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Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/a/42727
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Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/a/42727
License name: CC BY-SA 3.0
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The scariest bully, I think, is not the one who beats you. A punch only hurts for a short while. T **he scariest bully is the one who humiliates you in front of everyone.** What he says, and the others' laughter - it keeps on echoing in your head and hurting. And you're helpless - the teachers who would interfere if somebody was using fists, they ignore words.

He tells you again and again that you're nothing. And **he's king - he's big and strong, and has a following.** So because he says you're nothing, his following treat you as nothing, and so does everybody who's afraid of him, because they don't want to become "nothing" too - they want to stay on his good side. Somebody else might even hurt you in some small way - throw your bag into the trash, or push you in the corridor and make you fall - it would make the others laugh. _He_ said that's permitted, because you're nothing. They - they don't even think for themselves, they just follow. They might have been nice people under other circumstances.

Because such a bully has so much power, he is frightening. You don't leave a small sibling near such a one, because _who knows what he will do_. He won't beat the toddler - that's not his style. But who knows what he'll say, what he'll make the infant think.

Original score: 4