An Original Story on Bullying by our student Gurbani Sabhlok.

Gurbani Sabhlok is 12 years old young writer from Hyderabad, has varied interests in Reading, Art, Sports, Music, Drama and a lot more. Being an avid reader, she loves reading science fictions, adventure and horror books. She is a certified Zentangle Apprentice from US. We are proud to have her as a student of Little Writers Program, an Online Creative Writing Program using Applied Storytelling & Theatre tools under the mentorship of Trainer Khusshbo Chokhaani. We congratulate Gurbani for this exemplary true self-expression.

The Lesson Jake Got

It was not long ago when Jake, a 13 year old boy, used to bully people. “AAAAHHHH!!” a kid screams. While Jake “HAHAHA!” just laughs. Jennie, Jake’s older sister, asked him several times to not bully others but Jake, Jake would never listen to her.  Now you must be wondering why I said not long ago. Well, let’s go into a flashback.

Ooooo! I see a new target approaching me, thinks Jake, as he sees the new girl Lisa walking towards him.  “Hi! Could you help me get to room 354?” Lisa asks Jake. “Hello”, Lisa waves her hand in front of Jake as he was too busy thinking on how to bully his new target. “Oh sorry, yeah sure”, Says Jake coming back to reality. After walking some time they reach the room. Lisa thanks Jake and goes into her class. As Jake’s building a plan to bully Lisa his friend approaches him “Jake!! Ma’am is looking for you. Come on let’s go! “

At sports time, Jake sees Lisa walking towards the cricket nets. Ooooo! Is she also in cricket? Yea baby! It’s gonna be super easy to bully her now” this is how Jake normally thinks. In the evening when Lisa was walking out of the school, Jake grabs her bag and pulls her hair. “AAAAAHHHHH! OOWWWW!” Lisa screams in pain, while Jake does what he usually does, laughs and walks away. This continues for sometime, so Lisa asks Jennie to help her out. Jennie and Lisa had become very close friends since the time Lisa joined. Later that evening when the both of them were walking, Jake comes again to do his usual routine when he sees Jennie with Lisa. “Oh no!! Now if I go to bully Lisa Jennie will give me a whole lecture when we get home.” Jake plans on not bullying Lisa that day and just walks away in disappointment. Jake sees Lisa and Jennie together every time he’s going to bully Lisa. He could not tolerate it anymore and approaches Lisa and pulls her hair. “AAAGGHHH”, screams Lisa while Jake runs away quickly before Jennie sees him, but unfortunately Jennie saw him.

Later when at home, Jennie goes to Jake who was sitting on the couch and asks him very politely ”Why do you bully others?” jake was pretty surprised by the way Jennie talked to him. “A-are you ok?” asks Jake considerately, “you have never been so polite towards me. Like EVER”. “Ha-ha!” Jennie laughs. “I am perfectly fine. Now answer my question, why do you bully others?” Jake tells his side of the story, when he was bullied by other kids older to him. They made him think he was weak which made Jake insecure about himself. Until, one day he thought of bullying kids younger to him so that he could prove others that he was not weak.

Jennie heard his story, understood it, and felt pity towards him.  “You should have told this to me before, I could have helped you. Bullying is not the solution to prove that you are strong, it just makes people think that you are a bad person. Which I know you’re not. That way you’ll never find true friends.” Jake thought about what Jennie said over the night. The next day he went and apologized to everyone he had ever bullied including Lisa. Everyone was shocked but they forgave him. He thanked them for being so kind towards him.

“See! Everybody now loves you. That’s why you should never bully anyone. Got it now?” Jennie asks in a playful manner “Mhm” Jake nods his head.

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