Bullies

My name is Ruby and I get bullied at school all the time. I do not have any friends or groups. I always try to ask other groups that I can play but they always give me dirty looks and say, “Oh, Ruby is here. Let’s move,” or the might say, “No, we have too much people playing.” When they only have two or three people in a group. But the bully in school is Lesley Buckston. She has four friends that follow her, Holly, Monika, Karen and Lin. They aren’t bullies, really. Lesley’s the one who leads them with great leadership. You see, I am the schools vet. Just joking! I am allowed to take my cat out only to school. But my cat, Bella is good and Mrs. Teagan, the principle, finally noticed that. One day, Lesley and her group came up to me while I was sitting on the wooden steps, eating my lunch. They just kind of threw themselves at me, especially Lesley, who I thought that it wasn’t very nice, neither did Bella. “Well, you done it well enough haven’t you, Ruby?” said Lesley smirking. I winced and got on with my lunch. She nudged Karen on the elbow. Then Karen said, “Bella seems to be a cat-rot. Skitybums would love a bite for breakfast,” Skitybums was Karen’s beloved Chihuahua dog. The way she said it was like she memorized it. Like in a movie. I knew they were onto something. Very nasty. Then, Holly ran over to Miss. Jdrain, the duty teacher. I couldn’t hear what she was saying but I could see the Miss. Jdrain had a slight frown on her face. Lesley and the others were grinning. I didn’t know what they were up to but it seems… bad. Suddenly, Miss. Jdrain came over to me, with Holly behind her. “Did you say to Karen something rude about her dog?” I shook my head, speechlessly. Now I know what they were planning about! “She did! Miss. Jdrain!” They were all crying. I sighed. I guess I have to live at school always like this. Sooner enough, I had rubbish picking duty. That’s what bullies usually do. Or they tease you.
The next day I had a plan coming through at lunch time. It will spoil their plan and voilà! Everything will pop up and everything will be equal. Just wait you see! During class I couldn’t think! I was so excited about the plan and I didn’t even hear Monika say to me, “You look like an ice-cream cone with worms on top!” or, “You are a geek!” At lunch, I had the things coming through. Everything was set. All I gotta do is act normal and make them come up to me, which should not be a problem because every lunch they come up to me and tease me. Once they did, Lesley was carrying a ‘BFF’ Note-book. She held it up to my face. On one page it said, ‘Ruby is a geeky girl. She is not precious like an actual ruby. She is on our Bad, Nerdy, Geeky and Weirdo list. Well done, Ruby, if you are reading this. You are in our top Bad, Nerdy, Geeky and Weirdo List. Remember, we all hate you and your stinky cat, Bella! LOL! ’ Oh, great! Now they are torturing me by paper. Then, Lin whispered, “We gotta tell ya a secret,” her California voice was mad. I got annoyed and hoped the plan was ready. “Well, if you tell me then it’s not a secret anymore, is it? And also, a color ball is coming through,” Lesley just smiled and exclaimed, “Ha, ha Ruby. You can’t trick us like that. We know that-“BOOM!!! A color ball hutted her right on her waist. Suddenly, another one was coming through. It sprayed on Holly and she got all these color sprinkles all over her clothes and stuff. Two more were coming through. It landed and sprayed on Lin. Then the second one, Monika missed, but she had some on her sock and in her shoes. Everyone crowded around them. Some were laughing. And some were sighing. A little kindy girl looked up at me and gave me a dirty look. I bet you that it was Karen’s little sister. But Karen wasn’t here today so I guess she could’ve had some kind of flu. As the teachers calmed the girls out, I walked over to that kindy girl and asked that why Karen was away. She answered, “Because she got bullied by the girls who’d been shot by those rainbow balls,” Then she walked away to play that kindy game, ‘Chasey’ with some other friends. It was cute how she said, ‘rainbow balls’ when it was colorful balls. I felt a little sorry for Karen. She got bullied by Lesley, Lin, Monika and Holly; just like me. What else could I do but borrow that BFF Note Book?
I got Karen’s email from her little sister, Katy. She said that I better steal the BFF Note-book. I asked her why and she said that we can publish it to Mrs. Teagan and she can punish them. Piece of cake. “But how?” I asked. “Well, we gotta figure that out. I’ll put some thought on it tonight and then we can share tomorrow at school.” End of messaging. Went to bed. Just how are we gonna get our hands on the book?
To be continued…
By CC