Revolution

*NOTE* This is the true account of a girl who was bullied . All names have been changed . *NOTE*


Blaire was like any typical girl you meet at your average high school with interest and friends and a usually happy life . She loved her younger sisters , cheering for her junior varsity cheer team , and of course , the many friends she spent her time with . Blaire had the perfect life in some's opinions , the sort of life anyone would envy .

Around September of Blaire's very own freshman year , Blaire and her evergrowing flame , MArk , became a couple , with an on again off again roller coaster of a relationship . They were constantly ob the brink of disaster , but Blaire kept her head up and always managed to pick up the pieces and put them back together again .

Soon after Blaire's relationship with Mark bean , a fight ensued between Blaire and a close friend , Paula . Paula had been getting drunk often , at parties , after school , sometimes during school , often showing up on many occasions with a nagover . She was steadily turning into an influence that Blaire did not want or need in her life , and the frindship between them died .

Unfortunately , that was not the cap on endings for Blaire . A few weeks after the end of friendship for Paula and Blaire , the steady flame that Blaire and Mark nursed became a wildfire that engulfed everything and burned them to a crisp . Blaire could not handle the pressure to have sex that Mark was puting on her and thus the realtionship ended with a bitter breakup .

Feeling spurned by the breakup , Mark and Paula developed a dangerous friendship that created a rumor of Blaire having sexual relations with Mark . The rumor spread quickly during Christmas break while Blaire was out of the country on vacation . She recieved text messages from strange numbers asking if she wanted to "hook up" , but Blaire simply pushed them away to enjoy Christmas with her family . But things took the worst turn possible wen Blaire returned to school , only to hear vicious rumors about herself .

Blaire denied all the rumors but was accused of lying and began to be called derogatory slurs like "bitch" and "slut" and "whore" simply by just walking down the hallways .

Blaire continued to brush off the remarks and rumors until another close friend , Jamies , believed it to be true , and the strong facade began to crack . Her situation was beginning to look hopeless in her eyes and fear engulfed Blaire at every turn , yet she held strong to one hope : that she would make the varsity cheer squad and gain respect back once again .

By February , Blaire was being completely ignored and rejected and the word "slut" often followed her . The varsity cheer squad tryouts came and went , leaving Blaire in the dust with her failure , and abandoning all hope of normalcy and friends . Blaire felt humiliated and the varsity chherleaders saw that as an opportunity to kick her while she was down .

After the tryouts , Blaire discovered another close friend had been adding to the rumors , turning them into complicated and detailed stories with elaborate and binding words to make them more real to the general public . When Blaire found that out , it became the straw that broke the camel's back , and suicide became an option .

Later that week Blaire recieved a prank call from three old friends she hadn't talked to in over a year .

Through the reciever she could here one say ,"You're such a f*cking bitch with no friends ." The others laughed in the background as if it were all a joke that would be forgotten in the morning .

Blaire hung up the phone and raced to the bahroom , sobbing . Her little sister , Lizzie , heard her crying and knocked on the door to see what was wrong . All Blaire could say was ," You don't understand what I've been through this year . I'm ready to kill myself . I don't even care anymore , I have no friends and everyone hates me and calls me a whore ."

Lizzie got their mom to talk to Blaire , hoping to end the situation . In the end , the decision was made not to attend the same high school the following year .

Finally Blaire started hanging out with Michelle and Marily , reliable friens that support and care about her , and since then , things have gotten better . But the scars of hurtful words still cut deep into her mind where she will never forget these ghosts . Unfortunately , these things happen to boys and girls just like us , every day . All becase we never learn to watch our words . How many innocent and hurting people must we kill before we learn the pont where our words become the fist that knocks them over the edge ?

You may stand in the hallways at school , gossiping behind someone's back with your cutting remarks , but before you open your mouth , consider that theymay go home every night , wondering if it would be better to face eath's ultimatum than to a world of faces and knives in their back . Start he revolution on bullying . Fight back . Pass The Help .