When we got off the bus we started walking home, I then stopped turned around and told them the story of Jacob.
“You remember I had been bullied by two built boys and a blond girl back in seventh grade, but never knew their names, just their faces?” “Yes”, they replied.
Well one of the boys who bullied me in seventh grade was at the badminton class today, the last student I played whom I beat two sets to one.” “When I entered the gym was looking around when I saw a boy whose face and body physique instantly popped in my head, then a flashback of what had happened came back to my mind.
When he finally turned his face, we both came face to face staring at each other, but to make sure it was him, I had to walk past him, see his face and eyes clearly and it was then I confirmed it was him.” “Even though I glared at him with a smile, he didn’t recognize me at all.” “OMG!!” said Chris and Jaime.
“That explains why you gave him a funny glare and a smirk while playing him,” said Chris.
Jaime said “So you were expecting him to remember you before, during and after the game but he didn’t.” “Exactly” I replied, but he didn’t.
This is going to be very interesting…..I wonder what they will do and what will happen when they find out that it is you and remember what they did.” Immediately I said aggressively “Which is why no one must know of this conversation and what happened until I find the other two students.” “Of course, I would like to see how all this is going to end,” replied Jaime.
We are and will always be here for you Diana, just let us know what you need, alright?” said Jaime.
I looked at them and said “there is one thing I need from you guys, I know this is not the first time they have bullied a student, I want to find more evidence of other things they have done to other students.
I had once thought of reporting them but without any evidence I would have gotten myself into serious trouble but I think I am ready and have the courage to stand up and settle this matter once and for all.” If you are able to find any other evidence on Jacob, collect and save it, and in the meantime I am going to find the other two students’.
We struck our deal and departed waving goodbyes to each other and went home.
When I arrived home it was almost 7 PM, both mum and dad were home, they were very eager to hear how my second week of school was progressing and with a great smile said “All is going great, had my tryouts today for badminton, tomorrow will be archery.” I went upstairs as I was exhausted, took a bath, changed, and started working on my homework, then had dinner, talked a bit with mum and dad and then returned upstairs to finish my homework.
At around 9:30 PM had some hot cocoa, brushed my teeth, and hugged my parents’ goodnight.
They could see I was very tired; they both said “goodnight, sleep well sweetie” and went back upstairs to bed.
I must have been so exhausted because the last thing I remembered was getting into bed, turning off the bedside lamp, rolling over and sleeping till the next morning.
The next day at 6 AM was awake, all dressed, hair done and books packed; went downstairs ready to have breakfast that was already prepared by my mum, “Good morning” I said to my parents, “good morning,” they replied.
“You looked quite exhausted last night,” said dad. New chapters come out on g.com first.
It was a full day with tryouts and lots of homework, and today I have archery tryouts so will also be coming home at around seven in the evening,” I replied.
The bus arrived at 7:15 AM to pick up Jaime, Chris, and I, there were already other students on the bus from the other neighborhoods not far from where we lived.
We got to school at about 7:45 AM, went to our lockers, got our books and headed off to our classes.
I told Jaime and Chris that I was having my archery tryouts today at 3:30PM, they couldn’t make it as they were having chess club today, but they would come at around 4:30 PM as their club was only for one hour.
My ninth grade classes were going even better than I had expected, not just because Jaime, Chris and I were in the same classes, but the teachers were so awesome, friendly, funny, and they made learning so much simpler to comprehend.
Of course a lot of formulas, content information, and special terminologies had to be remembered in math, chemistry, biology and world history which weren’t a problem at all.
However, what I truly liked about all my teachers was the same attitude they had as Mr.
Sims; everyone was the same regardless of race, gender, skin color, even if you were smart, intelligent, and stupid or a slow learner they were always patient and ready to explain to make sure that everyone understood and was on the same page.
If extra help was needed they were available after class or after school to give extra tutoring.
I told myself “If my entire four years of high school can be like this, having such lovely teachers, I would be the happiest high school student in Chicago High.” Even though they gave lots of homework, it was worth the learning.
After school at 3:30 PM, went to the track and field area for the archery tryouts, I was not the first to arrive, there were quite a lot of people on the field with their bows and arrows.
I looked around and out of nowhere my head started aching, my heart started beating really fast which brought a fear on my face and something strange was also happening with my eyes; I was taken back, a flash back of what happened to me when I was in seventh grade.
It was at that moment I turned and recognized the other two students who also bullied me with Jacob back in seventh grade.
I gave them a long stare as the flash back of what happened kept on repeating over and over again in my head, it caused a dreadful pain in my head and eyes.
It was the pain of anger and revenge that had been in my head for the longest I could remember which I had vowed to avenge!!
It was funny because when I glared and smirked at them, they had no idea not even the slightest memory of who I was, or did they?
I started exercising my neck watching them as they were chatting with their friends.
My hand reached out for my arrows and was already placing them on the bow to shoot, when we were interrupted by the coaches Mrs.
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Williamson.
Looking at both of them I thought “interesting having a female coach, this should be fun.”
We were told to gather around the center of the field, introductions were given, lesson introductory, rules and expectations were given similar to the badminton club.
Of course the only difference was that with archery we were going to be divided into groups based on our levels which were to be tested out today.
We wrote our names and grades on the attendance sheet.
There were quite a lot of tenth and eleventh grade students but fewer twelfth grade students.
As for the ninth grade students, there were a total of eight students including the two bullies.
Mrs.
Steward called out our names and it was then I finally got to know the names of the two bullies, the built guy was Philip and the blond girl was Ashley, both Caucasians.
Nancy from eleventh grade and I were the only mixed colored race students but I was the one trying out for the archery school team.
First up, had to do a few warm up exercises, next the practice of how to use the bow and arrows, then practice the standing position when getting ready to aim and shoot and finally the target practice.
Each student was to shoot three times and would then be placed in their perspective levels; beginner, intermediate and advanced levels.
We were a total of twenty five students.
Everyone seemed to be doing well at shooting their arrows; all were aiming either at the red circle target and the blue circle target until it came to Ashley and Philips’ turn.
I was blown away when they shot very close towards the yellow circle target and the red circle target.
Their last shot went straight in the middle of the yellow circle target.
When they shot their arrows, they looked at Nancy and I, it almost felt like a déjà-vu of the <<The Hunger Games>> movie, the part where Jennifer Lawrence uses her bow and arrows shooting flawlessly and also <<The Avengers>> movie where Jeremy Renner makes his perfect shots with his bows and arrows.
I was not sure who was who but after watching their performance and the way they looked at us I knew it was ‘game on.’