Hey Relate Magazine,

I heard about your magazine and was really inspired. It’s amazing that you guys are doing something to encourage teens to believe and encourage them to follow their dreams. I wanted to share a story with you that has happened to me. It happened two years ago and it affected my whole life. I learned so much and I’m still learning from it.

I remember it like it was pretty much yesterday. I had finally gotten my laptop in my room and gotten Internet on it! I was instant messaging with my friends because school was starting soon. In my school we had teams. Teams were like a group of teachers who all had the same students. In 8th grade, there were three teams.

Anyways, it was the week before school and I hadn’t gotten my schedule yet. You probably know how excited girls can get when they find out their schedule. The next day I had gotten it in the mail and I was instant messaging my friends. It turned out I didn’t know a lot of people on my team. “It’s okay,” I thought, “I’ll make new friends.”

When I got to school, the first few months were going really well. I liked it eigth grade year…until one day. My friend (let’s call her Sarah) would not eat anything during lunch. She told me she was watching her weight. I became worried immediately. I started offering her food. She would not take it! All the other girls would get annoyed with me for caring about Sarah (and Sarah got annoyed with me, too!) I’m not sure why they didn’t all-of-a-sudden like me. I still sat at the same lunch table and talked to the same girls.

One day, it became really bad. They started yelling at me and going all crazy. I started to cry. This one mean girl told me I was a bad person and I was crying hysterically. I didn’t know what to do; I just knew that I had to get out of there. I ran to the office. The girls immediately got scared because they didn’t know what I was going to do. I ended up signing up to talk to my counselor, but I didn’t end up talking to her until later. I ignored the girls for the rest of the day. Thank goodness it was break and I didn’t need to see them for two weeks! I’d like to say that I wish that situation didn’t happen. I’m glad it did, however. It helped me get all my feelings written down into a song. I ended up writing more songs and now I can’t stop!

Back to the story, though. I ended up talking to my counselor after break and I came up with a solution. I was going to sit at another table. Those girls ended up saying they were sorry. All but one, who won’t say she is sorry. During that time, I thought no one was on my side. My cousins and heroes were, however. Jordan and Brittany were my angels sent to me. They have always been here, but they helped me in a way they can’t even imagine. My cousin Brittany gave me a whole new life with this club I joined. Now, most of my friends come from that club. Jordan, well, I always looked up to her. I just needed a friend and she came at the right time. Brittany and Jordan are my angels sent to me from above.

I took the good out of that situation. Even though I was getting bullied and I felt like nobody was on my side, I wrote my feelings in a song like I said before. I would listen to the words of Miley Cyrus. She really inspires me. I’d watch her show every night and feel like those characters were my only friends. It was a struggle for a while, but I knew that if I kept going in my life that it would get better. It did. I still get bullied a little bit today, but I don’t let them get to me and I know how to handle myself.

My biggest dream is to be an actress, singer and dancer. I’ve loved it all my life and I always hope my dream will come true. Believe.

Hopefully this will go in the magazine or something!

Thanks for reading!

JeNnA

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