So a while back I was posting about the cat ears fight thing. Well i held back on writing for a reason. The conclusion has finally come.

Let me fill you in on what has happened the past month or so.

It started on September 15 or so.
Rude people-
So my first period class has some very out spoken students.
They say a lot of things that are usually frowned upon. The teacher just laughs with them.

Well last Wednesday, they started to complain about the dress code. Like the fact that we cant wear hats to school.
My school is pretty allowing of things, like unnatural hair colors and certain outfits.

Well the students were talking about it, and then one kid said "it isn't fair that the goth kids can wear cat ears (headbands) to school if we can't wear hats"!

Now lots of kids at my school wear headbands with cat ears on them to school. Which isn't against the school rules. I was one of those kids recently.
In fact I was wearing them right then and there in the class. The other kids looked at me like I couldn't hear them, they just had a certain look to their faces.
I'm not goth and most of the kids that wear the ears aren't goth either.

There's nothing wrong with being goth. I'm just bringing attention to the fact that he said goth kids. Then the other kids started to talk again. "Yeah the only reason that they allow the kids to wear them is because they are afraid that the students will just go home and cut them selves because of it".

"Or that they will just try to off themselves so that they can make the school allow them to wear them!"

I was incredibly pissed at this point. Some students just started to laugh at what they were saying. The teacher just looked at them and didn't say anything.

*Friday they continue conversation*
Then they started to talk about a girl that goes to this school. I'm gonna change her name to Becca.
"And you know that girl Becca, how she wore that pikachu costume,"?
Well first of all that wasn't a costume at all. It was completely within the school rules, besides the hat. Which she took off inside school.

Back to what they were saying.
"They shouldn't have let her wear that. The only reason she was aloud to wear it is because when we yelled at her about it she had a panic attack"!

Ok let me tell you the reason she had a panic attack. You fu*king yelled at her for like 2 minutes about what she was wearing in front of a hundred students or so. Your the reason she cried. They let her wear it because it was within school rules.

Then after that they said:
"She probably went home and cut herself because of it"! They said while laughing. Again the teacher said nothing. At thus point I wanted to punch them all.

Then they started to talk about one of my friends. I'm changing her name to Mary.
"You know that girl,  Mary. The one that always gives us gum. You ever notice how she is always dressed up in costumes. She shouldn't even be allowed in school".
I snapped my mechanical pencil at this point. I got up, and walked to the teacher. I asked to go to the bathroom.

She allowed me.
Instead I went to the front office to talk to the principal. He told me "we can't do anything about it right now. Because we only have your report of this. But on Monday we will have a faculty member in there to listen to the class to make sure that nothing is going on. This is a form of bullying, thank you for reporting it. But until we get more evidence then we can't do anything"!

I went back to class with a note for the teacher. Explaining why I was gone for so long. It said " Zoe was called to the office to get information about something that her parents sent us. Please excuse her from anything she might have missed."
They gave me the note because I wanted to be anonymous for my report to everyone.

I sat in my chair to hear the students talking about how they had gone all the way to the principal searching for permission to have a petition to get rid of the cat ears. I was mad. But the principal apparently said no to them as had everyone else they had asked. They said that the principal had told them that it was within the students rights to wear the headbands and other clothes.

I can't wait for Monday.
Cause I know even though a faculty member might be in the room they don't care what they say. They will say almost anything in front of anyone. I so hope they bring it up again. Cause then the principal will have prove to punish them with it. They can get in serious trouble for this kind of thing at my school.

Then continued on September 16(I think)-
Sweet revenge-
So today the faculty member came in. She sat down in class. Now I had talked to my friend, Mary. The one they talked about on Friday.

I talked to her about what they said. And we agreed that today we would bring in 6 pairs of cat ears. 1 for me, 1 for her, and the other 4 for anyone that wanted to join us.

We walked into school with the ears. At first no one wanted to wear one. Then a girl agreed to wear one. Then one of the girls that were complaining about them on Friday wore a pair. I have no idea why or when she changed her mind.

Eventually we passed them all out. Then a boy walked in while we were talking about them. One of his friends offered him the pair he was wearing. And the kid was like "NO, I don't want lice. You all are probably getting lice from the emo's".

I looked up at him and just gave him a glare. I looked at the faculty member. She was writing something down. I just smiled. I knew that he was in trouble. After the other kids out burst a couple of kids gave us the ears back. And just gave us a look of disgust.

We took them and rolled our eyes. Class started. They all got into a big group. (The kids that didn't like the ears). Every now and then I could hear them talking about us. I remember the faculty member moving closer to them at points.

Me and "Mary" stayed silent. Waiting. I don't know what they said, but the faculty member looked really mad. She want to the teachers desk and picked up the phone and called the principal down to the room.

