A group of older girls spread around that I had AIDS and that I was a slut.

The summer of my 8th grade year (I would attend high school later in August) a group of older girls spread around that I had AIDS and that I was a slut. I could not go to parties without this group of girls harassing me and telling my friends ugly untruths about me. I tried to kill myself and I went to live with my mother so I did not have to go to the same high school with the girls who were harassing me. Later when my mom moved I had to move as well and go to the high school with the bullying girls. By this time I was empowered and felt good about myself. When they first saw me at school they did not approach me, but gradually they started on me until I had enough. I became the aggressor and cornered one of the main girls who started all of the rumors and beat her until I was pulled off of her. Her parents sued my parents and she tried to have me put in jail. Later I found out that the reason she started all the lies about me was because her ex-boyfriend asked me out. Even though I said no to her ex-boyfriend she still saw me as a threat.