My High School Bully

I struggled to off the alarm clock as usual, it was already 6am. I grumbled out of bed and into the bathroom. My breakfast was ready, I sat to eat slowly but mom hurried me to eat faster. I wish she was in my shoes to know, how much I really hated going to school.

I know everyone is wondering why, my dad got transfered to a new province, so we had to go with him. The same Challenge we've been facing since I was a kid, maybe that's why I never had friends. Mum enrolled me in a school in our neighbourhood, a nice school to be honest, but filled with bullies. I met a lot of decent people there. Life was a little bit easy without, the chief bully around. His name was Thomas, he had a couple of other guys who were loyal to him and always ready to bully other kids. Thomas arrived in class and discovered, I was the new girl. He made several attempts of making me regret coming to class. They was a day, he set his leg for me at the canteen, then I tripped and fell. I was so pissed off but I couldn't fight him, since the other kids never did anything either.

An incident happened in the laboratory, that got me really pissed. We were having Biology practical, and were supposed to dissect a frog. We waited patiently for the teacher to begin the practical, only to discover the frog was no where to be found.We search everywhere for it, the whole time, Thomas and his friends were chuckling. I didn't know what was going on. Since the frog wasn't found, we had to postponed the practicals. On getting to the class, Thomas came to my locker asking me why I stole the frog for the practicals. I was bewildered, because it was absolutely insane to think of such. I never knew they was a dead frog in my dress pocket. Thomas and his bully friends made me to show my pocket infront of the whole class. When I did, I was shocked to see a dead frog dropped out of my pocket. I fainted out of shock, only to wake up in the arms of one of the girls in my class, her name was Annabel. She felt really sorry for my encounter with the dead frog. We bonded and became best of friends. Most days she tries to keep the other bullies from me but never Thomas.

I was getting tired of Thomas tantrum, so I decided to stay off school for days. It worked but I was the one losing, Annabel suggested I made him fall in love with me, but how was that going to be possible, when we barely looked at each other without igniting those annoying experience I had with him. Since I wanted a getaway from his troubles, I tried a couple of stunts but it never worked. He was still a bully.

I thought of an idea, so I decided to wear skimpy dresses to school, just to get his attention and it didn't work. Annabel invited me to a birthday his boyfriend's birthday party and told me thomas was going to be present. I told my parent I was spending a night at Annabel's place, and we both sneaked out to the party. There he was, I wore some really skimpy dress, which got his attention. But I ignored him and moved in. While the party was still going on, I began to dance and this got everyone's attention. Thomas fell for me since that night.

The next day was fun, he was all around and he never allowed other bullies come near me. I enjoyed his company but was never falling in love with a bully, even if I was, not Thomas of course. I had to play along just to get him off my back, and he invited Me to watch our school basketball competition, which I accepted. He placed his hands over my shoulder and we watch like we were real lovers. He made attempts to kiss me several times but I obliged. I was just bent on taking revenge for all he did to me.

One day after school, he told me about his plans of skipping school to go visit his friend in another province. I immediately told our class teacher and when he was back, he was duly punished. I felt happy but was also feeling bad. I began to feel a thing for my long time bully. He knew I was the one and so he stopped talking to me. I tried all I could to get his attention back. He was proving to difficult to please but I wasn't ready to let go.I told Annabel about my sudden feelings for Thomas and she laughed at me.

Twenty four years later, am stuck with my high school bully. We are married with kids. He is a changed man and I love him so much.

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