So when I was just going into the 8th grade, I went over to my friend Rebecca's house.
She invited a lot of people over and we got pizza, and played video games and all hung out together.
She likes the really loud, rap music and the like, so there was a lot of Limpbiskit playing. (I think that's how you spell it)
One of the boys there, Tanner, was making fun of a younger girl, a friend of Rebecca's little sister. He was calling her names.
Now I'm really protective of people. I Hate bullying, in any degree. So I told him to back off or I'd beat him up, which was an empty threat, as I probably would have just smacked him on the arm and yelled at him.
But he kept at it anyway, so I started chasing him. We were in the living room and I chased him through to the kitchen, where he ran for the outside door. I never would have caught him if he got outside because I'm a shit runner.
On the way out of the kichen, he threw the door closed on me, trying to keep me from following.
Now my timing was really bad, and I put up my hand to stop the door, and push it open again.
But it was going too fast, and my hand hit the glass pane in it instead of the wood around it. The glass shattered and the door latched closed. I pulled my arm back and there was glass sticking out, and blood gushing and I could see white in my arm that looked like bone.
I stared at it for a second, then screamed and screamed. "SOMEONE PLEASE! SOMEONE HELP ME! HELP!"
I stood in the kitchen screaming until Rebecca's mother came running. She started swearing and ran in the bathroom to get something to stop the bleeding, and pulled out a chair and made me sit down.
As soon as she'd seen me, I stopped screaming because I didn't mean to scare anyone. But I needed to breathe and I started crying because I didn't understand why that would happen, and when I saw my friend Aj come running I started begging him to help me, to please Aj, please help me.
Stacy gave Aj the cloth and he wrapped it around my arm, twisting it underneath to make a tourniquet. By this time I had made myself stop crying and was just trying to calm down.
Tanner came in the kitchen, and he looked so terrified I wanted to hug him and comfort him. And I had never liked this boy, or wanted to go anywhere near him before, I just felt so bad.
He walked up to me and looked down at his feet and talked very quietly, "I'm sorry I shut the door on you Taleithi." He looked so ashamed I couldn't be angry.
I smiled at him carefully and ignored the pain in my arm so I didn't cry, and I told him "It's okay, really, I'm not angry at all, I just need to get to the hospital, quickly."
He backed up as Stacy came forward, she said it would take too long to call for an ambulance, she would drive me.
Aj helped me up with his free arm and I pushed it away because there was nothing wrong with my legs, my arm just felt like it was on fire. We went out to he car, and Rebecxa, Her sister, the younger girl, Aj, Stacy and I all piled in.
Rebecca's sister Tiffany, and her friend were both crying, and the girl, Autumn started asking to go home. I couldn't stand to see her so sad, I had to comfort her.
"It's okay honey, I'm fine, we're just going to go to the hospital, and Stacy will call your mom and have her come get you there. I'm not dead yet. Don't cry."
Aj twisted the cloth tighter and the pain lessened a little, but I knew that wasn't a good thing, because I felt pins and needles in my hand. Suddenly I was worried how much blood I was losing. And all over the van's floor too.
