[Dixanadu]

I have never been bullied.

I was told time and time again before going into high school, "Some people will give you shit. Don't stand for it."

No one did, until about four months in. I had been waiting in the lunch line when someone jumped the queue. The guy was bigger than I, so I ignored it and just did the narkiest thing ever, and reported him.

He said he'd 'batter me' after school, which I assumed he would actually do (kids say the darnest things), now I know he'd have said it to scare me.

Of course, I didn't know that. So I punched him in the back of the head.

Weeks of animosity followed, but that was it.