Diary Entry-Bystander Perspective

Dear Diary,

Today I have to go to school, the most useless school ever, St. Carlos. Today was Friday, the last day of school of the week. Today was still the same. Today we would always get a load of garbage homework. Today I have listen to our boring teachers. It was suppose to be the other way round! Get a load of homework during weekdays, not weekends; I can’t have some fun time during the most days where I could just sleep all day and care nothing about the world but my sleep. I wanted to get away from here, and from this boring place I have to live with until I get a job. Forty boring minutes left of Geography until I could get out of this prison of learning. I mean, I already know all about this subject, and Mrs Jackson retain on repeating the same lesson over and over again.

The bell rang when I was about to have my good sleep in my desk. What a great start of freedom. I was making my way down to my locker, grabbing all of my stuff in; I heard laughter’s and chattering down the corridors, I was curious what was happening, students were surrounding a certain locker, and in the middle of that circle was Brad, Steven and James. James was waving the paper back and a forward forcing it’s way to Brad’s face. He was babbling about how he got an F on his English essay. Well it wasn’t actually his essay, it was Brad’s and James just took it from him in the morning. Steven was just defending Brad, his only pal in the school.

Steven punched James in the face and they both ran, ran away from James, few second later James stood up and sprinted to Brad and Steven. All of the crowds were just following; they were excited to know what’s actually going to happen next. Some of them didn’t care and just went home to do their homework or they have this stupid party, whereas I just want to try and help those two guys. They stop opposite a house, Steven’s house, and few houses away from mine. And in the circle I could see Steven and Brad punching and kicking James, you just can’t blame those two, they were just defending themselves. But Steven and Brad’s doing were just to gruesome, blood coming out from James’ mouth.

Steven’s mother eventually came and went crazy, she got scared and didn’t know what to do, few minutes later she went back to reality, she pulled Steven and Brad away to the house, and I could just hear Mrs. Stuart from the house, her voice was loud and terrifying, I feel sorry for those two guys. I stayed there until James could actually stand up and he didn’t say a word, he just walked off. Ignoring the people surrounding him. We were just to alarm to go near him, everyone was, and he was too muscular, too strong for us.

I couldn't really believe what happened today. I couldn't believe that the two most innocent kids in our school would do something ridiculous. I couldn't believe that Brad and Steven would beat up the strongest guy in our school. I couldn't believe they actually beat James up. This is very different from our everyday lives. Watching Brad and Steven actually fighting was shocking.