[Comprehensive British and American] Safe Neighborhood

…What?

Lucas was bullied?

...he?

Bully?

quilt?

Sally quickly and carefully stared at the contents of the text message one by one, read it three times, and finally confirmed that the word "be" was indeed behind Lucas's name, she was not calm .

Lucas's unpredictable kid has always been for him to play with others, can he be bullied?

When she heard the news, Sally's first reaction was not to care about Lucas, but to question, and guessed that maybe this was another scene directed and acted by Lucas and Garrett.

After all, Lucas is very familiar with acting, and his talent is engraved in his bones...

...and many more.

Lucas seems to have...really seldom contacted her?

Sally suddenly thought of this, found out the friend list and clicked on Lucas, and found that the last contact time was half a month ago...

Since she was busy with her studies and earning money every day, she didn't notice it at all...

...This is really strange, Lucas used to text her every day, and almost never missed a day...

Is it...?

...Could it be that Lucas was really bullied by his classmates?

Sally couldn't help guessing.

So she dubiously called Garrett to find out the details of the matter.

Sally listened for nearly half an hour, and probably knew what happened.

Sally asked several questions on the sidelines, thinking that this should not be acting, and Garrett also claimed that he told her secretly about this matter, and Lucas didn't know it at all.

...About more than half a month ago, Lucas was targeted by a group of senior gangsters for some reason, extorting money every day. Originally, Garrett didn't know about this, until someone secretly took pictures of Lucas recently. The video of Si's being threatened was posted on the campus network the day before yesterday, and this incident became known to everyone, and there was an uproar.

Lucas is currently at home, and I heard that Diandra and Robert are already suing those gangsters in court. Garrett said that he went to Lucas's house to find Lucas, but Lucas refused to see him, so He had no choice but to find Sally, and wanted her to enlighten Lucas.

After hanging up the phone, Sally received a video from Garrett, and when she clicked on it, she was shocked.

In the video, Lucas, who was wearing a white shirt and shorts, with a blue mouth, was surrounded by several tall boys in school uniforms, pushing and shoving, pulling his schoolbag and patting his face.

One of the boys with a cigarette in his mouth and a crew cut put his head close to Lucas, and deliberately blew a smoke ring into his face. Lucas choked and couldn't help coughing.

There was laughter all around.

Lucas coughed for a long time before he stopped, his fair skin turned red, and a pair of green eyes stared at him quietly, with an inexplicable smile.

The other party seemed to be stimulated by his casual attitude, and began to laugh at him along with the people around him.

"Look at your white and tender face, it looks like you were raped by X," the other party deliberately pressed his thumb on the bruise at the corner of his mouth while talking, and asked with a smirk, "Hey... brat , have you ever tried what it's like to be C by a man?"

As soon as he finished speaking, the brown-haired boy suddenly raised his head and spat a mouthful of blood on his face.

"Sorry, I have no intention of stabbing other people's shit."

He said softly, the corners of his mouth curled up slightly, his beautiful face was extraordinarily dazzling under the mottled and fragmented sunlight.

"You're courting death..." The boy, who was thoroughly enraged by the brown-haired boy, almost had his eyes split open, as he raised his fist and was about to hit him again.

"The police are here..."

I don't know who yelled such a sentence, and the scene began to become chaotic.

Then it's over.

This video is not very long, only a short 30 seconds.

...what happened to Lucas?

A trace of worry rose in Sally's heart.

Thinking of the injuries on Lucas' face and body in the video, it seems that he has been beaten a lot.

... school violence.

She thought that Lucas was so smart that things like this were absolutely out of the question for him.

Who knows, it turns out that school violence knows no borders.

Even if Lucas is smart and has a precocious maturity that does not match his age, when encountering such a thing, he is outnumbered and weak.

...And when she heard Garrett tell her that Lucas was being bullied, her first reaction was that Lucas directed and acted the play himself.

She did have a persistent prejudice against Lucas, even though the plot in the original movie didn't go the way it should have, and Lucas didn't hurt anyone, she still had a hard time with him.

As Sally thought about it, she happened to catch a glimpse of the white bear that Lucas gave away on the bed, and suddenly flashed in her mind that day when Lucas came all the way to see her, smiling happily...

...her heart suddenly became heavy.

Throughout the day, Sally was absent-minded and unable to learn. As soon as she lay on the bed, she remembered the miserable appearance of Lucas being besieged by a group of people in the video.

Opening the newsletter, she found Lucas' account, clicked on it, and read the last message Lucas sent her. It turned out that they hadn't contacted each other more than half a month ago.

...due to her indifference to Lucas, she didn't notice it at all...

So after thinking about it for a long time, she sent a message to Lucas.

【Hi, Lucas... How are you doing? 】

Thinking of Lucas's strong self-esteem, she didn't mention his being bullied by the school.

After Sally sent it out, she waited for a long time, but she still didn't get a reply. In the past, Lucas almost always replied to her in seconds.

