When I got back to school the next morning, my desk was vandalized with permanent markers with the words "Whore, Boyfriend Thief, Loser, People pleaser" and many other hateful words over, and over my desk. I looked around me and saw that all my classmates including Hana's group were staring at me, gossiping with one another. I was embarrassed and bolted out of the classroom. I went to the girls' bathroom, got inside one of the stalls, and started crying.
No, they are not stopping. They want to make my life miserable. Why do they hate me so much? Why do they go so far as to humiliate me in front of everybody? Oh no, what else are they going to do to me? I'm scared. As I sink deeper into my swirling negativity I heard the bathroom door open followed by people's footsteps.
"Shhh~ I think she's in this one" A faint voice of a girl outside my stall.
A few seconds later I heard someone enter the stall to my right. It sounded like they were carrying something.
SPLASHH!
Before I knew it, I was splashed with water above my head. My whole body was soaking wet including my bag lying on the floor. I heard the people outside my stall start to laugh with each other.
"That's what you get you BITCH!" Said one of the girls.
"Come on girls let's get out of here," Said what I think was Hana.
"Ahahahaha! See yah loser!"
They all walked out of the bathroom leaving me. So it's them again, I thought to myself opening the stall, bag in hand. After what had just happened I decided to return home for the day, I can't deal with something like this. I walked past the halls with my clothes still dripping. I hear people whispering around me, snickering, some are laughing bluntly at me as I pass by them. But I just ignored them all, I don't care.
I just want to get out of here and don't get even more humiliated. As I was about to leave to the front door someone called out to me.
"Megan! Wait a minute!" Said a boy.
I turned around to see who it was. To my surprise, it was Eric, Hana's boyfriend. He was waving his right arm and running towards me. I smiled upon seeing him calling out to me.
"Eric-" I stopped myself when I was about to call out to him. I was reminded of what Hana said, "Stay away" So I shook my head and turned to leave. But Eric caught up to me and grabbed my wrist.
"Megan please wait a moment," He said, worried about me.
"Eric, please let go of my wrist," I said, trying to avoid eye contact.
"No! I'm not letting go. Not until you hear what I have to say"
"ERIC, LET GO OF ME!!" I shouted
Oh no, I unconsciously shouted at Eric. I turned around to see him shocked by what I had done.
He let go of my hand and said "I-I… I'm sorry" and looked away from me.
I tried to say sorry to him, but I stopped myself. Perhaps this is good, forcing Eric to hate me would make him stay away from me. And that'll make things easier for me to avoid the others. This should get me out of Hana's group's bad side. I hope this is enough.
I left Eric and walked out of the school. I feel sorry for leaving him. But I must keep my distance from him and the others. I do not want any more trouble.
But even after keeping my distance, Hana's group still bothers me. I think at this point they more than hate me. They just want to make fun of me now. And their bullying continued, And it got worse by the day. The worst part was several of my other classmates who had nothing to do with Hana's group, also started picking on me. They did so many ungrateful things to me. At one point, they even threw my bag into a dumpster.
I couldn't find it anymore and was forced to replace everything I had. They kept tormenting me nonstop. I was slowly losing hope of getting my life back to normal. And today after the swimming class. The clothes I had placed inside my locker were gone. Most likely done by one of the girls in Hana's group.
At this point, my eyes ran dry of tears. There's no point in crying because crying won't make Hana and the others disappear. I stared longer at my empty locker, my mind going blank. When my thoughts came back to me I was already sitting on the floor leaning back to my locker.
I asked myself why I still go to school after all of this. I know that Hana's group won't stop even after I do what they have asked me to do, so why keep going to school? How did things end up like this? I don't know anymore.
One thing is for sure though, I no longer feel despair, but anger. I hate myself for being too friendly! Because of that, my life became like this! I hate Hana, I hate everyone even …Eric. I could no longer endure everything they had done to me… I want everything to stop. I just want to live a peaceful life in High School. I want to do something, but don't know how to.
I stayed inside the girls' locker room for, I don't know how long. My phone had "disappeared" in my bag, and I couldn't go out wearing my school swimsuit. So I just sat on the floor, not knowing what to do. I sat there for hours, just waiting for something to happen. And something did happen.
"Megan! Are you there!? Open the door!"
It was Eric banging the girls' locker room door.