Broken hearted? Nah. Abused: Not really? Bullied: Heck Yeah. Welcome to the life of me, Melony. I live in a town where you better be careful of what you say and do. My life has been surrounded by doctors, bullies, multi personalities, and revenge. I was raised most of my life by my father. My mother died when I was five years old. I was 10 when they diagnosed me with stage 2 leukemia. I am 17 now and ready to change my life.
At school I was being pushed around. Everyone shouting words at me. I just keep walking to my locker. Ever since middle school my brother abandons me once he hops out of his car. Every once in a while I get locked in. I opened my locker when Angelica showed up. She is the queen bee of the school. I hated her so much.
She said, "Oh hey it is the hermit. I wonder what she is doing later. You better be at the lunch table at lunch." The lunch table is where I go sit with the pops so Angelica can "accidently" dump my lunch all over me. I had a huge grin on my face.
I said, "Oh I can't I am going to lunch with my dad. I guess I have to brain check our little lunch date for later. By the way that shirt needs a makeover." I dumped my red Gatorade on her white shirt. She was so furious. I took off sprinting before she could kill me.
On the school chat page there was a picture of me when I dumped my Gatorade on Angelica. The caption was The Hermit becomes a hero. Everyone commented saying that they didn't know what side to be on because Angelica would kill them if they went on my side but I did what everyone wanted to do.
Ryan plopped down next to me and said, "You are actually a star. I still don't regret leaving you but that is hilarious. I mean honestly who doesn't want to do that to Angelica. Well except all of her sex toys." Angelica was a slut. Somehow she ended up as Queen Bee. Literally she got an award that says most likely to be a prostitute and another award that says Queen Bee.
At lunch I saw my dad in the parking lot. Angelica grabbed me. I knew what was going to happen. Being the person I am I started shouting rape. A ton of guys came running over because they side with me when it is between me and Angelica. They boys grabbed her and pushed her away from me. I took off sprinting to my dad. My brother has a spooked up look on his face when I got there. I didn't say a word to him. He would figure it out later.
Back at school I headed to my favorite class. Creative writing is a great place to take out my anger. I was writing a story about a girl with cancer that never gets a chance but one day the most popular guy in the school falls in love with her and she becomes popular. After she becomes popular after a while she gets sick and dies. Very tragic I know. It is the life I am supposed to have. My teacher loved it when I gave it to her. She knew I was going to be a writer someday. For now I am just a high school student who did what others couldn't. I was fighting cancer, I got out of fights with Queen Bee, I could become a somebody, and I could almost live a normal life. Till…
I get to my locker and Angelica grabs me. I had no chance to escape. I was domed for the rest of my life at the moment. I knew her one weakness though. I would have to wait for the right moment.
She said, "WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU ARE? TRYING TO BECOME ALL POPULAR BY THROWING OFF MY THRONE! YOU HAVE NO CHANCE RULING THIS SCHOOL BECAUSE IT IS MY TERRITORY SO BACK OFF BITCH." She threw a punch at me. I let it hit me. She is a weakling.
I said, "I don't give a crap about your throne. I just want you to quit bullying me. You don't know me and you never will. I am not the girl you mess with." I stormed off
I fell down. I broke down. No one cared about me. The freak girl that has no friends. I can't stand it when the one guy that used to care about me abandoned me for the Pops. I realized he never cared about me. I realized I am not meant to be perfect. I sat up and pulled out my laptop. I stared at the school chat topics. The most popular topic was me. I couldn't believe what I saw. I wanted to throw my laptop across my room. I wanted someone to care.
My older brother came in. He was the only person that has been there for me. I knew he tried but he isn't there for me at school. I knew he wanted to help me. I knew the second we hit school grounds he will abandon me. I was just a loner waiting to find someone who truly cares.
He said, "What is wrong? You know that you are the most important girl in the world to me. I can't believe that you are the school nobody. You are amazing." I felt anger build up. Being Princess Perfect was hard. I wanted to throw a chair at him. I couldn't hold back the anger.
I said, "Really? That is what you ask me. Every day the second we hit school grounds you all of the sudden don't realize me. I am just that freakish girl with Leukemia that lost her mom. The freak that has no more friends because the one that she had left her. No way that you show you care." He backed out of my room and Dad walked in.
Dad said, "I signed you up for a support group. You will learn you aren't the only one going through what you are going through. I promise that you will be alright." I decided not to say anything. The only way my dad would change his mind if I had an attack. I got up and pulled my messy brown wavy hair back and threw on a pair of black high top converse. I hoped into my dad's red pickup.
I got to the place and a bunch of teenagers were piling into the church. I sighed. I climbed out of the pickup and headed inside. I saw that maybe I wasn't as bad as others. I sat down next to a girl with short hair and an oxygen tank. She didn't seem as bad as other people. She had a guy sitting next to her who was gorgeous. I mean he was like drop dead gorgeous. I take it that they are a couple. Some guy started talking. His name was Patrick.
He pointed at me and said, "Why don't you say your name, your age, and your type of cancer." I stood up. I wasn't afraid to talk but come on how bad could this be. I stared at everyone.
I said, "Hello, my name is Melony but I go by Mel. I am 17 years old. I have stage two leukemia." People just stopped and stared. I knew this was to be interesting. Patrick broke the silence.
He said, "And how are you doing?" Oh fabulous this question was the worst question they could ask me.
I said, "Well my cancer hasn't really affected me. Well the only way it affected me was losing the people I cared about. Not that perfect. I could be better but I learned to be alone." One girl gasped. I recognized who she was. Maddy Alex the girl who bullied me the most when I first learned about I had Leukemia.
I sat back down. I wasn't all that perfect. Being the little angel that got hurt. This is not really who I wanted to be but it is what people created of me. I never knew love. I listened to other people speak about their lives. I only remembered three people's names. Augustus, Hazel, and Isaac. Hazel and Augustus were the couple sitting next to me. Isaac sat across the circle from them. I knew that they were really close. Just the way they acted.
After the meeting I went outside. I had to wait for my dad to pick me up. I saw Isaac and Augustus were talking. I saw everyone pile into cars. Augustus walked up to me. Isaac following him.
Augustus said, "Hey aren't you Mel? I was curious if you wanted to hang out with us sometime. You don't seem like the person to have a lot of free time. I mean of what you said in your speech." I nodded at him.
I said, "I would love to. I am free any time after school." I wish everyone at school will believe this. I knew only a few people will believe me. I wanted people to realize that people can like me and I can't be a loner for the rest of my life. That I am a normal person.
Isaac said, "Gus lets go. You promised me we can play the game." Augustus said goodbye. My dad pulled up and I climbed into his truck. My dad pulled away and I just wanted to go back and hang out with Isaac, Augustus, and Hazel. I didn't want to go back to reality.
At my house I got on the school chat. I was looking through what people said about me. One girl called me a slut. My brother called me a no good loser who never does anything good in her life. I finally had the courage to stand up for myself. I look at my last chance for my reputation to actually go up hill but here we go.
Me: If you are going to talk about a girl make sure you know her first. Honestly name one thing that you know about me. I don't think more than a couple of you know I have Leukemia. I bet none of you know that I have to take of my brother when my dad isn't around. I bet none of you even knew that I already know everything about every single person in our school. Like Angelica only hangs out with my brother for sex. Ryan left me because all of the stupid jocks decided they wanted Ryan. I literally thought you would be there for me forever and always. I guess not. Kyle you say that I am the most important girl to you but you tell all of your friends I am a low life sister. Am I really that bad? I am done with everyone trying to hurt me.
I finished tagging the people I mentioned in the post and published it. I was never going back now that the monster has been unleashed.