And here comes revenge!

The principal came in. The other students went quiet. The faculty member went into the hallway and talked to him. When they came back into the classroom they walked to the front of the classroom.

The principal said "so, on Friday I got a report of bullying.,
"That's bullcrap," yelled out a kid, the one that yelled about lice.
"You have lunch detention for foul language," the principal said glaring at him.
"We didn't have enough proof then to do anything about it. So we had a faculty member come in and sit in during the class, To listen to you. We now have enough proof to do something about it now," he said to them with a look in his eyes, that just made you know not to mess with him or interrupt.

A lot of the kids were just silent. Others were looking at the ground. And then a few were glaring at the wall. The principal continued," I had the faculty member take the list of your names and photos, so that she could write down the names of the people that were to be in trouble. On Tuesday through Thursday only those students will come in to the office during priority time to have a special talk with me and some other faculty members. Those who aren't one list have been divided into 2 groups, the completely innocent and the not guilty but not totally innocent. Those who are in the second group and group that has to go to the office will stay in this class Wednesday and get a different talk. And the first group will be aloud to spend this class in the library or gym".

Yes sweet revenge! A lot of kids looked mad and others looked upset. "Mary" and I were trying to hold back smiles. They completely deserved it. "Also your parents will be notified and you will have lunch detention for the rest of the week," the principal said to the students in trouble.

They left the room. Well the faculty member came back after a few minutes. When the bell rang to announce the end of class me and "Mary" got the ears we lended out back.
Then we left, but the faculty member caught me in the hallway. I had to go to the office to talk to the principal.

I felt that this was weird, but I went. It turns out he just wanted to talk to me to say thanks for speaking up. I was given a note for being tardy, and went back to class.

Silence for a while then some problems
Petitions-
I'm so pissed right now!
It's all because of this week and mostly today. I'll tell you all about today in the next part of this. I don't want this to be to long. Excuse my rant.

Monday-
I get on the bus and this one girl looks at me and says," you wont be able to wear those ears any more"!
She then just looks away.
She was talking about my cat ears headband.

This made me confused and mad. First of all I was mad because they were just headbands and they shouldn't matter that much. Second of all I was confused because they were completely allowed.

I walk into school and I keep getting glares from random students. Then in homeroom I walk in and on the board is a slide show called "dress code changes".

I could already guess what this meant.
After the bell rang the teacher started to talk to us about school dress code changes. So basically people cant wear costumes or wigs any more.

Hair can still be random colors. But no head wear is allowed. I asked the teacher if that included the headbands.
She replied with," i'll email someone at the office and find out"!

But then the bell rang and I had yo go to my next class. At the end of the day I sat on the bus with my headbands still on. When thus girl walks up behind me and pulls them off of my head.

She runs to the back of the bus and threatens to throw them out the window. She says "these aren't allowed and you should just get rid of them. I'll throw them out the window you stupid fat emo."

I'm beyond pissed. The bus driver stops the bus just as she throws them out. I am allowed yo get them. She is given a notice that she can't tide the bus anymore.

I am given a paper so that I can file a report against her. She has gotten iss for 2 weeks and lunch detention for 3 days.

I get an email from my teacher with a link yo an email from the principal.
I am allowed to wear my cat ears.

Tuesday-
I walk into school with the ears on. At this point imm just wearing them to prove a point and to say that I won't give in to the other students.

I walk in and this girl with shorts that don't really cover anything walks up to me and shouts ," teacher teacher, she isn't in dress code"!

A teacher walks up and I say "i'm in dress code but she isn't,".

So she gets taken to the office. After I showed her the email from the principal.

Wednesday-
Walk into school. No problems till 1st period. Kids are yelling at me and my friend about the headbands. But the class is over and we leave to PE.

On the way there a guy walks up to me and says "cat ears aren't allowed."
So I say ,"actually they are allowed"!

He looks at me and my friend and mumbles ,"they should be banned".
So Mary says," sorry. But no they shouldn't be banned. Oh did you think that we wouldn't hear you! Well we did. And you should just leave us alone. Because it is not your business in anyway what we wear"!

He walked away with a glare. Nothing else happened till the end of the day.
I got on the bus and there were some girls going to a sleepover with a kid from my first period class.

They took one look at me and pulled out a paper. They shouted out," who wants to sign this petition to get rid of the cat ears"?

I just sat in my seat in silence.

I got off and they threw a paper out the window at me. I picked it up and just threw it away when I got home. I different open it. I didn't care if it had anything to say.

I'm so done with some of the kids at this school.

Continued in @$$ holes-
Thursday~
I woke up early, but I had a lot of chores to do. And eventually when I left the house and got on the bus I realized that I left my cat ears at my house.

