I was curious and eager to find out what was the reason behind him asking me to stay. The first thing he said to me when everybody left was “Are you ok?” That question threw me into confusion first, but as I registered the question I knew what he was talking about. It was a dreaded subject for me to talk about and actually admit that I was being bullied by my own close friends. Yet I knew if I said it aloud it would crush me and I would have to accept the fact that I was in pain. A pain I refused to acknowledge, which made me ignore it more. I brushed the question off and told him I was fine and everything was ok. I knew he wasn’t satisfied with my answer, but he knew better than to push me talk about my feelings. “ Nobody will want to be your friends other than us” was a phrase they said to me once. This horrid phrase popped in my head when he asked me that question. A phrase that scared me for a long time. I believed that if I told him the truth everything would be worse than it was at the time. I was friends with them for a whole year until I had the courage to leave the horrible
I was curious and eager to find out what was the reason behind him asking me to stay. The first thing he said to me when everybody left was “Are you ok?” That question threw me into confusion first, but as I registered the question I knew what he was talking about. It was a dreaded subject for me to talk about and actually admit that I was being bullied by my own close friends. Yet I knew if I said it aloud it would crush me and I would have to accept the fact that I was in pain. A pain I refused to acknowledge, which made me ignore it more. I brushed the question off and told him I was fine and everything was ok. I knew he wasn’t satisfied with my answer, but he knew better than to push me talk about my feelings. “ Nobody will want to be your friends other than us” was a phrase they said to me once. This horrid phrase popped in my head when he asked me that question. A phrase that scared me for a long time. I believed that if I told him the truth everything would be worse than it was at the time. I was friends with them for a whole year until I had the courage to leave the horrible