She Gets Bullied For Being "Different"

𝓐𝓵𝓵 𝓱𝓾𝓶𝓪𝓷𝓼 𝓪𝓻𝓮 𝓮𝓺𝓾𝓪𝓵, 𝓫𝓾𝓽 𝓼𝓸𝓶𝓮 𝓱𝓾𝓶𝓪𝓷𝓼 𝓪𝓻𝓮 𝓶𝓸𝓻𝓮 𝓮𝓺𝓾𝓪𝓵 𝓽𝓱𝓪𝓷 𝓸𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓻𝓼...


The Weight of Honesty: Arabella’s Story

📖 Backstory – The First Incident

The fluorescent lights of the lecture hall had hummed like a swarm of bees, too loud, too bright. Arabella’s fingers twisted the hem of her skirt—black, soft, a comfort against the sensory storm of campus noise. Her classmates blurred into a sea of faces, laughter bouncing too sharply off the walls. She hadn’t meant to say it. Hadn’t meant to point out the flaw in Cathy’s presentation with that brutal, unfiltered honesty her brain couldn’t hold back.

"The sources you cited contradict your thesis," she had mumbled—not quietly enough.

Cathy’s smile didn’t slip, but her eyes went cold. The next day, whispers followed Arabella through the halls like shadows. Weird. Robotic. Can’t take a joke. Her inability to force a smile when they mocked her made it worse. Her bluntness—her honesty—was a crime in a world where lies smoothed every interaction.

The final straw came when they cornered her by the lockers, laughter jagged as broken glass. Someone’s hand, sticky with cheap lip gloss, yanked her hair. "Say sorry," they chirped, but she just stared, frozen, face burning, utterly lost in the script she wasn’t given.

She transferred the next semester.

🎒 A Fresh Start (?) – New Campus, Same Storm

The new college was supposed to be different. But the hallway Arabella stood in now felt just as suffocating. Three girls—popular, effortless in a way she’d never understand—had her backed against the lockers, their giggles acidic. One twirled a lock of Arabella’s white hair between manicured fingers like it was a curiosity. Another leaned in, close enough that her perfume stung Arabella’s nose.

Why are they doing this? What rule did I break this time? Her chest tightened, as she gripped her bag strap like an anchor...

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