Author's Note: Here is something that we all need to think about, it's very serious.
1 in 7 kids are bullied or teased at school because of something they believe in our do. Isn’t that terrible? Well lots of kids are bullied all over America for silly little things. Have you ever been bullied before? Bullying needs to be stopped. It’s causing kids to think badly of themselves. Once the thoughts happen they become nightmares and last suicide thoughts or even actions. This is the worst possible thought that you could ever imagine. Bullies are bad and we need to stop them from ruining kid’s lives.
Such as a girl named Ella, she is the most popular girl in the school. She always had boys at her feet asking her out to the school dances or just so they could brag that she was theirs. But there was one boy that tricked her trigger. His name was Dakota, he was a nice guy played football and all those boy sports. He was athletic, liked to hunt like she did and enjoyed hanging out with her. After a while he asked her out and she said yes. They have been dating for a couple months now and never lost interest.
But that one day could have ruined it all. It started on an A day Ella was on her way to science. Kids were scurrying through the hallways on their way to their next class. Of course Ella was surrounded by friends, always talking about what they have or are doing next. So you would think that she was secure. But when her friends died off she was mostly left. When she walked into the classroom she wasn’t paying attention and BAM! She hit the floor, the kids stopped and just stared luckily Dakota was in the class so he knew what to do. He ran over to her, checked her pulse. Still alive, shoved his hands under her and hoisted her up and pulled her close to his chest. Ella’s hair was dangling all over the place. Dakota started running to the nurse’s office nearly sprinting. Once he made it in he set her down. Kids ran right up to the door staring at me. By then I was coming back to earth a little bit and could see what was going on. There were kids staring at me in the door way. And Dakota and the nurse were outside talking. I started to get up I felt a shocking pain zing through my body. The nurse spotted me and walked over to me.
“W-what h-happened”, I said.
“You are having a severe concussion; we could have lost you thanks to your boyfriend here.”
“Where is he?”
“He is in the hallway I will go get him.”
He walked in and just looked at me.
”Hi.” He said
“Thank you so much, I could have died if you didn’t help me. I am so grateful that I have a boyfriend like you.”
I tried to stand up again but nothing happened except for another shooting pain flying all throughout my body.
“Take it easy.” He said quickly.
“Can I at least give you a hug?”
“Sure.”
He walked over to the bed and knelt down and gave me a hug. It felt so good to be next to him. His warmth on my chest, the smell of aftershave on this cheek, I could hug him forever. When the nurse started talking again he moved away. He was told to go back to class and I was going to go to the hospital for a check-up. After lunch Dakota came and checked on me. I was progressing the nurse said, but I was still due to go to the hospital. I made it to the hospital and back. I had suffered a severe concussion my head was cracked open and I had to get stitches. For the stitches they had to shave of some of my hair. When they were done with the surgery my headache had went down and I was able to get up for a little time. I walked over to the mirror to see what I looked like.
I was so shocked, I had dried blood on my forehead, and a huge bald spot on the back of my head. You could see the stitches. They were so visible they were scary.
As the week went by I was able to go back to school. My mom worried and always had me keep my phone on me.
So far you can see that Ella is not in the greatest shape. She is lost a bald spot, stitches, and kind of scared to see what is going to happen next on her first day of school. What if that was you how would you feel, scared, overwhelmed?
When the bus went by her house she felt confident and ready as always but as soon as she hopped on the bus people started to stare. Her friends looked at her in shock and disgust. She sat next to her best friend Bethany, she looked at Ella and her face expression went blank Ella started to talk but Bethany ignored her. When Ella started to notice no one was listening she felt bad. She stopped and then kept to herself until school. When she made it inside she caught up with Dakota. He was so happy to see her and to be alive. During the day she was tripped by people and laughed at and more and had new names like stitches head, bald girl. She was not the popular girl she was before the accident. Towards the end of the day on boy named Mike. He was laughing at her in class and even threatening her. Finally after being called another name she finally broke, she asked to be excused to the bathroom. She made it to the bathroom without being noticed other than someone outside by the water fountain. She hurried into the stall and started to cry. After a minute she pulled out her phone and called her mom. She told her to come and pick her up. Her mom could not make it she was in the middle of a conference at her other school. She started to cry all over again. But she heard a noise. It was a familiar voice. It was Dakota he came in opened the door and gave me a hug. I missed him so much and just wish I could be with him all the time. After a while he had to go and she needed to go back to class. I tried to cover the tear marks on my face but it didn’t work so well. When she walked in she saw Mike looking at her and then he shouted
“Oh were you crying little bald head girl.”
When I heard that I started to cry all over again. The bell had rang luckily and Dakota came and found me in the hall way. I was so happy it was time to go. The bad news was that Mike was on my bus. He was chucking things at my head or my bald spot which hurt. So I got off early and ran home. Mom was home and I was happy to see her. I told her I never wanted to go back but I had to big exams were coming up and I needed to be ready so I could get a job and become a vet.
The same thing continued for a month and on that one day I was fed up with it I was done. I was tired I could not sleep afraid that someone might try and hurt me. I got home and my mom was not there. Perfect I thought, I wrote a good-bye not and sent a text to Dakota and all my friends. I got responses but I never replied. Dakota was starting to get suspicious but I reassured him I was okay. But I was not, I was in danger it is a bad disses. I grabbed the strongest rope in my basement and tied it to our steps. I tied it around my neck and on the count of three I dropped.1….2….3… and I was gone.
See if you just read that story you would understand what I am talking about. Bullies are bad and can ruin a persons or many people’s life. I bet Ella’s mom is devastated. I mean what she would do without her only child she would be lonely, and probably miserable.
Bullies target weaker kids or more vulnerable kids. Like Ella and how she had the bald spot and stitches showing all the time. How would you feel if that happened to you and you had to live with it for a while until you got better. A bully is like a mosquito, the go for the barest people or in really live they go for the more vulnerable, which is not cool.
Okay let’s think for a little, close your eyes and just think for a little what would you be like if you were the bully? Who would you go for? If I was the bully I would go for the most weak or the kid that looked the most stupid. Cause isn’t that you’re instinct to pick on people like that. I found out that most kids are bullied once in a while which is a good thing but 8% of kids are bullied every day. At lest it is not that bad but it is still something.
Do you ever wonder what the kid that you’re bullying feels like? Do you ever think how the kid feels when they have to get off the bus and has to tell his parents what happened? You know that you will get in trouble eventually because the kid will talk and not keep it a secret unless he is that dumb.
How would you feel if you got a call from work or found your kid was dead? You would be miserable. Because you might have lost our own child to some kid that was making fun of him/her. Which is terrible, that’s why we need to stop them. For schools dealing with kids with bullying there needs to be a consequence. Like if it gets to bother the kid they should get valuable stuff of theirs taken away. Or if it gets even worse they should have a little trip to the police department just so they understand that this is a serious thing.
Now that I have talked with you don’t you think that we need to stop bullies for hurting innocent kids?
