 Have you ever been bullied? Not just physically or mentally but through the internet? Has anyone ever had the courage to tell you all these nasty things through the internet and never fact to face? I have. I have been bullied and cyberbullied when I was in elemantary school, and that to by my best friend.
Did you know that almost all those famous people you see in television or thorugh the internet have been cyberbullied? I mean dont you just hate it how people do and say all these nasty and unnecessary things through internet just to hurt your feelings or just want to see you hurt yourself? Dont these people have any common sense. I think cyberbullies just think that making fun of someone, putting unnappropraite pictures, commments, texts, anything to make you feel bad. Its like their watching a comedy show or something. But in reality, its not. They dont know what the person is going through. That person might end up killing themself.
Did you hear about that little 5th grader that killed himself in DeKalb County like 5 years ago? That little kid was bullied in school and through internet, and he never told any of his family members about what was happening to him. You know what people were saying about him? That he was gay. Why would people want to be up in all his business? All cause of that torment he went to his room, got a rope, a chair, and inside the closet, he hung himself. He lost his life because of all that torture and pain that people his age were givign to him. Do you think that it was necessary for all those kids to get into his personal business?
A girl who lived in Arkansas , was being bullied through MySpace. It turns out that the bully was her next door neighbor to get revenge on what the girls parents did. The neighbor made a fake MySpace page, by acting like the guys he liked in school. The neighbor started flirting and telling her all these sweet and kind things, when one day all that changed. All because of that neighbor saying crucial things to her through MySpace and all these images of her, she killed herself. Was that right for the neighbor to do that, just so she can get revnege for what the girls parents did? What was the girls fault? What did she do?
After reading these 2 cyberbullying stories, dont you think that we should help people who are going through this situation? If you are being cyberbullied or bullied, GO AND TELL AN ADULT!!!! Dont just sit there and read the messages and tolerate it go and tell someone. Do you really want to end up like them?
There I was just sitting there, sad, emotional, bored, and pissed. I just wanted to go up to them and just slap the "genes" out of them. I mean look at them, acting as though I didn't even exist. They should atleast have some shame, but noooo. I bet their talking about me and saying malevolent things like they did 6 years ago. Oh gosh 6 years....can’t believe it has been 6 years since this has started.
The whispering breeze scattered dust across the yard as my brother, Alaki, and I were playing outside, not worrying about anything that was going around us or the world. When suddenly, I hear my mother’s voice bellowing my name.
"AVA!!! AVAA!!!" I grab my brother’s hand and started running. While running I was screaming,
"Ma…Ma…Ma, what’s wrong? Are you okay? What happened? Why are you shouting my name? What happened? SAY SOMETHINGGGG!!!!" I stop right in front of her, face to face, gasping for air. Her tender hands brushed away the sweat, as she touched my face.
"Oh honey," she giggled, "nothing’s wrong with me, I am perfectly fine. Now you two come inside and freshen up. I have some good news for you." I look at her astonished. I was confused when she said she had some good news. Good news? I had heard that somewhere before. Where did I hear it though? Where....then it suddenly hit me.
"MAAAAAA!" I screamed.
"I already know what the good news is."
"You do? Well...tell me what it is then?"
"Ma, I’m having. Well you’re having...well I am having...well...whatever...I’m going to have a NEW BABY SISTER!!!" She looked at me surprised.
"WHAT?! Honey no, what made you think that."
"Well, I was watching a show and I saw the mommy tell her daughter that, "I have some good news," and it turns out they were going to have a baby."
She started smirking, “Oh no sweetie, you are not going to have any other sibling and nor am I going to have any more children. Your good news is different." She took me to my room and sat me down on the bed.
"Sweetie, your cousin called, and wanted me to ask you if you would like to become a dancer and be in a dance group?" Dance? Hmmm…I LOVE dancing, it was like another part of me.
"Ma," I said,” I would love to." She was so convivial that she immediately went to the living room, dialed his number and told him that I had accepted the offer.
It was, December 15, 2006. The sky was sunless and grey, there was snow in the air, which seemed like play things that seethed and floated, like the toy flakes inside a crystal ball. We were on our way to my cousin's house. My parents and I were so excited on what I was going to learn, and who was going to be there. We knock on the door.
"AVA!" screamed my aunt right when she opened the door, "you're here, they have been waiting for you for the past 30 minutes. Come I'll escort you to the basement, where you all will be learning how to dance." When we had reached our destination, she grabbed me by the shoulder, and from nowhere my heart starts beating very fast. I was nervous, scared, wondering who was going to be there, worried if they'd like me or not. I felt like running to my parents and telling them that I don’t want to do it anymore and that I was scared. But I didn’t. I had a chance to do something great, something that I always wanted to do in life, and now that I that I got the chance, I don't want it slip out of my hands. She opens the door, and I close my eyes.
"Here we are," she looks at my face, "Now now open your eyes Ava and see who's here." I slowly open my eyes and when I do, I see two girls dressed in a turquoise call gown, they were the bell of the ball, Karol and Sheila. I run towards them and give them a big hug.
