Because I wanted to escape Ryan.
He was the captain of the football team, popular, loud, and always surrounded by people laughing at whatever cruel joke he made next.
Most of the time, I was the joke.
He called me « the fat girl » so often that some classmates forgot my real name.
He’d imitate the way I walked.
Hide my backpack.
Snap pictures of me in the cafeteria and send them around school.
Teachers called it teasing.