My True Life Story

After The Birthday

It was Monday morning and time to go back to school. I got up, had breakfast and got ready for school. Not that I really wanted to as I knew what was coming. I got to class and everyone was just looking at me and a couple of the boys walked past laughing as I was putting my bag down. Before I could sit down my teacher told me to tell everyone about my birthday and what I did. I asked her I could not tell everyone and leave it be. She refused to grant my wish and demanded me to do as instructed. Again I walked to the front of the class and everyone was staring at me and you could hear the boys laughing. I stood there for a while before saying, "I didn't do anything for my birthday as I don't have any friends to do anything with."

My teacher looked at me very cross and demanded that I sit down immediately. As I walked back she said to me, "If you weren't such a know it all and teachers pet in your previous year, you may actually have friends". Just as she finished I felt something trip me. As I sat up and looked to see what it was, I could see that girl, the nice one who I became friends with on the first day but then she unfriended me to fit in with the rest. It was her, she purposely tripped me and made everyone laugh at me even more and she said to me, "Maybe if you loose some weight you would be able to see where you're walking".

To me, that was really hurtful. I mean it wasn't my fault I was so big. I still did the exercise everyone else did but at the same time, I wasn't the one who organised my meals and growing up I was always told to eat what is put in front of you with no complaints or go to bed without any food and you eat the food the next night for dinner. I didn't have much of a choice to eat what was given to me, either way I still had to eat it until it was all gone.

At the end of the day, my teacher had asked me to stay back as she needed to talk to me, so I did. "Jae, I need to talk to you about your work, effort and behaviour in class lately, you are falling behind everyone else and you're behaviour lately is not acceptable especially towards your class mates. I will be ringing your parents and asking them to come in for a meeting to discuss this as well as I will be sending letter home informing them as well". She told me to leave the class room before I could say anything back. I mean can't she see and hear that it is not me doing the wrong behaviour?

My nan and pop picked me up from school again and once we got back to their place, we sat down and I did my home work, had a shower, ate dinner and went straight to bed. The next morning when I woke up, I had a shower and got ready for school. As I was eating breakfast, my nan turned and asked me, "How is everything going at school? Are you coping okay?" I replied, "Yes everything is fine, except my teacher wants to have a meeting with mum about my behaviour and work ethic in class, I'm falling behind the rest." She looked at me very cross and said, "Well you better get back into it very quick as your parents don't work the hours they do for you to slack off during class".

When I got to school, my nan walked me to my class so she could have a word to my teacher. My teacher agreed to have the meeting with her as my parents aren't available all the time due to work. After their chat, my nan walked up to me and said, "I just spoke with you're teacher, and I'm not very happy, you are grounded until your grades and behaviour improves and I will be informing your mother about this as well." She quickly walked off back to the car and I slowly went into class and sat down.

At this moment of time, all I could think was, why me? What was I doing wrong and what had I done to get this sort of treatment from everyone? I just did not understand...

It was coming up to the school holidays, and again everyone was going away except me. Instead this time, because my nan and pop had to go to work as well and couldn't look after me during the day and I was still too young to stay home by myself, I had to go to school... That's right, school on the holidays. It wasn't fun either, instead of watching movies, playing games,  we had to do work related to what we were learning in our classes at the time.
When it was time for the holidays to end, everyone came back happy and laughing and just full of joy. When I walked in the classroom, I went to sit down and my teacher asked me to stand in front of the class straight away and tell everyone what I did over the break. "For the holidays, I spent my time at school as my parents and my nan and pop were all working,  so I came here". Everyone including the teacher had laughed at me. When I sat down, the teacher didn't ask anyone else to tell their story, was just me. I still remember how that day made me feel, it just made me feel like shit, always being the kid being picked on even by the one thats meant to be setting an example.

At the end of the day my teacher had an announcement she wanted to make, "I am sad to tell you guys, that today is my last day of teaching here. I have been offered a job at another school teaching in the city. I wish you all the very best." At this point, I didn't know what to feel, happy or nervous. I mean I was happy she was leaving but nervous as I didn't know what to expect from the new teacher, only time will tell I guess...