24 December

This is my chance to make it out, and I’m afraid it won’t happen?

I come from one of the worst areas in Manhattan. I was raised very poor with divorced parents. My Mother was an alcoholic and left me in the care of my Dad.

I was always a nice girl in elementary/middle school. I got good grades, had a few friends, and for the most part lived an ordinary everyday life. It wasn’t until I got into high school I got more aggressive.

1st School – There was a girl who sold drugs in school. There are police officers stationed outside of the bathrooms. They smelled marijuana smoke. When I exited the restroom they asked if I was smoking, I told them no.

The next day this girl, whom I didn’t know at all, comes up to me and starts calling me a snitch. I lost it and got into a fight with her. I was asked to leave the school.

For the next two years I was completely good. I got good grades, stayed out of trouble, and so on so forth. I was transferred to a new school, you could say it was "nicer" (no metal detectors). I recently had a falling out with one of my classmates. She says I was talking shit about her. I wasn’t and so on so forth.

I got an anonymous call the other week. I didn’t answer it and got a voicemail: "Watch out bitch, you talk a lot of shit let’s see if you can back it up." I absolutely do not want to get into any confrontation with this girl. On my last day of school my counselor said I had much promise in getting into NYU (There was a NYU profressor of English literature who sat in our Humanities class and assigned a paper about the Vietnam War. I got a 100% and 2 page comment about how he liked it very much). This is my chance to get out of the situation I am. I grew up very poor and want nothing more then to get out of what I’ve known for so long — poverty, violence, and so on so forth. I know if I even lay a finger on this girl they’re going to send me to an alternative school.

I feel so hopeless. I don’t know what to do? My brother dropped out of high school. My uncle dropped out of high school and has a lengthy criminal record. My cousin dropped out and had a baby at 16. This is my chance to make it out and I feel so hopeless.

Advice?

Call the cops on the girl that called you, it’s the best revenge. Yeah, it sounds like snitching but you can ask the cops to keep you anonymous and you’re the one who’s gonna be laughing when she’s sitting in a jail cell.

5 Responses to “This is my chance to make it out, and I’m afraid it won’t happen?”

  1. mack Says:
    December 24th, 2009 at 6:26 pm

    Nobody’s gonna read this it’s too loooooonnnnng!!!
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  2. pwrmax Says:
    December 24th, 2009 at 6:42 pm

    Call the cops on the girl that called you, it’s the best revenge. Yeah, it sounds like snitching but you can ask the cops to keep you anonymous and you’re the one who’s gonna be laughing when she’s sitting in a jail cell.
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  3. Jessica Says:
    December 24th, 2009 at 7:04 pm

    Just ignore the girls who are trying to cause drama.
    They’re the ones who are going to get nowhere in their life. Don’t let them get a reaction out of you, that’s what they want. They’re just ignorant. Focus on NYU and don’t drop out of school!
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  4. dwalon2 Says:
    December 24th, 2009 at 7:17 pm

    My advice: Don’t lay a finger on her even if she initiates a fight. Do as boxers do … put your fists in front of your face, and when she swings, use your wrist to knock her fist away.

    Even if you get scratched and bruised, when you are the one with the bodily damage, and the other girl is uninjured, you won’t be punished as you are clearly the victim.

    Oh, and try never to fight on school property. If you must be in an altercation, do it on the public street or McDonalds or wherever. No need to get the school involved as that is what your worry is.
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  5. steph Says:
    December 24th, 2009 at 8:07 pm

    OK the first person to answer this is a jerk i think u should try and stay out of that girls way and when u see her just turn around odds r shes not going to do anything if she is alone and if something does happen in school she would be the one to start it and the cameras will see that and the probably kick her out and not u don’t worry from what it sounds like ur going to be going to nyu and she will be stuck in that town with 8 kids and all buy different fathers and she will be wishing she was u how this helps and u deserve to go to NYU don’t let anyone take that away from u hope this helps
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