Home Invasion

Shelby sprinted down the road as fast as her body could go. Time seemed to slow down for her, every step felt like an eternity. Tired and scared, Shelby turned around and looked at the road. Whatever it was that was chasing her was far behind and out of sight. Shelby, out of breath, continued ahead at a slower pace, her boyfriend’s house was just another block down the road. As she jogged along, she saw some eyes poking out of a bush. Startled she began to sprint again, nothing ran after her. Sweat dripped down her brow as she approached Dan’s porch, the porch light was on. Shelby slammed her fist onto the door repeatedly till she heard the door unlock. The door opened to Dave looking at her with a baffled face, “What the hell is wrong with you” he spat at her as if she was demented.

Panting she managed to let out the words, “someone’s … after … me …..”. Dave looked out the door to left and right and replied “I don’t see anyone”. Shelby realized that he obviously thought she was insane, so she pushed herself in the door and closed it behind her. Dave continued to stare at her speechless.

“Look I swear there was a man behind me like at most two minutes ago” She cried hoping he would believe her.

 “Well man or not, you’re welcome to stay” Dave replied.

Suddenly Shelby heard footsteps on the second story, she could tell Dave heard them too because he stopped to listen. “Are your parent’s home” she said calmly.

“No they’re in Santa Barbara” He replied with frightened tone. Dave began moving to the stairs opposite of the door. Shelby grabbed his shoulder but let him go, she just followed close behind as they crept up the stair together. Dave reached the top of the stairs; there was a room in front of him and a hallway running perpendicular to the stairs. He peered left and right down the hallway, it was dark and deserted. Dave lurked over to the hallway light switch and switched the light on quickly. Shelby watched Dave peek into the doorway opposite of the stairs and walk into the room. Shelby slowly followed him into the room, it was his room. Dave was searching relentlessly and then he looked at her, his face was disturbed. “My bat is gone”. Shelby continued to stare at him as he grabbed a golf club from his closet, she didn’t know what to say. “I left it by the door with the rest of my equipment and it’s just gone”. Dave walked over to the door and whispered to Shelby, “stay behind me and run if anything happens”. Dave took a left quietly down the hall.

Suddenly his own bat came swing at him through a door to his right. The bat directly hit the golf club and nearly snapping it in half. “Run Shelby RUN!”. Shelby sped back to Dave’s room and grabbed another club from the closet. By the time she got back out into the hall, Dave was on the floor in pool of blood. Over him was a man in black grunting, bloody bat in hand. Shelby didn’t even try to rush him, she just ran for the stairs. The man saw her run and sprinted after her. Shelby rushed down the stairs as fast as she could but when she hit middle of the stairway, she tripped. Everything was a blur, Shelby tried to push herself onto her feet but she could move her leg. She looked down at her leg and saw that her knee was dislocated, her leg was limp. She also thought she received a concussion from what she thinks was the railing because her vision blurred. The man must have heard her fall because he was slowly walking around the corner and down the stairs. Shelby panicked and started squirming towards the door. Shelby tried to reach for the door knob but she couldn’t lift herself up high enough. The man calmly walked up to her and pounded his foot onto her back; Shelby gave under his pressure instantly. Shelby slowly turned her head toward him, ‘It’s over, bye world’. All she saw was the bat and everything was black.  

Cyber Bullying: What is it and how harmful is it

Cyber Bullying is when someone continuously harasses another person through online media, whether through social media, email, or blogging. The most common place for Cyber Bullying to occur is on Facebook, the social media. On Facebook, consisting of middle or high school students,  kids will post rude comments about each other, send cruel messages, or post embarrassing picture of someone else. In middle and high school kids aren’t mentally developed and are always looking for new ways to harass each other, these kids will use any tool available to bully the outcasts. The bullied eventually begin to feel like there is no escape from their suffering and use extreme measures like suicide and shootings to remove the pain of loneliness. Bullying is the cause of almost all school shootings, not violent video games, and causes most of the underage kid’s suicides. Bullying face to face usually involves pushing, verbal attacks, and inflicting significant pain. There is no doubt that face to face bullying has caused a lot of pain but the question is whether Cyber Bullying is as harmful to a person. There is no straight forward answer, but no, Cyber Bullying is not as harmful as face to face. Face to face bullying is more personal than Cyber Bullying. Face to face bullying leaves the victim petrified and unable to respond because bully is usually larger than his victim, anyone can talk back to a bully over the internet but it takes real inner strength to stand up to a bully in person. In face to face bullying kids usually use physical means to keep the victims around, but with Cyber Bullying the victim can simply block his/her harasser with a click of a button. Cyber Victims don’t actually have to listen to a bully unlike in face to face bullying. The only thing people can do over the internet is post embarrassing pictures and talk behind someone’s back (people do not need the internet to talk behind someone’s back). Also Cyber Bullying doesn’t have any physical aspect to it; you can’t beat someone up through the internet, it’s an attempt on your emotions and it can all be ignored through a single button. My conclusion is that although Cyber Bullying is extremely rude, but it doesn’t do as much harm as face to face because face to face bullying has caused a plenty of deaths through suicide and school shootings.

Ps. Anyone who bullies anyone should look at their own lives and figure out why they need to hurt someone else to make themselves feel good. These actions will only hurt you later down the road when it becomes a part of your personality.