One Wish | Teen Ink

One Wish

March 6, 2017
By Anonymous

I am not what you would think of as being  normal. I get it, normal people don't look different, well as different as I look at least. My name is Kase Ramond and I get made fun of because I am deformed. All I ever wanted was to be seen as someone normal. My parents say I'm normal but I know that's just them protecting me from my own thoughts. I am in sixth grade at Pearlberry Middle School and everyday I get picked on by “the cool kids”. If I had one wish, it would be to look normal. 
Everyday I will try to hide myself in public. When I am in public I will look down wherever I go or keep a hoodie on, but I know my face still reveals. Kids at school call me names that nobody would want to hear. I try to ignore them and I am actually getting quite used to it. Once I get home I would go to my room and cry, now it's turning into bawling constantly. Sometimes I don't get how kids could be so cruel. There is a slight urge inside of me that wants to tell someone, but I know that it would just make it worse.
The next day on my way to school my dad's car broke down. I got out of the car and saw something shining in the bushes. I walked closer and saw that it was a bottle. Not just any bottle, but a magic bottle. I opened it and a genie popped out. The genie told me that I had one wish. You probably think that I said I wanted to look normal, but what I really said was I just wanted all the bullying to stop. I didn't say I wanted to look normal because I don't want to change who I am. My looks are one of my rare personality traits. It's what makes me.
Once I got to school I noticed that it actually worked. Everyone was noticing me as someone normal for once. Obviously they noticed my looks, but that didn't matter to anyone. Finally, I can actually feel free and not need to worry if someone will come up and bother me. I just feel lousy now since I only thought about myself. I mean obviously im happy, but what about everybody else?
Ever since I found the bottle I have asked myself “Why me? Why was I the lucky one?”
I just don't know how to answer the question.  There wasn't anything I did to deserve this. There are many more people than just me that are bullied every day worse than I am. It just doesn't make sense.
What I have realized from this experience is that looks don't matter on a person because your looks are one of your many traits that make you, you.  If you get a chance like I did don't change a single thing about you. No matter how frustrated or angry you are, just remember, you are what makes you.


The author's comments:

I was inspired to write this story from the book “Wonder”. I couldn't really think about something to write about until I thought about writing something about some type of bullying. What I am most proud of about my story is how my story flows. As a reader I think I have improved by being able to just keep the flow and just keep on writing and fixing my mistakes and making it better. If I were to write another story I would probably make a story about a teenage boy whose older brother was framed and sent to prison so he has to figure out how to get evidence to show that he is innocent.


Similar Articles

JOIN THE DISCUSSION

This article has 0 comments.