"OMG guys I didn’t know that you guys were going to be here," I said.
"Well now you know," said Karol, "and we didn’t know that you were going to be here."
"Well now you know," I giggled. I turn around and notice a girl who was fat, with beautiful eyes and dark skinned. She seemed to be really shy.
"Hi," I said. She looked at me, and smiled.
"Hi."
"What’s your name?"
"Betty, yours?"
"Ava." We both smiled at each other.
"Wanna be my friend?" I asked. She looked and, I guess, observed me as well.
"Ummmm…uhhhhhh…I guess."
"YAYY!"
"Karol, Sheila, Ava, and Betty, come here this instant. We need to start or else you'll be busted," said our cousin. We all quietly went to where he was telling us to go, and stood there like innocent children. He gave us assigned areas to stand, a longggg lecture, and so much more. Then from no where, we all look back. We heard some noise. "Don't look back," he said, "something might be gaining on you, so focus on me and not that."
It had been 2 years since Betty and I have been dancing together ever since we started. Sheila and Karol went their own ways and started dancing by themselves. After they got out, our cousin decided that Betty and I should unite and perform together. We became best friends, dancing divas, even though I was told that I was a terrible dancer and she was a really good dancer. But all that changed on August 5, 2007.
"AVA!" Ma shouted, “Betty’s on the phone, she wants to talk to you." I run out of my room and snatch the phone from my mom.
"Hello Betty. Is that you?"
"It sure is. Hey I have a request, and since you’re my best friend, can I ask?"
"Sure go ahead, that’s what best friends are for right?"
"Thanks, I love you. Ok, so since you have 3-way, can you call someone for me? I need to talk to him." Him? I said to myself. It’s a him? If my mother ever found out that I had called a guy, she would KILL me.
"Umm do I have to. I mean can’t you?" I said.
"No I can’t, my mom would kill me if I did."
"So would mine." "Come on Ava, please for me pleasseeeeeeee!" I thought about it for a minute. Took the phone outside and sat on the swing with a piece of paper on my hand.
"Ummmmm......alright, but you can’t tell anyone okay?"
"PROMISE!" she says. I quickly jot down the number and call him.
"Hello," the guy says.
"HEYYY Bryan! It’s me Betty."
"Betty? Oh hey how are you?"
"I'm good, how are you……," and there I was just sitting on the swing, being all retarded and feeling left out. After hearing their boring 15 minute conversation, she finally hung up.
"Ava? You there?"
"Yeah."
"OMG girl I love you for this. I really do."
"Yeah yeah whatever." Shortly after, I recalled that we had homework but I wasn’t sure what it was. Then I remembered one of my friends gave me his number.
"Betty, can you do something for me?"
"Umm yea sure, depends."
"Okay so you know how I called your guy friend, well can you call my guy friend? Please!!"
"Ava, I wish I could, but I can’t because my parents blocked 3-way." No they didn’t you liar, your just saying that so I can get busted. LIAR! Unfortunately, my dumb self and I accepted on what she said.
"Oh yea I forgot. Well I guess I'll call from mine." I called and asked him about what we had for homework. A few minutes later I notice that she started flirting with him. I heard someone answer the phone from another receiver in the background.
"Umm Ava," Betty said, "I have to go." I got scared. My heart was beating so fast, that I thought I was going to die.
"Oh alright well, bye." We hang up. I go inside. Go to my parent’s room, and watch TV. 10 minutes later, the phone rings. It was Betty's mom. I give the phone to my mom and they talk, while I go back to watch TV.
"AVA!!!!" Ma screamed.
"Yeeaa-esss," I answer. I hear her stomping towards the room.
"Did you call a guy?" I stared at her, my eyes filling up with water.
"Uhhhh.....Ummmmm...."
"DID YOU OR DID YOU NOT!"
"Yes, yes I did, but..."
"I'll call you back Sally," she hung up the phone. She grabs the remote, and starts coming towards me. I start crying.
"Ma...Ma it wasn’t my fault, she also called a guy. I called for a good reason and she was just flirting with the guy....MAAA!" She hits me with the remote so hard that I start bleeding. She grabbed a hanger from the closet and starts beating me up.
"MAAAAAAA!" I scream, "MAAA!" She stops. I could see tears in her eyes.
"Don’t you ever, I mean EVER call a guy in my household. UNDERSTOOD!"
"Ye-ye-ye-a-a-sss!" I whimper. She walks away. I couldn’t believe it, Betty told her mom that it was all MY fault, and not hers. How could she? I thought she was my best friend. Her mother calls again after a minute or two and asks my mom what she did to me. I was mad as hell. The next day I called Betty and asked her if her mother had hit her, and she said no. Her mom just said not to hang out with me and not to call me for a while. She hung up on me, and after that I never heard of her.
