Bullied by the Sidemen.

- chapter one -

Mia was shy, always the quietest in the class. She never had any real friends. Some people tried to be friends with her but the boys always scared them off. The boys. They were awful. Seven of them, Harry, Simon, Josh, Ethan, Vik, Tobi and JJ. They've been bullying her since year 7, she could never escape them. On the first day of secondary school they instantly took a disliking to her. She didn't know why, nor did she care why, she just wanted it to stop. Skip 4 years, now they're in year 11. Mia is still getting bullied, it isn't getting any easier, if anything it's worse.
Monday mornings were always the worst, it wasn't the having to get up early after a weekend, it was the fact that the boys were always so grumpy on a Monday morning. Mia checked her timetable, it wasn't looking good. Double English first with Simon, Josh and Harry. Then maths with Jj and Vik, biology with Vik, Simon, Harry and Tobi and double music with Josh and Ethan. Every single lesson I had today had some of the boys in. I wasn't looking forward to this at all.
I was sitting in English waiting for the rest of the class to slowly file in. Simon, Josh and Harry walked in, as soon as they spotted me they walked over towards me. Simon sat to the left of me and Josh and Harry sat to the right, sandwiching me in the middle of them with no escape.
'So I heard your dad hates you and your mum wishes she swallowed' Simon laughed.
'Um....' I said nervously, not wanting to offend them.
' yeah I heard that too Mia, your parents hate you and you have no friends, what's the point in living anymore?' Harry said with a grimace on his face.
'I agree with Harry, personally if I was a rejected child with no friends I would've killed myself already, or learn how to not be a fuck up saddo like you' Josh laughed, joining in with the others. Before anyone else could comment the teacher walked in.
'I'll get you Mia, just because Mr.White is here now doesn't mean there'll always be a teacher around to save your butt' Simon whispered into my ear. It sent shivers down my spine, this day has already gone to shit and the first lesson has only just started.
After an hour and forty minutes of English I headed down to maths, the lesson I had with Jj and Vik. I always liked maths, maybe it was because I just got to sit in a corner and work by myself for fifty minutes. The maths lesson was over quite quickly. I could feel Jj and Vik turning round to look at me in between sharp whispers. I could tell that what they whispering about was me, but I'm used to it. I get it everyday. Next I had biology with Vik, Simon, Harry and Tobi. It was strange, Vik walked with me down to biology from maths. He wasn't nice to me but he wasn't particularly nasty either. I had to admit that Vik was definately the nicest one of the boys but he was still no angel, none of them were.
The seating plan in biology had changed to alphabetical order. As Simons surname was Minter and mine was Marsh we had to sit next to eachother. All through biology he was silent but he kept on looking at me. When Mrs.turner paired us up with whoever we were next to Simon didn't make a single comment to me that wasn't biology related. It was strange, as if the old Simon had been replaced by a slightly more docile Simon.

Simon's PoV
It's like I had an epiphany whilst sitting there staring at Mia, I realised it wasn't fair the way me and the guys had been treating Mia, I mean she's had 5 years of non stop torture from us and all we do is laugh about it. I can see the crease in between her eyes as her brow furrows, it's kinda cute I'm not gonna lie. I confuse myself sometimes. What I said earlier in English was really out of order, I wish there was some way of apologising without the boys finding out.
Wait.... I know what to do, I'll go to her house. I know where she lives because I had to go round there for school work once, I'm sure I can remember how to get there.

Mia's PoV
Double Music was last, nothing really happened in that lesson. I just went off into a music room to practise my song and that was it really.
I got home just before five, went upstairs and began on my homework. It was about half five when I heard the door knock, I wondered who could be knocking on a Monday so I went downstairs and opened the door and what I saw surprised me.
'S-Simon?' I stuttered.