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When you think of bullying, you usually
think of an older kid calling a younger kid names on the playground,
or something like that. It can also happen in other places,
though. One day, my friend Melonie asked me to come over to
her house. My parents wouldn’t be home for hours, so
I said yes. Melonie had just turned twelve a few weeks ago,
and she had gotten a computer for her birthday. We decided
to get online and instant message people. We instant messaged
our friend Beth, and to our surprise, she wrote back. We chatted
with her for about five minutes when some one with a user
name we did not know sent us a message. We sent him back a
message, asking him who he was. He wrote back, telling us
that he knew where we lived, and if we did not give him the
answers to the math homework, he would hurt us. Melonie and
I were scared, so we did what he asked. Everything was fine
until about a week later, when it happened again.
This time, though, he wanted us to type
his book report for him. Melonie was going to reply when I
got an idea. I told Melonie to reply yes, and then print out
the message. When she asked why, I told her my idea. She said
okay, and printed it out. The guy then told us that he would
put the book report in Melonie’s mailbox. He also said
to put the typed book report back in Melonie’s mailbox
by tomorrow morning, or else. We got the book report and started
typing. We changed some things, though. We worded one paragraph
exactly like a book report I did last year, then printed two
copies. We put a copy in Melonie’s mailbox, then I took
the other copy and went home. The next day, I went to Melonie’s
house before school. We got the message and the book report,
then left for school. When we got to school, we went straight
to the principal’s office and showed him what we brought.
He was shocked that such a thing would happen. He told us
he would ask all the English teachers to read their classes
book reports, and find the one we wrote. At the end of the
day, the principal came on the intercom and asked for Melonie
and I to come to the office. When we got there, we saw a boy
named Todd sitting next to him. The principal said it was
Todd who had been sending us those messages. Todd apologized
and said he only did it because his grades were dropping and
he could not play football if he failed. Then the dismissal
bell rang, and we went home. Needless to say, Melonie and
I decided not to chat online for quite a while! Bullying is
mean-spirited, cruel, and wrong. We should all work together
to stop it. Without bullying, the school and world would be
a much better and easier place to live.
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