Watch Out, Cyberbullies! by Laura Illustration by Keyla

It was a cold but calm evening in March. Sophie lay on her bed, fighting back tears, but to no avail. She wished that she could just die. But she thought, with a wry smile, I'm already going to in two weeks. September was when the cyberbully had said to her that she was his target. A cyberbully had sent something horrible to her. He said that he was out to get her and was going to kill her on her 13th birthday, which was just two weeks away, April 13th on a Friday. She was so terrified that she couldn't concentrate on a very important math test that she had earlier that day.Sophie just couldn't stand it anymore, so she just broke down crying. An hour later, when she had finally calmed, she decided to stay away from house, because that was where the cyberbully would kill her, probably while she slept.

So Sophie emailed the cyberbully and asked to meet him instead of him killing her. He agreed to her proposal. What the cyberbully didn't know is that right after Sophie emailed him, she called the police and told them everything. The police decided to put plainclothesmen and hide them around the area in the park where Sophie would meet the cyberbully. In the email Sophie sent asked if they could meet April 14th, the day after her birthday.
As said to the above, he agreed, but under one condition. Sophie had to be alone when she met him.
Those two weeks flew by. Sophie grew more tense as the days went by. Her birthday came and went. On the morning when Sophie was to meet the cyberbully, she woke up suddenly and was zombie-like up to the time when Sophie was to meet the cyberbully at 7 'o' clock .

Sophie walked to the park. It was just two blocks from her house. The park was deserted at that time. Suddenly a boy came out of nowhere and started walking towards Sophie with a big smirk on his face. Sophie shouted at him,

" You're the cyberbully?!! You've got to be kidding me!"

" Yep, I sure am." said the boy. Suddenly, out of nowhere, two plainclothesmen grabbed the boy and said to Sophie,

" Thanks for getting him to come out. We've been on this kid for months."

James, as his name turned out to be, went to juvenile detention for three years before he was let out because he had bullied eleven other children his age. He didn't get touch anything electronic until he was eighteen. As for Sophie, she went on with her life. But she always would remember that day when she was cyberbullied.

The End