Cyberbullying story

I yawned and got back my test result from the Mr. Jonathon. He smiled at me and gave me the thumbs up and continued handing out the other sheets. Confused I held my sheet up and looked at my score. I was so shocked! A level 8a, that's the highest score you can get. I smiled and turned to Mina. "Hey Mina" I said "look what I got! An 8a!" Mina glared at me and said "well I got a 7b" then looked away. I tilted my head then heard the bell ring. Mr Jonathon shouted "right class off you go!" He said with a pleasant tone "and congrats to Amber who got a level 8a! Let's all give her a clap hm?" Everyone starred at me; I just froze there blushing, starring at the clock.  Angie got out and shouted "three cheers for Mrs. Jonathon!!" All I heard around me was laughter as I stood up, picked up my bag and walked out the classroom.

Looking around, I saw Mina run into the bathroom. It was as if she was avoiding me. I shrugged, and decided to think I was over exaggerating so I decided to go to the library. I always go there; it's nice and calm, just how I like it. People just gave me looks as I walked along to the library, calling me Mrs. Jonathon. Shaking my head, I tried to ignore it and hoped it was only a one day thing.

As I walked down to the library I heard my phone beep. Luckily, no teachers were around so I decided to see what message I got. Sneakily, I got out my phone and hid behind the door. A message popped up from an unknown call, which was strange, I never give my number out to anyone. But...What it read was horrible. 'Hey Amber, or should I say Mrs. Jonathon. You're a little b*tch I hate you and your so going to die when I see you next.' I froze and starred at the message. Pain filled my heart as I read it but once again I shaked my head and tried to ignore it.

After school me and Mina walked home. She was awfully quiet, and didn't even look at me. "Mina what's up?" I said worried "Did I do something w-wrong?" She looked at me worried and said "well...I have homework and it's about our best friends but well, I know how much you hate having your photo taken but can you maybe take a couple of shots for moi?" I paused and smiled. "Of course! Anything for my best friend!" So I stood there and did a really funny pose, I stuck my tongue out and put my hip to the side. Mina, giggling, got out her camera phone and snapped some shots of me. As she did the last few I saw some weird grins come onto her face, she never usually grins like that so something was up. But, as I didn't want to make her more sad, I let her do what she wanted. Then as we got to the crossing she headed off in her direction and I headed off in my own.

Immediately after I got into the house I ran to the PC and went onto a MSN chat room. Me and Mina can talk for hours on them about random things, especially Callum. We both love him so much but he only goes for the popular girls sadly. I smiled as I saw Mina online and immediately started chatting to her. Oddly, she didn't reply for a while, as regularly she would reply straight away. Decided I would check my phone for any more messages, and turns out I had 5! I never get that many.  I didn't recognise any of the number from where the messages were coming from though. But I still opened them and read them. My face dropped and eyes filled with water as horrid words filled my phone screen. I looked back on the PC and Mina had replied, but not what I was hoping for. Her words were just as painful. She said 'Why are you talking to me? I don't wanna talk to a stinky brat like you! I HATE YOU! GET OUT OF MY LIFE!' I picked up one of my bears and threw at the wall crying. Trying to ignore the messages was hard enough, but coming from your best friend, it was a nightmare.

As the weekend came, the messages did too. Piling up my inbox on hotmail and my phone. Everyone calling me Mrs. Jonathon, swot and lifeless loser. I tried to get away from it but they still came. But one thing hurt me the most. It teared me apart. As I went to my inbox to delete all my messages I got a new one from Mina. Hoping for it to be a normal message, but it wasn't. I looked at the top and she sent it to everyone, even the guy of my dreams, Callum. This time, no words were in the message, just pictures of me which were edited into such idiot things like me in a clown costume. I hate clowns; I guess that's why she did it. Crying loudly a knock came on my door. "Its Matt" the voice said "what's up lil sis? Why do I hear crying?" He opened the door and looked at me.
Matt was my step bro, but also like a real brother to me. He was always kind and sweet to me; he was caring and loving too. He just dumped Lucy-Anna after he saw her kissing someone else, and that made everyone blank him, as she was so popular compared to him. So he was like a close friend to me you could say. I decided that it was time to tell someone before it was too late. So I told Matt.

"M-Matt" I mumbled "something's wrong and I don't like it..." Matt looked at me with sad eyes and walked in, closing the door behind him. He pulled me onto his lap and said "this isn't right...Lil sis should never be sad, let your bro Matt help you..." I could trust him and I knew I could so I looked him straight in the eyes and said "there cyber bullying me Matt! Everyone at school! Even Mina! It hurts! I hate it help me!" More tears filled my eyes as I cried and he looked at me with a very serious face. "Amber, how long has this been going on for?" Matt asked
"About 3 days, but that's more than enough for me!" I answered sadly. Matt stroked my hair then whispered to me "it's going to be ok, I promise, tomorrow when you go into school, I'll sort everything out, your my lil sis. I got to be there for you." Still crying I smiled at him. I tried to get words out my mouth but I couldn't. He hugged me tight for a while, telling me I need proof on this first though. I nodded and gave him my phone, hoping he would find a way out of this for me.

