youre so real for this cuz im not sure either. i cant see myself acting like skylar in his situation so its hard for me to put myself in his shoes
Move at least three districts away and change my name, or get ahead of it and tell the person I took pics of some semi-believable lie before their friend tells them the truth, like ‘it’s for an art project about the teenage experience through high school, it was high concept and I needed dozens of photos from each day to use for a giant collage’ and then add in another lie on top of that like ‘if Cirrus says different, he’s trying to slander me, he’s a snake and you should drop him as a friend tbh.” And then I’d still probably move a few counties away from the school bc there’s no way they’re believing me
Jump or move somewhere far far away
okay all of u r saying ud move away but how r u gonna convince ur parents to do that w/o them sending u to therapy or thinking ur insane
‘Mom I’m getting bullied at school, can I please go to a different one’ it’s p simple if you have decent parents
oh yh i forgot i could just lie kinda abt why i wanna move
Lmfaooo I forget that real life people forget they can lie and that’s why I think the whole ‘I can’t escape bullying trope’ is unrealistic because the protag refuses to try lying to any adult or their parents to escape their situation, but you’ve just proven it isn’t actually that unrealistic lmfaoo
Like all I’m saying is if I was being bullied, I’d be calling 911, my mom, the feds, my homeroom teacher, the homeless guy down the street. One thing I’m absolutely NOT doing is keeping my mouth shut, and if they’re spreading rumors about me, the bully is about to get talked about in anonymous ‘concerned’ emails to the faculty, the kid’s parents (linked in gives you modern day access to all your classmate’s parents’ contact info), and counselors at my school about their drug use or gang involvement.
Speaking as someone who was bullied, the high road never works. Once I got into middle school my childhood friend started to bully me and slap me and trip me as well as slash up my bicycle that I took to school. One time I got tackled by that childhood friend and I kneed their face so hard I knocked out three braces. I’m not good at fighting, it was the ‘older sibling chases you into a room and you get on your back and start flailing’ kicking move that clipped their chin, but they stopped harassing me physically after that. They then started calling me all sorts of shit and accusing me of peddling drugs so I stripped the coating an adhd pill for a med that I was prescribed and went to the counselor saying they were pressuring me into giving them my medicine. When you strip adhd pills, you take off the time release coating and it’s common behavior addicts or abusers do, so when I showed it to the counselor they immediately called the person down. They couldn’t defend against it because it’s hard to prove you’re not doing something when you really aren’t doing it and the burden of evidence to vindicate you doesn’t exist. They didn’t end up getting in serious trouble bc their parents didn’t believe my lie, I was fine bc they stopped bothering me, and they’re still horrible people and I wish them the worst so overall lying works <3
The police did briefly get involved since my adhd meds are a controlled substance and they confiscated the stripped pill, since I was still a tween, my parents just took the bottle to make sure I wasn’t giving the pills away and kept an eye on me just bc the cops had a serious talk with them. I wouldn’t recommend doing this tho, my town happens to be extremely rural and small and if I was in the US I’d have probably gotten taken into the police station or something
hell you were fighting for ur life my gosh respect to you for handling it in such an underhand way (don't take offense to that what u did was hella smart)
adding on to the lying to parents thing tho i think personally im a shit liar icl like id be lying for the beginning maybe in a sufficient manner, but ik my ass would get caught up abt it one day by my parents, plus id feel somehow shit abt lying to my parents abt stuff so g4u that u know how to survive but im honestly a fat mama's/dada's kid who can't lie for anything soo
idk if this has been discussed ages ago lol
if u guys were skylar and u got found taking pics of sm and u were threatened like he was by cirrus wth would u do (i feel dumb for asking this but i lowkey dk what id have done)