Tutoring My Bully // J.G.

Chapter 5

Edited

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JuJu's POV

     I woke up with a bad headache. I looked around and saw that I was in the hospital. It kind of scared me because for a moment, I forgot why I was there, but then all of my memories were flooding inside my head, like a tsunami. I remembered everything.

     I tried to commit suicide. I wanted to cry again for what felt like the millionth time, but my head hurt too much already so, I tried not to think much of the situation. I mean, I am alive so I guess I should be kinda happy about that.

    I saw a glass of water on a small brown table next to me and reached over to grab it. I drank the cold water and it felt good on my dry throat.

    I saw a tv in the middle of the room, hung up on the wall. The news was on. Ugh, boring. I wanted to change the channel but the remote was all the way across the room, under the tv. I didn't want to get up incase I fell down again, so I stayed in bed watching the news.

    I was watching the news for a little while and then I saw that there was a picture of me on TV. What? I continued watching. "17 year old, Julia Grace, from Westside High School tried to commit suicide earlier today. Students from her school are here to talk about the tragic incident that happened." Said some news reporter. She had short brunette hair and looked to be about 34. I continued watching to see what everyone in my school had to say about me.

"Did you know Julia Grace?" Asked the reporter.

"I know of her. I know that she's the most bullied girl in school and that that's why she tried to commit suicide. I feel horrible because I didn't try to stop those bullies. I hope after this, all the bullying towards her stops." Said a brown wavy haired girl with blue eyes that I've never seen before.

   The reporter interviewed more students. "I heard Julia is the most bullied girl in your school, did you know her or better question, were you one of her bullies?" She asked a brown haired boy with a quiff hairstyle and brown eyes. I think his name was Collin Harrison. He was part of the jocks. He didn't bully me as much as all the other jocks. He was known as the smart jock. He was the nicest out of all the populars. Let's see what he has to say about me.

"I bullied her sometimes and I regret doing that. I did it for my reputation as part of the jocks and the populars. I didn't take it as far as the other boys in my group did but even though I didn't bully her as much, I still bullied her at least once. And knowing that I was one of the reasons that she tried to commit suicide, I can never forgive myself for what I did to her and what I didn't do to stop the other guys from bullying her." Collin said.

     He looked like he was actually sad. I thought everyone would be happy that I was gone. Even the girl that I saw that I didn't know. I thought everyone hated me. But I guess some of them were just too afraid to stand up to those bullies and help. Kind of like Nancy.

     I continued watching the lady ask different students about my suicidal attempt. A bunch of them lied about bullying me or about knowing me. Most of the bullies said they were sad that I tried to kill myself. Ha, yeah right. They all wanted me to die so I tried but clearly failed.

   Finally, she interviewed one last person and you wouldn't believe who I saw.

"What are your thoughts on Julia Grace's attempt at suicide?" The reporter asked.

   I sat up curious about what he was going to say.

"I feel horrible. She attempted suicide because of me," he stopped for a second, and then grabbed the microphone from the reporters hands and looked straight into the camera and continued talking, "I beat her multiple times and then I told her to kill herself. I told her no one cared about her. But, I-I was wrong. I cared about her and I still do. I had personal reasons to bully her and once I said what I said.. I looked at her and.. and she looked broken. Hurt. And it was all because of me. I'm a horrible, horrible person for what I did and said to her. I can never forgive myself and I know she won't." He cried.