Hi Alexis!! I just wanted to say that ive read your story on Bullied and HAVE HOPE!! I'm in year 10 is well, and there's this girl (who is really popular, but mean and tries and makes fun of me and my friends) So she shouted out to us shut up. (if I was alone I wouldn't have said anything, but I was with my friends and I knew I could rely on them) I shouted back "Yes Mum!" with a salute. (yeah I'm the jokester) All my friends 5 people laughed) and she was like "get your facts right I'm not your mum!" and she turned her face away from us and said "Bitches!" "Mother-fuckers!" (she thought we didn't hear her but we did) so then I was like "Fine then, DAD, If you really want to be a man.." and she shut up after that. However in the next class, she gave me dirty looks, while me and my friends gave them back (we need to stand up for ourselves) and she talked about us to her friends. If this happened in yes 9, I would have listened to her and shut up as I was really shy before but now I've raised my confidence. thanks to my amazing friends. But because we (me and my friends) are the 'quiet girls' in the class she thinks she can boss us around. she's done things like this before. I know this isn't bullying or anything I just wanted to show you an example of how to stand up for yourself. I hope you cope and recover with your friends beside you, cuz they always make life better!!!