I changed schools when I was 13. It was horrible being the new girl at school! Everyone talking about you, asking why you left your old school. Were you in trouble and had to leave, were you expelled all sorts of questions. I simply moved school because we moved house!
The bullying started all because Carry’s brother said that he’d like to go out with me, he was already going out with someone so I wasn’t interested, but Carry didn’t believe me and told all her fiends that I was chasing her brother.
Carry was the leader of a group known as the "townies", this was because they hung round town getting drunk and causing fights every weekend and shop lifting. All the girls that I got to know didn’t like the "townies" because they thought that they were the best and that all the lads in the school fancied them.
The bullying started with simple name-calling but when the PE lessons changed to basketball my class was mixed with their class. It got quite rough. Whenever we played in teams they were always together and constantly shouting, "mark her!" and pointing at me. They would all then come and mark me, I would be pushed around between them and they even started scratching my face and arms.
I put up with it because I was the new girl and didn’t want to "dob" any of them into a teacher, I thought that they would get worse.
My new friend Sam was also being bullied by the same group and it didn’t stop until her older sister went to a teacher and told them that we were both being bullied by these girls.
Surprisingly once the teacher had said something to the bullies the bullying stopped!
By the time we finished our exams at the end of year 11 we were all friends and got on really well.
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