Everything Was About to Change

Nobody wanted to sit next to him at lunch. The other kids called him names in the

hallway, laughed when he walked by. Every single day was the same torture,

the same isolation. He kept his head down, pretended not to hear their cruel

words. But something was building inside him. One morning,

he walked into school differently. His eyes had changed. There was a confidence nobody had seen

before. He stood in the cafeteria doorway, and suddenly everyone went quiet.

He looked around slowly at all of them. Then he smiled. Not a friendly smile.

A knowing smile. And they realized too late that the kid they tortured wasn't who they