If this is a triggering topic, please don't read.

I completely made up this scenario, so it is a coincidence if this is something that has actually happened.

   I, Kai, was talking with my best friend, Lucy, about someone we had in a class, Anna. I didn't know the exact details, but something happened.

   "Hey Kai, did you hear about Anna?" My bf Lucy asked me. I didn't know what had happened with Anna, I just knew that she wasn't in class today or yesterday. None of us really knew why, but some kids managed to know based on what they heard.

   "No, what happened?" I asked Lucy. She chuckled a bit about me not knowing, but that was fine. We both know that out of the two of us, she was the one to know all the juicy drama. I tend to know who the people are since I do... research.

   "Apparently, she got into a fight at school with Brooklyn over some kid. The kid was Anna's sibling or something," Lucy informed me. I smiled, I knew who this 'kid' was. That was Aaron Lee, Anna's younger brother.

   "No way! I thought Anna was far too passive to do anything like that," I said. The Anna most knew was the shy and outcast girl. Sure, she had some friends, but they weren't the nicest to her.

   "Right?" Lucy said back to me exasperated. What got her to her breaking point? Or in this case, who got her to her breaking point?

   "Well is she going to be suspended or anything? This school has some pretty strict policies about violence," I asked Lucy. She and I both knew that I would be the one to know this part. Technically, she would be suspended since she caused a fight. But then, Aaron was being bullied by Brooklyn, which complicates things. If Brooklyn manages to keep bullying Aaron, through friends, then technically Anna wouldn't be suspended since she was protecting Aaron.

   "That's what the school is thinking of doing, but then there is the bullying, so we don't know what's going to happen," Lucy informed me. She knew only as much as I did, apparently.

   "Is the bullying still going on? I thought surely they would have given up since their victim is so consistently helpless. I mean, what fun could that be?" I asked Lucy. She used to be a bully herself, but I changed her ways and showed her that there was no reason to bully and it was bad for her record.

   "Yeah, well clearly she isn't as much of a pushover as we once thought. The bullying must have really put her in a rough place, as it was her brother and all," Lucy informed me, probably speaking from one of the kids she bullied. I nodded and got to thinking.

   "Or maybe the circumstances brought out who she truly was all along..." I thought out loud to Lucy. She laughed at that thought.

   "Ah so we have a philosopher on our hands!" Lucy exclaimed out loud. I laughed at what she said and shook my head.

(I thank my study buddy for helping me with the original dialogue and for making it juicy. They actually did a good portion of the dialogue, I did the story-like writing of this. I hope those of you who did read it enjoyed the story and let me know if there are ideas you have. I'm actually thinking of making a book where I write the ideas and sentence starters you give me.)