Author's Note

This is Ivy

Ivy's Bullies (Teen)

You make your way towards school, head down and watching the dirt move by slowly past you. They will be there again. Just like every other morning. You sigh to yourself, remembering what your Mom and Dad told you about bullies. Dad told you to stick up for yourself. That you have no reason to be scared or afraid. But they hit so hard...

Your Mom told you to just give them what they want for now and they would go talk to their parents. A scared lip trembles as you approach the Ponyville schoolhouse.

"Where do you think YOU are going Ivy?" says a colt, cutting you off from your sanctuary.

You freeze in place and close your eyes, holding your schoolbooks tightly in your hands.

"Yeah!" says a second colt, tailing the first.

"N-Nowhere..." you choke out.

"Darn right nowhere, ya freak!" says the second colt.

They said it again. Tears begin to well in your eyes. Mommy said that you were special. That you were her miracle. Even then, it still made daggers go through your throat to hear them say it. You take your hand and reach into your books for the extra homework you filled out for them.

"H-here... I-isn't this, w-what you want?" you stutter out.

The first colt walks up to you, eying the papers.

"Hmmm."

He raises his hoof high in the air and brings it towards your face. You flinch instinctively, dropping your books and falling into the mud, ruining your favorite T-shirt. The tears break free of their home, as the two colts take their copies, as well as yours.

"Thanks... freak. Same time tomorrow!"

Right now, you may be covered in mud, but you are swimming in shame. If only you could die, right now, and not have to walk into that school house. Teacher will be so mad. hat if she makes you take off your dirty shirt! You cry even harder at the thought of exposing your chest to your classmates. When will it end?