After making it through her first couple classes without any incident, Bonnie started to let her guard down. She made eye contact with people a little more often, though it was very painful to do so. She knew that each time she did so that her face was as red as her hair. Her bonfire hair as her brother called it. Her guard was so down that she walked into the cafeteria, head higher than usual and not really paying attention to what the other girls were doing. It was her biggest downfall. Because at that very moment, one of the head bimbos decided it would be oh-so-funny to push her long, slender leg out and trip Bonnie, making her face-plant. Her books and school bag scattered all around her.
Students started to giggle, and whisper under their breath, careful not to gather the attention of the lunch room aide. How did they always manage to get away with things like this? Bonnie didn't understand it. She wondered more than once if the teachers just ignored when the more popular kids misbehaved. Those students probably had rich parents who gave the school a lot of money.
She hated being the victim. She knew she was a little different and, okay, she was shy, but was that really any reason to make her their prime target? When she went to a co-ed school, things like this did not happen as often as they now happened. Was that just the nature of females?
I won't make a scene, at least anymore than the one I've already made. I won't show them weakness, I won't.
Bonnie started to gather her books and put them in her bag. Getting up from the floor, she brushed herself off and then walked over to the food line, completely ignoring the blonde and her giggling friends.
This is progress at the very least... Ignore the bimbos, just get through these last couple years. No big deal, right?
Yeah right, it was a big deal. Would it kill the people upstairs to give her one decent friend? Perhaps someone who was a little crazy and would kick the blonde bimbo's ass. Bonnie found she liked that idea a little too much.