It was October 18, 2008. I had failed a grade, and everyone in the community found out, thanks to Fifi, the meanest chick in the world. Everyone thought I was stupid. One day at a party, I notice Betty. I went near her and said "Hi". She looked at me, gave me a nasty look and walked away. Did she just really do that? I say to myself. I thought we were BFFL's, and it turns out we aren't. I see her heading towards Karol and Sheila. I was so shocked. Karol and Sheila? The ones who she had just met? Really? Are they seriously her new BFFL's? WOW! Just WOW! That got me furious. I go inside and sit next to Courtney, my friend.
"Did you see that?" I say.
"See what," she said, "that she gave you a nasty look and walked away?"
"Uhhhh yea!" We both looked at Betty, Sheila and Karol. We were amazed how she just walked away from me and made new best friends while I was just making friends.
"It hurts doesn’t it?" Courtney says. I nod. "How about you write a letter to her and I'll give it to her."
"Nahh, I am too lazy." But then, I thought that was actually a pretty good idea. Maybe she doesn’t want to "talk" me and would prefer writing to me. I grab a sheet of paper, write something and give it to Courtney. She goes up the escalator, and gives it to Betty. I see Betty opening it from the 1st floor. I was so happy, but soon that excitement faded away. She tore the paper into gazillions of pieces, threw it and the pieces landed on my face. Courtney comes running down the escalator.
"Are you okay?" she says.
"No." I start crying. She helps me pick up all the pieces and put them in the trashcan.
"It’s over," I say, "our friendship is officially over! I didn't know that she has a heart of a stone.
On January 1, 2009 Courtney and I made a MySpace and yahoo messenger. We added everyone we knew. One day I check my friend request and I see Marc, the guy who I have loved for the past 5 years. He added me? I was so happy. He had sent me a message.
"Hey I heard you like me, and to be honest I like you to. So accept my request so we can become friends."
I was soo happy, I felt like I was on cloud nine. Ever since that day, we started talking 24/7. I started telling him everything. How school was? What I did over the weekend? Where I went? Everything! When one day, something terrible happens. I get a message from him saying that I am the ugliest girl he's ever seen and how everyone hated me and all these terrible things. That tore my heart into billions of trillions of pieces. The one I loved, the one I admired the most in the world had said these horrific things to me. No this can’t be true, and it wasn’t. It wasn’t him who was saying such terrible things, it was my ex-best friend, Betty. How do I know? She said so herself. The last words she had told me will never be forgotten, it has permanently been marked on my heart.
"FYI bi*** this is Betty. Just so you know Marc never liked you nor will he, because he loves me to death. You are ugly, you can’t dance and everyone hates you."
I couldn’t believe my eyes. At first, I thought that my computer threw a fit or something. The one who I thought was my best friend, turned out to be mean as Hitler. I broke down. I was being bullied, I was being cyber bullied and that to by my ex-BFF.
"That’s it," I said to myself, "I hate her and her crew with all my heart. I hate and will continue on hating her and her crew till I die."
It’s been 6 years till the tragedy. I have lost all my good old friends, including Courtney. Made new friends, and got back with the old ones. Have no best friends. Don’t expect any because I don't trust anyone anymore. There I was just sitting there, sad, emotional, bored, and pissed at the festival. I just wanted to go up to them and just slap the genes off of them, and tell them how much pain they have given me. This, unfortunately, hasn’t been healed. The funny thing is, Betty came back to me. I guess she just had to capitulate. I haven’t still forgiven her nor will I ever. She still considers me her friend, and not just friend, Best Friend. But the truth is, I am not nor do I consider her a best friend. The 10 guys I liked, ended up liking Betty, because of her fashionable and lanky self, which seems to attract plethora of guys. I don't understand how they can tolerate her that reeks of cheating. I am ebullient without her. You know what, it's not what you look at what matters, it’s what you see and observe and because of that I once was in the darkness and now I see light.
Imagine riding on a air balloon with the ones you love, when suddenly BAM! Your ballon looses control because of the weather you and your friends end up wither dead or injured. Doesn't that sound fun? NO! Guess what, it turns out that in the middle of your journey, there's a terrible storm. You and your loved ones are busted. You guys have no idea what to do, and are just plain old busted. Well guess what, a story like this happened in a country called Slovenia, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-19354150.
There were about 32 people on board along with a pilot and a co-pilot. The crash happened near the capital of Ljubljana, Slovenia. There were about 21 people who were injured and 4 that had passed away. The crash had caused a major situation to the country, because it would've caused a wildfire or any such thing where the ballon had landed. Also, it wouldve caused many firefighters to get water, which would've caused more trouble for the residents, because they wouldve had a low water supply. "We were landing, but I think the speed was too high for landing so we hit the ground, bounced off once and hit it again. We held on, but five of us fell out". This quote right here that was said from a survivor from the incident, makes it seem as though nothing is safe in the world anymore.
After reading this news article, it feels as though we should watch the news before doing anything like this. We need to be more careful on what we are doing and have the necessary supplies we need to be safe and not be harmed. There has to be a way that people can enjoy their life, without being injured or be worried to death. Don't you think so? Don't you think that there should always be a way we can save our lives along with others, without being worried to death when you are in a situation like this?
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