I got to school, and I see a lot of students wearing their cat ears and other kinds of ears.
It turns out that something had been going on with Becca.

A big group of students would look for her in every passing period and in every class. And they would attack her.
Not always physically, but mostly verbally.

They would call her horrible names. And pull her hair and steal her cat ears and her other kinds of ears. Well on Wednesday they had pulled out some of her hair and broke her cat ears and called her name till she was sobbing. and a teacher had found her on the floor sobbing.

She didn't know the names of the kids, so there was nothing the school could do. So when all her friends found out they got their ears, they bought some ears, and they made some ears.

They wore them all today. They brought all their extras. They have students that didn't have any the extras. And we waited.

When Becca got off the bus we all walked up to her and group hugged her. We all agreed that when ever we see her in the hallways we would walk with her to class. One of us got the principal, and he gave us passes, so that we could walk her all the way to class and not be counted late if we weren't in class by the bell.

We made sure that she always sat with someone that we trusted in class, and that she was sitting with friends at lunch.

Unfortunately

There were still the bullies.
They came at lunch.
They walked up behind her and started to pull her hair and call her names. So her friends yelled at them and got them away from her.

The bullies decided to walk to a teacher and ask for a bulling report. Claiming that they were being yelled at for no reason. The teacher said no. He was a teacher that was on our side about the ears.

So we went and got a teacher. That teacher got 2 more teachers and they started to look around the cafeteria for the bullies.
They didn't find them.

They made Becca cry at lunch.

Tomorrow I will bring all my ears to school and share them with who ever would like to wear a pair.

I don't care about rules any more.
I'm bringing the costume ones too.
And if I see anyone hurting Becca, I will not be afraid to slap them across the face.

The ass holes will not get away with it anymore.
Of there is one thing that pisses me off more than anything else. It's bulling.

I will tell you what happens tomorrow!

Also if you ever see someone being bullied go help them out. It doesn't matter if you know the person or not!

(Also I use fake names for anyone in this book. I don't plan on actually using their real names. But these people are real, and these things really happen!)

Then the last post I made about it was in a school divided-
Friday~
Today marks the war. I'm writing this before I go to school. I will update this as I go.

3rd period-
Well I can finally update some.
Boy am I mad. Becca went home with another girl and they had a sleep over.
She rode my bus. We have been making sure that she is always with one of us.

But now unfortunately it's not just the students anymore. The teachers are starting to hate us.
We went to talk to the councilor to talk about what has been happening.
The councilors just blew it off. Saying that we needed to stop and we shouldn't wear them anymore.

They didn't even care that Becca was being bullied.

So we went to class. And on the way to first period, Mary got dress coded for her ears. She came to class and put them right back on. Because they were allowed. Then a teacher walked into our class.

She walked right to me and Becca. She said," girls the ears are costume you have to take them off".
The entire class watched us. Some with smirks others with concern.

I replied with "they are headbands. They are allowed"!
She glared at me and said," give them to me I will take them to the office and see wether or bot they are allowed".

We gave her the ears. We waited 30 minutes till she came back.
She looked upset.
"Now promise that you will do as the rules say!," she told us.

We said that we would promise, but really we were lying.
"Mary your ears are not allowed they are to big. But zoe your ears are allowed for now," she told us.

For now.

She left after she gave us the ears back.
I gave Mary my extra ears I brought.
The entire class just watched us.
Some glaring, others looking relieved.

We went to gym. Always getting angry looks and people pulling our hair.
We got called emos and stupid.

But we are still going. I will update this the next time I have a chance.
I might be able yo update during lunch.

4th period-
I hate the students at this school. Well most of them that is.
I was walking to my 4th period class.
When some guys walked up behind me and shouted to their friend," there are some really bad and stupid people in this school!"

And then they walked behind me.
"These people are really bad, rule breakers, and extremely stupid! They like to wear things that don't go with the rules" they continued to shout at him.

One of them walked in front of me and blocked my way.
"Yeah and I think they need to be delt with," the same guy said.

The guy they were yelling at said "I don't see anything wrong with them. Leave her alone," he said and walked away.

They had circled me. And they called me really bad names and they grabbed my backpack and pulled it backwards so that I would fall.
They ripped my cat ears off.

They kicked me once. The bell rang and they ran away. They left me crying on the floor. A teacher found me and told me to just go to class.

So now i'm just done with talking to teachers about this.

I'll update during lunch.

Lunch-
I'm currently sitting behind the trash cans. I'm trying to avoid people.
It's not fun to have food and trash thrown at you. But a lot of people think it's funny.

You ever just want to cry, and never stop.

