I was 14 years old and I was being constantly bullied at my high school. On top of that, I’d come home to an abusive bully of a mother whom I couldn’t stand up to. One of my bullies lived right across from me. She was one or two grades above me. She was constantly teasing, shoving, snickering, etc, at me everyday; especially on the bus. It became worse, and the school wasn’t doing anything, so my mom even had a conversation with her parents. The bullying only got worse after that. I’m not a physically aggressive person so I started to plan other ways to ‘get back at her’ and ‘make her stop’. Those were my thoughts at the time.
It started with getting permission from a friend (a previous school) to use his pictures. I created an online profile with the photos. I added myself and started to add a few other students to create a disguise. Then I added her. She surprisingly messaged the profile first. The entire thing was probably a month, and all over text. However, she ended up falling in love with ‘me’, would text me all day, told me her deepest fears/desires, etc. We never talked dirty and she never sent nudes. However, she did send very sexually suggestive photos that I never asked for. At the time, I was thinking she was making my job easier. She even asked to meet up a couple times. I would tell her I was on the way every time, make her wait at the park down the street (for about an hour), and then come up with an excuse of why I couldn’t show up. Meanwhile this was dead of night in winter so probably 10-20 degrees. Then the day after she told ‘me’ that she loved me I went and told the other neighborhood kid, that gossiped a lot, about the situation. I knew he would tell this person ASAP. The next day I was in my front yard with the kid that gossiped. As she was unlocking her front door she yelled at me “I hope you get AIDS!!!!”, and slammed the door.
I never showed anyone the texts or photos; I actually deleted the pics as soon as they came in, and the texts as soon as she yelled from her porch. Honestly, at the time, I just wanted her to be embarrassed and believe I had blackmail. However, she NEVER bullied me again after that. I am almost 30 now, have matured A LOT, gone to therapy, etc. However, this is one of the memories I can’t forget. WIBTA?
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I was 14 years old and I was being constantly bullied at my high school. On top of that, I’d come home to an abusive bully of a mother whom I couldn’t stand up to. One of my bullies lived right across from me. She was one or two grades above me. She was constantly teasing, shoving, snickering, etc, at me everyday; especially on the bus. It became worse, and the school wasn’t doing anything, so my mom even had a conversation with her parents. The bullying only got worse after that. I’m not a physically aggressive person so I started to plan other ways to ‘get back at her’ and ‘make her stop’. Those were my thoughts at the time.
It started with getting permission from a friend (a previous school) to use his pictures. I created an online profile with the photos. I added myself and started to add a few other students to create a disguise. Then I added her. She surprisingly messaged the profile first. The entire thing was probably a month, and all over text. However, she ended up falling in love with ‘me’, would text me all day, told me her deepest fears/desires, etc. We never talked dirty and she never sent nudes. However, she did send very sexually suggestive photos that I never asked for. At the time, I was thinking she was making my job easier. She even asked to meet up a couple times. I would tell her I was on the way every time, make her wait at the park down the street (for about an hour), and then come up with an excuse of why I couldn’t show up. Meanwhile this was dead of night in winter so probably 10-20 degrees. Then the day after she told ‘me’ that she loved me I went and told the other neighborhood kid, that gossiped a lot, about the situation. I knew he would tell this person ASAP. The next day I was in my front yard with the kid that gossiped. As she was unlocking her front door she yelled at me “I hope you get AIDS!!!!”, and slammed the door.
I never showed anyone the texts or photos; I actually deleted the pics as soon as they came in, and the texts as soon as she yelled from her porch. Honestly, at the time, I just wanted her to be embarrassed and believe I had blackmail. However, she NEVER bullied me again after that. I am almost 30 now, have matured A LOT, gone to therapy, etc. However, this is one of the memories I can’t forget. WIBTA?
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