" Morning," I said while jogging as I passed the newspaper boy. He nodded but I couldn't hear him as he had wrapped himself with a woolen muffler and covered his head with a monkey cap.
I took his words as morning greetings as I jogged away. After an hour and a half, I returned home and went to my room and removed extra clothes and sportswear, and went to take a bath.
After bathing and dressing up I went down to eat my breakfast as I said," good morning mother father. " and they greeted me back.
It was time for school. I went out of the house and waited for the bus to come. I was standing facing the roadside as I looked for the bus. I felt a tap on my shoulder and I turned back to see my friends as they said," Hey bro morning." " morning Alex." As I returned their wishes and said," morning harry. You too Dudley." Yes, I am now friends with both of them and many others as well.
Well if I would like to think about it. When I first saw them bully harry and some other kids I was not much moved to help them out as I minded my own business and focused on whatever work I had.
But when they saw me act like that they thought that I was easy prey they tried to pick on me but I got out of all sorts of problems and any type of conflict by reminding them of school rules and pointing toward the cameras and I sort of took advantage of them still being kids and mind-boggling them with all the rule I recited like a poem from the rule book.
But some of them were still persistent and as yours truly like the people with some drive in them to do things no matter how many hardships they face. They tried many times to prank me by spelling super glue on my chair ( I know many people use this one but it's sort of funny ) but themselves became the butt of the joke as I switched the places of the chairs by transfiguring them into mice. And the rest is history.
After that, they tried to corner me after school as they also challenged me to fight with them after school which didn't give too much a thought and just avoided them and didn't give them my attention aside from occasionally reverse ranking them which was quite moderate from my perspective at least.
And that made them quite mad as they also did not have any outlet to release their pent-up anger at least in school so they did the next best thing they pulled the weak kids to release their stress as they beat them up and then went away relaxed with their anger released.
And in all of this, harry was also always a part of the major beating as he was the only one who resisted the bullies and was always thrashed pretty badly.
It went on for months as I just avoided them but one day they made a plan to corner me and give me a beat down. And I had some free time so let them follow me. Even though they tried to be sneaky about it. I knew they were following me as who wouldn't notice the chubby boy hiding behind a dumpster? The other pedestrians and some shop workers also noticed them but left them on their own.
And after some time I turned and went into an alley and they followed me inside. It's so easy to lure kids as they are single-minded in the work they are doing. ( quite often used I know and cringe but it happens real world also not often not the exact scenario but similar to this or in another way ).
I just waited for them to come in as the scrawny boy with a face of a rat spoke," hehe Dudley we have finally got him. He is finally trapped like the cowardly rat that he is."
As I listened to this I just wanted to laugh at his words as I also jabbed at him and said," have you seen a mirror yourself piers?" As he heard me he was fuming with rage but what I did not expect was that all the others were laughing at him. Well so much for being BFF huh? Or they were just kids and had a similar belief of bullying the weak ( Chinese much hmmm...).
As he said with clear rage in his eyes," ENOUGH. Dudley boys let's give him a proper beating my hands are itching." And then they lunged at me as I waited for them but then suddenly a person stepped between us as he said," what are you doing here Dudley? Aunt Petunia is worried about you and sent me to fetch you home so let's go now okay."
As he glanced back at me as I flashed him a smile and for a second he looked bewildered. But then he focused on the people in front of him.
As Malcolm said," Dudley you can go back after we gave him a beatdown as it won't take a few minutes." " Yeah, Dudley." Pitched Dennis and Gordon as well. And Dudley said," okay but let's beat harry first as he interrupted the beatdown." But Piers said," let's give them both a beatdown as they are not worth more than a few minutes." And rest also agreed.
As with all these dialogues were happening I went ahead and stood with harry and said," well you shouldn't have come in between now you will get beaten." " what do you mean I will get beaten you will also receive a beating with me I know that you are smart but there is no way you can fight Dudley and his gang." " we will see about that in a minute. Do you know how to dodge?"
He looked at me and then said," I have some experience." " Excellent. Now when they rush towards us I want you to run straight towards them." As he said with some fear," and why would I do that I don't want a punch to the face. " " you won't be the one to get hit by anyone of them I promise you I will have your back. And as you mentioned I am smart as I have calculated how to end this quickly."
As he still looked a little worried about my suggestion I said," Trust me even if we don't know each other we are together in this situation." As he visibly relaxed after looking at my calm face and said," so be it."
As I said loudly," oi pork chop and rat let's get this over with you all are taking too much of my precious time."
This made them rage much more as they all ran toward us to beat us down. I said to harry after judging the distance between us," Now."
As he ran in front of me and I behind him. And after seeing him run towards them Dudley swung his chubby fist at harry menacingly but as the fist and harry were about to connect I sped up and partied it and planted my fist on Dudley's tummy as he went down and all the others abruptly stopped on their tracks but not me as I ran again and punched the rat in the gut as he went down as well and then elbowed Dennis and Gordon and finished with a knee in the gut and Malcolm was also down.
As Harry looked at me not knowing what to say but said," that was wicked." As I picked up my bag and went out of the alley and went toward my house.
After that encounter, Dudley and his gang kept away from me but I knew they were planning something and I kicked their butts again and again. As I picked up my bag I said looking back at the five boys," before I go a quick question why do you bully other kids as what I gathered about they never did anything, to you guys. Do you guys feel some sort of pleasure in treating others like dirt and feeling above them? Well then good luck as you have successfully wasted your time as this will not make you guys stronger you will be alienated by doing this to others and when you grow up you will resent yourself for your foolishness. Ciao."
After that day they quietened down a lot. And after mustering up some courage they came to me as I looked at them and asked," What? here for another round." As Piers said," No we.... We just... Sniff..just wanted to apologize..sniff." As I looked at them and they were genuinely apologizing for their wrongs but now there is snot running down piers face which I don't like and gave him some tissues. As he said," thank you." But now all the others looked at me and then I handed each of them tissues well there go my tissues.
And after that, I talked to them about the things they wanted t talk about. And as I thought after my preaching they tried to reach out to Mathew (one of the kids they beat up previously ) he fled from there and even left his bag. As they told me more about.
And after listening to them I said," well first of all I would have done the same if I was weaker than you. But if you want to smoothen the tension between yourselves and the ones you have bullied and beaten up till now you will have to help them and try to make friends with them humble yourself and you will get what I am saying. But I will te you what to do and how much you have to do to achieve your goals. Are you guys ready to listen to me?"
As they voiced their intention of doing it how I will tell them. Then I said," Now for your first target, you guys will have to befriend harry as you have mostly bullied and beaten him. Off you go."
As all of them after looking at each other nodded. And that's how it began the journey from being delinquents to good students.
Hearing the honking of the horn of the bus I snapped back to reality from my dive into memory lane and border the bus as I heard the rest of my friends greet me and I greeted them back.
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