Yeah

I'm not giving up i'm still gonna wear the ears. I don't care how many people yell at me. I'm just gonna be me.
And everyone that thinks I shouldn't and that are being bullies to us, can just suck it!

I'll update when I can.

Lunch still-
I was sitting behind the trashcan when a teacher saw me and decided to slam some bins against the metal trashcan.

Scared me have to death!
They just laughed and said, "well they always show the cats hiding in the trashcans. You wanna know why, because they are trash!"

Ugh, I hate the people here.
Now I have to sit out in the open waiting for the bell to ring. When I say I was sitting behind the trashcans I mean, there is a small hallway behind them, where you cant smell the trash but people tend to leave you alone if you are back there.

I just want to be left alone.

I'll update again later!

Bus home-
Ok well I can finally update again.
Everything was pretty good for a while.
Sixth period I found that I had another teacher on my side for the cat ears and other ears.

I was wearing 2 pairs, because Mary got another pair that she could wear.
So I was making a manikin (i'll tell you later) and a kid in my class asked "why are you wearing two of those stupid cat ears?"
The teacher says "because she is a rebel from the norm of 1 pair and the ears are cool and they look cool that way!"

Honestly happiest part of my day.
My 4th period teacher also is completely ok with them and is on my side.

7th period we just had to sit in silence while we took a test.
8th period
Well

I walked into class, and right when a guy saw me he sat in my chair.
I've sat there all year.
It was my seat.

I walked up to him and told him to get up.
He said "no, stupid people like you don't being in this class."
"I'm not stupid now get out pf my seat before I call the teacher!" I said to him.
"You are obviously stupid if you wear cat ears to school. So no. And get him he won't care. He'll probably kick you out of this class" was his reply.

I went to the teacher. And told him about the boy.
He didn't care, he said "just go sit in the chair in the back."
He didn't care that I wouldn't be able to see the board from there. He wouldn't care that I am pretty much blind from the back of the class even with my glasses.

So I spent the entire class, having no idea what was happening. The teacher didn't even care that the boy called me stupid.

😭

I feel like some of the teachers don't care.
I was told that they had a great anti bullying program.
But I guess not.

Now I'm sitting on the bus. I can't wait to get home.
I don't have to go to school for 2 days.

Me and another girl were talking about Becca. And well some other students on the bus heard us.

They started to talk shit about her.
We yelled at them for a while they eventually got kicked off the bus. Cause they had used curse words to yell at us.

Small victory, for the war to come.

I hope that on Monday nobody will care about us wearing the ears any more.

And that was all I posted.
Now here is what happened between
September 30 to now-
I was told that we shouldn't post anymore about the ears until it is over. Because we want to keep this to ourselves and not draw to much attention to it.

So I held back on the post. Nothing happened for a week. We guided Becca to class still. And watched her everywhere we went.

3 week of no post. Councilor was moved to the high school and we got a much better one. She knew what it was like to be bullied AND to be the bully. She found out what we were going through. She got the camera footage took it to the principal, they spent hours going over the footage. They found out who was doing the bulling and who was being bullied.

The next day all of us that had been protecting Becca were taken to the office, while the councilor went from room to room gathering the bullies. The other kids that didn't know about Becca and us all that were wearing ears were taken to the gym to hear an announcement. And everyone else got videos and stuff from their teachers while they were told about what had been going on.

Those of us that went to the office were having a talk with the principal. We talked about what had been happening to us. And we even got some new rules posted and a few kids that hadn't been caught on camera in trouble. Now cat ears/piercings/tattoos/wigs/unnatural hair color/ chokers/ costume like outfits are ok.

And by costume like outfits I mean an outfit like the ones that people imagine goths wear and cosplays and stuff like that. Not Halloween costumes. And if you were to wear a cosplay you have to get permission from the principal first.

The bullies about half are on out of school suppension. The other half are having classes where they are only in classes with the other bullies and there is always a teacher in each hall to watch for those kids and make sure they aren't hurting us.

The other kids with ears that weren't apart of protecting Becca or weren't being bullied were told about what was going on. They were told it was ok to wear them and a bunch of other stuff.

All the other students that weren't involved in any way were just talked to about it all. And told what is considered bullying and what us not considered bullying.

Now it is Monday of the week after all of this. And I'm so happy to say that nothing happened. We wore our ears Becca wore here cosplays and such. And Mary wore cat ears, cat collar, a cat tail, and cat paws as gloves. Everyone was fine with it. (Btw the cat collar that she wore wasn't an actual cat collar it was a thing that was from a werewolf like costume thing and it was technically a choker. Just furry [like cat fur around the fake collar] and had a bell.)

So finally this is over. And students can express themselves as the like.

I just realized how long this is.
I'm so sorry for making you read so much!

See you in the next little adventure!