Michelle (A Short Story of a Girl and Manic Depression)

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Everyday of school was a terrible day for young Michelle. She walked through the halls being harassed daily. Not a day went by that she did not go home crying, and not sharing what was wrong with any one. She had the most terrible nicknames that the students could make up. Causing her to just want to drop out of school and become a homebody with her puppy.

Even the first day of school was bad for dear Michelle. She walked into her new Art class, and a group of Jocks in the back yelled, "Hey, Look at the new girl!" They would then let out the cruelest laugh, and continued to point and snicker though out the class. Art was Michelle's way of expressing her self and when the teacher gave the students a sheet of paper to draw what ever they wanted. Michelle filled her paper completely, leaving no white on it to be seen. Pretty soon the first nick name was formed, "Teacher Suck-Up." The name spread quickly since it was a small school.

The next period of Band, Yet another thing that Michelle loved. She was always the first chair alto sax player at her old school, and won every UIL event. She sits down in her section and beings tuning her sax along with the others. The others immediately stared and said, "Are you trying

Just as Michelle thought things could not get any worse, they did the very nest day at school. There was yet another nick name "The Beast." She was not sure where this one came from. But it was yelled every time she entered the hall, and it was followed by more laughter and pointing. The would also say, "Do not look at The Beast, You will go blind!" That one did not bother Michelle much, she preferred that they did not look at her, and she would definitely like it if they did not speak to her. But Michelle knew that was not going to happen anytime soon.

nothing they could do. Michelle was devastated. When she called the band director to tell him what happened, he cancelled the band contest. Which was to punish the other members, but it ended up making Michelle look even worse. They got upset, cause they did not get the day from school off.

Finally, the month was over, and she was ready for a new day of school, till she and her mother found a headless chicken on their doorstep. Michelle was so torn, she did not want to go to school for the rest of the year. Her mother convinced her to go, so she gets up the nerve to go. Her first period art class, nothing was said, but their were many snickers and giggles from all of the Jocks in back of the room. But band was bad, she walked in and everyone says, "Look 'The Show-off' as returned, with out an instrument to play." Laughter filled the band hall. Michelle ran out of band hall, went into the high school office, and asked to drop all electives and just take core courses. But this was not possible. She just walked home that day. And told her moth

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Approximate Word count = 1096
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)

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