The Battle
By "Dancing Avocado" - 4th Grade
On this day I have become a legend…
I was having a normal day when my friend got sick during math!!! Her face looked as if she covered herself in flour! After I took her to the nurse’s office, right afterwards my stomach started hurting bad! So I took myself back to the nurse’s office. I didn’t want to go home so I just thought “It’s just my stomach. I’ll be fine”
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After five minutes I went back to class before it ended. We all lined up for P.E. / lunch.
I had P.E. It was fine, but this guy from my class (Anthony: Master of handball) kept on teasing me for not being good at handball. I wanted to rip his guts open and pull it out!
If I ever could, I wouldn’t be able to because we were at school.
After we went back to our class, I was the first one to run through that door! I thought it was writing time but nope, PSYCH! It was sighence (science.) Anthony started laughing at me just because of that one thing!! He was all up in my business being like,” Ha you thought it was writing!”
At 1:15 when our break started. Everybody started running forwards to either the handball court or the playground. Since I was scared of going against Anthony I just stayed still. I went to the court where I usually go, but guess who starts running towards the line?
Anthony White ||.
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Anthony was bullying everybody. He was saying,” I’m gonna destroy you,” and,” You’re so weak haha.” Then after five weeks of practice, I thought I was gonna win for sure. I went to school, and of course, I got devoured by him.
After a couple of months, I forgot all about it, until he came to the handball court I was playing in with my friends!! I asked him,” Hey man, can you go to a different court?”
Then he said,” Why you? Scared to go against me?”
“Look man,” I said,” I don’t want to fight. I just wanna make things right.”
He said,” You know what? Let’s play handball… If you win I won’t bother you anymore, but if I win you have to work for me!”
I was scared, really scared! Before the game started his friends said, ”She’s so gonna lose!” or “She’s so weak!” I thought he was robbing my faith! I felt like he stabbed me in the guts instead of me ripping his guts! Then the bell started to go off, and then before I knew it, it was a break. When I walked to the handball court slowly wishing that the second I came to the handball court that the bell would ring, and we had to go inside, and then when I was home I could’ve told my mom I wanted to move to Korea, but that’s not how reality works… It was time to face him!
I walked up to him,” Let’s play…” I got the ball, everybody was cheering,” Anthony! Anthony!” I threw it, and we played! I thought he was going to hit super hard, but he went easy on me. He just kept acting on we just kept playing. I thought I would lose for sure! We just kept playing everybody was so interested. They kept watching and watching. I thought this round was never going to end! When he hit a baby, I hit it as hard as I could. He ran back to hit it then I acted like I was gonna hit hard, but I hit a baby (a really small hit) He sprinted to get it, but he missed!
From this, I learned that even though people don’t see you never give up. If you give up you would never know if you would’ve done it when people tease you. I also felt like he shot me. He bullied me and told me no you’re weak you can’t do it, but I believed in myself and it happened! When people tease you if you don’t give up and fight for what is right then anything is possible.