Elizabeth Winters is a 13 year old girl going into grade nine. She thinks that high school will bring maturity, knowledge, and respect. But what she finds is far from that. Join Elizabeth as she navigates through bullying, mean girls, and crushes. A...
A picture of Natalie as she was sitting on the bench after getting hit by dodgeballs in gym class appeared in front of my eyes. It had the caption: Caution: Wild Loser sighted in the school gym! What on earth?! And after that, I saw a photo of me reading my Harry Potter book with the caption: Instead of reading nerdy books, maybe she should read a fashion magazine instead. How could they? That's so mean. And DO NOT COME FOR HARRY POTTER BOOKS. All jokes aside, what on earth did Natalie do? What did I do? I have so many questions. But I have the feeling that this isn't over... The next day, I was a lot less excited to go to school. I still love school, and I love seeing my friends, but it's because of Tiana and Josie that my mood is not as good. Mostly because of Tiana. Josie is still rude, but Tiana is the one who posted those things about Natalie. So I got out of bed at 6:00 a.m, and walked into the bathroom to brush my teeth. Then I groggily made my way to the kitchen, and made myself a peanut butter and jam sandwich for breakfast. I got dressed, putting on a turquoise blouse with white jeans. I then put a turquoise bow in my dark brown hair, and grabbed my converse. I decided to keep the theme of turquoise and white for today's outfit. It put me in a slightly better mood at least!
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For makeup I kept it more simple than yesterday, just concealer and blush, to make me look a tad more alive. I always like to put on sunscreen under my makeup, to protect my skin. Maybe that's why I'm so pale. Whatever! I grabbed my light purple backpack, got my lunch, said bye to my mom, and my sister and I made our way to the bus stop. Once we got to school, I went to my locker. A lot of people we standing around this side of the hallway, which I found weird. Then Natalie got here! Yay! "Hoii!", I greet her. "Hoiiyyaaa Ellie!" "Everyone's acting kind of strange this morning", she points out. "I know! I noticed that when I got here. Oh well. Let's get our stuff from our lockers." But when she gets to her locker beside mine, I see her eyes go wide. What happened? When I look at where her lock should be, I see what she was looking at. Her lock was broken, with only tape holding her locker closed. Then I know what happened. Tiana and Josie broke into Natalie's locker. I look at where my lock should be, and it was broken too. We also see some people getting their phones out, Tiana and Josie in the middle of it. That's not good. "Natalie, maybe we can come back later to get into our lockers", I warn, but it was too late. Natalie removed the tape, and a few dodgeballs flowed out, one coming from the top and smacking Natalie. I looked around. So many people were filming this. Oh no. I opened mine, getting out of the way. Sure enough, stacks upon stacks of fashion magazines came flowing out, a few hitting me in the face, even though I moved of the way. But we didn't let ourselves be phased by some stupid jokes. But it does need to stop, this is bullying. "Maybe we should talk to them", I suggest. "Yeah, but it'll be hard to stay calm. But we have too", Natalie says. "We have to be the bigger person. All they're doing is trying to get a reaction. If we don't give them one, they'll get bored." Even though it is a bit hard to stay nice and calm when all I hear is people laughing and posting the videos of Natalie and I. "Way ahead of you", Natalie agrees, kicking a dodgeball out of the way. So we make our way to T&J. By now, everybody is done filming and doing their own thing. "I don't know what your problem is with Natalie and I. But it has to stop.", I start, making sure to stay calm. "Yeah, we didn't do anything to you. You should be less mean.", Natalie says, equally as calm. "Yeah, well maybe you should be less of a loser." Tiana insults, harshly. "Yeah", Josie backs her up. "I think it's better to be a 'loser' and a kind person than it is to be popular and mean and rude.", I retort. I'm losing my calm here! Natalie continues, "We're not going to cause a scene here or anything, but just think about being a little nicer. "Whatever. Well keep doing what we want, cause we're better than you.", Tiana scoffs. "Alright, keep going. But know that we are a lot stronger than a couple of dodgeballs and magazines. So throw what you want at us.", I finish. We leave it at that, and make our way to class.
