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You walk down the hallway of faces you have seen for six months, and some you recognize from 3rd grade on, but you're not looking at their faces. You're staring at the tile floor, and partially the shoes on your feet. You finally make it to your 2nt hour class, Facs. You're one of the first ones there sense there's no one you can talk to in the hallway like all the other students at the school. You take your seat at the end of the 6 person table; you can see 4 people other than yourself in the room at different tables.

About 20 minutes later and the room is full. Chris, a tall guy that sits 2 seats away from you at your table, is jokingly giving everyone in the room nicknames. You silently smile and laugh at a few of the names he's giving people. "Marshmallow" "Sherbert" "Toaster" "Artichoke" and other names that mostly relate to food or inanimate objects. After naming a girl "Peaches" he looks at you, he rubs his chin like his pondering something. "Now what should I name you…" I smile waiting what I could be named, something random of course.

He didn’t get to say something until someone yelled. "You should name her Ugly!" The room was filled with laughter's of the students; your smile instantly fades away, even some of your friends were laughing along. Even Chris was laughing, and he was a nice guy that you wouldn’t think would hurt anyone's feelings. He was still smiling but said, "Hey now, that wasn’t nice." He gave you a name but you couldn’t hear, you didn’t want to hear anyone anymore.

It took a minute until someone realized you were crying. Your eyes were red, your face was wet with salty tears, and your throat hurt. You did nothing to deserve that, you knew the person who said it too. You had to share a folder with him about 3 weeks ago, because of your last names. He was popular, and didn’t talk to you, but you shared your supplies with him and were nice to him. So, why would he say something like that? What did I do? Was it something I said?

No victim will ever know why they are the ones being bullied. And they will never bully anyone. Ever.