Boy: "Teacher, what does 'pompous' mean?"
Bully: "Shuddup lah, can don't ask stupid questions or not?"
Teacher: "If you don't like the question, please keep quiet."
Day in day out, the bully annoyed everyone in the class and they hated the bully. But nobody did anything about.
One day, a new pupil joined the class. He experienced the terror firsthand. He knew something had to be done for the benefit of the class. He assembled 2 friends who were severely terrorised and drafted up a "revenge" plan.
While the bully dozed off in class one day, they crept up to him and pasted a flower and a label "I am a girl" on his back. Throughout the day, the bully walked all over the school not knowing he became the biggest joke of the day.
At the end of the day, he found out about the prank. He felt angry at first, but after realising his "face" and ego were at stake, he put up a brave front.
Bully: "Hey guys, thanks for the flower! It made me look really good! Whoever you are, I'm not angry at all! In fact, I loved the attention!"
The whole class was shocked. First, everyone knew he was just faking the whole "not angry" front as he was clearly angry initially. Second, the reasons for being not angry were just lame and stupid. Even 12 year olds knew that was insulting and humiliating. Evidently, the bully was in a complete denial - a flower clearly labelled "I am a girl" - can never be anything proud of.
The next day, the bully dozed off again. This time, the avengers did something more. They sprinkled chalk powder on the bully's hair and stuck a sticker to his back, "I'm an old woman who loves flowers". Not funny to adults but that was damn funny to children.
This time, he discovered it early. But again, his "face" mattered so he showed a brave front again. He thanked whoever did that and claimed it made him looked like Richard Gere. (WTF?!) Everyone in class was amazed at his rebuttal. A handful of the class actually smacked their foreheads in amazement, and with "are you kidding?" written all over their faces.
Later in the day, the bully thought about the "sufferings" and then he complained about being bullied to the discipline master (DM). The DM heard his side of the story and then interviewed the the rest of the class. The class unanimously informed the DM that the bully didn't mind the pranks but instead, enjoyed them! The DM also found out for the rationale of the pranks. Although the two pranks were harmless and benign, he warned the class not to cross the line, which the avengers hadn't. Therefore, there was no point for the DM to waste time catching the "perpetrators".
The DM returned to the bully and asked him.
DM: "If you don't like being the joke of the whole school, then don't encourage them to play more pranks on you. You asked for it."
DM: "And... ever wondered why are you being targetted? Why not ABC? Why not XYZ? If you don't want to be bullied, don't do it to others."
As the bully left the DM's office, he saw a giggling classmate. Instead of learning the lesson, he told the classmate off.
Bully: "Never see before Richard Gere is it? I love flowers, cannot ah?"
The End.

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