Chapter 2: They Empower Themselves

Jayden woke up on his last day of summer vacation wishing he could make his break last just a little longer. Tomorrow was his first day of junior high, and he was dreading it.

Not too long ago, he actually liked school. He got good grades and he had lots of friends.

But things changed last year when his friends start- ed teasing him all the time. For some reason, they liked making him look Stupid. They’d ask questions like, “Who won the football game last night?” or, “Which basketball player was the highest scorer last year?”

Jayden never knew the answers. He didn’t even like professional sports.

At first he would simply say, “I don’t know.” But when he admitted that he didn’t know, his friends cracked up.

So he tried a new plan. He answered their questions by saying, “I don’t want to talk about that right now.” But his friends still made fun of him.

Finally he tried saying, “You’re only asking that because you don’t know the answer either!” That just made them laugh even harder.

Jayden felt so stupid that he made a plan to stop the mocking. He studied … Continue reading..