Chapter 10: Bullying

Nessie's POV

The pain from the scalding soup was almost too much to bare. Everyone just laughed at me though. No one seemed to care about what happened to me. They thought it was funny. My pain was their pleasure.

"Don't you ever touch her again!" mom screamed and effectively causing the whole room to go quiet. Seeing the look on her face scared me. For the first time she actually looked every bit as frightening as a vampire could be. Even Lisa, the bully who was not scared of anyone, actually looked scared for once in her life. Her fear however didn't last long.

"Oh who the hell do you think that you are coming to me and talking to me like that?!" she sneered. If my mom wasn't on Lisa's bad side before she certainly was now.

"Oh I am your worst nightmare sweetheart. If you ever touch Renesmee again I swear I'll-"

"Oh wow I'm so scared. Not," I think Lisa was scared and she was doing the best that she could to hide her fear.

"You don't talk to her like that!" my father who was doing his best to remain calm before was not about to stand by and watch Lisa talk to my mom like that any longer. "Either you back off and leave Renesmee alone or I swear I will personally make you pay,"

"Are you threatening me now?" Lisa's calm façade was starting to fall apart now. As much as she was trying to keep it together I could see that her fear was starting to show. She looked to her friends for backup but they were to frightened to say anything themselves. They had a much better sense of self preservation than their friend did.

I suddenly felt ice cold hands on my body lifting me up. I had not realized that I was still on the ground until aunt Rosalie was suddenly helping me stand up. I could still feel the spots where I had been burned by the soup. The tears welled up in my eyes from the pain. Sensing my distress Rexy pushed his head against my body and I scratched behind his ears. I watched as Lisa's best friend Stacy slip out of the cafeteria unnoticed by most. That was not good.

It was odd to see the whole cafeteria so quiet. Their laughter at me had been deafening and now their silence was eerie.

"Oh are you threatening me now? Because I don't think that you want to go there-"

"Oh I am not threatening you. I am promising you," dad growled. "If you mess with Renesmee again there will be hell to pay. That is a promise. As for the rest of you that laughed at her," dad looked around at all of the quiet students in the cafeteria. "How can you all be so cruel? Although I shouldn't be surprised. I have witnessed how cruel humans can be many times throughout the years,"

Dad was so angry that he didn't even realize he slipped by saying humans instead of people.

"I can't believe that you are even defending that useless waste of space,"

Jacob was suddenly running toward her. His shaking was so bad that I was sure he was mere seconds away from phasing. Mom and dad grabbed him and held him back to stop his attack.

"Jacob she is not even worth it," mom said as calmly as she could.

"I can't just stand by and watch her treat Nessie like crap. I will not allow it-"

"I know Jacob but she is not worth the trouble,"

I didn't think Jacob was hearing a single word that my mom was saying. Jacob looked like he was out for blood. The tension and anxiety never left my body as the situation continued to escalate. If Jacob wolfed out right then and there then it would be all over. The supernatural would be exposed. Even Rexy looked really tense and on high alert. All of a sudden a wave of calm came out of nowhere. I relaxed, Rexy relaxed, Jacob calmed down, and my parents looked much calmer as well.

Nobody moved until Stacy reappeared...with principal Rosa.

"You four come with me," she said looking at mom, dad, Jacob, and I.

I gulped nervously. This was not going to be good. I had never been called to the principal's office before. I had never gotten in trouble before. I was scared about what was going to happen when I did not even do anything wrong.

"Have a seat," she said after we followed her into her office and closed the door.

"I was told that you all were making threats against another student,"

"She was bullying Renesmee sir. Lisa spilled hot soup all over Renesmee-"

"You all were making threats against another student. Making threats is against school policy. Oh and Renesmee if that dog of yours growls at a student one more time-"

"What?!" I yelled.

"Don't yell at me Renesmee and don't try to lie to me either. Stacy already informed me that this animal of yours growled at her and Lisa,"

"Excuse me," Jacob said angrily. Out of all of us he was the one struggling the most out of all of us to remain calm. "Nessie did not do anything wrong and neither did Rexy. That was a bullshit lie!"

"You watch your tone with me young man or you're going to be in even more trouble than you are already in!"

"Nessie did not do anything wrong," dad added. "Are you interested in listening to the truth or are you just interested in the lies that you have been told"

"So you are telling me that the threats that were made were a lie?" principal Rosa said.

This was not going to go anywhere. I knew that from the moment that we came in here. The principal always protected the bullies. It was all because she was engaged to Lisa's father. That is why she was so hellbent on protecting her and didn't care about the rest of us.

"All I am interested in is the fact that you all were making threats against another student. That and the fact that this dog growled at two students like he was about to attack someone,"

"Look since you Cullens are new here I am willing to be lenient this one time and I will let you off with a warning. As for you Renesmee you have been here long enough to know the rules already. I will suspend you for three days-"

"Three days but-"

"and if that dog of yours growls at one more student I will personally make sure that he not only gets de-certified but destroyed as well,"

After that my parents and Jacob were allowed to go back to class but I had to stay and wait in the principal's office for my adoptive parents to come and pick me up. Thank God my parents were willing to listen to me and believed me when I told them what really happened. Actually they thought that I should go and press charges against Lisa for assault. I had the burn marks to prove it they said.

I just. I didn't know what to do anymore.

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