He stayed with me till late then went off to bed. I lied in my covers and looked up at the ceiling proudly. Despite the fact things may happen tomorrow I still smiled, as I knew Matt would sort them out straight away. Snuggling into my pillowed, I wonder why this even started anyways. People were probably jealous of me from getting a high score on the test. But I studied and tried and knew I deserved that score! Just because I got the highest score in that people were assuming I'm smart at everything and started to rumour about it.
Next morning, Matt decided to give me a lift to school on his motorcycle, which I was glad about. I didn't really want to go walking to school or go on the school bus when I know people will be shouting mean comments about me. Smiling I hopped up onto the motorcycle with him and he drove us to school.

"Right!" Matt said getting off the motorcycle "first we got to see the headmaster, Mr Will." Nodding shyly, I got off the motorcycle and looked at him. I didn't really like going to talk to the headmaster as he always gave you these glares which made you shudder. He held my hand and we walked into the crowded school. Mina and Angie gave me dirty glares as I walked along to the headmaster's office with Matt. As we walked past everyone shouting Matt mumbled from time and time again "just ignore them Amber, you can do better than that." So I walked past and looked away from all of them and stood outside the headmaster's office. Matt sighed and knocked on the door.

I saw the handle turn and then in front of me and Matt was Mr Will, a tall lanky headmaster who had to look down to talk to anyone. "Ahh Amber and Matt Summers, I hear you two are doing great in classes anyway...Why are you two here?" Mr Will said looking down at me with that glare. I gulped and decided to let Matt do the talking, he was so much more confident than me. "Well my little sister has an issue and you may need this for proof" Matt said handing Mr Will my phone "people from her year have been sending her inappropriate texts and sent everyone images of her on the computer, Amber tells me this and I thought I would decide to let you know straight away sir!" Mr Will looked at me sadly and opened the door fully. Matt nodded and walked in with me going in behind him.
"So Amber you are being cyber bullied?" Mr Will said taking his seat behind the desk and looking at the messages on my phone. Matt looked at me and nodded to say 'go on.' I looked at Mr Will worriedly and said "Yes, I have been called many things and I don't have full proof on why but I suspect it being because of my high grade in my last test." Mr Will smiled at me and said "Yes Mr Jonathon did tell me you were shy as he congratulated you, as everyone laughed I was told." Matt looked at Mr Jonathon and fiddled with his fingers. He looked outside and said "so how can you help my little sister sir? She needs help, and one of the main culprits is Mina Bloom." Mr Will looked at me shocked and tilted his head. Everyone knew we were the best of friends, even Mr Will. "Mina? I thought you were friends...Oh dear, I'll get you help as soon as possible." Standing up he smiled at us and said after a long pause of silence "go to your classes, and if they need to know why your late tell them to ask me."

Matt nodded silently and got up from his chair. Copying him, I sighed in relief and whispered "thank you so much sir" before walking out the door to my lesson. Matt walked alongside me and said "Good luck lil sis, I hope everything turns out ok for you!" before going up the stairs to his own class. I sighed and smiled as I turned the corner and entered my classroom.

Mina and Angie were glaring at me for half of the lesson and I could hear them talking about me. Waiting for that miracle to happened I got on with the set work, not wanting to get into any trouble. I looked up and saw at the door Mr Will, with a very serious face. I sighed happily. Angie shouted "Why are you happy b*tch?!" I looked at her with a weird look on my face as Mr Will entered the room.

"Now class, I hear some people hear have been picking on a student" Mr Will says as silence fills the room. "This isn't right and fair on that student and I will need to speak to Mina Bloom for starting this situation for the student and Angie Greed for her inappropriate language just then." Mina and Angie got up worriedly as everyone stared at them. I was silent, I didn't really know how to feel, and didn't know the consequences of what they did. All I was hoping was that it didn't make anything worse....

What I hoped for was right! Mr Will found out that Angie also tagged along Minas side to start all this and they got expelled from school. They go to Stratsfield High School now, so I haven't seen them ever since that day. New friends made, no not really but me and Matt just stick together whenever we can, were kinda like best friends now and no one comments a bad word about it at all. People started congratulating me for my achievements, even Callum which made me smile. But the only person I have to thank right now is Matt. He helped me, and told the headmaster and that got it all solved! I'm so happy I did tell Matt, because I know that if I didn't, so much worse could be happening to me right now...