I Sued the Homecoming Queen
Language: en
The year I ballooned to nearly two hundred pounds because of my illness, my classmates gave me a new name: "The Whale." During gym class, halfway through the mile run, my legs gave out. I slammed onto the asphalt track, scraping my knees until they bled. Above me, the bleachers erupted in a wave of cruel laughter. I could hear the distinct, metallic clicks of phone cameras recording. When I finally managed to call my mother, sobbing into the receiver, she only had one thing to say: "If you could just learn to control your mouth, you wouldn't be a laughingstock." After that, I stopped…