Wolfram and his Girl

Bullying

My name is Harper I've never liked school. Especially not when people pick on me or tease me or even beat me up. It makes it not fun. At all. I am in 9th grade, 14 years old and have a very average life. I live on Vancouver Island, Downtown Victoria with my Mom. My parents are divorced which makes it hard for me to focus a lot at school. I have one best friend her name is River. River is from Calgary, Alberta and she helps me be myself. I feel bad because she tries so hard to make me happy and bubbly and in response, I wear my hood all the time at school, I try to be invisible.

One day I was sitting in class, beside River of course, and we were both on our phones 'cause it was lunch break. I hear giggling behind me. I turn around and the most popular girl in school, Britney, was huddled around her phone with her friends. (Britney is 2 years older than me) Everyone in the class is starting to gather. I told River to check it out for me because I don't dare to step foot near her. Too much makeup and perfume and the one thing I hate most, glitter.

Everyone near the phone starts looking at me. I am starting to panic. River comes back over and says "Harper you are not going to be happy" oh great. We go to the girls bathroom and lock ourselves in the handy-cap stall. She immediately goes onto Instagram. She finds the video and shows it to me. A kid in our class named Xavier took a video of me with out my hood on and he said "hoodie girl is finally gonna show herself" Xavier said on the video. River began "Harper what are we gonna do? Everyone is going to tease you now." "and they don't already?" I said with a angry undertone. "just leave it. Pretend it never happened." 

------------------------------------------------In Bed That Night-------------------------------------------------

it was hard for me to say that. What I said earlier to River. How we "just have to leave it" . 

I lied awake for hours on end thinking. I don't know what about, but something..... Xavier and Britney had started a fire inside me that she can't stop, nor control.