Tonight's the last football game that the band is going to march at. I love marching, I love being in the stands with my friends, cheering on our team while occasionally playing a song or two. But it's supposed to rain until midnight tonight. If it's raining, the band's not going to even go outside, let alone march. That would make me one unhappy Shadow.

There's a bunch of jerks at my school, to put it mildly. A few of them took my backpack when I got off the bus to tell my brother he passed it, and I knew they'd been in it, because one of my binders was jammed back into the book I was reading. I try and keep my books in really good condition, so I was pretty mad. Last night, all of today, those same jerks have been cooing at me, "Is your book ok? Did you take it to the emergency room? Is it in a cast?" And these same jerks tease me about liking Pokemon. One of them has made huge deals about my liking of fantasy and dragons, not to mention wolves. Up until now I've done my best to ignore them and not worry about it. I don't know how much more of these jerks I can take.

It seems none of them respect me. And I freaking want to do something to make them. I'm one of the smarter kids in eighth grade, or so most everyone would label me, but even if that was enough to make them respect me, I wouldn't want it to be that way. I can't help it, quite honestly. I have no idea how I get A's on pretty much every test, it just happens. I hardly study, but I can still do well.

I want to do something so I have something to counter with. I'd like to really stand out, in their minds at least, in music and computers, and DANG IT ALL IT'S RAINING AGAIN

edit: aren't I just the luckiest little thing? we didn't even get our instruments out. this is all i have to look forward to all week, and i was barely there ten minutes.

Boy, I know what that's like. There's always people like that in a school. In my school all the people are jerks. It really makes me think of the book, Shadow Club. Anyway, I would say to tell a teacher or any kind of adult, that's what all adults say, but that just makes the jerks want to bother you even more.

The only advice I have for that problem is to play it cool, get a group of friends to hang around you, and if they make fun of you, just make fun of them back. If you have a group of friends by your side, or a teacher or someone watching from a far, they can't really hurt you.

Thanks. I could try hanging around friends... but on the bus, there's not really anybody to hang around with. I try to make fun of them back, but that's just not in my nature, I can't fight them that way. I know of one weakness in one of them, he used to throw tantrums and cry in second grade, but I doubt that'd hit home. =/ He'd probably be like, "Well, that was a long time ago," or something. I'll search for their weaknesses. Err... try. ^^;;

To put it plainly--there are always jerks. There is no escaping it. Sadly, I have no better advice than to just deal with it (the such happens to me all the time =P). Most of them have nothing better to do.
...but, there are always ways to get them back, even unforceably. You just gotta dig a little and find them...otherwise, idk...

That is a disease, truly is...and it is horrible, and no way to escape it, or at least I do not see one yet...

Idiots... it seems boys are the same this age. They tease me too, at school I'm known as "the spazzy Pokemon-freak." God knows how they found out I like Pokemon.

Here's a good tip for avoiding being mocked- try to hang around with your friends. They're pack animals, and will only target victims when they're isolated and seem vulnerable. Be near a teacher and near your friends- they won't dare attack you when you're surrounded by poeple who can defend you.

They're afraid of smart people, because deep inside their tiny minds they know that you are so much cleverer and more accomplished than them. Either that, or they're immature and that's their way of flirting with you. You never can tell, but that's generally the reason for their teasing.

o_O Flirting? I only think of it as mean teasing. I am one of those friends who keeps the idiots away from Zephyr. Some of them are afraid of me... Or, they know about my sibling and decide to stay away from me and anything related to me out of shock. It's helpful, since that gets rid of two of the major teasers. I wouldn't advise telling them about problems with your family, though. Really.

=) Thanks you guys. ^^

Hmm... well, in the morning before classes, it's almost impossible to find someone to hang around with. There's like no one there. =( But, they're not really there either, it's just that I get incredibly bored. XD Between first and second I'm rushing to get to class without being ridiculously late, and sometimes I'll see friends, but not the jerks that bother me. Second and third... same... I think it's really only the bus that causes problems. The bus and band, I guess. The bus I'm pretty much trapped, as there's really no one on that bus that I like. Except for one person... but she's rarely on. And band there's cool people to be with. =D

These kids, I've went through elementary school with. The worst two, the ones that are causing the problems now, both used to be Pokemon fans. One of them I actually had a crush on a while ago, now he's just a friend that occassionally teases me. I don't really have major problems with him, as he knows when to stop. It's the other one that's been my enemy all this time. I'll focus on him.

He used to be a Pokemon fan just like me. He claimed he was the smarter trainer, the better trainer. Man, do I have a lot of IMs from that. Lemme find a couple...

Eh, I'll find them later.