JSM - Edition Four

R epercussions

Oof! I feel a hard shove into my chest. I fall back onto my back hitting my head on the concrete below. I look up at Axel. He still has that menacing look in his eyes. And he’s always wearing the same stained blue shirt. I can’t believe at 15, he’s picking on me! He picks me up from the collar choking me by the back of my neck. “Have I got something on my face?” Axel says in a grim British voice. “Put me down! I’m already 20 minutes late because of you!” I say. He throws me against the fence. What he doesn’t have in brains he makes up for in strength. He is probably on steroids! Cesar and Jordan, Axel’s other friends approach Toothless my only other friend. I don’t know what Jordan and Cesar see in Axel, I think they probably just want to look cool. Cesar bounces behind Toothless cutting him off from all exits. I see Mrs Fanning talking to two girls but her backs facing us so she can’t see us. Axel sees her too. “If you shout out to her, you’re dead meat.” Axel says in a way like he’s going to kill me for it. I say right back to his face “I don’t think I have to.” I smile at him. Axel looks behind him and sees that Mrs Fanning saw what he was doing. Axel says to Jordan and Cesar “Cut it! She sees us”. Mrs Fanning booms “Axel get over here! And bring Jordan and Cesar too!” I smile and axel just pushes me over I hit the ground hard toothless rushes to my aid. He drags me to the nurse’s office. I look up at Toothless, his orange hair and blue eyes, pale skin and dusty skin, his white shirt is now covered in dust and rubble. They threw us all over the place. What am I going to tell mum? The nurse says “Oh my god, what happened here?” She tells Toothless to get the bandages and she starts wrapping them around my head. The nurse cuts out a hole in the bandages where it was bleeding and sees that some hair was pulled out there and causing it to bleed a bit. Nothing serious. “Oh good, good”. Toothless says “I got my new got my new computer and I thought we could have some fun with it, you now” “sounds great” I say. 4 hours later I arrive at tooths house. “I’m feeling nervous. I can tell because my muscles are tensed and I’m gritting my teeth. I’ve never been to anyone’s house before. Toothless did say it would be fun, so I should just try and relax. His door is huge! He even has one of those old fashioned door knockers. I wrap my hand around the knocker. It’s cold and rough to touch. KNOCK KNOCK! I hear footsteps on the other side of the door, rushing from what I think is a massive hallway. There is a loud THUMP on the other side of the door and the door shook for a moment. Toothless opens the door with a massive grin, and with that grin still no teeth. “Johnathon, you’re here!” said Toothless excitedly. He pulled me inside and took me to his new computer in his room. He sat me down on an office chair at his desk and Toothless sits next to me. Toothless looked at me with a serious face and said, “You have a problem. A BIG problem! You are being bullied!” I look at Toothless with a confused look on my face. “What’s bullied?” I replied. Toothless opens his computer and says “I’ve been doing some research…” “Oh I wonder why” I said. Toothless always stays back after school to research. Toothless glares at me. “Let me just tell you what it is” replied Toothless. “I was reading online that bullying is defined as hurting someone repeatedly. So not just once, it has to continually happen. These acts of bullying can happen face to face, you can just be saying mean things to them every day. However your case is a lot worse, lucky you”. I glare at Toothless. Toothless continues his spiel about bullying. “Axel is a physical bully.” He continues “axel is someone hurting you repeatedly through physical and social behaviour and this forever unless you do something’’. ‘’Well that was scary’’ I say. ‘’Well it’s the true facts, you know you could get like a bodyguard or something’’ says toothless. I say with a grin, ‘’Okay let’s put you on steroids and see how you do’’.

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