The Jealous Friend Turned Bully
By: Charlotte Brown (7th Grade)
It all started when me and my friend, let’s call her Emily, started martial arts. I was a dancer, so the kicks and moves came easier, so I just so happened to move up belts a little faster than her (like probably a few days max,) but she hated this. She told her parents about it and they swooped in and told the lead instructor, who never coached me as she was busy with Emily, and she took away my belt so I’d be far behind her. Stuff like that continued to happen, any time I had the tiniest bit of success It would be smushed and taken away through rumors started from her like “Oh did you know she moved down a belt, cause she was so horrible!,” or “I heard she is a total suck up, that’s how she’s in our level hahaha!!” I thought we were best friends, yet now she just makes me feel bad every time something good happens, like she purposely tries to sabotage everything. It’s hard to leave, cause idk who’d be friends with, plus she low key does this thing where we fight then her and her mom take me to the waterpark, or things like that. But I brought this up to my mom, and she has been very supportive, she has sat and talked through it with me, and mentioned a lot of people I should try to be friends with because she says I need to distance myself from Emily.
-CB (Grade 7)