Short Story: Upperclassman Year Of High School

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Pages: 3

Just like any other teenager, Michael was worried about his freshman year of highschool. He knew people he would be going with, but wasn’t what you called “popular.” It had been two weeks since he started school, and he knew he was going to hate it. The upperclassmen picked on him because he always made sure to do his work and not talk to anybody, considering he wanted to get accepted into as many colleges as possible with the highest GPA. Knowing the only way the bullying would stop was if he transformed himself to be like the upperclassmen, that’s what happened. Michael threw out all of his clothes, all of his books and essays, and changed his hair; he knew he would get accepted then. That Monday he went into class and instantly, it felt …show more content…
His lunch table had went from full of projects and papers to listening and cracking up jokes about the freshman, even though in the back of his mind he knew it was wrong because he was one. After about a month of these shenanigans he didn’t feel like he could do it much longer, but he didn’t want to lose his new friends or go back to the beginning of the school year. His plan was to tell them he got a “job” and just stay after school and catch up with the all the work he purposely missed. When he told the upperclassmen, they weren’t too happy, …show more content…
Well, when he went to his teachers and asked if he could make up his work they told him that everything he tried to do was either late or he couldn’t make it up. This killed Michael, he begged his teachers for extra credit or a paper to write so his grades could get back up.. the only thing wrong with that was his teachers felt like he was playing a game because of the upperclassmen he had been around recently. For that semester his average’s had been lower than a 70 in all his classes, his parents no longer had trust in him because of his attitude change; everything was falling apart for Michael and it was hitting him hard. For days he would sit in his room wondering why the people that cared about him changed and what he did to deserve it.. his whole life had changed and he was still blind to it. So what he did was change, he took it upon himself to get his grades up, started doing things for his mom around the house and still nothing had changed. His mind was