When I got to class, everyone started
whispering.
“Ashley, I heard you were kidnapped. Are you
still pure?”
My fancy private school had a lot of rich kids.
They had no limits.
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They were so awful that they talked about my
kidnapping like it was gossip.
Mom wanted to be friends with the other
parents, so she chose to enroll me here.
Even though I told her many times that I didn’t
like it here, she wouldn’t listen.
In an environment ruled by money, those who
didn’t have money would be bullied.
I was supposed to be the real heiress, but I was
just quiet and shy.
That was because I didn’t feel safe, had no
confidence, and didn’t have my parents backing
me up.
Dad would point and say, “Why can’t you be like Brittany? She’s doing just fine!”
Brittany knew how to get what she wanted. She
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became friends with the guys in class, and
she’d bully me.
But when I told my parents the truth, they didn’t
believe me.
They said that I was the problem.
But I had amnesia.
I didn’t care if the other kids didn’t like me.
I sat down in my seat.
A girl with silver hair walked up to me.
“Ashley, I didn’t get breakfast this morning. Go
get me a soda.”
The diary had mentioned her. Her name was
Lisa, and she was a bully that Brittany wanted
to befriend.
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When I didn’t respond, Lisa said, “Brittany said
that you pushed her down the stairs. How’s
your head up in the clouds now?”
People always say that I’m too much trouble.
I didn’t hesitate.
Lisa got angry and opened my backpack,
sending the chocolates and candies all over the
floor.
“Help yourself, everyone!”
Lisa was always like that.
She’d steal my lunch money to buy everyone ice
cream.
I tried to tell my parents.
But the kids sided with her because she was
899
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buying them things.
Thinking about the times I was a pushover, the
more angry I became.
I grabbed Lisa’s wrist.
“Taking other people’s things without their
permission is stealing.”
Lisa laughed in my face and grabbed my chin.
“Are you talking back? Why don’t you go kill yourself?”
Without another word, I attacked her.
Everyone was shocked.
Nobody thought that the pushover would ever
do anything.