Looking at the unread status displayed in the lower left corner of the message, Sally realized that Lucas was really depressed this time...

Too...

After being bullied, it's not normal to be able to live like a dragon and a tiger.

...Lucas must be depressed right now.

For some reason, a picture suddenly appeared in Sally's mind. In the dark bedroom, Lucas was huddled under the sheets listlessly, his eyes were calm and there was no wave...

...Will Lucas be completely blackened because of this incident?

Thinking of his vindictive character, Sally couldn't help worrying.

Due to the plot of the original movie, Lucas's feelings for the original heroine were very special and paranoid, so Sally was always vigilant against him even in Pittsburgh, but this time after Lucas encountered school violence, she even made him I haven't contacted her for half a month and didn't find out...

Her indifference and affirmation made Lucas feel even more chilled, and maybe he had already secretly made a note of her in his heart...

...But Lucas didn't tell her that he was bullied by the school!

Isn't it too wrong to be hated like this? !

The next day, Sally went to work in a fast food restaurant as usual, and she became a little listless, which attracted the attention of people around her.

"Ashley, what's the matter with you? You don't look energetic at all. Did you not sleep well last night?" During the lunch break, Flynn came to her side and asked with concern.

Sally looked up at Flynn and Rob beside her dejectedly, opened her mouth, hesitated to speak.

Rob couldn't stand it any longer, "...Ashley, just tell me if you have any difficulties, we are all friends, aren't we?"

"Yeah, don't hide it." Flynn also urged.

Under the pressure of the two, Sally finally asked hesitantly.

"...You know, if someone close to you is being bullied at school... what can you do to help him and get him back up?"

"School violence...?" Rob squeezed his chin, thought for a while, and said in a low voice, "...you must call the police first."

"The police have been called." Sally replied.

"Is it someone you are close to?" Flynn asked.

Sally nodded, "...it was my neighbor's little brother when I worked part-time as a babysitter."

"Hmm..." Flynn's memory has always been very good, "Is that the kid who came to see you at school last year and gave you the little white bear as a gift?"

"Uh..." Sally corrected, "actually, not a kid...he's 15 or 16..."

Flynn pulled a chair close to Sally and sat down, looked at the ceiling and recalled, "...I experienced school violence when I was 13 years old. At that time, a group of bad boys surrounded me and tore my hair. Splashed dirty water on me, kicked my desk to the ground, called me ugly in front of the whole class..."

Sally didn't expect the beautiful Flynn to be scolded as ugly, and her face was in disbelief, "...you are not ugly! Is there something wrong with their eyes?"

Flynn waved her hands indifferently, and said with a sneer, "Actually, they just discriminated against me racistly, and you can tell that although I am Hispanic, I look extremely similar to Asians."

Hearing her words, Sally was very heartbroken. Indeed, racial discrimination is very serious in the United States.

Flynn rested her chin on her palm and said thoughtfully, "...I was bullied horribly at that time. Although my parents finally reported the incident to the school and the school punished those boys, I I always feel that the shadow and scars left by that incident can't be erased now."

"...I want to say that the thing I most hope someone can do at that time is neither to punish those boys, nor let the teacher criticize them, but someone can "stand out" for me and teach those boys severely Pause, then let them cry and apologize to me, beg my forgiveness..."

Only by repaying the other party in the same way is the most just and powerful justice given to the weak and the oppressed...

However, in real life, it is not as beautiful as imagined.

Seeing Flynn's melancholy expression, Sally suddenly recalled a memory.

When I was in junior high school, there was a boy in my class who was bullied by the whole class every day because of his introverted personality and stuttering. He either helped run errands or was beaten like a punching bag. On the contrary, people's behavior is even worse.

In the end, in another bullying, he was sent to the hospital with his right leg broken. The law sentenced the boys who bullied others, but they only sent them to the juvenile detention center for a period of time to compensate them. Less than 2 yuan...

On the day the boy dropped out of school, it was raining lightly outside, and his father came to the classroom to pack his things. The middle-aged man was wearing a thin gray overall with some stains on it, walking with a hunched back and a slight slope. When he was packing the boy's things, he didn't say a word and didn't even raise his eyelids. His vicissitudes of face were full of numbness to the world.

After packing up the boy's things, he disappeared into the rain with his schoolbag in one hand. Since then, she has never heard any news about the boy. Even at the class reunion later, no one remembered him...

And that boy has not received real justice until now.

Flynn was, and so was the boy.

...will Lucas do the same?

...

After get off work, the colleagues said goodbye to each other, and because Flynn was going on a date with her boyfriend, Sally had to walk back to the dormitory alone.

The streets after 12 o'clock are a bit bleak, and under the dim lights, there are pedestrians in twos and threes.

Sally took out her phone and checked the message she had sent to Lucas.

Found that it has been read from unread...

Lucas didn't reply.

Sally sighed, put the phone in her pocket, looked up at the moon hanging in the sky, and her mood became complicated.

...is there anything she can do to help Lucas?

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