For this semester, I have chosen to do a story based on true events. The main character, Faye, is a high schooler, born with very obvious heterochromia – her left eye is olive green and her right eye is medium blue. A couple of guys in her 10th English class have taken to calling her “witch” or “weirdo”, and though Faye has reported them multiple times, nothing has been done about it. One year later, Faye is taking Law 12 and it’s near the end of the semester. Faye has decided to do the semester end presentation project on bullying, and in a last-minute decision, puts the pictures of several bullies on one of the Powerpoint slides. The teacher has neither had Faye’s former bullies as students, nor has she checked Faye’s slides, so she doesn’t realize the pictures are of students until Faye’s classmates start laughing and pointing it out. The teacher is mortified and ends Faye’s presentation early. At the end of the class, Faye puts on a spectacular show of crying, apologizing profusely, and as she has been a stellar student, the teacher allows her to redo presentation with different slides. The whole time, Faye is actually not sorry at all about the bullies, and only worried about her mark. She wonders if this makes her psychopathic, and decides that she doesn’t really care. The next time one of the bullies comes across her in the hall, they shudder and flinch away from her, and Faye smirks, as she decides she has punished them accordingly.
(What Faye’s eyes look like; Faye has complete heterochromia. Faye’s heterochromia is a mutation that is not indicative of her overall health)
To clarify, this is not slander against people with heterochromia. Bullying can happen for no reason, I simply chose a physical traits because bullying people who look different is unfortunately common. I hope that the people who read this story will gain the courage to stand up against bullies.
