Sweetskullmeg- My Story

Bullying

In my life I've had to deal allot with bullies. But no one has ever really bullied me to my face! This kind of upsets me more than if I was bullied because I know 100% that people are talking about me behind my back. How do I know? Well if I walk past someone in the corridor they might let one of their groups opinions slip, but one person who in my opinion is most bullied in the entire school- if my best friend.

Again for privacy reasons I will call her Kate. Now I don't know why she's bullied, she's not ugly, she's not fat, she's not too thin, she's smart but not too smart, she's confident and really I look up to her. I rely on Kate for keeping me company because she my only friend in my class, because I spend so much time with her I see a lot of this bullying with my own eyes, but can't bring my self to do anything about it!

If you saw this happening you might not think it was bullying, it's not teasing, or physical bullying, more of something I refer to as 'sarcastic friendship'. For example- we were in English once... On our private table... And one of the popular girls came and sat next to Kate. For everyone around us this might look like they were friends, the one thing you've got to look out for in sarcastic friendship is the term 'best friend' when it's quite clear that the two people are NOT best friends!

Kate has struggled through this ever since nursery, but for as long as I can remember she has been my friend so even if I wanted to I couldn't leave her! But I think the main reason I don't gave a good reputation is because of her, well not her, the rest of the school who bully her! It also doesn't help that this year I got the highest exam result in my class in ALL the subjects.... I can't help it if I know the answers!

As you can imagine, being smart does not translate into popularity, but to be honest, I don't want to be popular! It's my worst nightmare to have all my friends as people who I can't be myself around! I do have more than one friend but not like Kate. My life would be hell without her so I'm glad we are unpopular because we are unpopular together!