If I Could Only Knock You Out (continued)

However, Alston couldn’t control his hands and did what he had always done for the past few months. My opaque pencil case with mechanical pencils, an eraser pen, highlighters, lead, and multiple pens from a Japanese retail company, urged me to do something I could only imagine. My intrusive thoughts won! I twisted my body at an 180-degree-angle and swung my pencil case at the person I hated most in that traumatizing middle school. I directed the last-minute weapon at the bully’s head.

“Kill yourself!” I shouted.

A lovely rattle swept through the quiet and empty extensive hallway. My “bat” impacted the left side skull of Altson, but I could tell I injured his ear because I saw him rubbing his hand against it.

“Welp.” He replied with a surprised tone.

He was stunned. Everyone in the class was shocked as well, staring at me, wondering what just happened. No adults were watching us, I don’t think any camera caught the incident. Not like those security guards would barge in to break situations up, this school enforces all of us to work together and not to harass others like every other school. But this close-minded principal trusts all of us a little too much, showing how she doesn’t care about others' mental and physical health enough.

Amazingly enough, I didn’t get in trouble for attacking someone out of self-defense! If only I knocked him out, then I would get in trouble. Only those in the class saw what happened, but who knows if it spread like a wildfire? Maybe it became a rumor across different friend groups. Needless to say, I’ve realized with the amount of anger built up from Alston was enough to fight back. Ignoring the problem itself won’t always fix everything, rather, it would come back sometimes in the future. So you have to gain enough courage– or anger to defeat any issues that may have been collected from the past.